GMC - Recognising and Approving Trainers

Category: - Master Classes

Date: November 28th 2012 12:30pm until 5:00pm

Location: Learning and Research Building, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB

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Master Classes for Senior Educators

Overview

An academic series of master classes mainly held at Deanery House on topical and emerging areas of medical education for the Deanery faculty. They will be open to the Deanery Educational Team and Educators in Schools and Trusts. Global and nationally important speakers will be invited.

Aim

Faculty development for senior educators in the Severn Deanery to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

Reasons for offering the Master Class:

The GMC launched its implementation plan for Recognising and Approving Trainers in August this year. In this document it sets out its proposals and intentions for creating a national scheme for formally recognising, training and approving Educational and Clinical Supervisors. In particular these plans will directly affect the following groups:

  • Those responsible for overseeing students’ progress at medical school (undergraduate)
  • Lead co-ordinators at each local education provider (e.g. Trusts) (undergraduate)
  • Named Educational Supervisors (postgraduate)
  • Named Clinical Supervisors (postgraduate)
  • This workshop will describe how the GMC devised the plan and explore some of the crucial issues concerned with implementing it nationally and locally

Speakers details:

Dr Vicky Osgood is Assistant Director of Postgraduate Education at the General Medical Council where she is responsible for the quality assurance of the content, standards and outcomes of postgraduate medical education and training. From 2008 until 2011 she was Postgraduate Dean for Wessex. Prior to that, she worked as a Consultant in Obstetrics and as Director of Postgraduate Medical Education in a large NHS trust. From 2005-2008 she was the medical advisor to the Workforce Review Team and was involved in many aspects of workforce planning in the NHS in England.

Aim of this master class:

To outline the GMC’s plan for recognising and approving trainers nationally and consider national and local issues related to this.

  • Objectives: by the end of the master class participants will be able to:
  • Summarise the plan that the GMC has for recognising and approving trainers
  • Outline the competencies, skills and knowledge that trainers will be required to develop and options for achieving these
  • Describe how the plan for trainers complements and fits in with other major initiatives such as revalidation and leadership development