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Reel Health Stories: A public engagement project. Katherine Woolf, Jayne Kavanagh, Luci Etheridge UCL Medical School. Contents. Background to the project Inputs Outcomes Evaluation. UCL Archway Campus & Whittington Hospital. >1,000 medical students per year trained here.
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Reel Health Stories:A public engagement project Katherine Woolf, Jayne Kavanagh, Luci Etheridge UCL Medical School
Contents • Background to the project • Inputs • Outcomes • Evaluation
UCL Archway Campus & Whittington Hospital >1,000 medical students per year trained here
Reel Health Stories Short film competition on the theme of “health and sickness” Open to all
Aims • Raise the profile of UCL Medical School with local people • Give local people the chance to influence the education of their future doctors • Create a bank of short films for use in medical student teaching
Contents • Background to the project • Inputs • Outcomes • Evaluation
Inputs: funding • £1,500 Beacon funding • £650 departmental funding (from 2 pots)
£2,150 paid for: • Website hosting & design • Poster & flyer printing & design • Advertising on filmmaker websites • Refreshments for steering group & screening • Cash prizes for entrants
Inputs: project team • 3 members of UCLMS academic/teaching staff (salaried)
Inputs: steering group (salaried/free) • Jane Dacre - UCLMS Director • Marcia Rigby - UCLMS adminstration • Marian ElfonsTawafig – UCLMS student • Sandra ElfonsTawafig – UCLMS student • Hilary Jackson – UCL Public Engagement • Mike Yorke – UCL Anthropology and Upside Films • Peter Devonald – film festival organiser • Louise Radinger- local filmmaker
Inputs: Project partners (free) • Local arts charity • Local film festival
Advertising (free) • Medical student volunteer posters & flyers
Contents • Background to the project • Inputs • Outcomes • Evaluation
42 entries: 15 from North/East London UCL Archway Campus
Increased PE/PPI activity • Bright club performance • Podcast • SLMS PE/PPI Steering group
Contents • Background to the project • Inputs • Outputs • Evaluation
Original aims • Raise the profile of UCL Medical School with local people • Enable local people to influence the education of their future doctors • Create a bank of short films for use in medical student teaching
Evaluation: raised profile of UCL in Archway? Film competition entrants
Evaluation: raised profile of UCL in Archway? UCL screening attendees
Evaluation: created a bank of films? http://ucl.ac.uk/medicalschool/postgraduate/public-engagements/reel-health-stories
Difficulties/ areas for improvement • Budget tight • Significant of amount of staff time required
Summary • Reel Health Stories enabled us to forge links with local organisations • Created a bank of films made by local people & others • Significant amount of “unpaid” effort • Foreseen and unforeseen positive outcomes