Preparing for your confirmation review (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Duration 0.5 days
Team Researcher Academy







This face to face course is run by the Researcher Academy as part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences N-Trans Training Programme

Target Audience: This course is for Postgraduate Research Students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. This includes the Schools of Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine and Science ONLY.

Course Description:

This webinar will include presentations from an experienced internal examiners and provide information on the Confirmation Review process within each school during the current Cov-19 lockdown. There will be a plenary on what students should consider when they are preparing to both write their confirmation review report and undertake their review viva. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and receive some hints and tips that may help you prepare for your own report writing and viva.


The contents of this session are relevant only to research students registered to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The session will discuss the Confirmation Review process, which has specific local School procedures and requirements. The content is therefore not relevant to students who are registered within Schools outside of this faculty.

Aims:

  • To give you the opportunity to find out what happens during the confirmation review.
  • To provide you with some hints and tips to enable you to be better prepared for the viva discussion.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the session, you will have:

  • considered the main purposes of the confirmation review
  • an understanding of the examination process and criteria. This will include any changes brought in for the current Cov-19 lockdown situation.
  • thought about the examination criteria from the examiners' perspective


Course Accessibility


The following table shows a summary of what is needed to participate in the course. 

If you feel you will experience any difficulties participating, please let us know via the ‘special requirements’ tab, providing as much information as possible. The special requirements tab can be completed when you book your place. Alternatively, you can contact us directly at ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk
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Access and/or complete self-study/ pre-course tasks prior to main session
Print off pre-requisite paperwork/ resources & bring them to the course (optional)
Bring your own laptop/ PC to the course (optional)
Access seminar room on campus
Attend the course at the specified date and time
Watch and listen to the course tutor(s) and/or other attendees
Follow presentation slides during the course

 

Booking Conditions

Latecomer policy

Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment

When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk. This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. The Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.

Pre-Requisites

Pre-task:
To be completed in advance of the webinar: Read your School's requirements for the Confirmation Review. Most school's will have the standard Confirmation Review procedures and requirements as set out in your PGR handbook, but due to the current COV-19 situation you will also have received updated information on how the Confirmation Review viva will be undertaken during the period that the University is on shutdown. This information may have been sent to you recently in an email from your school or if used, on PGR Web or Pebblepad.

 
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