Academic Foundation Programme :
Medical Education Foundation Year Induction Pack
Dr. Emily Bate, Dr. Sophie Roberts and Dr. Emily Robinson
AFP Foundation Year 1 trainees, 2010-2011.
August 2012
Foreword
Dear Colleagues,
Stepping into the Foundation Programme is by itself a daunting prospect, but having to negotiate the intricacies of an academic
track can be a greater challenge.
Emily, Sophie and Emily have taken on the task of making the job of the new Academic Medical Education FYs a little bit easier
by sharing their experiences and compiling a resource that will, I hope, make this task less complicated.
Professor Arpan Guha, MB BS, MD, DA, FRCA, FFICM, FRCP Edin.
Associate Medical Director/Director of Medical Education
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Introduction
Welcome to the Academic Foundation Programme in Medical Education. We have compiled this induction pack as an
introduction into medical education and to encourage you to make the most of the programme. We hope you find this
information useful and relevant. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.
Emily Bate, Sophie Roberts and Emily Robinson
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Medical Education Academic Foundation Programme – Induction Pack
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Introduction and Learning Outcomes
Useful Contacts
Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education
Academic Medical Education: research and allied activities
PBL Training
Exam Question Training
OSCE training
Prospective Medical Student Interview Training and other opportunities
Attachments
Learning Outcomes in Medical Education Academic Foundation Post
Medical Education FY1s are expected to meet competencies and curriculum as found on the online Foundation ePortfolio as well
as additional outcomes specific to the Medical Education Foundation Post.
Please find attached:
1. A copy of the “Record of Progress in Achieving Learning Outcomes In Education” provided by the Mersey Deanery
2. A copy of the Teaching Outcomes from “Compendium of Academic Competencies” published by the The UK Foundation
Programme Office
There are no national/standardised learning objectives available.
Although these objectives may initially seem daunting, the majority can be achieved by undertaking a Postgraduate Certificate in
Medical Education. It is also useful to collect any evidence of any teaching you do with medical student - in the form of written
feedback forms. Please feel free to use the form attached (designed by Dr. Ed Hughes and Dr. Emily Robinson) or create your
own. Data from the feedback forms can then be compiled into a spreadsheet to allow easy interpretation, reflection and
uploading onto the online ePortfolio.
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Useful Contacts
Institution
Education centre
Name
Prof Arpan Guha
Mr Chris Webb
Joanne Charing
Nicky Loftus
Michelle Buoey
Mersey Deanery
Mersey Deanery
and Liverpool
University
Liverpool
University PBL
contacts
Lindsay Brunt
Professor David
Bowen-Jones
Christine
Waddelove
Christine Tierney
Robert Skaife
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Role
Director of Medical Education
Foundation Training Director
Medical Education
Manager/education service
manager
Education Service Administrator
Education Services
Administrator
Education Service Administrator
Foundation School Director,
Mersey
Senior Careers Adviser
Specialty
ITU consultant
ENT consultant
Secretary for School of
Medicine, Institute of Learning
and Teaching, Faculty of Health
and Life Sciences
PBL Director
Liaison for PBL for year 3
Email
Arpan.Guha@rlbuht.nhs.uk
Christopher.Webb@rlbuht.nhs.uk
Joanne.Charing@rlbuht.nhs.uk
Phone No
0151 706 5421
0151 706 2000
Nicola.Loftus@rlbuht.nhs.uk
Michelle.Buoey@rlbuht.nhs.uk
0151 706 3740
0151 706 3783
Lindsay.Brunt@rlbuht.nhs.uk
David.BowenJones@merseydeanery.nhs.uk
christine.waddelove@nhs.net
0151 706 3816
tierney@liverpool.ac.uk
0151 795 4368
Robert.Skaife@liverpool.ac.uk
0151 795 4328
0151 285 4700
Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education Information
University
Course Title
Edge Hill
University
Postgraduate
Certificate in
Teaching and
Learning in
Clinical
Practice
(in collaboration with the
University of Chester and
the Mersey Deanery)
Dundee University
University College
London
(in collaboration with The
Royal College of
Physicians)
Cardiff University
(in collaboration with the
Wales Deanery)
Postgraduate
Certificate in
Medical
Education
Postgraduate
Certificate in
Medical
Education
Postgraduate
Certificate in
Medical
Education
Course
Duration
12 months
(Jan-Jan)
Contact
Days
5 days in
total
Fees
Additional Information
£565 per 20
credit
module
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/study/courses/teaching-and-learning-inclinical-practice
Three
modules per
year
Maximum
of 3 years
Application
throughout
the year
12 months
12 months
£600 per
Available
completely modules
online
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/meded/courses/awardbearingcourses/certme/
Four modules
per year
14 days
£3,350
£2,550
Available
completely
online
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduatestudy/degrees/medsci/meded
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/msc-medical-education2012-13-brochure.pdf
http://www.walesdeanery.org/index.php/en/pg-cert-diploma-and-mscin-med-ed-by-e-learning.html
* Please note these are only a summary of selected courses – other programmes are available.
*Once the PGCert in Medical Education is completed there is scope to continue further education in medical education with a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education and/or
MSc in Medical Education.
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Medical Education Research
If you are interested in getting involved and doing a medical education research project, there are a wide variety
of different projects available. Alternatively, if you have a specific project or research question in mind, then
there are many people that are willing to help and guide you through the process. For further information,
please contact Prof Arpan Guha through the Education Centre at the RLUH.
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PBL Training
PBL training is open to all F1s/2s. Training slots are run throughout the year, however, the earlier you train the faster you can get facilitating!
Who:
Your contact for PBL training is Rob Skaife, PBL Director at Liverpool University Medical school (Robert.Skaife@liverpool.ac.uk). I have already sent him an email on
your behalf to help to ensure that you can get an early training slot.
Christine Tierney is the secretary who organises everything for 3rd year PBL facilitation. She is also your point of contact (tierney@liverpool.ac.uk). She will send
you the PBL dates
(PBL works on a rolling rota – there are 6 sessions every term). In addition to this she will give you an induction pack, which tells you all about PBL, the facilitation
process and about the paperwork and the deadlines by which it needs to be completed. If you want to find her – email her, or walk over the road to Cedar House –
she’s based in an office on the ground floor and she’s very friendly.
Why you should do it:
You are an educationalist. You must learn to teach and then put your learning into action and teach. All of this experience will contribute to the completion of your
e-portfolio (Developing the Clinical Teacher) and AFP Learning Objectives (LOBs) for your AFP in Medical Education. PBL is just one of the forms of education used
by medical schools to educate its undergraduates and you need to learn how it works as part of your development as a teacher. The certificate of training, awarded
on completion of the PBL course, can be uploaded in your e-portfolio. It is your ticket to becoming a teacher and gaining the necessary teaching experience to
complete your LOBs and PDPs for your AFP in Medical Education. Furthermore, any experience gained will contribute to your work towards your Post Graduate
Diploma in Medical Education.
Collect feedback for every session that you facilitate. Compile it and put it in your e-portfolio, then you can later use it as evidence when completing your LOBs for
your AFP. Once you have completed a terms worth of facilitation, if you hand your forms in, in a timely fashion, Chris will nominate you for Honorary Teaching
status. This means that you have full access to the university libraries and online data-bases so you can research stuff to your heart’s content, and you have yet
another certificate to stick in your e-portfolio.
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What you’ll be doing:
If you decide to complete the training you will be facilitating 3rd year medical students from Liverpool University. There are 6 sessions per term. Once you have signed up you are
expected to attend all 6 sessions. Failure to attend is not only frowned upon, but you will also be letting the medical students down – they are depending on you and find the
contact teaching hours invaluable. They particularly like being facilitated by medics, whom they feel have a much better working knowledge of the subjects being covered. If, for
whatever reason, you are unable to make a session – let Chris know in advance and she will be able to find cover for you. If you are going to be late for a session – let Chris know
and she can pass the message onto the students who can start without you. Do not sign up to facilitate if you know that you will only be able to make half the sessions – this is
unfair on the students.
There has been some discussion about splitting the facilitation between F1s but this idea has been rejected owing to poor continuity in teaching for students.
A PBL session runs for 2 hours. Rob Skaife will teach you how this time should be allocated and about what should occur in each session – so I will leave the finer details to him. The
subjects that you teach are set by the medical school and it is the same 3 PBL scenarios each term. These are usually: 2x pharmacology and one sexual health. The scenario,
learning objectives and recommended reading are all provided by Chris in your starter pack. The more sessions you facilitate, the more you’ll build up your repertoire of useful
reading resources that you can recommend to students and the more you’ll develop your own ‘facilitating style’.
When:
PBL takes place on a Wednesday from 3-5pm for 6 weeks per term.
Where:
PBL sessions are run at Cedar House, Liverpool University. Once you have signed up to facilitate you must go to see Chris who will give you an induction pack and some board pens
(guard them with your life! She’ll want them back at the end of the sessions). Your induction pack will tell you which floor to go to, what room you’ll be teaching in, the names of
the students that you’ll be teaching and the LOBs and reading list for the subjects that you’ll be covering.
Good luck and, above all, enjoy the experience!
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Exam Question Training
Who?
Your contact if you’d like to get involved with exam question writing for Liverpool University Medical School is Dr Omnia Allam, Associate Director of Medical
Studies:
Email: Omnia.Allam@liverpool.ac.uk
Mailing address:
The Director of Assessment
School of Medicine, University of Liverpool
2nd Floor, Cedar House, Ashton Street L69 3GE
Tel
Mob
+44 (0)151 7948702
+44(0)7962023630
What?
She will state the subject areas for which questions need to be set. Following this she will email you a list of example questions and provide specific guidance as to
the type of question (SBA, EMI and MCQ) and the format in which both the questions and the list of answers should be presented. Furthermore she will state the
subspecialty that the questions should cover for each specialty – eg: specialty: psychiatry, sub-specialties that should be covered: bipolar affective disorder,
suicide, substance misuse.
Why you should do it?
You will learn about the process of assessment – this is very useful for those of you who are planning on doing the PG-cert in Medical Education as there is an entire
module based on assessment. In addition, this is yet another example of your contribution to education and can be submitted as ‘evidence’ in your eportfolio as
your work towards ‘developing the clinical teacher’.
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OSCE Examiner Training
Who?
Your contact if you’d like to get involved OSCE exams for Liverpool University Medical School is Hannah Crossman:
Hannah Crossman
Clinical Skills Resource Centre
Block E, Waterhouse Building
70 Pembroke Place
Liverpool
L69 3GF
Email : hcross@liverpool.ac.uk
What?
Hannah Crossman can be contacted to arrange OSCE examiner training sessions. Each session is approximately 2 hours and includes a presentation on being an
OSCE examiner and then some marking of videoed OSCE stations for discussion.
OSCEs start again with formative exams in January/February 2012, dates for these are normally circulated in October. Summative exams are in May-July with re-sits
in August.
Once trained examiners are asked to be involved in at least one half day session per year - although more would be great!
Why you should do it?
You will learn about the process of assessment – this is very useful for those of you who are planning on doing the PG-cert in Medical Education as there is an entire
module based on assessment. In addition, this is yet another example of your contribution to education and can be submitted as ‘evidence’ in your eportfolio as
your work towards ‘developing the clinical teacher’.
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Prospective Medical Student Admissions Interview Training and Other Opportunities
If you are interested and keen, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved with various events or processes in the medical school. These include:
- Helping with the Medical school’s Widening participation events
- Helping at the Medical school’s summer school for Year 12 students
- Medical School Taster Days
- Prospective student application form reading and shortlisting for interview
- Interviewing prospective medical students
These activities are primarily organised by the Admissions team based in Cedar House (across the road from the Royal) and they are always keen to get F1 and F2’s
involved.
To become an Interviewer, similarly to becoming a PBL tutor, there is a specific training session that you are required to do. Below are the upcoming training
session dates:
- September 10th 10.30-12.30
- September 13th 10.30-12.30
- September 18th 1pm-3pm
- September 27th 1pm-3pm
For further information or to register for a training session, please contact Julie Marlow on: julier1@liverpool.ac.uk
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ICAT [Integrated Clinical Academic Training]
ICAT is based at the University of Liverpool and brings together all grades of trainees on an academic track.
Please contact Luoise Jaegar, who is the Integrated Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Officer, and her role is to help facilitate the ICAT programme at the
University of Liverpool/ Mersey Deanery, which includes academic foundation trainees, academic clinical fellows (ACFs), and Clinical Lecturers (CL).
Louise will arrange a number of forum meetings for trainees, which academic foundation doctors are welcome to attend. Louise is also able to arrange an
honorary contract with the University so that the trainees can access the library and have a University computer account. Trainees will need to contact
herdirectly, attaching their CV and confirming who their academic supervisor is.
Contact details: email: Louise.Jaeger@liverpool.ac.uk
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences Support Office, University of Liverpool
Room 2/016
2nd Floor Mezzanine
Thompson Yates Building
The Quadrangle
Brownlow Hill
Liverpool
L69 3GB
0151 794 5261
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Attached Documents
Please find the following documents attached:
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A copy of the “Record of Progress in Achieving Learning Outcomes In Education” provided by the Mersey Deanery
A copy of the Teaching Outcomes from “Compendium of Academic Competencies” published by the UK Foundation Programme Office
Blank feedback for created by Dr. Ed Hughes and Dr. Emily Robinson
Information on JASME (Junior Association for the Study of Medical Education)
Information on AMEE (An International Association for Medical Education)