E-Learning for Clinical Teachers
Support for Schools
The Faculty Development Unit offers a number of forms of support to Specialty and Foundation schools
Collaborations with Specialty Colleges
The Deanery is engaged in a number of ongoing collaborations with specialty Colleges to provide specialty-specific training days, particularly in the areas of workplace-based assessment, educational supervision and working with portfolios. Details about these training events can be found in the short courses section of this website.
Educational consultancy
The London Deanery actively encourages School-based faculty development activity and can provide advice on the content, format and delivery of educational programmes. The Deanery, working with academic partners in London and external providers, will ensure that educational expertise is readily available. Through regular meetings with Clinical Tutors, Directors of Medical Education and Postgraduate Centre Managers, e-mail bulletins and this web site, the Deanery will also ensure that its wider educational network is fully informed about all faculty development opportunities.
For further information, assistance and advice contact Tim Swanwick, Faculty Development Lead at the London Deanery tswanwick@londondeanery.ac.uk
Funding for School-based projects
In addition to the above, in consultation with School representatives the Deanery, via the Faculty Development Unit, provides financial support for School-based trainer development projects in the areas of clinical supervision, educational supervision, working with groups and educational management and leadership. Heads of Schools have already been approached to discuss their school-based faculty development plans for 2010-11. The funding is being employed in a range of different ways including;
- seconding colleagues to lead on FD initiatives
- development of DVD resources
- providing in house ongoing training programmes for trainers and trainees including TTT and Educational Supervision courses
- commissioning specific courses from providers such as Royal Colleges
- participation in the Deanery's observation of teaching programme ECTOR (Enhancing Clinical Teaching Through Observation and Reflection)
- funding for specialty specific education fellowship placements.
A brief report on each project will be requested at the end of the financial year. For further information contact Tim Swanwick, Director of Professional Development tim.swanwick@londondeanery.ac.uk
Supervision skills for clinical teachers: conversations inviting change - School Based workshops
Via the Faculty Development Unit, London Deanery offers a free service for delivering one-day Supervision skills workshops to Specialty schools. School-based workshops can be organised for groups of 8-16 participants. Groups are made up from any combination of interested people e.g. a group of consultants and STRs.
The workshop offers hands-on training in the essential skills for good supervision. In particular, it addresses the issue of how to balance confirmation with challenge when supervising everyone from high fliers to doctors in difficulty.
Much of the workshop is based on participants' own working experience. Please come expecting to talk about current cases and dilemmas with patients, trainees, colleagues and teams.
Please note that this is not a comprehensive workshop in how to be a clinical or educational supervisor, but it will equip you with essential conversational skills for those roles. The training does not cover the contents of the Gold Guide (e.g. roles and responsibilities of educational supervisors) or the 'nuts and bolts' of MMC (e.g. curricula or work-based assessment.)
To arrange a school-based workshop
Please contact Nerys Cater on tel: 020 7866 3173 or email: facultydevelopment@londondeanery.ac.uk
The Deanery offers facilitation of these workshops free of charge to London Trusts. However, Schools will be required to advertise events, manage course bookings and organise teaching accommodation. We usually require approximately 3 month's notice to set up dates and recruit course facilitators.
Further information
For further information about the educational requirements of specialty training see the Guide to postgraduate Specialty training in the UK – download the ‘Gold Guide’ (4th edition 2010).