Educational Resources and Opportunities

Teaching Resources

Teaching resources developed by expert teams at NHS London Trusts on behalf of London Deanery and STeLI are available to download via the Deanery's communication portal, Synapse.

Resources available, include:

Human Factors and Patient Safety films
Generic, inter-professional and multi-disciplinary patient safety course
Emergency Medicine patient safety course
Safety Skills in Surgery
Human Factors in Anaesthetics
Advocacy and Patient Centredness for the Healthcare Professional
Patient Centric Healthcare
Human Factors Matter: Human Factors and Patient Safety in Hospital at Night teams
Hospital at Night Simulated Enhanced Learning (HANSEL)
Supporting Accomplish Facilitation and Improving Learning Transfer in Clinical Simulation
Medical Leadership for Psychiatrists
Communication skills for healthcare professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities
Leadership scenarios for the new NHS

To access, log in to Synapse and join the Simulation and Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative group.

Access to Synapase is available to all London Deanery trainees and those involved in the delivery and supervision of postgraduate medical education to those trainees. Click here if you have forgotten your password.

Supporting Advanced Facilitation and Learning Transfer in Clinical Simulation

This web-based collection of teaching resources is also available on the STeLI website.

Hospital at Night - safer care, safer training

Hospital at Night (HaN) is a web-based resource targeted at HaN multi-disciplinary teams. It has been developed by e-Learning for Healthcare in collaboration with Skills for Health Workforce Projects Team (WPT) and STeLI. The project was further supported by the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nursing.

HaN is a key componenet of London Deanery's and WPT's overall vision to make HaN a mainstream component of the delivery of safe and effective clinical care to patients throughout the NHS. It supports the training of junior docotrs, particularly those in foundation and core training programmes, and nursing staff, whilst providing a resource for others, such as consultants or magerial staff, involved in the delivery and support of out of hours care.

HaN comprises 20 sessiosn split into 2 courses:

Effective Hospital at Night
Top Ten Clinical Calls at Night

HaN is available now from e-learning for Healthcare.

MA in Technology and Simulation in Clinical Practice

This MA is produced in collaboration between the Institute of Education and the London Deanery in support of STeLI and is aimed at clinical practitioners who use simulation and educational technologies to teach and learn clinical practice.

Through reflection on practice, you will explore:

teaching and learning with simulation in clinical education
how simulation and other technologies impact on work based learning
the impact of technology-enhanced learning on team-based clinical practice
how to research and evaluate educational technologies in clinical settings

Applications are welcome throughout the year. Start dates are October, January or April annually and all modules can be taken as short courses.

The course aims to equip clinical practitioners with the knowledge and understanding to implement the move toward technology and simulation-based learning in clinica settings. Some of the questions underpinning the course include:

How can the use of simulation be evaluated in clinical settings?
How does the use of educational technology and simulation affect what is learned about clinical practice?
How can simulation enhance interprofessional communication and team-based working?
How can theories of learning and teachning contribute to the design of technology-enhanced clinical education?
How can the quality of research on simulation and educational technology be evaluated?
What ethical issues are raised by the use of simulation as learning resources?

For full details either download the pdf to the right, visit the IoE's website or contact Dr Caroline Pelletier - c.pelletier@ioe.ac.uk.

Clinical Leadership and Management

Developing professional capabilities is a key objective of STeLI. The link below will take you to NHS London's Leading for Health initiative that incorporates talent management, succession planning, leadership development programmes and leadership masterclasses.

http://www.london.nhs.uk/what-we-do/developing-nhs-staff/leading-for-health

Anatomy Resources

The are many excellent anatomy resources available on the internet - many for free - follow the link for an index: Anatomy Resources.

Educational Resources

CETL Learning - ultrasound images of the tongue during the production of all consonants in Standard Southern British English. The videos allow us to see the actions of the tongue while simultaneously hearing the sound that is produced.

BMJ Learning Simulation Centre - e-learning module from BMJ Learning, developed alongside Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. Read and reflect on current issues; see what others think and have your say.

Learn Higher - Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Resources desgined to help both students and tutors understand and overcome the challenges of group work. The learning path involves a series of 10 episodes, each highlighting a different aspect of working within a group and includes video clips, audio clips and observation and discussion points.

Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), an executive agency of the Deaprtment of Health, pilot scheme for Medical Devices Driving Licence (MDDL) has produced online education programmes.