Postgraduate Medical Education Meeting
Held on 15th April at 12:30 p.m. in the CSB
Present
Ed Simmonds
Chair/Clinical Tutor
Marius Holmes
Co-clinical tutor
Shabin Joshi
Lead Neurology.
Ilam Khan
Lead Gerontology
Maggie Allen
Associate Director Education, Research and Professional Development
Dorothy Apakama
Lead Emergency medicine
Giles Patterson
Lead orthopaedics
Pijush Ray
F1 lead
Atul Bansal
Opthalmology Lead
Apologies
Sailesh Sankar
Lead Endocrine/RCP Tutor
Marie Midgley
Secretary/Manager Medical Education
Kim Neuling
Lead Paediatrics
Shirish Dubey
F2 lead
Andrea Lindahl
Neurology Lead
Dan Higman
Foundation Lead
Dawn Adamson
Cardiology Lead
Chris Harmston
Surgical Lead
Minutes of previous meeting
Unavailable.
Welcome to Marius Holmes who is joining Ed Simmonds as clinical tutor.
Welcome to Atul Bansal who is replacing Harpreet Ahluwalia in representing Opthalmology.
Matters arising
Neurosurgery
Progress has been made with several of the issues highlighted within the department. The ST3
trainees are now timetabled to have theatre time. There is a regular minuted junior doctors forum
and this information is fed into the consultants meeting. Patient safety issues related to hospital at
night /night handover are being addressed with planned night cover being provided by a new 24
hour neuroscience rota. This is due to start in August and being trialled in July.
Issues related to bullying and harassment are being addressed with a TEREMA (team working
organisation) training day on the 18th April.
Acute Medicine
It was noted that many issues are still be raised by the trainees. One of these issues remained the
rota. There are still communication problems with different circulating versions, which have led to
confusion. The vacancies within the rota were either being filled by locums or from trainee doctors
from within the hospital. This was raised as a potential problem for the training of the doctors being
removed from their normal duties and also for doctors on AMU who were not being trained by
locums. Pijush Ray volunteered to help Matt Rogers in matters arising from the rota if needed.
GMC survey
This is currently open and all trainees should be encouraged to complete it. It closes on the 7th May.
Induction
The issues related to regional and hospital inductions not being entered onto the ESR system were
discussed. This will not change. Information about completion of the West Midlands DITOGI will
continue to be available on the Intrepid system. Departmental inductions are of interest in any GMC
inspections and so robust information should be kept regarding them. This should include a
timetable with content and any associated material (e.g handbooks). A register should also be kept
and it was recognised to be good practice to obtain feedback. This feedback may be collected in a
delayed fashion to collect ideas for any more information that would be useful for inclusion within
the induction.
Study leave
It was noted that in some departments study leave was being declined due to doctors having not
completed their mandatory training (or their information was not available on ESR for reference).
ESR as a system is not being used to represent the training status of the trainees. This as the meeting
understood is a local policy and not that of the trust. If mandatory training status is required then
information can be accessed by requesting it from Bogdan in the postgrad office.
Rotation of managerial positions
It was mooted that these positions within departments should be rotated after a certain time
period. The agreement was that this would encourage fresh thinking and enthusiasm however it was
limited by other staff interest and wishes. It was recommended that if a role was changed then it
would be good practice to have a handover period.
Dates for meetings in 2014
Wednesday June 11th
17.30 p.m. in CSB
Thursday August 14th
12.30 p.m. in CSB – LUNCH PROVIDED
Tuesday October 14th
17.30 p.m. in CSB
Wednesday December 10th
12.30 p.m. in CSB - LUNCH PROVIDED