2011 Conference workshops

Delegates attending the 19th December 2011 conference, 'Quality Improvment and Innovation in Healthcare Education', are requested to pre-register for morning and afternoon workshops.

Please choose 1 session from each of the two lists below.

Rooms are allocated to workshops based on the number of pre-registrations.  By waiting until the day to choose which session to attend your preffered choice may be fully booked.

To confirm your choice, simply email david.marston@londondeanery.ac.uk

Morning session:

A  Training the Trauma Team (Trauma Team Member)

Simon Calvert, Consultant Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Tracy Parr, London Trauma System Manager

This new inter-professional course (which comprises e-learning and high fidelity simulation) has been jointly developed by King's College Hospital, the London Trauma Office and the London Deanery to train all members of trauma teams in the London Trauma System. This session will examine the development and content of the course, and reflect on the experience and challenges for its roll out across trauma networks.

B - Simulation-based training highlighting leadership, followership and management skills in clinical practice

Francina Cunnington, Head of Education, and John Moreiras, Fellow in Medical Education, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

This workshop will give you an introduction to the course "Developing Leadership through simulation and practie".  This innovative programme uses a number of different teaching techniques to stimulate the learning process and you will have an opportunity to think about your own teaching and what ways you might integrate new teaching methods.

C - Human Factors Matter: Patient Safety in Hospital at Night Teams

Tim Stephens, Patient Safety Trainer, Helen Mills, Patient Safety Nurse, and Chris Sadler, Director for Simulation, Barts and the London NHS Trust

When we talk about human factors we are really talking about human behaviour and interaction. How we behave in the clinical environment can have a positive or negative impact upon clinical outcomes. However, human factors’ training does not lend itself well to traditional lectures or textbook based learning. Concepts such as effective communication or good teamwork can seem both obvious and yet intangible. We understand these concepts best through reflection on our lived experiences.
The short film presented in this session has been designed to stimulate that process of reflection. 

The film offers a "fly on the wall" view of a Hospital at Night team and allows the viewer to analyse the behaviours of staff and identify the importance of understanding and managing 'the human factor' in the clinical workplace. Participants will watch the film and then participate in a brief facilitated discussion to identify salient learning points.

D - Using simulated patients to calibrate your patient-centric compass

Sonya Abraham, Consultant Rhuematologist and Benjamin Cerezo, Simulation Projects Manager, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

An interactive and evidence-based look at the need for a patient-centric approach to healthcare delivery, and how this can be addressed by combining simulated patient interactions and facilitated debriefing with real patient insights.

E - Supporting Accomplished Facilitation: Introducing a new web-based learning resource

Prof Della Freeth, Queen Mary, University of London

This workshop will introduce the STeLI Supporting Accomplished Facilitation web site, which was developed for new and experienced simulation faculty.  Using an Appreciative Inquiry approach, the project team worked closely with three simulation centres to inform the development of the learning resources, which are now freely available to all.  The workshop will give an overview of the web site and demonstrate selected learning resources.  Participants with wireless devices will be able to explore the website further in small groups and discuss potential future developments. 

The project team comprised: Della Freeth and Paul McIntosh, Queen Mary, University of London, and Emma Jane Berridge, City University London.

Afternoon session

A - Trauma Team Leader

Syed Masud, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Barts and the London NHS Trust and Tracy Parr, London Trauma Systems Manager

This workshop discusses the development of the Trauma Team Leader course, a complimentary training programme to Trauma Team Member ensuring that staff are in a position to give leadership in trauma scenarios.  The programme includes human factors awareness training, a simulation day, extensive e-learning and familiarisation with the Trauma Safety Manual developed alongside the course.  The workshop discusses both best practice in course development and the course itself.

B - Medical Leadership: A Simulation-based Course

Nick Bass, Director of Medical Education

This workshop will introduce the main learning objectives of the Medical Leadership for Psychiatrists course, outline how the piloted sessions and training materials were developed and discuss the blended teaching approach used which included a simulated Service Directorate Committee meeting and Serious Untoward Incident investigation interviews, as well as a semi-scripted role-play which placed delegates in difficult clinical team-based scenarios with actors in key roles.  The workshop will include a short video on each of the four sessions in order to highlight the interactive nature of the course and leadership skills shown by delegates when deadline with the situations they encountered.

C - Patient Voices: involving patients, education clinicians, transforming healthcare

Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner, Directors of Patient Voices

The Patient Vocies Programme has been gathering and sharing the digital stories of healthare since 2003.  The programme seeks to provide a balance to the evidence of clinical trials by offering the 'evidence of experience' of ordinary people; its aim is to remind those who design and deliver healthcare of the need for dignified, respectful, humane and compassionate care. 

Our reflective digital storytelling methodology has a wide variety of uses, including helping junior doctors explore and reflect upon their own clinical experiences.

This 45 minute workshop will provide a flavour of the Patient Voices Programme and will look at some of the ways in which the stories have been used in healthcare education and quality improvement programmes.

D - "Keeping patients safe" - how to develop and promote patient centred courses for the modern NHS

Deblina Dasgupta, Consultant Geriatrician, Val Dimmock, Simulation and Clinical Skills Facilitator and Eleanor Wood, Director of Medical Education, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

An informal, interactive workshop exploring the development, piloting, promotion, evaluation and marketing of a new simulation-based training initiative focussing on patient safety and patient centredness.  The workshop will be of interest to those delivering simulation-based courses as well as senior managers involved in patient safety.  The workshop is intended to stimulate interest in developing innovative learning initiatives.

E- Best Practices for Debriefing in Simulation-based Training

Maria Ahmed, Sonal Arora, Jane Runnacles and Nick Sevdalis, Imperial College, London

This workshop highlights the principal components of an effective debriefing within simulation-based training. The workshop will introduce an evidence-based, validated tool for evaluating debriefings, termed Objective Structured Assessment of Debriefing (OSAD). Attendees will have the opportunity to practice using this tool with multi-media video clips.  Attendees will also learn how to improve their debriefings to maximise learning in a time-limited setting.