Conferences/Competitions/News
New Consultant Workshops
We are promoting new dates for our popular series of preparing for consultant workshops aimed at Senior Registrars up to 18 months from CCT. We would be grateful if you could promote and highlight to any interested resident doctor contacts in your networks:
Confident Career Transitions: Priorities and Preparation for the Consultant Interview
Wednesday 29th January 2025 1:30pm – 5:00pm (On ZOOM)
The NHSE Careers Unit London & KSS is running a 3.5-hour workshop aimed at senior medical registrars and dentists who are preparing for consultant interviews. This popular session provides the opportunity for participants to consider key aspects of successful preparation for consultant interviews, including identifying individual core strengths and role preferences, managing uncertainty, effective exploration/research into career options, and confident communication.
Individuals will also have the opportunity to take part in/observe a mock consultant interview demo, practise responding to interview questions, and give and receive feedback among their peers during the breakout room activities. In the plenary sessions, workshop facilitators will offer general pointers, tips and advice for successful interviews.
Open MIC (Mock Interview Clinic) – Virtual consultant interview practice
Thursday 27th February 2025 – 9:30am – 12:30pm (On ZOOM)
https://lasepgmdeevents.hee.nhs.uk/events/psu/15606faf-ef46-4fae-83c9-843bd63ebd53
The NHSE Careers Unit London & KSS is running a 3-hour workshop aimed at senior medical registrars and dentists who are preparing for consultant interviews.
These popular 3-hour Open MIC events provide the opportunity to practise answering interview questions in small groups of peers. In breakout rooms, you will give and receive peer feedback on responding to different types of questions typically asked at consultant interviews. In the plenary sessions, workshop facilitators will offer general pointers, tips and advice for successful interviews.
Confident Career Transitions: Stepping into the consultant role
Tuesday 18th March 2025 1:30pm – 5:00pm (On ZOOM)
https://lasepgmdeevents.hee.nhs.uk/events/psu/802948b3-e52e-4b9c-be26-3f9afd3db7f1
The NHSE Careers Unit London & KSS team is running a 3.5-hour workshop aimed at senior medical registrars and dentists who are 12 months or less from taking up a consultant post. This workshop aims to support you at this significant transition point in your career. You will have the opportunity to take part in both reflective and future-focused activities with the following learning outcomes:
To reflect on the common themes and challenges experienced by newly appointed consultant
To identify core areas to enhance competence as a new consultant, such as effective communication, leadership, administration, mentorship and wellbeing
To have the opportunity to appraise existing knowledge and skills against key requirements of the consultant role, and consider how gaps may be addressed during the first 100 days in post
To have reflected on next steps and start to develop an action plan to enable a confident transition.
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WE-R NHS email for educational supervisors, DMEs and HoS’s
We have an opportunity for your trainees to share their work on a national level via WE-R NHS
Do your trainees need to do a research project or quality improvement project? WE-R NHS can also help them to refine their ideas for QIPs via the resources we have available in the catalogue.
WE-R NHS can:
- Help you to have your work recognised and available on a national level
- Share your quality improvement work with a wider audience to help drive change and improvements across the NHS,
- Use our catalogue as a research / search tool to help refine and focus your own ideas for quality improvement work
- Share your research with a wider demographic of NHS staff across many disciplines,
- Allow users to find and potentially link with you to talk about developments and research in education and workforce matters,
- Further education and workforce innovation across the NHS workforce
Read more about our catalogue here.
Submit your research and content on our form here.
Poster 1. September 2024 Poster general
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SuppoRTT programme in London
Please see the following links regarding learning more about SuppoRTT programme in London and learn from Case Studies which will be discussed during each session.
When registering for the event, if you do not have a GMC number please just enter in 000000.
London SuppoRTT-Educational Supervisor- basics of SuppoRTT 16 Jan 2025 – Virtual event
London SuppoRTT – Educational Supervisor – basics of SuppoRTT 6 May 2025 – Virtual event
London SuppoRTT – Educational Supervisor – basics of SuppoRTT 16 Sept 2025 – Virtual event
London SuppoRTT – Educational Supervisor – basics of SuppoRTT 9 December 2025 – Virtual event
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ASME Small Grants 2024 – open for applications!
The Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME), which includes in its goals, the promotion of high quality research into medical education, and the ASME Education Research Committee (ERC) invite Members (including undergraduate student members and employees of institutions that are members of the Association) to apply for our Small Grants 2024 round to support a research study in the field of medical or other healthcare education. ASME welcomes submissions from new as well as established researchers, and particularly welcomes applicants from diverse and under-represented backgrounds.
Some educational research projects require modest amounts of funding to cover expenses such as focus group attendance, travel, and simulated patient fees. These grants are intended to assist such projects. The grants are not intended to supplement the natural support that institutions should give to individuals and therefore cannot be used to pay course fees, computing equipment, overheads, research assistants/associates and similar. The grants may be used for transcription costs, however, these cannot exceed £16.00 per hour. Small Grant funding must not be used for conference attendance.
All recipients of the Small Grants award will be contractually obligated to produce an end-of-project report to the ASME Board and to make, via open licence any teaching/learning resource produced, available via ASME’s website to its membership.
The maximum award per individual or project under the scheme will be £5,000 or equivalent (bids for smaller amounts of funding are welcomed and encouraged). Successful applicants will be invited to present their work in parallel sessions at the Annual Scholarship Meeting (ASM) after their project has been completed. (Please note that registration, travel and accommodation for the ASM are NOT covered by this award).
What’s required in my application?
Applications should be made via the online submission form. Your submission should be no more than 500 words (excluding references) and clearly outline:
1. Brief critique of background literature and justified need for the project.
2. Description of project including:
– Aim and research question(s);
– Justification for the choice of methodology
– Projected outcomes
– Timetable to start in mid-2024 and ideally to finish within a 6 month timescale
3. Costed justification of funding required
If the above criteria are not met, then the submission will be rejected due to the instructions not being adhered to. The ERC may ask for a more detailed proposal from those short-listed.
We particularly welcome applicants from diverse and under-represented backgrounds.
Applicants should refer to our FAQ page to answer most questions about ASME award submissions.
An example marking sheet can be downloaded here
Applications will be assessed by members of the ERC.
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Thinking Together at St George’s
(Enhance generalist skills programme)
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Palliative Care for FY1s
It contains webinar recordings which cover the key areas of palliative care for foundation doctors, along with other helpful resources, and tips for palliative care in clinical practice.
Here is a link to the resource: Palliative Care for FY1’s | APM Education Hub