We are pleased to announce that Diversity in Death and Dying: medical student museum experience has been shortlisted for a 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Award. The project has been nominated in the category of Teaching and Learning.
This innovative teaching session invites medical students to engage with themes of death and dying outside the clinical setting. Through close engagement with objects and images in the Ashmolean Museum, students are encouraged to reflect on the cultural, emotional, and ethical challenges of end-of-life care in a diverse society. This project is a collaborative effort between the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, the Faculty of History, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Faculty of Theology and Religion. Expert patient tutors have played an essential role in the development and teaching of this curriculum. It has been led by neurologist Dr. Gina Hadley, museum teaching curator Dr. Jim Harris, Christian ethicist Prof Joshua Hordern, and Dr. Ariel Dempsey, an MD and DPhil candidate in the Faculty of Theology and Religion.
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