Advanced wisdom in education and learning

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Advanced wisdom in education and learning
Second Series of Master Classes for Senior
Educators
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Severn Deanery Master Classes

• Overview
• An academic series of master classes mainly held
  at Deanery House (the new Deanery building) on
  topical and emerging areas of medical education
  for the Deanery faculty. They will be open to the
  Deanery Educational Team, Educators in Trusts and
  GP Trainers. 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

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Severn Deanery Master Classes

• Overall objectives
• To explore issues that are topical, relevant and
  of interest
• To engage international experts to deliver the
  inputs
• To be structured around a mix of presentations,
  table discussions and question and answer sessions

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Severn Deanery Master Classes

• Timetable for all classes
• 12.45 1.30 Lunch
• 1.30 1.50 Introductions within small groups
  and generation of questions flagged up to
  speaker
• 1.50 3.00 Presentation by speaker
• 3.00 3.20 Afternoon tea and cakes
• 3.20 4.00 Table discussions around 3 core
  questions what are the key issues from
  presentation, what issues in Deanery need to
  be taken forward, and other thoughts/reactions
  ?
• 4.00 4.40 Feed back to main group
• 4.40 5.00 Speaker summarises and comments
• 5.00 End of class

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Severn Deanery Master Classes

• Thursday 3rd December 2009 Simulation the
  Future in Medical Education Prof Roger Kneebone
• Wednesday 16th December 2009 Developing
  reflective practice in trainees Dr Roger
  Neighbour
• Thursday 7th January 2010 Intelligence
  Personality Learning (part 2) Prof Adrian
  Furnham
• Wednesday 27th January 2010 Patient Safety Prof
  Ben Sachs others (invited)
• Thursday 25th February 2010 Bringing out the
  best in professionals Graham Oppenheimer
  quartet
• Wednesday 24th March 2010 Social
  Entrepreneurship competencies for doctors Ann
  Porter
• Thursday 29th April 2010 Motivating Teams Prof
  Aidan Halligan
• May 2010 (27th or 28th date to be confirmed)
  Assessments Prof Valerie Wass
• Wednesday 23rd June 2010 Leading Change in
  Medical Education Prof Bernard Crump
• Thursday 22nd July 2010 Developing understanding
  of cultural structures within the NHS Prof
  Charles Hampden-Turner

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Master Class 1 Prof Roger KneeboneSimulation
and the future in medical educationBeing held
on Thursday 3rd December 2009

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Use of patient simulators is an important
  development in medical education as it reduces
  harm to patients and provides the opportunity for
  trainees to handle a wide range of clinical
  procedures. This session will explore what is
  available and the exciting developments awaiting
  us in the future.
• Speakers Details
• Dr Roger Kneebone trained first as a general
  surgeon, working both in the UK and in Southern
  Africa. He then trained as a GP and joined a
  practice in Trowbridge. In the 1990s he developed
  an innovative national training programme for
  minor surgery within primary care, using
  simulated tissue models and a computer-based
  learning program. In 2003 he joined Imperial
  College London and working with colleagues from
  communication and computing, has developed
  innovative approaches to learning invasive
  clinical procedures. He leads several
  high-profile national programmes for training
  healthcare professionals to undertake new roles
  within the NHS and is co-director of the UKs
  only Masters in Education (M Ed) in Surgical
  Education, which started in October 2005.
• Aim
• To create an understanding of the range of
  simulators that are and will be available and how
  to make best educational use of them.
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Summarise the reasons why simulators are useful
  in medical education
• Describe different types of simulators and how
  best to use them
• Outline the strengths and limitations of using
  simulators
• List the key future developments in the field of
  patient simulation

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Master Class 2 Dr Roger Neighbour Developing
Reflective Practice in TraineesBeing held on
Wednesday 16th December 2009

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Donald Schon (1983) suggested that the capacity
  to reflect on action so as to engage in a process
  of continuous learning was one of the defining
  characteristics of professional practice. The
  cultivation of the capacity to reflect in
  action (while doing something) and on action
  (after you have done it) is an important feature
  of medical training.
• Speakers details
• Dr Roger Neighbour qualified from Kings
  College, Cambridge, and St Thomas Hospital.
  After vocational training in Watford, he became a
  principal in general practice in Hertfordshire
  until 2003. He was a trainer and course
  organiser with Watford VTS, an MRCGP examiner for
  20 years, and Convenor of the RCGPs Panel of
  Examiners from 1997 to 2002. He was President of
  the RCGP for a three years from 2003.
  Publications include The Inner Consultation
  (1987, 2nd ed. 2005) and The Inner Apprentice
  (1992, 2nd ed. 2005). A collection of his
  medico-philosophical writings (Im Too Hot Now)
  was published in 2005.Now retired from clinical
  practice, Roger continues to write, teach and
  lecture in the UK and worldwide on consulting
  skills and medical education.
• Aim
• To consider how to help our trainees develop
  reflective habits in learning and medical
  practice.
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Describe how reflective practice enables more
  effective learning
• Outline a variety of techniques and tools for
  educational reflection
• Assist medical trainees to become actively
  reflective as they practice clinically
• Align reflective practices with learners values
  systems and preferred learning styles

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Master Class 3 Prof Adrian FurnhamIntelligence
Personality and Educational StrategyBeing held
on Thursday 7th January 2010

• Reasons for offering this Master Class
• Last series Master Class with Adrian was highly
  stimulating and great fun and your feedback
  indicated that you would like to take the themes
  he covered further. This session will focus on
  how contemporary psychological perspectives
  should shape our strategy for selecting and
  educating future doctors.
• Speakers details
• Prof Adrian Furnham was previously a lecturer in
  Psychology at Pembroke College, Oxford, and is
  now Professor of Psychology at University College
  London. His scholarships and visiting
  professorships include the Universities of New
  South Wales, the West Indies and Hong Kong. He
  has written over 600 scientific papers and 42
  books including Culture Shock (1994), The New
  Economic Mind (1995), Personality at Work (1994),
  The Myths of Management (1996), The Psychology of
  Behaviour at Work (1997), The Psychology of Money
  (1998), The Incompetent Manager (2003), The Dark
  Side of Behaviour at Work (2004), The People
  Business (2005) and Personality and Intellectual
  Competence (2005)
• Aim
• To further understanding of how up to date
  research and findings on personality and
  intelligence should guide the selection and
  education of medical trainees.
• Objectives - by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Outline the relationship between personality and
  intellectual competence.
• Understand how active intelligence changes over
  time and affects learning
• Appreciate how personality factors affect
  educational processes.
• Understand current trends in theories of
  education and how these might be applied within
  medical training

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Master Class 4 Prof Benjamin Sachs, Rebecca
Aspinall and Rob Bethune Patient SafetyBeing
held on Wednesday 27th January 2010

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Patient safety is a key national priority within
  the NHS and Severn Deanery is leading a number of
  initiatives on this. It is important to
  incorporate this into Postgraduate Medical
  Training to ensure future doctors attend to
  safety as an automatic priority and engage in
  appropriate research. In view of this topics
  importance this Master class is being offered to
  a wider audience across the region and therefore
  could be held in a larger venue, details will
  follow closer to the date of the class.
• Speakers details
• Prof Benjamin Sachs, Senior Vice President and
  Dean, School of Medicine and The James R. Doty
  Distinguished Professor Chair Rebecca
  Aspinall, Foundation Programme Director UHB Rob
  Bethune, Senior Surgical Trainee
• Aim
• Create understanding of how education can help
  reduce patient harm in every day clinical
  practice
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Outline where and why things go wrong with
  patient care and treatment
• Summarise how individual decisions and
  organisational processes impact on patient
  experiences and outcomes
• Describe what is making a difference has been
  shown to work in reducing patient harm
• Incorporate materials and resources on patient
  safety into their educational activities

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Master Class 5 Graham Oppenheimer quartetHow
to bring out the best in medical professionals a
musical analogyBeing held on Thursday 25th
February 2010

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Cultural pursuits are a hall mark of many
  national figures with formidable achievements to
  their names. Stretching and focussing highly
  able trainees is a challenge within medical
  education and this Master class seeks to show how
  this is done when working with highly able
  musical professionals.
• Speakers details
• Graham Oppenheimer,International Viola Soloist
  and Senior Chamber Music Tutor at Chethams School
  of Music, plus the Wilhelm String Quartet.
• Aim
• To demonstrate processes and skills that bring
  out even better performance levels in highly
  skilled and accomplished people
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Recognise trainees who have exceptional gifts and
  aptitude
• Engage with highly able trainees and assist them
  in their ongoing growth and development
• Champion exceptional individuals
• Use analogy in educational processes

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Master Class 6 Anne PorterSocial
Entrepreneurship Competencies for DoctorsBeing
held on Wednesday 24th March 2010

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Bringing business and commercial practice into
  the NHS as a positive way forward has been
  promoted by successive recent governments. This
  Master class considers specific examples of doing
  this and explores whether this is a useful frame
  of reference for medical education.
• Speakers details
• Anne Porter - Social Entrepreneur and former
  Director in the NHS.
• Aim
• To explore the value of bringing the enterprise
  culture and commercial thinking into Postgraduate
  medical education
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Describe how new innovation planning systems have
  been implemented in the NHS
• Assess the contribution that entrepreneurial
  processes could make to medical education
• Outline an approach to encouraging creativity and
  business thinking that might work for medical
  trainees
• Plan improvements to the organisation of
  postgraduate medical training

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Master Class 7 Prof Adian HalliganMotivating
TeamsBeing held on Thursday 29th April 2010

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Morale and motivation are the lifeblood of any
  organisation. A more robust and motivated medical
  profession will mean better outcomes for
  patients. This Master class explores ways in
  which we as clinical leaders can develop
  techniques and processes to motivate teams to
  perform well.
• Speakers details
• Aidan Halligan Chief of Safety, Brighton and
  Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, and
  Director of Education, University College London
  Hospitals NHS Trust. Former Deputy Chief Medical
  Office for England.
• Aim
• To explore how to motivate teams of medical
  health professionals through education towards
  improving patient outcome.
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• To understand theory of motivation and how it can
  be applied to teams within NHS
• Be aware of aptitudes within self and others
  which can contribute positively or negatively to
  effective team working
• Outline ways in which teams can actively work
  towards improved patient outcomes.

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Master Class 8 Prof Valerie WassAssessmentsBei
ng held on 27th or 28th May 2010 (date to be
confirmed)

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Trainee assessments, including work based
  assessments and annual reviews, are critical in
  measuring the progress of our junior doctors.
  They are criticised for not being objective and
  for variability in their utility. Issues about
  their use include inappropriate completers and
  the lack of belief in their usefulness by many
  Clinical Supervisors. Views vary on whether they
  should be used in a formative or summative way
• Speakers details
• Professor Valerie Wass is currently Professor of
  Community Based Medical Education at the
  University of Manchester and will be the new Head
  of Medical Education at Keele University from
  January 2010. She trained and worked in Adult
  and Paediatric Nephrology at Guys Hospital,
  London before becoming a General Practitioner in
  Kent. Her work with the MRCGP and university
  final medical school examinations catalysed an
  interest and reasearch in the challenges of
  assessing clinical competence, particularly
  communication skills and attitudinal behaviours
• Aim
• To review the purpose and effectiveness of
  trainee assessments and suggest ways to improve
  them and inform us about research and future
  developments in assessing trainee doctors
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Describe how trainees can be assessed effectively
  using the current range of available assessment
  processes
• Outline the important issues blocking effective
  assessment of trainees in current methodology
• List future developments planned for assessing
  trainee doctors and summarise key research
  findings in this
• Suggest ways to improve assessments across the
  Severn Deanery

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Master Class 9 Prof Bernard CrumpLeading
Change in Medical EducationBeing held on
Wednesday 23rd June 2010

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• Medical education is still traditional whilst
  medicine itself is no longer traditional.
• Widespread use of the internet and the
  development of the e-patient is one example of
  how 21st century medicine is transforming.
  Medical education therefore needs to keep pace
  with change and lessons learnt from the wider NHS
  could be usefully applied in this field.
• Speakers details
• Bernard Crump, chief executive, NHS Institute
  for Innovation and Improvement
• Aim
• To explore how change within wider NHS can be
  applied to promote effective change within
  medical education
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• To look at some of the key factors that trigger
  and drive improvement in the NHS and in health
  care more widely
• To understand how lessons learnt from the wider
  NHS can be applied to promote change within
  medical education
• To look at whether recent changes in medical
  education have lead to improvement and discuss
  what future changes might be necessary

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Master Class 10 Prof Charles Hampden-TurnerDeve
loping understanding of cultural structures
within the NHSBeing held on Thursday 22nd July
2010

• Reasons for offering the Master Class
• National and organisational cultures
  fundamentally affect how we relate to each other,
  work together, communicate, train, educate and
  measure success. In a cultural rich and diverse
  NHS this has the potential to both create
  exciting new initiatives and perspectives on
  patient care and also for great misunderstanding
  and unnecessary conflict. This master class
  explains some well established frameworks for
  understanding these dimensions and offers
  practical suggestions on how to positively
  harness the enormous cultural diversity we
  experience within our health service
• Speakers details
• Prof Charles Hampden-Turner is a Senior Research
  Associate at the Judge Business School,
  University of Cambridge. He is the creator of
  Dilemma Theory and co-founder and Director of
  Research and Development at the
  Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Group in Amsterdam, a
  cross-cultural consultancy organisation - clients
  have included companies such as Motorola, Royal
  Dutch Shell, Advanced Micro Devices, British
  Telecom and British Airways. In 1987,
  Hampden-Turner became a Global Business Network
  Remarkable Person joining the resources of one
  of the worlds most important think-tanks. From
  2005, he has been a Consulting Supervisor in the
  Institute for Manufacturing at the School of
  Engineering, University of Cambridge. He was
  recently made a Fellow the Royal Society of Arts
  and is also a Honorary Fellow of Arts and
  Business, and was the Goh Tjoe Kok Distinguished
  Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological
  University in Singapore.
• Aim
• To consider how national and organisational
  cultures profoundly influence and affect doctors
  and medical educators working within the NHS
• Objectives by the end of the master class
  participants will be able to
• Explain why understanding national and
  organisational cultures is important to improving
  better patient care and medical training
• Describe a number of perspectives and frameworks
  for understanding difference s and similarities
  between national and organisational cultures
• Summarise how these differences might affect
  medical trainees and educators in the Deanery and
  in Trusts
• Plan improved communication and effectiveness
  within postgraduate medical education