CLINICAL SIMULATION TRAINING
PRIORITIES AND PLANNING WORKSHOP
GUEST SPEAKERS
Tony Jefferis M.Chir., FRCS
Following higher surgical training at the Royal Free, St Mary’s Paddington ,
the Royal Marsden and the University of California, San Francisco has been a
consultant ENT Surgeon in East Berkshire since 1985. His main clinical
interests are in the management of Head and Neck cancer and thyroid
disease.
He has been Regional Adviser in ENT (1993-1998), an Associate Clinical Tutor
in East Berkshire 1994-1996 and Associate Postgraduate Dean in Oxford since
1996. Elected to the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England in 2000 and appointed as joint Deanery and College Adviser in
Surgery to the Oxford Deanery in 2005. He was appointed to Head of the
School of Surgery in 2008.
In the Deanery he has had an interest in Career Development for junior and
senior doctors, publishing papers on the career aspirations of junior surgeons
and non consultant career grades. He has taken part in the Career
Development Unit since its inception, particularly enjoying the pastoral
aspects of the work.
Lesley-Jayne Eames-Reynolds
Professor Lesley-Jane Eales-Reynolds is Director of a Centre of Excellence in
Teaching and Learning established in 2005 with £4.85M funding from the
Higher Education Funding Council for England. She was part of a 5* RAE
submission in 2001, the year in which she also received her National Teaching
Fellowship. In addition, she is a founding member and Chair of the
Association of National Teaching Fellows and a member of the Academic
Council and Board of the Higher Education Academy. Last year was awarded
one of the first Senior Fellowships of the Academy. She is a member of the
National Advisory Panel for the National Teaching Fellowship individual
awards and for the Health Subject Centres of the Academy. She is also an
advisor to the Midlands simulation group, a member of SESAM and a
founder member of the UK Clinical Simulation research group.
Jan Heath
Jan is the Skills for Practice Lead at Southampton University Hospitals. She is
a Registered General Nurse. In 1989 Jan set up the Resuscitation
Service in Southampton and in 2001 joined a team of four in Clinical Skills.
Within the Integrated Division of Education and Learning at Southampton
she leads on clinical skills and runs a range of life-support courses together
with a vast range of clinical skills initiatives. The Simulation Suite and
Simulated Patient program in Southampton has gone from strength to
strength with different initiatives added weekly.
Clinical skills utilizes the expertise of experienced staff to deliver the
education while working a very flexible program addressing the
demands of a busy Trust, Medical school, School of Nursing and
Midwifery, Widening Workforce Group and School of Allied Heath
Professionals.
Jon White
Jon is an experiences A&E nurse and has worked as a Resuscitation Officer
since 1998. He has been the Senior Resuscitation Officer at Milton Keynes
General Hospital for five years and is Chair of the Council for Professionals as
Resuscitation Officers (CPRO).
One of his main interests is the management of deteriorating patients on
general hospital wards and the training and systems necessary to manage
these patients safely.
Sheena Farrell
Since qualifying as an RGN, Sheena has worked in various clinical settings;
eventually making Intensive Care her speciality. During the last 3 years she
has worked in clinical simulation with Professor Smith and others at
Portsmouth Hospitals developing the course portfolio at the TEAMS centre.
Sheena is particularly interested in the human factors of simulation training,
the development of expert teams and the development of multi-sensory
simulation.
Peter Burrows
Peter Burrows retired from clinical practice in 2006, after 34 years as a GP at
Romsey but continues as a GP appraiser in Hampshire PCT. He has been the
Chairman and Provost of the Wessex Faculty RCGP and an MRCGP examiner
since 1980. In 1994 he studied the use of simulated patients in assessment,
during a sabbatical at McMaster University in Canada. He took part in the
development of the MRCGP Simulated Surgery and was convenor of this
module from 1996 to 2000.
He has also developed the Freshstart Simulated Surgery, which is used in the
London Deanery for the assessment of consulting skills of EU doctors, poor
performers and returners. He continues to be actively involved in developing
the CSA (Clinical Skills Assessment) for the new MRCGP examination. He
acts as an adviser on simulation to the Department of Postgraduate GP
Education at the Wessex Deanery.