Dr Kate Hilson

Robathan, M., Hilson, K., Crawford, O. and Hackman, M. 2025. Technifying and gamifying GP teaching. Education for Primary Care (10.1080/14739879.2025.2518541)

Royal College of General Practitioners 2025 Annual Conference. ICC Wales. Newport.

Toys and tech - using innovative technology and gamification to develop and implement new teaching for undergraduate medical students. Friday 10th October 2025.

A fun interactive session on ways to introduce toys, technology and games into primary care undergraduate medical education. This session looked at how the community clinical lecturing team collaborated with the learning and teaching academy at Cardiff University, to implement a new teaching day. The day was developed to be an engaging and authentic learning experience to meet the needs of third year undergraduate medical students in helping them to prepare them for their community placements. It included hands-on demonstrations of 3 components of this day using Lego, a Mr Potato head and Virtual Reality (VR) goggles.

Speakers:

Dr Claire Campbell, Community Clinical Lecturer, Cardiff University - School of Medicine

Dr Mary Robathan, Phase 2 Lead for Community Medicine, Cardiff University - School of Medicine

Dr Kate Hilson, Phase 1 Lead for Community Clinical Medicine, Cardiff University

Chair:

Toyosi Adeniji, RCGP First 5 Chair

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