Supervision

concept · in 5 sources (2017–2018)

Cambridge's small-group teaching session, in which a supervisor teaches a topic and questions the students in a two-way dialogue.

Sources by year: 2017: 3 · 2018: 2

Also known as: supervisions, small-group supervision

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — Ali: From his experience of supervising students, Ali says student supervisors prepare you better for an exam, while a professor is better for being pushed in a narrow field and intellectual debate. — 00:08:35
- When they run supervisions at weekends, Ali often chooses to supervise a topic he is unfamiliar with, because it forces him to spend hours preparing. — 00:09:33
2018-06-08 · A day in med school in the Caribbean - St George's University Grenada · Cambridge medic VLOG #37 — Ali: A one-hour haematology small group of about eight at St George's University felt to Ali like Cambridge's preclinical supervisions: discussion-based, back and forth with the facilitator. — 00:00:45

2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: After five years at Cambridge, the student says the interview was much like the small-group supervisions: the supervisor teaches something on a topic, then asks a question about it, in a two-way dialogue. — 00:03:00
- a guest: The student unreservedly recommends the Cambridge interview to medicine applicants, since it is like a little supervision, the small-group teaching at Cambridge, and a pilot of that way of learning. — 00:06:54
2017-11-11 · Malignant haematology supervision - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #12 — Ali gives a two-hour supervision on malignant haematology (leukaemia, lymphoma and similar) at Emmanuel College, from about five to seven in the evening, and finds it really fun. — 00:01:34
- After his malignant haematology supervision Ali thinks even the student who seemed to know a lot learned something, the others seemed satisfied, and he looks forward to giving more supervisions. — 00:02:11
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali: In his mock answer Ali says he likes Cambridge's supervision system of small groups with world leaders in their field, since he likes asking questions, easier there than in a lecture hall of 300. — 00:10:49