Research Notes is a publication from Buckinghamshire New University that is published twice a year celebrating successes and communicating research activity associated with BNU.
The MediLingo project was featured on pages 12-13 of the Autumn 2023 issue.
The findings indicate that students perceived clear value in learning medical terminology like a language using MediLingo and identified the relevance of this learning to their clinical practice. MediLingo employed a technique known as spaced repetition, a practice commonly used in language learning as a key approach to conveying medical terminology. The results suggest that students saw benefit in the opportunity to repeat the learning of the terms and word parts. MediLingo also provided participants the chance to learn while ‘on the go’ in clinical placement, in university, at home, and even while travelling, which again was evidently valued.
