Inspiring excellence in medical education and training

Our role in medical education and training    We protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine.

We regulate medical education and training so that patients now and in the future can be confident that they will receive safe, high quality medical care. We set standards and requirements that must be met on the ground; and check that they really are met, through quality assurance activity.

Standards for medical education and training  Tomorrow’s Doctors The knowledge, skills and behaviours that medical students should learn at UK medical schools and standards for teaching, learning and assessment.

 The Trainee Doctor The set of standards for all postgraduate medical education and training, from the Foundation Programme to the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), published in one document.

Consultation    Consulting on new, stronger and clearer standards which put patient safety, quality of care, patient experience and fairness at the heart of educating and training medical students and doctors Replaces standards in Tomorrow’s Doctors The Trainee Doctor  one framework across the continuum and   good learning environment and culture support regional reviews Runs for 8 weeks from 28 January to 24 March 2015

Sharing good practice The identification and sharing of good practice is vital in quality improvement. We will share information on good practice through reports, case studies, face-to-face events and greater use of benchmarking to help organisations see more easily how the training they are responsible for compares to training in other locations.

How we identify practices that work well  Dean’s reports  Visits  Conferences and fora  Engagement with partner organisations

Example 1 – what we have heard so far  Welcome events and e-welcome packs for Foundation doctors (Health Education Wessex) After doctors in training are allocated to the Foundation School, a welcome event is held where the Trusts have stands to help the applicants decide where in the region they want to go. This is staffed by education faculty and Foundation doctors. An e-welcome pack has also been introduced, where each applicant is given a USB stick containing important information about the programme within Wessex.

Example 2 – what we have heard so far  Guide to Foundation Programme in Women’s Health Care The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has developed the Guide to Foundation Training in Womens Health Care to   support Foundation doctors in completion of their generic Foundation Curriculum and as a resource to support their postgraduate education in women’s health care.

Our focus on good practice – patient safety Doctors in training are the eyes and ears of the service today and the safety leaders of the future.

We want to identify education and training initiatives that promote the following:   understanding human factors measurement and audit   multidisciplinary team working safe handovers of care   learning from errors and near misses improvement science

Future plans- case study publication  Launch of our dedicated webpage in 2015  Identify potential cases through our existing evidence

Future plans- developmental requirements Our proposed new standards framework may in future integrate verified and evidenced good practice into developmental requirements. These requirements are areas that organisations should be aiming to develop, they may evolve into core requirements in time.

Questions and Answers Any questions about this development or if you would like to get involved further, please contact Greg Liang on [email protected]