DEMEC 2025 Programme

Oral short communications A2

08 Dec 2025

12:00 - 13:00

Exec 2 - Breakout 14

Oral short communications , Medical education leadership development

12:00 - 12:15: Enhancing Medical Education Leadership using an Improvement Approach to Faculty Team Appraisals: Outcomes, Impact, and Strategic Development in Postgraduate Training
12:15 - 12:30: Evaluation of a longitudinal empathy curriculum stream in a UK Medical School
12:30 - 12:45: Valuing Educators and Nurturing the Future Medical Education Leadership Workforce
12:45 - 13:00: Medical Education in a War Zone: Can Gaza Educate Medics be used as a blueprint in other conflicts?

Chair

Sue Carr, Director of Medical Education and Associate Medical Director at the University Hospitals of Leicester - University Hospitals Leicester

Matt Spencer, Welsh Clinical Leadership Fellow - HEIW

Presenting Author

Caroline Groves, Lead for Quality - Health Education and Improvement Wales

Gethin Pugh, Director of Educational Improvement - Health Education and Improvement Wales

Amber Bennett-Weston, Post-Doctoral Research Associate - University of Leicester

Leila Keshtkar, Research associate - University of Leicester

Helen Steed, Deputy Postgraduate Dean - NHS England, West Midlands

Mahmoud Loubani, Chair - PalMed Academy

Co-Author

Malcolm Gajraj, Director of Quality Management - Health Education and Improvement Wales

Jane Gwilliam`, Associate Dean (Postgraduate Education Support and Improvement) - Health Education and Improvement Wales

Tom Lawson, Medical Director - Health Education and Improvement Wales

Anton Saayman, Postgraduate Medical Dean - Health Education and Improvement Wales

Debasish Das, Associate Professor and Lead Clinical Academic Tutor - University of Leicester

Steve Ennion, Director of Phase 1, Senior Tutor - University of Leicester

Simon Gay, Head of School of Medicine - Leicester Medical School

Jeremy Howick, Professor of Empathic Healthcare and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare - University of Leicester

Fiona Miall, Deputy Head of Medical School, Director of Clinical Studies & Honorary Consultant Haematologist - University of Leicester

Andy Ward, Director of Education and Training, Associate Professor of Medical Education - University of Leicester

Christopher Williams, Senior GP Clinical Educator and Head of Phase one - University of Leicester

Toni Brunning, Consultant Anaesthetist, Partnership Lead at DoctorsTraining - Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, DoctorsTraining

Simon Frazer, Consultant Paediatrician, Education Advisor for Medical Education Leaders UK, Creative Director DoctorsTraining - DoctorsTraining