E-Learning for Clinical Teachers
Support for Trusts
Educational consultancy
The London Deanery actively encourages Trust-based faculty development activity and can provide advice on the content, format and delivery of educational programmes. The Deanery, working with academic partners in London and external providers, will ensure that educational expertise is readily available to Trusts. Through regular meetings with Clinical Tutors, Directors of Medical Education and Postgraduate Centre Managers, e-mail bulletins and this web site, the Deanery will also ensure that its wider educational network is fully informed about all faculty development opportunities.
For assistance and advice contact:
Tim Swanwick, Director of Professional Development at the London Deanery tim.swanwick@londondeanery.ac.uk
Identifying and Managing the Trainee in Difficulty: A Process Guide for Clinical Staff - Trust based workshops
London Deanery offers free workshops in Identifying and Managing the Trainee in Difficulty (IMTiD) in Trust locations. Trust-based workshops can be arranged for one particular team or speciality within a trust, or for up to 20 consultants, senior STs, SpRs, Associate Specialists or Trust Doctors from across a Trust. Trust-based workshops can be organised via Postgraduate Medical Education Managers or Director of Medical Education, or by contacting the London Deanery directly via the Faculty Development team (contact details below).
The workshop, which is approximately 2 - 2.5 hours, offers a ‘how to’ guide for clinical staff managing the Doctor or Dentist presenting with performance problems. Methods used during the workshop include: Powerpoint presentation, Q&A, video and case examples, group work, discussion, self/Peer review.
To arrange a Trust based workshop:
The London Deanery offers facilitation of these workshops free of charge to London Trusts. However, Postgraduate Medical Education Centres will be required to advertise events, manage course bookings, monitor course numbers (min 10, max 20) and organise teaching accommodation. In terms of accommodation requirements for the workshop we need one flat floored seminar room. Lecture theatres with fixed seating will not be acceptable for the workshop.
Please note that Postgraduate Centre Managers/budget holders will be required to sign an agreement which outlines the responsibilities of both the London Deanery Faculty Development Unit and the Postgraduate Education Centre.
For further information please see the workshop flyer. Or to organise a date for the London Deanery Teaching and Learning Tutor to deliver a workshop in your Trust please contact Gemma Evans with a list of possible dates you would like the workshop to take place by Email: facultydevelopment@londondeanery.ac.uk Telephone: 020 7866 3133
Supervision skills for clinical teachers: conversations inviting change - Trust based workshops
Via the Faculty Development Unit, London Deanery offers a free service for delivering one-day Supervision skills workshops in Trust locations. Trust-based workshops can be organised for groups of 8-16 participants. Groups are made up from any combination of interested people e.g. members of a unit, a team, a group of consultants and STRs, educational supervisors for foundation year doctors etc. Trust-based workshops can be organised via your postgraduate education manager or director of medical education, or by contacting the London Deanery directly via the Faculty Development team (contact details below).
The workshop offers hands-on training in the essential skills for good supervision. In particular, it addresses the issue of how to balance confirmation with challenge when supervising everyone from high fliers to doctors in difficulty.
Much of the workshop is based on participants' own working experience. Please come expecting to talk about current cases and dilemmas with patients, trainees, colleagues and teams.
Please note that this is not a comprehensive workshop in how to be a clinical or educational supervisor, but it will equip you with essential conversational skills for those roles. The training does not cover the contents of the Gold Guide (e.g. roles and responsibilities of educational supervisors) or the 'nuts and bolts' of MMC (e.g. curricula or work-based assessment.)
To arrange a Trust based workshop
Please contact Nerys Cater on tel: 020 7866 3173 or email: facultydevelopment@londondeanery.ac.uk
The Deanery offers facilitation of these workshops free of charge to London Trusts. However, Postgraduate Medical Education Centres will be required to advertise events, manage course bookings and organise teaching accommodation. We usually require approximately 3 month's notice to set up dates and recruit course facilitators.
Curriculum for clinical teachers
The London Deanery expects that its teachers, trainers and supervisors are appropriately trained for the role. But what does this mean? A simple outline curriculum for those organising faculty development programmes in Trusts is provided through this website. A portfolio for clinical teachers will follow in 2008.
Fellowships in Medical Education
Via the Faculty Development Unit London Deanery offers six full-time Fellowship in Medical Education opportunities based at Hospital Trusts in London. These unique posts offer an exciting opportunity for Specialty Registrars to develop their experience and skills as medical educators. The Fellowships consist of an out of programme experience for a period of 6 months attached to an ‘education unit’ within a designated London NHS Trust. The posts provide Fellows with regular Trust-based teaching activities, monthly seminars at the London Deanery, attendance/teaching on London Deanery faculty development courses, financial support for a Masters programme in education and a designated educational mentor. The posts also include one day per week clinical training in the specialty of the applicant’s choice.
Training tomorrow's trainers
Funding and support for trust-based 'teaching the teachers' programmes that will target doctors and dentists in training is available in 2010/11.
Funding for this programme has now been allocated.