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.

Teaching resources are available include several key resources in five core areas:

Advanced Facilitation and Debriefing:

Resources designed to support the delivery of advanced simulation training

• Supporting Accomplish Facilitation and Improving Learning Transfer in Clinical Simulation - developed by Queen Mary University London and Barts and the London NHS Trust
• Manual to Facilitate Performance Debriefing and Feedback in Real Clinical and Simulated Settings - developed by Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Hospital at Night Teams:

Three training packages designed to supplement e-learning for health's Hospital at Night package and support the delivery of multi-disciplinary, inter-professional team training within Hospital at Night groups; packages include simulation scenarios, videos and facilitator guides.

• Hospital at Night Simulated Enhanced Learning (HANSEL) - developed by Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust
• Human Factors Matter: Patient Safety in Hospital at Night Teams - developed by Barts and the London NHS Trust
• Hospital at Night: Human Factors through Simulation - developed by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Human Factors and Patient Safety:

A collection of both generic and specialty specific training courses which highlight the importance of human factors awareness within healthcare and the impact on patient safety.  Resources include videos, powerpoint presentations, simulation scenarios and facilitator guides.

• Human Factors and Patient Safety Films - five videos for educating inter-professional and multi-disciplinary teams, developed by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• The Patient Safety Course - a generic, inter-professional, multi-disciplinary course covering the core elements of this complex and important area, developed by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• Emergency Medicine: Patient Safety - developed by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• Human Factors in Anaesthetics - developed by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Safety Skills in Surgery - developed by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London
• Team Training in Obstetrics Gynaecological Emergencies - developed by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Leadership:

Full teaching packages including simulation scenarios, powerpoint presentations and facilitator guides which are built around the Medical Leadership Competency Framework and are suitable for use in all NHS organisations

• Medical Leadership for Psychiatrists - developed by East London NHS Foundation Trust
• Leadership and Management Scenarios for the new NHS - developed by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Developing Leadership through Simulation and Practice - developed by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
• Taking the Lead - A Board Meeting Simulation - developed by South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
• Leadership and Organisational Skills - developed by Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Patient Centredness:

A collection of teaching programmes designed to highlight the importance of the patient experience being at the centre of healthcare

• Advocacy and Patient Centredness for the Healthcare Professional - developed by the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Patient Centric Healthcare - developed by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Communication Skills for Healthcare Professionals Working with People with Intellectual Disabilities - developed by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

Access to Synapse 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. 

If you are involved in training at NHS London organisations but don't have access to Synapse or are having difficulty downloading the resources email David Marston (david.marston@londondeanery.ac.uk).

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.

Patient Experience films

Both Patient Voices and Patient Stories offer free online films to provoke conversation, debate and learning by enabling clinical staff to hear the other side of their practice.

Patient Voices aims to facilitate the telling and hearing of some of the unwritten stories of ordinary people so that those who devise and implement strategy in health and social care, as well as those involved directly, may carry out their duties in an informed manner.  Founders Pip Hardy and Tony Summer have spoken at past STeLI events.

Patient Stories aims to use documentary and drama-documentary film-making techniques to provoke discussion and debate about safety and quality isuses amongst healthcare professionals.

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.

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