Module Description/Content

This module provides the opportunity to undertake a review of published literature on a specified topic with one-to-one supervision...

Report on Health Professions Education (MDSC0029)

Module Description/Content

This module provides the opportunity to undertake a review of published literature on a specified topic with one-to-one supervision by a UCL academic. Guided by your supervisor,  you will search literature databases, read and critically evaluate published work and present a written report of the work drawing on perspectives you will have examined in the pre-requisite ‘Conducting literature reviews for health professions education projects’ module. The topic will be one of your own choosing, and could be the one for which you developed a literature searching protocol during the pre-requisite module, but this need not be the case and you are free to pursue a different area of study for your Report.

Delivery Method:

This module will be delivered through one-to-one virtual with your report supervisor. There will also be online support via UCL’s virtual learning environment (Moodle) as well as a number of optional synchronous  virtual workshops held during the day throughout the year where you can come along and discuss your ideas and progress with peers and tutors, providing a high level of academic support.

The participant will complete a 10,000-12,000 word Report.

MATHEMATICS. Combinatorics. Discrete Mathematics. Number Theory. Probability. Probabilistic Method.

The module introduces the probabilistic method, a powerful approach with many applications in combinatorics. The basic idea behind the method is that to prove...

Probabilistic Method in Combinatorics  (MATH0107)

The module introduces the probabilistic method, a powerful approach with many applications in combinatorics. The basic idea behind the method is that to prove that a combinatorial object with certain properties exists, it suffices to show that a random construction produces such an object with positive probability. The main topics covered in the module are the following: the basic method, linearity of expectation, alterations, the second moment, large deviations and the local lemma. Each of these topics will be presented along with applications in several different areas in combinatorics. The course will cover additional topics that will vary from year to year, including correlation inequalities, martingales, and various more intricate applications of aforementioned methods.