MSC
Reporting to Senate, the Medical Studies Committee is responsible for overseeing the Faculty of Medicine’s MBBS/BSc programme, including Graduate and Direct Entry and the BSc programmes in Medical Sciences, Biomedical Science and Biomedical Science with Management. The Committee’s role, overseen by the Chair, who is appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, is to ensure coherence in undergraduate programmes within the Faculty of Medicine. The Committee will maintain an overview of curriculum content, structure, organisation, assessment, learning resources, quality assurance and enhancement, and delivery of the teaching timetable.
Following the agreement with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore to form a new joint medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, the Committee has an additional responsibility of monitoring and approving, where appropriate, curriculum, assessment, quality and other relevant academic governance and regulation issues relating to the School.
The Committee’s specific responsibilities are:
1. To oversee the provision of undergraduate medical education and other degree programmes in the Faculty of Medicine, and where appropriate, at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.
2. To monitor and enhance the quality of undergraduate medical education and other degree programmes in the Faculty of Medicine.
3. Ensure that the quality of undergraduate medical education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, is equal to the high standard of the provision in London.
4. To ensure the continued development of the programmes, receive reports on student feedback, student experience and curriculum-related comments from a variety of quality management processes, including external examiner reports, and ensure that appropriate action is identified and implemented.
5. To commission and receive reports on reviews of new and existing courses.
6. To receive reports on minor changes to existing curriculum and assessment structures approved by subordinate committees.
7. To review proposals for new courses, major changes to existing courses, and the discontinuation of existing courses and approve new modules, title changes, major changes to the curriculum, existing assessments, and programme specifications for existing degree programmes, ensuring that these are reported alongside recommendations to Senate as appropriate. Where appropriate, to recommend to Senate curriculum and assessment structures developed for the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.
8. To monitor and co-ordinate the activities of the Education Committees (Early Years, BScs and Years 3, 5 & 6) and commission and review proposals from the Education Committees as to the timing, structure, extent and status of assessment and examinations within the undergraduate medicine curriculum.
Approved Senate 10 December 2014
9. To receive summary meeting reports of the: Education Committees (as above) and the
Student Services Committee. In addition to this, the Committee may receive reports from
other committees and working groups, where appropriate.
10. The Committee will receive papers and reports in relation to the monitoring of and
approving, where appropriate, curriculum, assessment, quality and other relevant
academic governance and regulation issues at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
11. To consider all business relating to assessments and examinations leading to the award
of the MBBS/BSc, MBBS and BSc degrees, reporting to Senate as appropriate, and
approve, as appropriate, any changes to the composition of the Boards of Examiners.
12. Where necessary, to recommend amendment of the Academic Regulations for the
MBBS/BSc, MBBS and BSc degrees to the Senate.
13. To ensure that the recommendations of the QAA and GMC (or other external agency)
and any internal Imperial College reviews are implemented appropriately.
14. To ensure that adequate learning resources are provided to support the delivery of the
teaching of the programme.
15. To monitor the provision and quality of e-learning.