Kevin Forsyth

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• Kevin Forsyth
• Head Paediatrics, Flinders Medical Centre
• Member, RACP Education Taskforce

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Better integration of research and teaching into
service

• Change the clinical context
• Hospitals become a training environment as well
  as service environment
• Training for all staff is mandated as part of
  their duties
• Completion of training requirements,
  individualised, become part of job description
• Hospitals become assistive in CPD
• Funding partitioning for training
• Time partitioning for staff

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Better integration of research and teaching into
service

• Training context
• Devise a training program with competencies,
  progressions through stages of training, regular
  supervision and assessment
• Ensure supervisors adequately skilled and trained
  to supervise
• More/enhanced ITA
• Expectation that current College research
  requirements at least sustained, perhaps expanded
  

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Better integration of research and teaching into
service

• Greater interdigitation with Universities and
  Colleges into hospital environment
• Consideration of Postgraduate Deanery structure
  for implementation
• Supervision of all postgraduate training
• Assist hospitals with training requirements
• Bridge between Universities and Hospitals
• Assist individuals with their CPD requirements

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Whose responsibility?

• The individual but
• Need to create highly assistive
  environment-partitioning of time funding/job
  descriptions
• PartnershipsGMC requirements
• Continuum of training vital. University roles
  should not stop at graduation
• Clinical Simulation Units
• Virtual reality training
• Partnerships between Universities and Hospitals
• Colleges credentialing auspicing

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Sharing of educational resources

• Even within professional discipline not easy
• Intellectual property issues need clarification
• Management of process/needs and resourceswho
  does this?
• PIE group works
• Paediatrics Professors Committee agreed in
  principle
• ? databank of locally held resources required
• Great in principle, hard in practice