Workshops
Teaching clinical reasoning when you are busy doing other things… (AM/PM)
Dr Simon Gay will be delivering his workshop in the AM and PM on: Teaching clinical reasoning when you are busy doing other things…
Clinical placements have so much to offer to the education of medical students.
This workshop focuses on a small but important part of that education – the nurturing and encouragement of clinical reasoning skills.
Over the course of the workshop, the facilitator will offer some tips and techniques to help tutors help medical students develop their clinical reasoning skills in the busy clinical setting.
Aims
Delegates attending this workshop will:
• Discuss opportunities to teach clinical reasoning in their clinical setting.
• Enhance their ability to evaluate students’ individual clinical reasoning learning needs.
• Discover new techniques for facilitating medical student clinical reasoning.
Experience
No previous experience of the teaching of clinical reasoning is required to attend this workshop.
Supporting Medical Students, Learners & Colleagues with Neurodiversity (AM & PM)
Dr Saania Bhatti is a portfolio GP based in North London. She works in a number of roles, including from the Practitioner Health Programme, with looked after children and as a GP appraiser. She has a special interest in neurodiversity, authoring a book on the intersectionality of autism and ethnicity and advising doctors who are neurodiverse or have neurodiversity within their families, as well as running a support group for parents. She also has a strong interest in female leadership, preventing burnout and lifestyle medicine.
The workshop will explore what neurodiversity is, common traits, strengths and challenges for learners and why this is relevant to medical students. It will help signpost to suitable self-screening resources and allow shared discussion around strategies that might be effective in supporting wellbeing and achieving success. The aim is for an interactive opportunity for educators to explore their own experiences and identify how they might support learners.
ARRS R+R AI - Unscrambling the future of GP - A World Café! (AM)
KUMEC SPIN Fellows: We are the 5 GP SPIN fellows Drs Jodie Acott (left), Thileepan Thevarajan (far left), Priya Khetarpal (far right), Chiamah Henry (center right), and Stephanie Wassell (right).
SPIN stands for 'Salaried Portfolio Innovation Scheme' - and was created by NHSE for fellowship opportunities for newly qualified and early career GPs and nurses, within one year of joining general practice. We all have an interest in medical education and in our fellowship teach King's medical students in the community or on campus, as well as assisting faculty with teaching material development, assessment, and evaluation.
Do you think about the future of GP? Are you uncertain about the impact of new technologies and healthcare roles on patient care and medical education? If so, please join us - the KUMEC Teaching SPIN Fellows - for a ‘World Café’ - as newly qualified GPs we will explore the future of primary care and the impact on teaching.
We will discuss and draw on your own experiences of the challenges we face - focusing on ARRS roles, Recruitment and Retention and the use of AI. We really look forward to grappling with these topics and crafting new ideas for a more positive primary care!
Everything you need to know about teaching final year students in your practice (AM)
Dr Mark Smith
Dr Mark Smith is a GP and Clinical Lecturer at KUMEC with Stage 3 and the BSc in Primary Care. He has interests in how we prepare students for the transition to practitioner and small group teaching and facilitation. He also is a Training Programme Director for King's GP training scheme and Medical Director for Islington GP Federation.
Dr Marion Hill
Dr Marion Hill is a GP and Lead for the Final Year GP block in KUMEC. Marion's education interests are small group teaching and learning and clinical reasoning. Outside of KUMEC, Marion is the Planned Care Clinical Lead in Southwark Integrated System and has recently been appointed as the Interim Head of Primary Care at Norwich Medical School.
Martin Sands
Martin Sands is a lecturer in medical education in the KUMEC team and has experience of tutoring and counselling success and failure of undergraduate and post graduate students across a variety of health care programmes in both clinical and academic settings.
The "Everything you need to know about teaching final year students in your practice" workshop is designed for colleagues who are already GP Tutors and those who are interested in becoming one. Meet the stage 3 team who will guide you through being a GP Tutor in the Final Year Block. We will share tips for hosting a final year medical students for eight-weeks in your practice. Using case studies we will work through scenarios about trouble shooting and seeking support.
Trauma-informed practice: Creating safety for survivors and providers (PM)
Jocelyn Blumberg is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and trauma specialist who trained in South Africa, qualifying in 2000. She has specialised in working with trauma survivors and has worked and taught in a range of settings including South Africa, Turkey and Australia. Jocelyn worked at the Traumatic Stress Clinic at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist service for the assessment and treatment of Complex PTSD between 2005-2021 and then from 2021-2023 at Keeping Well NCL Staff Wellbeing Hub. She now works mainly in independent clinical practice but continues to train staff across Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust in trauma-informed care and trauma-informed organisational practice. She also offers training and reflective practice sessions to a wide range of professionals whose work brings them into contact with trauma survivors and traumatic events.
This is an introductory workshop aimed at developing greater trauma awareness and at beginning to embed the principles of trauma-informed practice - safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment, historical, cultural and gender sensitivity and self-care into your daily clinical and teaching practice.
The workshop will aim to teach some skills for having safe conversations about trauma. We will think together about strategies to identify, respond to and/or refer identified patients appropriately, as well as to provide support to your students.
Importantly, we will highlight the importance of your own self-care in maintaining resilience and working effectively and sensitively with trauma survivors.
Learning through the lens of clinical humanities : A KUMEC Teachers crash course in Museum Based Teaching (PM)
Dr Mydhili Chellappah is Deputy Stage 2 GP Lead and clinical humanities lead for the Year 2 GP programme. She has interests in teaching person-centered care through the humanities, professional and personal identity formation, and well-being in early clinical years, and simulation design. She works as a GP in South London.
Mydhili will deliver her workshop in the King’s Gordon Museum of Pathology, which is the largest medical museum in the UK and is based on Guy's Campus and contains some rare and unique artifacts including Lister’s antiseptic spray and the original specimens of kidneys, adrenal glands and lymph nodes which led Richard Bright, Thomas Addison, and Thomas Hodgkin to describe the medical conditions associated with their names. We have secured special access for 10 tutors to this historical gem that is not usually open to the public!
Join us in this interactive workshop where we will discuss and demonstrate the educational evidence base about teaching and learning clinical skills in museum-based settings. We'll also take a tour of the museum covering the history of medicine, reflect on clinical care while viewing pathological specimens, paintings, and sculptures, and think about what our students can learn from this innovative teaching approach.