June 2021
UKFPO Bulletin
UKFPO Bulletin / 2nd June 2021
Careers
Workshops – Last Dates
The last of these workshops are taking place in June 2021. To book a last minute place, please click here.
Please note this workshop will take place online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be included in the registration email you receive from Eventbrite after signing up for the event. You will also receive the Zoom link in reminder emails before the event!
Surveys
Survey: Provision of Teaching in Paediatrics
We would like to invite current Foundation Year 1 and Foundation Year 2 doctors to participate in a survey, which aims to quantify the amount of teaching in paediatrics that has been offered to F1s and F2s over the past year. Over 700 doctors make applications for specialist training in paediatrics every year, and many more will care for children in other settings such as A&E and GP. As such, we would like to quantify how much teaching in paediatrics has been offered to F1s and F2s to prepare them for caring for children during their higher training.
The survey takes a few minutes to complete and is anonymised. The survey can be accessed at the following link: https://forms.gle/zeT412KyyqDGZ55h8 which also includes details of the aims of the study and how responses will be used. Many thanks to everyone who is able to participate.
Contact: emma.alexander5@nhs.net
Survey on the experiences of Foundation Doctors moving regions
This questionnaire is part of a master’s project of Dr Helen Johnson, Foundation School Director for EoE, looking at the impact from moving regions to start foundation training.
Please refer to the information leaflet in the email for more detail.
I have made a short video if you want to find out a little bit more before committing:
This questionnaire is part of a master’s project of Dr Helen Johnson, Foundation School Director for EoE, looking at the impact from moving regions to start foundation training.
Please refer to the information leaflet in the email for more detail.
I have made a short video if you want to find out a little bit more before committing:
https://heeoe.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=643b0246-376b-4f5c-8f59-ad030131682a
Please complete the survey, and if the question doesn’t feel quite relevant to you, skip the question
and comment in the text boxes.
The questionnaire should take 5-10 minutes
This year, many of you will have done an FiY1, and may have moved to your new area at that point
or between FiY1 and F1. Please consider when you moved to the new region rather than the specific
start of F1 if different.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRqqCYOi62r-ElcgCHlnvTvFRkTt1mVQORSRy5zOexu8Peyw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
Thank you.
Events
Careers in Medical Education Virtual Event Wednesday 9th June, 13.00 - 16.00
Nottingham Academic Medical Education Team invite you to attend their annual ‘Careers in Medical Education’ event which provides an opportunity to discover more about a range of medical and healthcare professional education career possibilities. A number of experienced medical educators: teachers, researchers and leaders, including Nottingham MMedSci Medical Education alumni, will be in attendance to talk and take questions about their career journeys to help inform your own career decisions as an educator. Our programme for the afternoon is attached.
Anyone interested in developing their career as a medical or healthcare professional educator is very welcome to attend. We hope you can join us. Please complete the attached form in order to reserve your place.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7qe9Z4D970GskTWEGCkKHpkCYhzHPaFOlet2CrCxjK9URFZCSTE3SUxaTUU2WVlWV0FJMTkyMDNCSS4u
National Academic GP Training Conference - Friday 25th June 2021
Please see flyer attached
This conference is designed for early career researchers, academic clinical fellows, GP trainees and foundation doctors with an interest in academic general practice. We are busy preparing an exciting, innovative and interactive schedule and would like to invite you all to register for the one-day virtual conference (https://www.academicgp.com).
Abstract submissions are also now open and further information, including deadlines, can be found on our website.
We look forward to seeing you all in June!
Warmest wishes,
National Academic GP Training Conference 2021
Email: conference@academicgp.com
Twitter: @AcademicGP
Instagram: academicgp.ldn
HEE Event F3 Experiences – Tuesday 29th June 2021
Please see flyer attached
We would like to welcome all Foundation Trainees to this evening event where our F3 trainees are going to share their experiences with you, in particular sharing what they wish they knew before F3.
Speakers: Abigail Ward, Natalia Grolmusova, Andrew Chapman
There is no need to register, this event will be run via Microsoft Teams
Click here to join the meeting
Virtual Belfast Eye Conference! Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, Saturday 3rd July and Sunday 4th July
At Belfast Eye Conference, you will meet like-minded healthcare students, early-stage doctors and early career vision scientists from around the world who are equally fascinated by clinical ophthalmology and vision related research.
The conference will provide the stage for speakers who will give broad and varied perspectives on eye related disease. Consultant ophthalmologists will give clinical talks relating to their sub-specialty, and members of the multi-disciplinary team will discuss how they support eye health.
Vision science is a strong and active research field, particularly in Northern Ireland. We are excited to showcase cutting edge vision related research from scientists at Queen’s University Belfast.
Belfast Eye Conference will also provide a platform for delegates - you! - to showcase your vision related research, in oral and poster formats. You may have done a vision related case study or audit, summer studentship, intercalated project, special study module work or PhD. Whatever the level, submit an abstract today!
Most importantly, Belfast Eye Conference is free of charge to attend. The event will be held virtually on Sat 3rdJuly and Sun 4thJuly.
To register, see the programme, download an abstract submission form and see the deadline, please visit: www.qub.ac.uk/belfasteyeconference
FREE TO ATTEND: West Midlands Academic Trainees (WMAT) Virtual Conference Monday 19th July 2021 - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Please see flyer attached
We would like to invite you to the inaugural West Midlands Academic Trainees (WMAT) Virtual Conference 2021, an event celebrating all forms of medical academia across the West Midlands. This event represents a fantastic opportunity for trainees and medical students of all levels to present work, from novel research to quality improvement projects and everything in between, through virtual poster sessions and oral presentations including opportunities for prizes. The event will include keynote talks, offering an insight into the lives of clinical academics and demonstrating the cutting-edge research ongoing in the region. Workshops will focus on how all doctors can get involved in academia, including advice on how research can boost your specialty applications with publications and presentations, and application tips for the academic foundation programme (AFP) and academic clinical fellowship (ACF) roles.
We hope you’re interested and able to join us for the FREE online event and excellent opportunity to present at a regional conference. Please see the attached “call for abstracts” poster and submit your RSVP and abstract submission via the links on our website:
https://www.tinyurl.com/wmatc
Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/5f89N4OM7
We are also running a short research survey at the bottom of the RSVP form and would hugely appreciate it if you could spare just a couple of minutes to complete this survey and help us improve junior doctor access to academia in the West Midlands.
Any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with myself or my colleague, Michael.
Aidan: aidan.butler1@nhs.net
Michael: michael.armitage@doctors.org.uk
Other Information
UKFP Curriculum 2021
Please see attached flyer
The new Foundation Programme curriculum2021 was published on 25th May 2021. This will come into use from 4th August with current F1s moving to the new curriculum at the start of F2. (Existing F1s who will move to F2 at some later date will remain on the old curriculum until they progress to F2).
Full details of the UKFP curriculum2021 information can be found here.
New UK Foundation Programme Curriculum 2021 - UK Foundation Programme
More information including podcasts and factsheets about some of the specific changes will appear over the next few weeks.
The link below takes you to a YouTube video created by UKFPO fellow Charlotte Perry which explains the changes.
Launch of new UK Foundation Programme Curriculum 2021 – Trainee - YouTube
Foundation E-learning Programme
The Foundation e-learning programme has been developed specifically for Foundation doctors by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) and is approved by UKFPO.
Do you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice? If so, why not try some of our free e-learning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.
The sessions in the e-LfH Foundation e-learning programme include:
Professional capability: 6
Communicates clearly in a variety of settings:
You can sign in to the e-learning with your login supplied by e-LfH at any time during your foundation training.
HORUS and TURAS link to e-LfH e-learning sessions from the FP Curriculum and are therefore accessible to all trainees, making it quicker and easy to access the appropriate session linked to the curriculum
New E-learning Eating Disorders Programme
Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) has worked with Beat and the Royal College of Psychiatrists to develop an e-learning programme to help medical students and foundation doctors feel more confident in identifying and assessing patients with eating disorders.
The e-learning is designed to ensure that all medical students and foundation doctors are trained to understand, identify and respond appropriately when faced with a patient with a possible eating disorder.
This programme is designed to enable them to:
- Identify the major eating disorders and spot the early warning signs
- Understand the role of starvation in eating disorders and the effects on the brain
- Understand common challenges experienced by clinicians identifying people with eating disorders
- Identify the occurrence of eating disorders in patients who may present with other conditions
- Understand how to assess for an eating disorder
- Understand from sufferers of eating disorders about how they confronted their illness
- Recognise the official guidance and care pathways available
It was developed in response to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) investigation into avoidable deaths from eating disorders, as outlined in recommendations from the Ignoring the Alarms: How NHS Eating Disorder Services are Failing Patients report (PHSO, 2017).
A 2017 survey and review of undergraduate training found that the majority of UK doctors receive less than 2 hours of training and eating disorders during their 10-16 years of medical training and approximately 20% do not receive any training at all (Ayton and Ibrahim, 2018). While the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS, 2007) in England found that 6.4% of adults screened positive for an eating disorder.
Programme partners are Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty of Eating Disorders.
For more information and to access the e-learning programme, visit the programme page.
COVID-19 training risk reporting tool now LIVE
HEE has today launched an online reporting tool for postgraduate medical and dental trainees, Training Programme Directors (TPDs) and Heads of School (HoS) to report perceived risks to experiential learning and progression due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The webform provides the opportunity to anonymously report challenges and concerns within the training environment, and for HEE to monitor and manage these risks.
ARCP Updates
For information and guidance relating to the ARCPs currently underway please see here: https://foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/curriculum/arcp/
F1 trainees - applications for full GMC registration:
For trainees due to complete F1 in August 21 please ensure to submit your applications in good time to the GMC for full registration, ahead of planned progression to your F2 post.
Oxford Medical Simulation
Please make sure you have received your log in details and are able to access this resource. We will be asking for feedback later this year. In addition to the Diabetes scenarios 5 additional scenarios have been opened up which are available to use so please make use of these.
- Sepsis - Intravenous drug user with cellulitis and abscess
- Cardiac - Congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema
- Gastroenterology - Steroid-induced pancreatitis
- Other - Alcohol withdrawal and suicidal ideation
- Mental Health – Acute Anxiety
Access to these scenarios comes to an end on the 31st of July so please take advantage of these. If you are having any difficulties, please reach out to OMS on the support function within the platform. You can also contact your PG Centre or facultysupportteam.wm@hee.nhs.uk