Programme

Day – 01: Monday 6 December 2021
DEMEC 2021 will cover 6 themes following the AoME Professional Standards – Core Values and Five Domains The Academy of Medical Educators’ Professional Standards Framework makes explicit the values, skills, knowledge and practical capabilities required of those engaged in medical education. The Standards have been developed in wide consultation with professional medical educators. The framework is outcome-based and generic in nature; it is designed to be inclusive and relevant to all clinical and non-clinical medical educators irrespective of role. The Professional Standards support the maintenance of good medical practice and are used to support professional development, annual appraisal and revalidation. They are relevant to all educational roles and responsibilities. Membership and Fellowship of AoME exceed the minimum GMC requirements for clinical trainers. The programme will be delivered live where stated, but subject to change depending on covid restrictions in place at the time.

Transitions matter: The theory, research and practice of transitions in medical education

Transitions matter. They provide opportunities for intense learning but are also challenging. Drawing on the literature and her team-based research on medical education transitions, Charlotte will talk about: (i) What transitions are; (ii) How transitions can be researched; and (iii) How medical students and trainees can be helped to navigate transitions.

Professor Charlotte Rees
Dean Research
College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education
Murdoch University, Western Australia

Building high performance healthcare teams – culture, relationships and translational simulation

Improving teamwork and shaping culture in healthcare is easy to say, but hard to do.
Team training, catchy communication acronyms, and off-site team building might not realise the promise of high performing teams in the complex environment of 21^st century healthcare.
Maybe simulation offers more than we think – if used with agility – to explore work environments and the people in them, to test better systems or practices, and to embed ‘best practice’ once we know what that is.
And maybe simulation can actually shape culture, and help high performing healthcare teams get better, together.

Professor Victoria Brazil
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Simulation
Gold Coast Health Service, Queensland, Australia

A1: Normalising research in the patient journey: the role of medical students and trainees?

Session objectives:
• Consider the advantages of a medical workforce engaged in delivering clinical research? (and disadvantages of the converse scenario)
• Consider how we can better support medical students and doctors in clinical training programmes to participate in, and understand research?
• Hear student/postgraduate trainee experiences of research. Consider if access to participation in research is equitable across the UK?

Session summary:
Research plays a central role in developing better doctors, improving hospitals and delivering high-quality patient care. Many barriers remain in relation to doctors’ participation and patient accessibility. Through a panel discussion we will explore the role, value and challenges to supporting student and trainee doctors’ engagement in research.

Session hosted by:
General Medical Council

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Secondary care and mental health

A2: Designing and delivering evidenced-based interventions to support doctors’ transitions and wellbeing during and beyond COVID-19

Session objectives:

Understand and discuss the multiple transitions that doctors experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on doctors’ wellbeing
Discuss and reflect on the rapid, rigorous and resourced intervention development framework used to support doctors’ wellbeing.
Consider the evidence-based interventions that have been developed and how they may be implemented in their own workplace

Session summary:
Findings from the Scottish Doctors Wellbeing study will be presented and discussed. This study developed evidence-based interventions to support doctors’ wellbeing and resilience for transitions during and beyond COVID-19. Lessons learned from this session will be relevant to individuals, teams, organisations and policy makers interested in supporting the healthcare workforce.

Session hosted by:
Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (SMERC)

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers
Clinicians

Target care sector:
Workforce wellbeing

A4: Training the generalist – a transformative approach to healthcare training and delivery

Session objectives:

Understanding generalism in terms of a broad approach to disease but also the wider determinants of ill-health.
To gain an appreciation of how social advocacy/social medicine training be can incorporated into generalist and specialty programs
To understand the service benefits of the generalist and how the ‘specialty of generalism’ can be promoted.

Session summary:
Giving healthcare workers the skills to influence the socio-economic causes of ill health, as well as managing a wide range of disease, could be transformative. Using our experience of working with partners to develop a Generalist School we will explore the meaning of generalism, potential training models and the benefits to healthcare.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England (Midlands)

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Policy Makers
Medical directors and service providers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

A3: Work on the Wild Side; How can we address the rural workforce shortage?

Session objectives:

Give reasons for the current training and recruitment challenges faced by remote and rural organisations.
Outline the success of existing programmes in supporting rural training environments and promoting them as places to work.
Give employers a tool kit to consider how they can promote themselves and their organisations to staff.

Session summary:
Remote and rural locations face disproportionate staff challenges. This session builds on work done by the HEE on ‘Training in Smaller Places’ and Remote and Rural Working Group as part of the Distribution workstream in the Interim People Plan. The session will highlight problems, solutions and provide opportunity for discussion.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Managers
Administration
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Multi-professional education and training

A5: England & Scotland targeted GP training programme -learning for prevention of differential attainment in medical education.

Session objectives:

Sensitive and inclusive education : Evaluation implications for future medical education.
From recommendations to action.
Educational support recommendations to reduce risk of release from training. How do medical educators feel this could be implemented ?
How does this link to broader research on differential attainment ?

Session summary:
This national evaluation reviews outcomes for Drs previously released from GP training in England & Scotland who then re- entered targeted training.

Themes and recommendations for broader medical education are discussed.

Participants share expertise on interventions in their medical education programmes around successful progress in training, and prevention of differential attainment.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D7: Social media: force for good or evil in medical education?

Session objectives:

Gain insights into the principle benefits for academic engagement with social media platforms, including Twitter and Instagram.
Identify the risks social media may pose to professionalism, health and learning behaviours amongst undergraduates and postgraduates.
Develop understanding of the evidence base behind effective social media learning for undergraduate medical students.

Session summary:
Social media is one of the most rapidly growing arenas of medical education, with a recent explosion of activity related to educational delivery, assessment, reflection and wellbeing. This ASME debate will tackle the double-edge sword that is social media, drawing on educational theory to provide practical tips and notes of caution for educators.

Session hosted by:
ASME

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
E-learning

A7: GMC-regulated credentials: commencing a new learning journey

Session objectives:

Learn about our experience of developing a new education pathway in collaboration with education partners.
Take in insights from early adopters on their experience of developing and implementing GMC- regulated credentials.
Explore a flexible new learning approach from an informative discussion on credentials from the perspective of clinicians undertaking a credential.

Session summary:
Moving from the trialling of early adopters to the pivotal stage of implementing GMC-regulated credentials, this session will reflect on our experience and valuable lessons. Through a collaborative panel discussion with the early adopter bodies, it will provide insight into the development and implementation process of this new education pathway.

Session hosted by:
General Medical Council

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

A8: Better Doctors Better Patients – professionalism training changing doctors behaviours to improve patient outcomes

Session objectives:

to understand the need for a professionalism course of this nature early in medical professional’s career
to analyse the different ways delivery of this course can potentially affect lasting change in behaviours
to share experiences of creating interactive learning in a virtual environment

Session summary:
Better Doctors Better Patients Programme delivers professionalism training aiming to influence changes in behaviour to affect improvements in patient outcome. Attendees will have the opportunity to sample some of the innovative delivery utilised by the trainers. We will discuss some of the challenges imposed by the advent of Covid-19 and how we have adapted to accommodate to the changing requirements.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England North East

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

A9: Development of Foundation Internship Programme for Physicians Associates in Secondary Care in East of England

Session objectives:

Benefits of Physicians Associates Foundation internship in Secondary care for regional retention and support of medical workforce
Developing a curriculum and implementation of an online teaching programme to support Physicians Associates in their first year after graduation
Evaluation of Foundation internship experience from Physician Associates and secondary care medical workforce

Session summary:
Physician Associates support the medical workforce, improving junior doctors’ working lives. With GMC regulation and prescribing on the horizon, the implementation of foundation-like internship could help embed this role into your organisation. This workshop will share the experiences of East of England in its first year of the programme.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England East of England

Session theme:
Educational Management and Leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Multi-professional education and training

A10: Experience and Skills – how HEE’s Career Refresh for Medicine Programme brings back doctors to teach the next generation

Session objectives:

Inform participants about the Career Refresh for Medicine Return to Practice Programme
Exploring how this can help to support doctors in training by bringing more experienced doctors back into the workforce
Looking at the reasons doctors leave service and how we might address that and retain vital skills and experience in other ways

Session summary:
HEE’s Career Refresh for Medicine (CaReforMe) programme is bringing over 100 experienced doctors back into the NHS. They are a valuable resource to support, educate and train our junior doctors and we will explore the role they can play in our education and training environment.

Session hosted by:
HEE

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Policy makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training
Primary and community care
Secondary care and mental health
Continuing professional development
Multi-professional education and training
Learning across traditional boundaries (primary care / secondary care / social care and undergraduate / postgraduate)
Transitions in the medical education pathway
Integrated care provision

A11: Adapting Virtual Reality simulation in East of England Foundation Training

Session objectives:

Adapting Virtual Reality Simulation as part of Foundation training and its advantages
Linking theory to practice – understand the association of VR with education theories
Getting hands-on with VR and how VR can be adapted into other training programme

Session summary:
Virtual Reality (VR) simulation was introduced into EoE Foundation Programme in 2019. This excellent interactive educational tool is highly popular amongst trainees and unimpacted by COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss different delivery methods and benefits of VR simulation; link with adult-learning theories; feedback from trainees and adaptation to other training programme.

Session hosted by:
East of England Foundation School, HEE

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Target care sector:
Simulation

A12: The New Lost Tribe? Exploring the ever increasing FY3 phenomenon

Session objectives:

An understanding of the current post-foundation trajectory of junior doctors in England.
An exploration of the reasons behind the increasing number of junior doctors taking an ‘FY3’.
An opportunity to imagine visions for the future of post-foundation training.

Session summary:
There has been a year-on-year increase in post foundation doctors choosing to work for the NHS outside the training scheme. This session will share results of our study exploring the reasons behind this phenomenon and offer an opportunity to consider integration of these findings into future workforce planning, support and training.

Session hosted by:
Royal College of Physicians Lodnon

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

A13: Medical Workforce Hub: Reconciling trainee welfare, educational governance and care delivery during COVID-19

Session objectives:

Understand how to operationalise a multifunctional workforce hub
Describe the various strands of trainee welfare that can offered at a single point of access
Appreciate how educational leadership can mitigate the tensions between educational governance and the need for service delivery

Session summary:
The Medical Education department were concerned about assuring trainee welfare and experience during COVID-19, anticipating unpredictable workforce gaps, confrontation with novel disease and multiple environmental stressors. We will explore the concept of Medical Workforce Hub, designed as a single point of access for wellbeing services, educational assurance and redeployment.

Session hosted by:
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

A14: Oral Health Matters! The Work of the Advancing Dental Care Programme

Session objectives:

Participants will be informed on the work being undertaken to create more flexible training pathways in dentistry for the whole dental team
Participants will be able to describe the importance oral health in a holistic approach to overall healthcare
Participants will be able to recognise the role of members of the dental team in the wider healthcare setting

Session summary:
HEE’s Advancing Dental Care (ADC) review programme has undertaken an in-depth review of the education and training pathways available to dentists and other members of the dental team and is proposing a significantly more flexible approach to training pathways to improve job satisfaction, workforce retention in the NHS and a workforce model aligned to the NHS Long Term Plan to improve the delivery of better oral health care for patients. The report (due to be published in March 2021) signposts the training models and structures needed to deliver 21st century oral health and dental care.

Session hosted by:
HEE Advancing Dental Care review programme

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Multi-professional education and training

A15 (1): Evaluating GP specialty training in Wales – early results

Session objectives:

To hear trainer and trainee perspectives on the benefits and drawbacks of the 1 + 2 model of GP specialty training.
To consider the purpose of hospital placements within GP specialty training.
To learn about views on the ideal timing, length, and sequence of placements in GP training.

Session summary:
A new model of GP specialty training, providing 24-months in primary care, was introduced in Wales in August 2019. It aims to improve the preparation of doctors for general practice. We report interview and questionnaire data from GP trainers and trainees to show their responses to the changes so far.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE)

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Primary and community care

A15 (2): The medium of medical education pre-pandemic and during-pandemic: The impact on student learning and development.

Session objectives:

To identify current medical students’ perceptions of changes to the medium of their medical education arising from the pandemic.
In the context of COVID-19, to appraise facilitators and inhibitors to students’ development, confidence and sense of preparedness-for-practice.
To consider students’ perceptions of the future landscape of undergraduate medical education.

Session summary:
This mixed-methods study uses surveys and focus groups to investigate how COVID-19 and the shift to online learning has impacted undergraduate medical education in terms of students’ learning, development and sense of preparedness-for-practice. I will discuss results from focus groups that are preliminarily indicative of students’ preference towards blended learning.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University School of Medicine

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Managers
Academics
Researchers
Undergraduate Medicine Lecturers
Teaching Faculty

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

A15 (3): Using single best answers as a method of assessment: are they effective?

Session objectives:

To recognise the strengths and weaknesses of using single best answers for knowledge assessment.
To describe the components that constitute a good single best answer in order to accurately assess knowledge.
To identify inadequately written single best answer questions.

Session summary:
Single best answers (SBAs) are a widely used assessment format. When well-designed, SBAs are a time-efficient, non-discriminatory, valid and reliable tool for assessment. This session will discuss good SBA writing practice as this heavily influences their psychometric properties, and hence utility for research and educational purposes.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University

Session theme:
Assessment of learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Researchers
Educators

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

A15 (4): The Improved Normal: developing a blended online/in-person medical student placement at a highly specialist hospital

Session objectives:

Be able to analyse the education challenges and opportunities created by Covid in specialist hospital
Consider and evaluate one programme which blends online and in-person clinical education in an innovative and highly successful way
Consider the logistical and administrative solutions which allow smooth integration of such a programme into any hospital and context

Session summary:
Covid has stressed medical education and inspired creativity. At Royal Papworth we redeveloped our week and fortnight-long medical student placements using principles of adult learning, socio-cultural learning, and reflective practice to create a blended online/in-person programme. The lessons learnt are relevant to running short placements in any hospital and context.

Session hosted by:
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

B1: Trusting Judgements – a new approach to progression without a numeric scale

Session objectives:

To share and consider approaches to measuring progression through professional judgements
To share and consider the implementation of a non-numeric approach to progression
To share and consider experiences in using judgements in health care education.

Session summary:
This workshop, facilitated by three experienced educators, will explore with the profession how a framework of professional judgements and reflection might replace the current numeric assessment frameworks to determine progression in medical education.

Session hosted by:
The Academy of Medical Educators, GMC, ASME

Session theme:
Assessment of learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

B2: Reframing assessment post-covid: exams versus the workplace

Session objectives:

Delegates will understand the changes in delivery to postgraduate examinations in response to Covid-19
Delegates will gain an appreciation of the different learning and assessment opportunities which arise in the workplace
Delegates will understand the need to embed new models of clinical assessment into the workplace more effectively

Session summary:
The pandemic has meant that many postgraduate written exams have moved to remote delivery. As we move to remote consultations, assessing how we interact with patients on a day to day basis will become more important, and there is a need to professionalise competencies and strengthen the perceived value of assessment within the workplace.

Session hosted by:
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Session theme:
Assessment of learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B3: Anti-racist medical education

Session objectives:

Develop a shared understanding of how racism impacts on training progression and differential attainment
Explore how an active anti-racist approach to the organisation, planning and delivery of education, training and support can improve experience and outcomes
Identify personal and organisational actions to address racism in individual organisations

Session summary:
This session will briefly explore the background to racism in medical education, including narrative lived experience from trainees to highlight the issues. However, the main focus will be to explore a shift towards active anti-racism and will include sharing of exemplars of current activity in this area, including drawing on the experience within postgraduate medical education in HEE North East and Yorkshire. These include anti-racism training and workshops for all educators, reverse mentoring, an affinity group, and freedom to speak up networks,

This isn’t going to be a talking shop. Participants will be encouraged to identify actions as individuals and organisations so they leave with a meaningful output from the session.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Academics
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training
Multi-professional education and training

B4: Working and Teaching with Active Racial Awareness

Session objectives:

To be able to recognise racism in educational settings
To consider how you might respond to racism in educational settings
To share our experiences of setting up and running our workshops in active racial awareness

Session summary:
This session showcases work done at Warwick Medical School to increase awareness of, and appropriate responses to, racism. It is not a ‘usual’ equality and diversity workshop. Arising from our work on the Attainment Gap, we cover information about racism, support, and tips on responding well integrated with scenario discussion.

Session hosted by:
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Managers
Administration
Academics
Policy Makers
Anyone interested in addressing racism in educational settings and the attainment gap.

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

B5: Supporting Trainees through Training, ‘The Game of Training’

Session objectives:

Develop skills in understanding support issues and recognise triggers related to training progression and work performance.
Develop skills in effective supervision of trainees with support needs.
Construct specific, targeted and realistic educational plans enabling satisfactory progression.

Session summary:
To maximise attainment in Postgraduate Training, concerns and remediation plans need to be established early. This interactive hands-on game-workshop enhances educators’ knowledge and skills in supporting trainees. Participants work through challenges that may adversely affect trainees’ progression by focussing on effective recognition, support and remediation.

Session hosted by:
Health Education and Improvement Wales

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Postgraduates

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B6: How to Set Up Your Own Trainee-led Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network to Drive Change

Session objectives:

Develop an understanding of different approaches to embedding equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in organisations.
Learn how to write your own EDI Strategy.
Understand some of the practical considerations when designing, planning and setting up your own trainee/learner-led EDI network.

Session summary:
Using an example from post-graduate medical education in HEE(NW), you will develop the outline for your own trainee or learner-led EDI network.The workshop will be co-delivered by a diverse group of trainees who have been instrumental in the success of the North West EDI Network.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England (North West)

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Learning across traditional boundaries (primary care / secondary care / social care and undergraduate / postgraduate)

B7: Levelling the Playing Field: How can we remove disadvantage from the Widening Participation student’s medical school experience?

Session objectives:

To understand the unique challenges faced by Widening Participation students at medical school
To explore ways in which we can ‘level the playing field’, and what needs to change
To reflect on our own philosophical perspective of Widening Participation

Session summary:
Whilst Widening Participation mostly focuses on applications, in this session we will explore recent research on the WP experience post-matriculation. There will be presentation followed by workshop. Audience participation is invited and valued – by sharing experiences and knowledge we hope to create an agenda for change to create a level playing field in undergraduate medicine.

Session hosted by:
University of Nottingham

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education
Multi-professional education and training

B8: Make the LEEP: how to get started with delivering leadership development in your organisation

Session objectives:

Gain an understanding of some key educational and leadership theories underpinning an organisation-led development offer
Identify and quantify the factors involved in practical implementation and course design
Formulate an overview of methods to measure the impact of a leadership development programme within an organisation

Session summary:
An innovative leadership development programme (LEEP) will be used to illustrate contemporary underpinning educational and leadership theories, translation of principles to create and deliver an organisational offer. Evaluation results will be presented and discussed, along with subsequent integration of the programme in wider educational initiatives at system level.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Target care sector:
Continuing professional development

B9: Supporting International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in locally employed posts.

Session objectives:

Participants should be able to identify barriers and facilitators for IMGs to integrate into the work place and develop their careers.
Identify themes that can improve IMG work and educational experience in non-training posts
Design a model structure to support IMGs in locally employed posts to promote equal opportunity and potentially reduce differential attainment.

Session summary:
We plan 2 presentations followed by 20 minutes of discussion. The first speaker will speak about differential attainment and barriers and facilitators to integrate (20 mins). The second speaker will speak about supporting IMGs in locally employed posts (20 mins) addressing areas like mentoring, wellbeing, teaching and leadership.

Session hosted by:
University Hospitals Dorset

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
International Medical Graduates

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B10: Consensus statement on the content of clinical reasoning curricula in medical education – what does it mean in practice?

Session objectives:

Appreciate the scale and nature of diagnostic error, and international calls to improve ‘diagnosis education’.
Know the ‘five domains of clinical reasoning education’ that undergraduate and postgraduate teaching should cover.
Know six evidence-based teaching strategies for teaching clinical reasoning, and how these can be applied in practice.

Session summary:
Effective clinical reasoning is required for safe patient care. Students and postgraduate trainees largely learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for effective clinical reasoning implicitly, through experience and apprenticeship. There is a growing consensus that schools should teach clinical reasoning in a way that is explicitly integrated into courses throughout each year, adopting a systematic approach consistent with current evidence. However, the clinical reasoning literature is ‘fragmented’ and can be difficult for medical educators to access. The purpose of this symposium is to provide evidence-based practical recommendations for curriculum leads and educators.

https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2020.1842343

Session hosted by:
UK Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education Group (CReME)

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Policy Makers
Curriculum leads and educators

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

B11: Near-peer support for foundation doctors: a paradigm for supporting the multi-professional workforce

Session objectives:

Delegates will understand what support helps doctors during the Foundation Programme.
Delegates will learn how to set up a near-peer support scheme and engage key stakeholders in its delivery.
Delegates will understand how to translate this scheme into a future model to support and retain the wider multi-professional team.

Session summary:
Under a new scheme, foundation doctors will receive near-peer support from senior trainees. This session will reflect on the context for this work – including the experiences of FiY1s and the revised Foundation Programme curriculum – and consider how the scheme may translate into a model to support the wider multi-professional team.

Session hosted by:
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

B12: The postgraduate outcomes of medical students from a widening participation background

Session objectives:

Attendees will learn about the journeys of widening participation students once they leave medical school and enter postgraduate training.
Attendees will gain insight into which specialties widening participation students end up training in and why.
Attendees will understand how to access information about the demographics of their students and trainees through GMC data.

Session summary:
This session will examine the postgraduate outcomes of students from a widening participation background in with a specific look at doctors who graduated from three Gateway Courses. It will cover their performance in postgraduate assessment, their specialty destination and their reasons for making that choice.

Session hosted by:
Medical Schools Council

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

B13: Introducing new delivery models for established high-stakes postgraduate examinations: overcoming challenges, learning lessons, new opportunities

Session objectives:

Implementing online delivery of high stakes written examinations
Assessing skills using virtual encounters in a clinical examination
Exploring candidate strategies for approaching online written examinations

Session summary:
Like many organisations, MRCP(UK) faced the difficulty of making significant short-notice changes to its examination delivery in 2020. As well as an overview of how the challenges encountered were overcome, this session provides a demonstration of the more in-depth analysis possible with the data provided from new delivery models.

Session hosted by:
MRCP(UK)

Session theme:
Assessment of learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B14: Service reconfigurations in the NHS: what does it mean for doctors’ training?

Session objectives:

To gain knowledge from recent research describing the impact of planned and pandemic related service reconfiguration on doctors in training
To reflect on the research findings using delegates own experiences and to share and learn from best-practices
To identify strategies to maximise educational opportunities resulting from service change and develop approaches that maintain the best training experience.

Session summary:
Participants will be presented with recent research insights and then engage in a discussion with experts to reflect and share best practices. The session concludes with group work during which participants synthesize acquired knowledge and lived experiences to develop practical strategies to improve doctors’ training experiences.

Session hosted by:
General Medical Council

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B15 (2): The Facilitated Remote Multidisciplinary Team Meeting – making remote MDTs the highlight of medical student placements

Session objectives:

Critically analyse the remote MDT as a learning opportunity for medical students in various stages of their development
Consider and evaluate an innovative approach maximising the value of the remote MDT as a teaching opportunity
Reflect on how this ties in with socio-cultural learning theories of legitimate peripheral participation and inspires further innovations

Session summary:
MDTs are often described as important learning opportunities for medical students. However, students often struggle to feel involved and learn. We have pioneered a new format where student access to the remote MDT is facilitated by a clinician, with great success, paving the way for further similar innovations.

Session hosted by:
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

B15 (3): Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship for Wales (CARER): Impact of belongingness and social integration on professional identity

Session objectives:

To improve knowledge of belongingness
To increase understanding of how social integration and belongingness enhance learning and professional development of students
To understand factors that facilitate/enable this learning to take place

Session summary:
Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships are characterised as a transformative approach to medical education, predicated on relationships between educators, students and patients. Our immersed-dispersed LIC sees Year 3 students embedded in general practice for 10-months. We report impact of belongingness and social integration on development of professional identity and preparedness for practice.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University School of Medicine

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers
Multiprofessional educators

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

B15 (4): The Digital Trainee: The 1-2-3 to an effective informatics programme

Session objectives:

One reason why clinical informatics be on everyone’s radar
2 lesson learnt on engaging trainees
3 common challenges faced in digital health training

Session summary:
Clinical informatics is often touted as a key component in future healthcare, but what works when developing the next clinical informaticians. This session highlights the clinical informatics training in the North East. Focused on clinical informatics in postgraduate training; facilitating change, managing quality and addressing the needs of trainees.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England North East

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B15 (5): An On-Call Escape Room as part of a Foundation Year One junior doctor induction

Session objectives:

To learn how to create an interactive session introducing new doctors to an on-call shift.
To present a novel way to improve the confidence and relieve the anxiety of junior doctors and their attitudes to on-call shifts.
To demonstrate other possible applications for an escape room in a postgraduate education setting.

Session summary:
We show how we created an escape room so that others could do something similar and why we feel it could be of benefit for future inductions or education programmes.

Session hosted by:
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B15 (6):Using video-communication platforms to deliver learning: are they effective?

Session objectives:

To discuss the literatures’ stance on using video-communication platforms to deliver learning to medical students.
To recognise the advantages and disadvantages of using video-communication platforms to deliver learning to medical students.
To understand the results of a study comparing students’ knowledge performance when taught through video-communication to in-person teaching.

Session summary:
Video-communication platforms like Zoom have provided a solution to continuing medical education during the recent pandemic. We report the results of a study that compared the impact of learning via a video-communication platform to learning via in-person teaching on the knowledge performance of graduate entry medicine students.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Researchers
Educators

Target care sector:
E-learning

C1: Selection into the Foundation Programme – How could we improve the system?

Session objectives:

Balancing competing requirements – the complexity of policy making.
Delivering equitable solutions that satisfy multiple stakeholder perspectives.
Brainstorming as a route to delivering novel approaches

Session summary:
There is growing dissatisfaction with the current selection system which makes medical students competitive – rather than team players – and which consigns the weakest students to the least desirable locations. The session will challenge delegates to come up with radical – yet practical and acceptable alternatives.

Session hosted by:
Medical Schools Council

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

C2: Developing Diverse Workforce for a Global Diverse Patient Groups – Addressing Differential Attainment

Session objectives:

Learn what is Differential Attainment
Develop awareness of the causes and effects of Differential Attainment
Explore effective interventions on individual and institutional level.

Session summary:
This workshop explores who, what and how of Differential Attainment before moving on to consider the system, institutional and importantly individual responsibilities. The participants will focus on positive interventions, which can be implemented in the training environment to make a difference.

Session hosted by:
Health Education and Improvement Wales

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Postgraduates

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C3: The department in difficulty: how to address a challenged learning environment

Session objectives:

gain an understanding of the underlying systemic and organisational factors that can result in a challenged learning environment
develop an approach for examining and assessing a department that is highlighted as one “in difficulty”
create a SMART action plan to address the issues identified and mitigate for the system pressures to embed sustained change

Session summary:
A key threat to excellence in postgraduate medical education remains “the department in difficulty”, where systemic, often long-standing factors related to service pressures and culture result in poor learner feedback. This workshop will use real-life examples to provide approaches to address this recurring problem in postgraduate medical education.

Session hosted by:
NACT UK/HEE

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C4: Burnout in medical trainers: Developing understanding and charting a course to enhanced wellbeing

Session objectives:

To increase understanding of prevalence and perceptions of burnout amongst medical trainers of the UK.
Through group discussion explore the triggers, impact and features of burnout amongst medical trainers
Be able to develop an action plan and management strategies to support medical trainers suffering with burnout

Session summary:
Building on the research conducted by Cardiff University and HEIW this session will seek to explore the phenomenon of burnout amongst education and clinical supervisors including the presentation, triggers, impact and management strategies. Understanding this phenomenon is critical to the delivery of postgraduate education and training and improved patient safety.

Session hosted by:
Health Education & Improvement Wales

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C5: An inclusive induction? Supporting returners and international graduates into current UK practice.

Session objectives:

Examine challenges for new and returning to UK practice and explore how we ensure induction is inclusive for these cohorts.
Learn about the GMC’s induction programme by exploring the video content as well as findings from an independent evaluation
Consider progress of the NHS standardised induction and the HEE induction for returners and explore next steps for these.

Session summary:
This interactive workshop will examine how inclusive we are in delivering induction. We will explore the impact on doctors new and returning to UK practice and share our research on this topic, before exploring what action we can take to be truly inclusive of these groups of doctors’ needs.

Session hosted by:
General Medical Council

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

C6: E-learning support in the time of Covid

Session objectives:

Explore the rapid design and development of content for skills modules during the first wave of the pandemic
Share the technological and content quality assurance processes required for monitoring -learning resources during a pandemic
Investigate the quantitative and qualitative impact of interprofessional e-skills resources

Session summary:
The Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network developed e-learning modules which supported over 45,000 practitioners during the pandemic. The modules covered Self-protection, Workplace Protection and Assessment and Management of Patients with Covid 19 across primary and secondary care. Impact was evaluated by “Lockdown in the Larder” sessions and immersive simulation scenarios.

Session hosted by:
NHS Education for Scotland

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Target care sector:
E-learning

C7: Applying theory to the development of virtual e-learning environments: a student perspective

Session objectives:

To explore students’ needs in a virtual learning environment and apply medical education theories to the construction of e-learning resources
To discuss the importance of interactivity and demonstrate how this can be done in an easily accessible program
To discuss ideas and concepts to improve virtual learning resources for medical students

Session summary:
As the recent winners of the GMC/MSC competition 2020, we highlighted the importance of communication with patients and those close to them through a virtual e-learning environment. Our workshop explores how to design e-learning modules from the perspective of students that are both the end-user and medical educators themselves.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University School of Medicine

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Anyone that designs e-learning

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

C8: Sharing best practice, enhancing governance, support and improving outcomes in managing performance concerns

Session objectives:

Identify how critical analysis of complex cases can direct learning and quality improvement across all relevant processes
Understand proper procedures, common pitfalls and how to prevent cases escalating and the value of training/sharing best practice
How the learning from COVID has informed changes to enhance governance e.g., development of the Gold Guide, appraisal, and revalidation

Session summary:
This interactive session will explore learning from complex case reviews, legal challenges to governance processes, confounding factors that impact on performance, progression and multifactorial interdependencies contributing to differential attainment, together with how early intervention and educational support has improved outcomes, reducing extensions to training and fewer escalations externally (GMC).

Session hosted by:
Health Education England (North West) & Gold Guide Reference Group

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Policy Makers
Professional Regulators, Responsible Officers and Medical Directors

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C9: A pandemic silver lining: lessons learnt from the interim F1 scheme

Session objectives:

Learn from feedback data obtained from FiY1 doctors
Consider how final year medical students can be better prepared for their F1 posts
Assess changes required in clinical environments for better experiential learning for final year medical students

Session summary:
This session will look at how lessons learnt in creating the interim F1 programme during the Covid pandemic may lead to changes in both undergraduate and early postgraduate medical education in UK, based on feedback from FiY1 doctors and their educators.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

C10: Narrowing the Gap of Differential Attainment – Bringing Research into Practice

Session objectives:

Inform participants of current Differential Attainment (DA) research and how this can be applied in practice.
Describe a strategic stepwise approach to address DA at a programmatic, cross-specialty level focused on early identification and interventions.
Present formal evaluation of targeted interventions in 3 core training programmes and its impact on educational outcomes and trainee experience.

Session summary:
This session:

Presents our cross-collaborative DA research (HEE/GMC/colleges)
Explores impact of our programmatic cross-specialty approach focusing on earlier identification and interventions to improve educational outcomes.
Evaluates 3 core-training programmes (Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry).
Presents a strategic multi-level approach with targeted trainee and trainer interventions providing personalized support for trainees.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C11: Assessing Foundation Doctors under the new 2021 curriculum

Session objectives:

Understanding the Higher level outcomes( HLOs ) and how to evidence them efficiently and effectively
Making the most of the summary narrative and tips on how to maximise its effectiveness in reflection
How to ensure adequate curriculum coverage whilst reducing burden of assessment.

Session summary:
The session will highlight the new curriculum assessment requirements, provide guidance on evidencing the HLOs and maximising the value of the summary narrative. There will be focus on how to provide balanced evidence for both mental and physical health and ensuring adequacy of curriculum coverage whilst minimising the assessment burden.

Session hosted by:
UKFPO

Session theme:
Assessment of learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C12: Introducing the NIHR Incubator for Clinical Education Research: developing capacity, careers and impact

Session objectives:

Understanding of the career opportunities and challenges facing those undertaking clinical education research.
Introduction to the goals and work of the Incubator for Clinical Education Research, a new national initiative supported by NIHR.
Awareness of the strategies the Incubator will be pursuing to support academic career development in clinical education research.

Session summary:
The Incubator for Clinical Education Research (ClinEdR) is a new initiative to develop the discipline of ClinEdR, through support of clinicians to develop academic careers in this field.

In this session attendees with discuss challenges faced by ClinEdR researchers, and how the Incubator intends to address these to achieve our aims.

Session hosted by:
Newcastle University

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers

Target care sector:
Clinical Education Research

C13: Progress along a pathway to improving support for trainees with a disability

Session objectives:

To consider the guidance provided by the GMC’s ‘Welcomed and valued’ publication.
To understand the method of developing our local process (aligned to ‘Welcomed and valued’) on supporting trainees with a disability.
To reflect on the early experience of implementing our support process informed by postgraduate doctors who are training with a disability.

Session summary:
Following our parallel session at DEMEC 2019, HEE Midlands has developed a process for supporting trainees with a disability aligned to the GMC’s ‘Welcomed and valued’ publication. This has been achieved by working closely with our trainees with a disability, trainers, specialist OH services and employers across East Midlands.

Session hosted by:
HEE Midlands, Westbridge Place, 1 Westbridge Close, Leicester LE3 5DR

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C14: @WellDoctors: How (and why) to build a collaborative trainee wellbeing network in your region.

Session objectives:

Understand the determinants of a well and resilient postgraduate trainee workforce.
Apply the GMC’s “ABC” framework to analyse real-world barriers to wellbeing for postgraduate trainees.
Explore the role of networked solutions in supporting postgraduate trainee wellbeing and workforce resilience.

Session summary:
We created a collaborative network for supporting trainee wellbeing across HEE South West, facilitating junior doctors to develop their own skills in supervision and support as required by the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework.

Our aim is to share our experiences and encourage similar “@welldoctors” and “@wellMDT” networks across the UK.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England – South West

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C15 (1): Interim FY1 – improved preparedness and decreased anxiety – a longitudinal study of >4000 FY1s.

Session objectives:

Understand areas where FY1s feel they are not adequately prepared for practice as they transition from medical student to FY1.
Understand the level of anxiety experienced by FY1s as they transition from medical student to FY1.
Understand the impact of the FiY1 opportunity on preparedness to practice and anxiety levels when compared to previous FY1 cohorts.

Session summary:
The longitudinal FY1 induction survey was adapted to include information about undertaking an interim FiY1 post. The preparedness and anxiety levels of those who had undertaken an FiY1 was compared to their current peers who had not undertaken FiY1 and the previousFY1s from 2017-2019 who had responded to the survey.

Session hosted by:
Severn Foundation School

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

C15 (2): The Foundation Year 3 (FY3) Phenomenon – what’s going on?

Session objectives:

To explain the F3 phenomenon and its increased popularity over the past 10 years
To understand the findings of a recently-undertaken scoping review on the F3 year
To highlight the concerns raised by the review and what can be done to support post-graduate recruitment and retainment

Session summary:
More than half of UK doctors do not enter Core/Specialty training immediately following Foundation training. We present the results of our recent scoping review to explore the who, what, where, when and why of the “Foundation Year 3” and highlight post-graduate training programme issues that may be driving the phenomenon.

Session hosted by:
University of Nottingham, UK.

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C15 (3): Role of imposter syndrome in medical educators’ working lives and careers

Session objectives:

To investigate the prevalence (and severity) of imposter syndrome in medical educators
To explore the effect of imposter syndrome on medical educators
To develop potential strategies to address the problem of imposter syndrome in medical education

Session summary:
Individuals with impostor syndrome (IS) attribute their achievements to external factors, leading to anxiety and self-doubt. While IS is common among doctors and clinical academics, its impact on medical educators and their career pathways has not previously been researched. We report findings and recommendations from our mixed methods study.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University- Medical Education

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Continuing professional development

C15 (4): PERFORM: The Metacognitive Model to Optimise Performance during Management of Acutely Unwell Patients

Session objectives:

Define ‘metacognition’ and understand how it can enhance (clinical) performance.
Understand the PhD research project behind the PERFORM model, and how it supported doctors to better manage acutely unwell patients.
Apply the PERFORM model to your own medical education teaching/training.

Session summary:
The PERFORM model, developed for a Medical Education PhD, instructs Performance Enhancing Routines application (used in sports to optimise performance) using metacognition. The multi-centre PERFORM study demonstrated self-reported improved management of acutely unwell patients by junior doctors. This session introduces PERFORM, its associated research and how to apply the model.

Session hosted by:
University of Nottingham, UK.

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

C15 (5): Exploring the perceptions of burnout in Foundation Trainees in Wales.

Session objectives:

To recognise the signs and symptoms of burnout
To identify the individual and organisational contributing factors of burnout
To appreciate appropriate prevention and management strategies

Session summary:
The prevalence of burnout in doctors has been increasing in recent years. Foundation doctors are particularly at higher risks as the transition from medical school is demanding. Using a mixed-methods approach, we explored the perceptions of burnout in these doctors in Wales with the aim of developing appropriate management strategies.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University, School of Medicine

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

C15 (6): Transitions in medical education – does self-regulated learning help?

Session objectives:

To report the results of a literature review into transition to higher education and self-regulated learning in medical students
To discuss theoretical models of transition and self-regulated learning, and their application to medical education
To highlight gaps in the evidence for self-regulated learning in medical education and suggest avenues of exploration for future research

Session summary:
It has been theorised that the ability of clinicians to regulate their own learning influences how they adapt to the many transitions they face in their careers, and subsequently their capacity to become lifelong learners. Our literature review explores whether this is the case, particularly within a UK population.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

D1: Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA): Future evaluation of the impact on learning

Session objectives:

Explore the context for the introduction of the MLA for UK medical students and international medical graduates seeking registration via the examination route
Explore the MLA model and the intended aim and benefits for stakeholders
Host a panel discussion to consider the MLA evaluation activities required to understand impact, including washback on learning

Session summary:
The MLA will launch in early 2024. Planning for evaluation of the MLA is an essential part of the pre-launch programme. What evaluation questions are of most interest to MLA stakeholders? What can we learn from your experiences of evaluation to prepare for the introduction of this large-scale, national assessment?

Session hosted by:
General Medical Council

Session theme:
Assessment of learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Transitions in the medical education pathway

D2: ‘Training the Trainer’ & ‘Workplace & Me’ – Converting face to face courses into Virtual Interactive ones !

Session objectives:

Demonstrate that although COVID provided a challenge it is possible to deliver interactive and fun online courses
Adaptation of the delivery is key to ensuring that a teaching session will work in a virtual format
Feedback is very valuable to ‘tweak’ the delivery especially when a format is new

Session summary:
Train the Trainer and Workplace and Me sessions have been successfully delivered by Foundation Schools across the UK. The programmes were successfully been delivered face to face but with COVID arrival there was a need to consider how we could successfully deliver them virtually. Our presentation will highlight key modifications.

Session hosted by:
Severn Foundation School : East of England Foundation School : Yorkshire and Humber Foundation School

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Target care sector:
Multi-professional education and training

D3: Global Women Health Leaders – Unleashing their Potential

Session objectives:

Raise awareness of the research and scale of the challenge around the gender leadership gap globally.
To understand barriers, including intersectionality and enablers which impact on women entering into senior leadership positions.
Provide framework of potential early interventions to narrow the gender leadership gap and improve outcomes globally.

Session summary:
Women represent >70% of global health workforce but <25% are senior leaders and <15% senior academics.
This disparity negatively impacts health outcomes for women and children worldwide.

This session:

Summarises current research around Global Health leadership.
Explores strategies to address this – global perspectives.
Provides approaches to narrow gap and improve outcomes.

Session hosted by:
Royal College of Physicians, London

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Global perspectives

D4: Enhancing generalist skills: Delivering the Future, Doctor?

Session objectives:

Allow participants to gain an understanding of how the co-created vision of Future Doctors will be delivered through the enhancing generalist skills programme
Exploring how this can help to respond to pandemics and the already evolving needs and expectations of population
Provide participants the opportunity to explore current delivery models and offer feedback on proposals for implementation

Session summary:
This session will outline the development and implementation of a wraparound development offer for healthcare professions, based on the output of HEE’s Future Doctor report. The programme is based within healthcare systems and stakeholder fora include providers, employers, patients, doctors and the wider healthcare workforce. We will outline our proposals to develop doctors with enhanced generalist skills and explain how this can be developed, implemented and delivered in practice.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England

Session theme:
Designing and planning learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D5: Less Than Full-time Training: Improving accessibility and trainee experiences

Session objectives:

What are the barriers to applying for LTFT and what can we do to remove these?
What are trainees experiences of LTFT?
What can we do to improve LTFT training experience for postgraduate medical and dental trainees?

Session summary:
In 2018 we surveyed all medical and dental trainees in Wales about Less Than Full-time Training (LTFT). We present the findings of the survey, changes made since and our recommendations for the future. The session will be interactive and we welcome sharing of participants’ own experiences and ideas.

Session hosted by:
Health Education and Improvement Wales

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D6: Integrated Academic Training (IAT): Fit for purpose in 2021?

Session objectives:

Explore the quality of clinical experience of academic trainees (including Foundation trainees) as assessed by GMC National Training Survey (NTS)
Explore the inclusivity and geographical distribution of clinical academic training programmes across the UK
Host a panel discussion to consider development of clinical academic training to improve accessibility, inclusivity and clinical experience

Session summary:
GMC NTS data highlights challenges regarding access and opportunity to CAT programmes for some doctors. CAT trainees appear to have poorer experience of some aspects within their clinical placements, particularly Foundation trainees. This session will explore improving inclusivity and consider whether the CAT model is fit for the future?

Session hosted by:
General Medical Council

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Academics
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

A6: Education in Adversity: Keep Connected and Carry On

Session objectives:

To analyse the challenges for postgraduate training during the COVID pandemic from both trainee and trainer perspectives
To evaluate how technology can be harnessed to ensure continuity and quality of educational programmes and career development
To design future educational programmes based on learning from pandemic strategies

Session summary:
The COVID pandemic resulted in upheaval for the delivery of postgraduate training. This workshop will review experience of delivery of education and support to both trainees and trainers during this period. Emphasis will be placed on practical approaches, what was learnt from feedback and how career development may be maintained.

Session hosted by:
Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D8: Rethinking Medicine as the new paradigm and what this means for medical education

Session objectives:

Understand and engage with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ vision of Rethinking Medicine
Engage their sector with this vast and critical agenda and contribute to the evolution of the educational aspects of it
To be willing to review own organisation education provision and consider changes needed in the light of the new paradigm

Session summary:
Rethinking Medicine reframes personalised care, considering the whole person including their social and demographic factors through their NHS journey. It is a way to bring together myriad current initiatives, coherently to ensure maximum collaboration and minimise waste in the NHS, whilst aspiring to deliver the ‘quadruple aims’.

Session hosted by:
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Integrated care provision

D9: Leadership & Teamworking: the Impact of the Virtual World

Session objectives:

An outline of the neurophysiology of communication, links with leadership and how we can apply that to real and virtual teams.
An understanding as to what makes us feel safe in a particular environment, and how we can use technology to support that as much as possible.
An update on key themes around resilience and leadership so we can jointly consider what can support us, our trainees and our workforce.

Session summary:
This session will include an outline of the neurophysiology of communication, links with leadership and resilience and how we can apply that to real and virtual teams. There are a range of techniques that can be used to help, especially when you understand the neurophysiology of virtual communication. In particular I want to share the work of Stephen Porges and his research on polyvagal theory.

This gives us an understanding as to what makes us feel safe in a particular environment, and how we can use the technology to support that as much as possible. I’ll also summarise Daniel Goleman’s work on leadership and focus.

The workshop will update on key themes around resilience and leadership so we can jointly consider what can support us, our trainees and our workforce.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England, working across the North West

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D10: Strategies for improving race equality in healthcare institutions

Session objectives:

To recognize the need for change and cultural shift in the way race is perceived in healthcare as the foundation for positive and sustainable transformation
To identify barriers to facilitating conversations about race in healthcare institutions
To explore the overall dynamic process of implementing strategies using a model of collaboration between students and staff

Session summary:
Understanding the role of race in healthcare is important in the medical curriculum, as there is a demand for cultural transformation. A crucial part of this involves discussions between staff and students to build a community of positive and sustainable change. The process, although slow and dynamic is rewarding.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University, School of Medicine

Session theme:
Core values of medical educators

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

D11: The use of a longitudinal virtual patient to enhance clinical reasoning skills

Session objectives:

Understand the value of a longitudinal virtual patient within the medical student curriculum
Explore how the longitudinal virtual patient aids development of students’ clinical reasoning skills
Develop storyboarding skills for creating a longitudinal virtual patient in participants’ own educational context

Session summary:
The workshop will explain the rationale for the introduction of a longitudinal virtual GP patient into the Warwick MBChB curriculum and shares experiences from the pilot.

Small group work will offer practical opportunities for storyboarding a longitudinal virtual patient in participants’ own educational context.

Session hosted by:
Warwick Medical School (MBChB)

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Academics
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
E-learning

D12: How to Achieve Consistency in Escalation to the GMC of Concerns in Complex Cases

Session objectives:

How to establish a Responsible Office Advisory Group to guide decision making
Consistency in escalation of concerns and clear feedback to trainees in difficulty about the process
Support for Heads of School and Training Programme Directors when face with decisions about escalation of concerns

Session summary:
We will describe the practicalities of establishing a Responsible Officer Advisory Group and use anonymised case studies to illustrate the benefits we have seen in terms of consistency and clarity of decision making. We will also describe how this supports Heads of School and Training Programme Directors in managing complex cases where escalation to the regulator is considered and clarity of communication with the trainee in difficulty is vital

Session hosted by:
Health Education England East Midlands

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Administration
Policy Makers
All those involved with interaction between the GMC and local HEE offices managing trainees

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D13: Credentials for clinicians: helping experienced clinicians integrate research into their work

Session objectives:

To recognise the need for clinical research credentials for experienced clinicians
To explore the distinguishing features of the proposed AoMRC/NIHR clinical research credentials
To evaluate the benefits of these credentials for both the experienced clinicians and the workforce

Session summary:
This session will outline an AoMRC/NIHR project to develop interprofessional credentials for experienced clinicians wishing to cultivate clinical research capabilities.

This DHSC-funded project aims to enable more patients to benefit from research-active clinical environments whilst improving recruitment and retention of experienced clinicians in areas with low-level research activity.

Session hosted by:
Royal College of Physicians / National Institute for Health Research

Session theme:
Educational research and scholarship

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Academics
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Researchers

Target care sector:
Multi-professional education and training

D14: What is the value of leadership schemes? Leadership fellow alumni voices from the healthcare frontline.

Session objectives:

To explore and understand the individual and system benefits accrued from undertaking a leadership fellowship
To hear from leadership fellow alumni about their subsequent leadership journey and understand the practical value of skills realised
To explore where leadership roles fit into healthcare educational career trajectories

Session summary:
This workshop will explore the leadership experiences of alumni of a trainee leadership programme. Attendees will hear from a variety of healthcare professionals on how their participation in the scheme has influenced their career, how they have used their skills, and explore how we define value in healthcare leadership training.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England North East and Yorkshire

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
Policy Makers
Educational Leaders

Target care sector:
Multi-professional education and training

D15 (1): SuppoRTT – Returning to Training during a global pandemic: Impact of activities on beneficiaries and supervisors

Session objectives:

To increase understanding of the difficulties and associated needs faced by some doctors in training returning to clinical practice
To improve knowledge of how SuppoRTT activities benefit those returning to training
To enhance supervisors knowledge and understanding of how SuppoRTT can assist supervisors and trainees during the transition

Session summary:
At least 10% of trainees take approved time out of training including parental leave, sickness/bereavement, additional experience or career break. SuppoRTT comprises wide-ranging activities targeting doctors returning-to-training. During a global pandemic navigating transition back to clinical practice has never been more important. We report impact of SuppoRTT to beneficiaries and supervisors.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University School of Medicine

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D15 (2): Designing an evaluation model for complex system-wide sim-based interventions in health and care

Session objectives:

Describe the latest research and evidence for the evaluation of simulation-based interventions.
Introduce a set of best practice principles of simulation evaluation in healthcare.
Provide case study examples of the application of the simulation evaluation principles in different healthcare professional development contexts.

Session summary:
Simulation is increasingly being utilised within healthcare education and training, but with inconsistent approaches toward evidenced based evaluation. This session will present a national project to establish principles of best practice for simulation evaluation and illustrate their application in practice. Future links with commissioning and benefits realisation will be considered.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Managers
Administration
Academics
Researchers
Policy Makers
Commissioners

Target care sector:
Simulation

D15 (3): Immersive Leadership & Management: What you can learn from a unique leadership programme for doctors-in-training

Session objectives:

Develop an understanding of the argument for the relevance of leadership & management to doctors-in-training
Develop an awareness of the unique, clinically relevant and popular features of a year-long, immersive clinical leadership & management programme
Consider how an evidence-based framework might be used to maximise the relevance and success of your own leadership & management initiatives

Session summary:
This session will explore our experiences of delivering an immersive ‘leadership & management programme’ within an NHS arm’s-length body. Based on data from participating doctors-in-training over five years, we will review a framework likely to maximise the success of your own current and future leadership & management initiatives.

Session hosted by:
Health Education England North East & North Cumbria

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Administration
Policy Makers

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

D15 (4): Mentorship for Academic Foundation Doctors

Session objectives:

Understand the value of mentorship for academic trainees
Develop a strategy for implementing a regional mentorship scheme
Appreciate how to make the most of a mentorship relationship from a mentee perspective

Session summary:
The NW Foundation School has run an academic foundation near-peer mentorship scheme for the past 2 years with ACF and ACL mentors. The aim of the session is to explain the rationale for the scheme, practicalities of setting one up and describe the experience from the mentee and mentor perspective.

The session should be of value to undergrads considering embarking on an academic foundation programme (AFP), AFP foundation doctors, ACFs/ACLs, FPDs, DMEs and foundation administrators.

Speakers will be scheme lead, ACF mentor, academic foundation doctor mentee

Session hosted by:
HEE (Northwest) Foundation School

Session theme:
Educational management and leadership

Target audience group:
Postgraduates
Managers
Academics

Target care sector:
Postgraduate training

B15 (1): Remote consultations in primary care for teaching medical students and developing best practice guidance

Session objectives:

To improve knowledge of how remote consultations are used in teaching medical students.
To increase understanding of differences between remote consultations on the LIC and traditional programme.
To develop best practice guidance for the use of remote consultations as a teaching tool.

Session summary:
Prior to Covid-19 Primary Care and medical school curricula focused on face-to-face consultations, with an absence of teaching guidance for students and educators in relation to remote-consultations. We compare the use of remote-consultations as a teaching tool on the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and traditional programme, and develop best practice guidance.

Session hosted by:
Cardiff University School of Medicine

Session theme:
Teaching and facilitating learning

Target audience group:
Undergraduates

Target care sector:
Undergraduate education

8:50 – 9:50	Registration
8:50 – 9:30	Meet the Educational Leaders networking opportunity
10:00 – 10.15	WELCOME + OPENING ADDRESS
10:15 – 10.55	PLENARY SESSION 1: Transitions matter: The theory, research and practice of transitions in medical education Professor Charlotte Rees Dean Research College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education Murdoch University, Western Australia
10:55 – 11:05	Q&A
11:05 – 11:45	Refreshments, exhibition, networking, posters
11:45 – 12:00	Transfer to parallel sessions
12:00 – 13:00	Parallel Track A:

13:00 – 14:30	Lunch + exhibition + networking + posters
14:30 – 15:10	PLENARY SESSION 2: Presentation title TBC Professor Shafi Ahmed Surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, and entrepreneur The Royal London Hospital, London, UK
15:10 – 15:20	Q&A
15:20 – 15:30	Transfer to parallel sessions
15:30 – 17:00	Parallel Track B:

17:00 – 17:40	Refreshments + exhibition + networking + posters
17:40 – 17:45	Special lecture welcome Professor Jacky Hayden
17:45 – 18:45	AoME Calman lecture and awards ceremony
18:45	End of conference day one
18:45 – 21:00	Welcome reception

8:15 – 9:00	Registration
8:15 – 9:00	Meet the Educational Leaders networking opportunity
9:00	WELCOME Chair
9:00 – 9:40	PLENARY SESSION 3: Building high performance healthcare teams – culture, relationships and translational simulation *Professor Victoria Brazil* Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Simulation Gold Coast Health Service, Queensland, Australia
9:40 – 9:50	Q&A
9:50 – 10:20	Refreshments + exhibition + networking + posters
10:20 – 11:50	Parallel Track C:

11:50 – 13:10	Lunch + exhibition + networking + posters
12:00 – 13:00	Poster category theme winner presentations
13:10 – 13:20	Transfer to parallel sessions
13:20 – 14:20	Parallel Track D:

Transitions: navigating and supporting medical education in times of change

Registration

Meet the Educational Leaders networking opportunity

WELCOME + OPENING ADDRESS

PLENARY SESSION 1:

Q&A

Refreshments, exhibition, networking, posters

Transfer to parallel sessions

Parallel Track A:

Lunch + exhibition + networking + posters

PLENARY SESSION 2:

Q&A

Transfer to parallel sessions

Parallel Track B:

Refreshments + exhibition + networking + posters

Special lecture welcome Professor Jacky Hayden

AoME Calman lecture and awards ceremony

End of conference day one

Welcome reception

Registration

Meet the Educational Leaders networking opportunity

WELCOME

PLENARY SESSION 3:

Q&A

Refreshments + exhibition + networking + posters

Parallel Track C:

Lunch + exhibition + networking + posters

Poster category theme winner presentations

Transfer to parallel sessions

Parallel Track D:

Refreshments + exhibition + networking + posters

Presentation of poster prizes

PLENARY SESSION 4

Q&A

Closing remarks

End of conference + delegate departure

Transitions matter: The theory, research and practice of transitions in medical education

A1: Normalising research in the patient journey: the role of medical students and trainees?

A2: Designing and delivering evidenced-based interventions to support doctors’ transitions and wellbeing during and beyond COVID-19

A4: Training the generalist – a transformative approach to healthcare training and delivery

A3: Work on the Wild Side; How can we address the rural workforce shortage?

A5: England & Scotland targeted GP training programme -learning for prevention of differential attainment in medical education.

D7: Social media: force for good or evil in medical education?

A7: GMC-regulated credentials: commencing a new learning journey

A8: Better Doctors Better Patients – professionalism training changing doctors behaviours to improve patient outcomes

A9: Development of Foundation Internship Programme for Physicians Associates in Secondary Care in East of England

A10: Experience and Skills – how HEE’s Career Refresh for Medicine Programme brings back doctors to teach the next generation

A11: Adapting Virtual Reality simulation in East of England Foundation Training

A12: The New Lost Tribe? Exploring the ever increasing FY3 phenomenon

A13: Medical Workforce Hub: Reconciling trainee welfare, educational governance and care delivery during COVID-19

A14: Oral Health Matters! The Work of the Advancing Dental Care Programme

A15 (1): Evaluating GP specialty training in Wales – early results

A15 (2): The medium of medical education pre-pandemic and during-pandemic: The impact on student learning and development.

A15 (3): Using single best answers as a method of assessment: are they effective?

A15 (4): The Improved Normal: developing a blended online/in-person medical student placement at a highly specialist hospital

B1: Trusting Judgements – a new approach to progression without a numeric scale

B2: Reframing assessment post-covid: exams versus the workplace

B3: Anti-racist medical education

B4: Working and Teaching with Active Racial Awareness

B5: Supporting Trainees through Training, ‘The Game of Training’

B6: How to Set Up Your Own Trainee-led Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network to Drive Change

B7: Levelling the Playing Field: How can we remove disadvantage from the Widening Participation student’s medical school experience?

B8: Make the LEEP: how to get started with delivering leadership development in your organisation

B9: Supporting International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in locally employed posts.

B10: Consensus statement on the content of clinical reasoning curricula in medical education – what does it mean in practice?

B11: Near-peer support for foundation doctors: a paradigm for supporting the multi-professional workforce

B12: The postgraduate outcomes of medical students from a widening participation background

B13: Introducing new delivery models for established high-stakes postgraduate examinations: overcoming challenges, learning lessons, new opportunities

B14: Service reconfigurations in the NHS: what does it mean for doctors’ training?

B15 (2): The Facilitated Remote Multidisciplinary Team Meeting – making remote MDTs the highlight of medical student placements

B15 (3): Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship for Wales (CARER): Impact of belongingness and social integration on professional identity

B15 (4): The Digital Trainee: The 1-2-3 to an effective informatics programme

B15 (5): An On-Call Escape Room as part of a Foundation Year One junior doctor induction

B15 (6):Using video-communication platforms to deliver learning: are they effective?

C1: Selection into the Foundation Programme – How could we improve the system?

C2: Developing Diverse Workforce for a Global Diverse Patient Groups – Addressing Differential Attainment

C3: The department in difficulty: how to address a challenged learning environment

C4: Burnout in medical trainers: Developing understanding and charting a course to enhanced wellbeing

C5: An inclusive induction? Supporting returners and international graduates into current UK practice.

Special lecture welcome
Professor Jacky Hayden