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: 

  • Updates 

    ·                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.  

    Events 

    ·                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  

    Farewells

    ·                Goodbye lead CTF Carol who will be missed immensely

Administration

January 2025

·         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.

·         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!  

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