Newsletter
Clinical Skills/Simulation
· The team attended the ASPiH conference in Edinburgh, where Sophie Page presented her poster The role of simulation in the opening of a new Emergency Department. Sophie simulated emergencies to improve patient safety by running instu simulations in preparation for the new ED opening.
· The team have welcomed a new cohorts of peads, O&G, SPM A& B and SPC students.
· The team are a new pilot centre in the West Midlands for ASPiH’s Becoming Simulation Faculty. This course aims to introduce standardisation across the country for teaching and delivering simulation.
· The skills team will be introducing a new bleep system whereby students can bleep for advice on clinical skills.
Clinical Teaching Fellows
CTF Newsletter January 2025:
CTFs to deliver welcome tours to new Year 3s, 4s and Year 5 Paeds and Year 5 Obs and gynae students!
Year 3s will be having weekly bedside teachings and tutorials tailored for their learning needs.
Year 4 UoB students have weekly bedside teaching and tutorials tailored to their specialty rotations. They also participate in a simulation and a study day to consolidate their learning.
Year 5 AIP will be participating in escape rooms as fun way to consolidate learning and teamwork.
CTFs are engaging with their PGCert and PGDip courses to enhance their teaching and research skills and will be submitting their coursework essays this month.
2nd AIP bleep day to be delivered on 8th January to help orientate year 5 students with utilizing a bleep and prepare them for prioritizing tasks as an F1.
Year 5 formative OSCEs 21st January 2024 Alexandra hospital
Year 4 SPM B study day 24th January to reinforce learning from the placement to date
Year 5 paeds study day 28th January
We say goodbye to Lead CTF, Carol, who will be missed immensely
Administration
6th January- we welcome our first cohort of 2025 with new University of Birmingham year 3, 4 and 5 students all starting. As well as new University of Warwick students.
13th January - we host the GMC for TCMS
14th January- our first TCMS LOC student starts with these running throughout January for TCMS students.
20th January- our first rotation of dental students for the year starts their placement.
21st January- University of Birmingham Quality Assurance Visit.
31st January- we say goodbye to all our Year 5 students including AIP, Paediatrics and O&G. We wish them all the best luck in their exams later in the year!