DoME NEWS
July 2011
DIVISION of MEDICAL EDUCATION
Come 1st August 2011, those of us who
have always said we work at ―the Medical
School‖ will finally be backed up by fact
as DoME and Medical School Administration merge to form the newly-titled UCL
Medical School. Jane Dacre explains
what UCL‘s School of Life and Medical
Sciences restructure means for medical
education on page 2.
The first DoME conference in June was a
huge success and the new seminar series
starts on 14th September 2011. Teaching, research and scholarship are the pillars of educational excellence, and these
meetings aim to inspire research ideas
and disseminate the latest education findings (see ps 3, 4 and 9). And if a stick
were needed, Deborah Gill‘s article on p3
gives us the latest on how DoME‘s research will be judged in 2014‘s Research
Excellence Framework.
Ironically, as UCL Medical School appears, so our medsch email addresses
disappear (see p3). The new, much simpler @ucl. ac.uk addresses mean no
Finally, the birth of UCL Medical School
more spelling ―med skhe‖ over the phone means the death of DoME news. But put
and seven fewer opportunities for typos. away your hankies because a phoenixlike emergence is promised for next
Throughout these changes, life goes on
term…
much as normal in DoME. We congratulate the latest cohort of MBBS graduates, I hope you enjoy the last issue.
admire our prize-winning students and
staff; and welcome our new team members (ps 4, 7 & 8).
DoME news is a termly newsletter from the Division of
Medical Education (DoME) that
aims to keep Medical School
staff updated about developments in the Medical School
and the MBBS (undergraduate)
curriculum, and to enable
sharing of good practice
Dr Katherine Woolf
Lecturer in Medical Education, DoME
UCL Division of Medical Education
Director: Professor Jane Dacre (j.dacre@ucl.ac.uk)
Deputy Directors: Dr Deborah Gill (deborah.gill@ucl.ac.uk); Dr Peter Raven (p.raven@medsch.ucl.ac.uk)
Address: 4th floor, Holborn Union Building, Whittington Campus, 2-10 Highgate Hill, London. N19 5LW.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dome/
DIVISION of MEDICAL EDUCATION
DoME NEWS
DoME becomes
School‟
„UCL
Medical
Following the Education Support, Leadership and Governance Review, it became
clear that in the current structures the position of the Medical School was not articulated clearly enough.
In the new structures, there will be four
Faculties making up the School of Life and
Medical Sciences: The Faculty of Brain
Sciences, the Faculty of Life Sciences, the
Faculty of Medical Sciences, and the Faculty of Population Health Sciences. DoME
and Medical Student Administration will be
merged and will sit within the Faculty of
Medical Sciences as a „Division‟ – called
„UCL Medical School‟. It will incorporate
the leadership of the MBBS, the Division of
Medical Education (DoME), and the scholarship and research activities of DoME (the
Academic Centre for Medical Education
(ACME)).
There will also be an ‗Education Support
Directorate‘ that will sit at SLMS level and
will have a coordinating function to include: a pan-School educational scholarship programme, sharing of best practice
and innovations, staff development and the
development of the School‘s CPD programme. The Directorate will report to the
Chair of the Education Board, Professor
Graham Hart, incoming Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences. The
details of how this will operate will be decided by the Education Board. Similarly,
the education function in each Faculty will
be supported by an Education Hub which
will be finalised once the deans are all in
post.
New Deans
The aim is to continue to provide an excellent MBBS programme for our students,
and to help us to enhance the Medical
School as a leading institution within
SLMS. Professor Jane Dacre will direct
the new Division and continue to develop
an ambitious programme in pursuit of the
scholarship and medical education research agenda.
Following interviews for the Deanships of
the Faculties of Brain Sciences, Medical
Sciences and Population Health Sciences,
the following appointments have been
made: Faculty of Brain Sciences, Professor
Alan Thomson; Faculty of Medical Sciences, Professor Patrick Maxwell; Faculty
of Population Health Sciences, Professor
Graham Hart. Professor Mary Collins will
remain as the Dean of the Faculty of Life
Sciences.
Professor Jane Dacre
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Final Year New Curriculum
feedback
We introduced a new Final Year programme
as the first year of the New Curriculum in
2010-11 under the banner "Think like a doctor, act like a doctor” with an emphasis on
service oriented and self directed learning.
Students, teachers, and administrators have
embraced the new Final Year with alacrity.
The students rose to the challenge and their
feedback has been positive with the Assistantship proving the centrepiece. They were
aided particularly by foundation doctors and
site administrators, and were well supported
by consultant and GP tutors. Staff reported
being energised by the change and
noted increased student independence and
maturity. We have received virtually no complaints about conduct. There are a few further changes to be made and a couple of
localised teething problems have been resolved.
ever this service may be removed in the future, therefore it is advised that emails are
sent to the new live@UCL email addresses.
The DoME online contacts list
(www.ucl.ac.uk/dome/people/) is up to date
with the new email addresses however
please check for error notification emails
during this period of transition.
1st UCL Nephrology Day
The first UCL Nephrology Day will be held
on Wednesday 14 September 2011
at UCL Anatomy JZ Young LT. The aim of
this one-day meeting is to provide an opportunity for those within the wider UCL community to become more aware of the clinical
and basic science research interests and
achievements of the UCL Centre for Nephrology Royal Free (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
medicine/nephrology), and at the same time
to foster greater collaboration with colleagues in the Faculties of Biomedicine and
Life Sciences, and also in other UCL Faculties, Institutes and Schools.
We feel the success of the revised programme reflects positively on our new
graduates and bodes well for further curriculum reform. We also hope our new doctors
are better prepared for the tasks that lie
ahead. We are working closely with the
Foundation School to see how this plays
out.
We have invited several leading international research scientists with whom we already collaborate, as speakers, and the
meeting will also include one of the YaleUCL series of invited lectures to be given by
Professor Stefan Somlo (Section of Nephrology and Department of Cellular and
Molecular Physiology, Yale University). The
Organising Committee is planning a repreDr Anita Berlin, Dr Aroon Lal and the Fi- sentative selection of talks covering various
nal Year team aspects of nephrology-related research that
we hope will have wide appeal. You can
Migration to
register (free) and find the full program by
clicking the following link www.ucl.ac.uk/
medicine/nephrology/events_meetings/
As part of the ongoing Live@UCL migration
project the majority of DoME staff email ac- Send abstracts to x.ruan@medsch.ucl.ac.uk
counts were migrated in June.
and
Registration
forms
to
p.whitehead@medsch.ucl.ac.uk before the
E m a i l s
a d d r e s s e d
t o 31July 2011. Contact Dr Xiong Ruan at
NAME@medsch.ucl.ac.uk will continue to x.ruan@medsch.ucl.ac.uk or +44(0)
be received in the user‘s new account how- 2078302190 with any queries.
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SLMS NEWS
2011 Graduation Ceremonies
On Wednesday 29th June
two ceremonies
were
held in the
Royal Festival
Hall involving
the
conferment of degrees from the School of Life
and
Medical
Sciences.
In the morning ceremony postgraduate
degrees were awarded, together with the
conferment of honorary degrees on Professor Sir Keith Peters, former Regius
Professor of Physic at Cambridge and former President of the Academy of Medical
Sciences; and Professor Gail Martin of
the University of California San Francisco
for her work on embryonic stem cells.
In the afternoon ceremony,
medical degrees and
prizes were awarded to
over 400 candidates
(including
Edward
Casswell, the winner of
the 2010 University of London MBBS Gold Medal).
Honorary fellowships were
conferred on Dr Jane Collins (Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital);
Prof Mike Simons (University of Yale
Medical School, and joint founder of the
Yale-UCL Collaborative) and Prof Janet
Darbyshire, former Director of the MRC
Clinical Trials Unit and UCL Professor.
Excellence in Medical Education
Award Winners 2010-11
The winners of the fifth annual Excellence
in Medical Education Awards attended the
UCL Medical School Graduation Ceremony on 29th June to receive their award:
Individual Winners
Dr Katherine Breckon, General Practitioner and Training Fellow, James Wigg
Practice, London.
Dr Faye Gishen, Consultant in Palliative
Medicine, Marie Curie Hospice Hampstead, Royal Free Hampstead NHS
Trust.
Dr Chloe Macaulay, Teaching Fellow &
Specialist Registrar, Department of Paediatrics, Whittington Hospital NHS Trust.
Dr Sophie Park, GP and Clinical Teaching Fellow, Research Department of Primary Care & Population Health, Royal
Free Hampstead NHS Trust. Awarded the
Saad al-Damluji Award for her exceptional
commitment to excellence in Clinical
Teaching.
Team Winner
iBSc Clinical Sciences Team - Awarded
the David Jordan Award for excellence in
enhancing science in Medical Education.
Miss Carolyn Cohen, Undergraduate
Teaching Administrator, UCL Medical
School, Royal Free Campus.
Dr Marsha Morgan, Reader in Medicine
and Honorary Consultant Physician,
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust.
www.ucl.ac.uk/medicalschool/quality/staffawards/emea/winners1011/
Getting ready for the REF
The Research Excellence Framework
(REF) is the new system for assessing
the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. It replaces the Research Assessment Exercise and will be
completed in 2014. it is different to the
RAE in that while it will still judge the quality of research outputs (65% of overall
score), it will also be looking at the wider
impact of research (20%) and the vitality
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of the research environment (15%) http://
www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/. Assessment of impact will be based on expert
review of ‗case studies‘ submitted by departments or groupings that show social,
economic or cultural impact or benefit. As
impact can take time to develop momentum the REF considers research from
2008-2013 looking mainly at papers in
high quality journals but for impact it is
interested in teams and the research can
date from as long ago as 2003 – to show
significant and enduring impact building
up. This is a very different approach to
research assessment and so needs some
considerable thought to present research
work in the best possible light for funding
purpose and to showcase our work, and
its impact, to the SLMS, UCL and national
audiences.
Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy (UK)
In the March 2011 issue of DoME News
(pg. 13) Dr Liz Prvulovich announced
her successful application for Fellowship
of the Higher Education Academy status
along with a description of the process
for application and
support available
from ACME and the
HEA. We are now de- Dr Greg Campbell
lighted to announce
that Dr Greg Campbell, SSC lead and
member of the Phase 1 teaching team,
has become the latest recipient of FHEA
status.
The Higher Education Academy aims to
enhance the professional standing of
teaching and learning support activity in
UK higher education. The achievement of
SLMS is co-coordinating their response to
Fellow status through the Academy is one
the REF which is being led by Prof Mary
of the most effective and widely recogCollins in Life Sciences. This process will
nised ways of achieving this for individudecide what is put forward and how. The
als.
first steps in this process are due to be
completed this summer.
We would like to encourage teaching colIn the last RAE DoME was not well repreleagues from all Phases
sented as we were a new department and
to apply for Fellow
the Faculty did not put forward a return in
status to seek recognithe domain of education research (a few
tion for your continued
faculty were able to submit under the Faccommitment to teachulty‘s health services research domain).
ing. For more informaThrough the work of DOME, UCL is growtion about applying visit
ing in reputation as an important site of
www.heacademy.ac.uk and contact Debimportant medical education reorah Gill, deborah.gill@ucl.ac.uk or Jane
search and so it is important that our reRichardson
search work is well represented in the
j.richardson@medsch.ucl.ac.uk.
REF.
Dr Deborah Gill
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Student involvement in the
curriculum
the big changes start to kick in across the
curriculum. Student reps have been instrumental in the construction of the new
curriculum, and I believe the next group of
representatives will be just as key in its
implementation. Fellow students are glad
that they have been involved and consulted every step of the way, from the
regular updates on the process to the
talks by Dr. Gill in the final weeks of term,
and it is of great reassurance as the
course (and indeed medicine) changes
around us to know that we are listened to.
While the third term has been a little quieter than the previous two, with Phase
One students (including myself) gripped
by exam fever and everyone else gearing
up to revision, RUMS Exec. have continued to work hard.
There have been some fantastic RUMS
balls to finish the year in style, such as
Sports Ball to celebrate RUMS sporting
successes over the year and award the
first Bender Cup (to the second years,
who beat the first years at football and
rugby), Finalists Ball to ease the transition
from students to doctors (and drum excitement for the newly launched Alumni
Association), and finally Summer Ball to
top off the year for everyone. These have
been roaring successes, and thoroughly
enjoyed by everyone who came.
As I leave Phase One and my position behind to do my iBSc, I do so glad that I
have had the opportunity to learn much
more about medical education than I
would have otherwise. So many thanks to
those I have worked with over the year,
best wishes for the future to everyone and
enjoy the rest of the summer sun.
Sam Conway
Junior President , RUMS
We also waved goodbye to the well-used
but much loved Huntley St, and moved
into our fantastic new social location in the
Lewis Building where we've already held
a number of events including the RUMS
Reception, for students and staff who
have really helped shape RUMS this year.
Our Welfare Committee has been helping
Phase One students throughout term, with
de-stress sessions before exams offering
advice and a place to relax, and help
seminars after exams for those who
needed to talk to other students about
their results. By all accounts, these were
also popular and create a solid foundation
on which next years committee can build.
As in the previous two terms, the academic reps were committed, constructive
and helpful in the final set of SSCCs for
the year, gathering the final bits of student
feedback on the present course before
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UCL Medics Debating success
very well deserved.‖
On Saturday 12th March a team of students from UCL won the Inaugural National Medics Debating Competition. The
event, held at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, was organised by "Say
It" and the English Speaking Union
(ESU).
Dr Brenda Cross, Faculty of Biomedical
Sciences Sub-Dean and Faculty Tutor,
said: ―I am very proud of the students,
their achievement and how well they
have represented the Medical School.‖
A podcast about the event can be found
here: www.esu.org/news/item.asp?
The team from UCL consisted of three n=12407
medical students currently completing
Intercalated BScs: Krishna Sivakumaran Orwell Prize longlist for Dr Petra
(Psychology), Rahul Bahl (International Boynton
Health), and Adil N Ahmad (International
Health).
Dr
Petra
Boynton‘s
blog,
www.drpetra.co.uk/blog/, which tackles
16 teams from around the country took sex/relationships/health topics, was
part in the debating competition; the longlisted for an Orwell Prize, a prestigious prize for political writing.
Dr Boynton is a lecturer in ACME, her
research has covered topics within the
area of sexual health.
The Orwell Prize was established in its
present form by the late Professor Sir
Bernard Crick in 1994, ‗to encourage
writing in good English – while giving
equal value to style and content, politics
or public policy, whether political, ecol-r: Krishna Sivakumaran, Rahul Bahl
nomic, social or cultural – of a kind aimed
and Adil N. Ahmad
at or accessible to the reading public, not
teams came from Manchester, Liverpool, to specialist or academic audiences‘.
Wales, Nottingham, York and London.
Each team consisted of three members F u r t h e r
information:
http://
who are either current medical students theorwellprize.co.uk/longlists/filter/typeor junior doctors.
Blog%20Prize/year-2011
Commenting on the teams success Pro- Congratulations Petra!
fessor Jane Dacre, Director of the MBBS
programme and the Division of Medical
Education, said: ―I would like to congratulate Krishna, Rahul and Adil, this is a fantastic achievement. The award acknowledges the effort made by the team, and
those that supported their learning, it is
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New Staff
Dr Rosemary Belcher
I joined Kaz and Gil (New Staff Issue 9) as a
Clinical Teaching Fellow at DoME in May. I
trained at Newcastle University and
my first involvement
in medical education was with a
group from Newcastle,
teaching
ethics and communication skills at a
summer camp for
healthcare students
in the Caucasus. I
am now a medical
registrar, specialising in Care of the Dr Rosemary Belcher
Elderly.
I have been involved with teaching medical
students on the wards for some time, and
spent the last year working as an education
fellow in a district general hospital, particularly supporting the new final year curriculum.
I am excited to be working at DoME on projects such as introducing an electronic portfolio for the clinical years and simulation,
and will also be working with the Quality Assurance Unit. I continue to work two and a
half days a week in hospital which keeps my
feet firmly on the ground!
‗tweets‘ follow @ACMEatUCL or visit the
website directly: http://twitter.com/
ACMEatUCL
Academic Promotion
We are very happy to announce
that Dr Jean McEwan, Medical
School Sub-Dean and Consultant
Cardiologist, has been promoted
to Professor. Congratulations Professor McEwan!
Prof. Jean McEwan
Charity
For many years some of the DoME ladies
have taken part in the Cancer Research
Race for Life 10k, and this year is no different.
On Saturday 23rd July 2011 Deborah Lucas
-Georgiou, Jayne Kavanagh, Tara-Lynn
Poole, Marcia Rigby from DoME and
Heather Mitchell and Ceylan Beydilli from
Div. of Surgery took to the paths of Finsbury
Park to raise money for Cancer Research
UK.
Please show your continued support for
Team DoME and the worthwhile work of
Cancer Research UK by sponsoring the ladies
for
their
race.
http://
www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/deborahlucas
-georgiou1005
Outside of work, I enjoy anything that in- Baby news!
volves being active outdoors, especially cyWe are pleased to announce the birth of
cling, hiking and kayaking.
baby Aiden, son of Dr
Petra Boynton, ACME
ACME Twitter Account
Lecturer and her partner
The Academic Centre for Medical Education Will, and brother to Adam.
(ACME) has joined the micro-blogging social Aiden was born in the
early hours of 6th July.
network website Twitter.
The account will be updated with ACME
Baby Aiden
news and events. To receive ACME‘s Congratulations!
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ence. Plenary slides are available on the
DoME Events webpage—www.ucl.ac.uk/
dome/domeevents.
DoME Medical Education
Conference
The first DoME Medical Education conference took place on Tuesday 28th June at
the Education Centre, 250 Euston Road.
The conference addressed the impact of
Tomorrow‘s Doctors (2009) on the UCL
MBBS curriculum as well as developments in assessment and medical education. The conference was followed by a
drinks reception in the Paul O‘Gorman
café with a plenary on the future of professional development from Edward
Briffa, Director of BMJ Learning.
DoME would like to thank everyone who
attended and contributed to the confer-
The next DoME event is the Medical Education Seminar Series. Katherine Woolf is
presenting the first seminar (see flyer below and DoME Events webpage). The
other seminars in the series are:
+ Jean McEwan: ―Leading innovation in
healthcare and education‖ on 6th December 2011
+ Gareth Frith: “e portfolios” 19th of
April 2012
We hope to see you at the Seminar Series and the 2nd DoME Medical Education Conference next year.
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