Spotlights on Postgraduate Education
AMEE 2008 Prague
by
David Wall
Where is the West Midlands in England?
Spotlights
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Staff Development
Assessment
Professionalism
Simulation
Patient Safety
Leadership
 I will give some examples of each of these
Spotlight on Staff Development
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Excellent consultant role models
Mentoring
Appraisal outcomes adding value
Certificate Course for Health Professionals
Staff development does work
Spotlight on Staff Development
Staff development does work
Spotlight on Assessment
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Workplace based assessments
Mini-CEX in various situations
Validity and reliability of assessments
360 degree assessments
Setting the standards in assessment
Assessing the assessors
Mini-CEX in Arabic language consultations
Patients assessing doctors
Mini-CEX in Arabic language consultations
Five implicit criteria for assessment
Patients assessing the doctor
Spotlight on Professionalism
 Much emphasis on Professionalism
 How do we teach and assess
professionalism?
 Attitudes and Behaviours
 Giving effective feedback on unprofessional
behaviours
 The Yellow Card from St Andrews
Spotlight on Professionalism
The yellow card from St Andrews
Spotlight on Professionalism
The yellow card from St Andrews
A Red Card here!
Spotlight on Simulation
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Practical procedures teaching
Difficult airway training
Harvey
Simulated patients
Web CT in obstetrics – during delivery
Spotlight on Simulation
Web CT in intra-partum obstetrics
Spotlight on Patient Safety
 Patient safety training in The Netherlands
 Patient safety data on use of medicines
 Interprofessional education to enhance
patient safety
 Improving patient safety in the operating
theatre
Spotlight on Patient Safety
Safety in the operating theatre
Spotlight on Leadership
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Realisation that leadership matters
Leadership training helps
Leading a successful team
Medical Leadership Competency Framework
What do the junior doctors think about
leadership?
 Not all about the authoritarian leader model
Spotlight on Leadership
Leading a successful team
Spotlights – a Summary
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Staff Development
Assessment
Professionalism
Simulation
Patient Safety
Leadership
 I have given some examples of each of these
Lichfield Cathedral at sunset
A West Midlands landmark since the 13th Century