Events

Master Class for Senior Educators - Best Evidenced Medical Education

Overview

An academic series of expert classes mainly held at Deanery House in Bristol on topical and emerging areas of importance in medical education for Postgraduate Medical Education. They are open to HEE Southwest, Postgraduate Medical Educational Teams, Educators in Trusts and GP Trainers. Global and nationally important speakers and subject experts are sought and invited.

 

Aim

A programme of faculty development for senior educators in the Severn and Peninsula to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

 

Reasons for offering this Master Class:

The best evidence medical education (BEME) collaboration was established in 1999 as an effort to move the use of anecdotal information in medical education to the use of evidence synthesis through systematic review, mirroring the revolution seen in Healthcare at the time which also Their mission statement is ‘… disseminating information which allows medical teachers, institutions and all concerned with medical education to make decisions on the basis of the best evidence available; producing appropriate systematic reviews of medical education which reflect the best evidence available and meet the needs of the user;

and creating a culture of best evidence medical education amongst individual teachers, institutions and national bodies’.   This Master Class will explore how to ensure that practices in postgraduate medical education are based on evidence and consider how to best to

undertake research into educational processes, design, practices and content development.

 

Speaker details:

Dr Morris Gordon MBChB, MMED, PHD, FRCPCH, FHEA, FACADmed is a Consultant Paediatrician with a specialist interest in Gastroenterology.  He is Head of Professionalism and Careers at the School of Medicine, University of Central Lancashire and also Director of BEME international collaborating centre, UCLAN / Blackpool.  He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Medical Education  and sits on the editorial boards of Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Review and BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning.

 

Aim of this master class:

To understand the importance of Best Evidenced Medical Education and explore it’s application within PGME in the south west.

 

Objectives: by the end of the master class participants will be able to:

• Explain the importance of using an evidence based approach in postgraduate medical education
• Summarise the types of research possible in medical education and outline the preferred approaches and reasons for these
• List the main developments in Best Evidenced Medical Education over the last two decades and identify the key contributors to it
• Describe how to create a culture of best evidence education amongst individuals, institutions and national bodies
• Describe how to the produce reviews which present the best available evidence and meet the needs of the user
• List sources of  well researched and reliable  information and evidence about medical education.

 

To book a place please contact Severn Education Team.  When contacting the team please confirm the event title and the date you are interested in attending.