The role of the Director of Training

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• The role of the Director of Training

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9 components of the DOT role

• Education Co-ordinator
• Teacher
• Exam Coach
• Arrange clinical experience to aid learning
• Professional development/Mentor
• Communication link to College/Training Network
• Advocate/Mediator
• Hospital manager
• can be hard to blend this with other roles
• some hospital management perspective is important
  for DOTs, but up to each hospital to define
  specifics
• hopefully inter-hospital management issues mostly
  will fall to Training Network Director
• Performance assessor
• will grow, but not all assessment will fall to
  DOTs
• some training needed

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9 supports required for DOTs

• College/Faculty support
• Teaching resources
• Departmental resources for trainees
• Departmental staff resources
• Improved two-way communication with College
• Training for DOTs
• CPD points for teachers
• Recognition of importance of role
• role and responsibilities statement
• new appointment policy experience, seniority,
  time allocation, availability
• Time allocation for DOT work
• 4-8 hours per week should be provided in the work
  timetable of the DOT, as an allowance for time
  spent on DOT duties

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DOTs should have sufficient

• experience
• seniority
• time allocation
• availability
• . to fulfill the requirements of the role

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DOTs should have sufficient

• experience in clinical practice to
• appreciate the wider issues of oncology/radiation
  oncology
• to impart the correct perspective to trainees
• difficult for a junior consultant, who is
  attempting these same tasks at a personal level
• seniority in the training centre
• to exert the appropriate leverage and advocacy
  for trainees
• junior consultant is unlikely to have an
  appropriate level of persuasion
• Guideline DOT should have been a practicing
  Fellow for a period of 2 years fulltime or 3
  years part-time

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DOTs should have sufficient

• dedicated time allocation to fulfill the DOT role
• required time will depend on the number of
  trainees and other support for training within
  the centre
• availability to trainees
• links to the issue of time allocation
• also recognizes that it is important that DOTs
  are contactable at many times during the working
  week
• Guideline 1-2 hours per week per trainee (with
  a minimum total allocation of 4 hours per week)
  should be provided in the work timetable of the
  DOT as an allowance for time spent on DOT duties
• and
• DOT should probably be working in the training
  centre for a minimum of 0.6FTE

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DOT appointment procedure

• The HOD of the training centre -
• is responsible to ensure that a DOT is appointed
• will submit the name, CV and time allocation of
  the nominee to the Education Board including
  any justification for varying from standard
  guidelines
• A standard application form has been developed
• The Education Board (EB) will assess nominations
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• The EB may devolve the routine assessment of
  nominees to the Chief Accreditation Officer, as a
  component of the accreditation process
• If a nominee does not fit the standard
  guidelines, these cases will be presented to the
  EB and assessed on a case-by-case basis

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9 components of the DOT role

• Education Co-ordinator
• Teacher
• Exam Coach
• Arrange clinical experience to aid learning
• Professional development/Mentor
• Communication link to College/Training Network
• Advocate/Mediator
• Hospital manager
• Performance assessor