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Keele MedNews

The School produces a newsletter called MedNews twice per year. Take a look at our archive to find out what's been happening recently and in the past.

Current Headlines

• Student Ambassadors in the School of Medicine
• Clinical Management & Leadership join Postgraduate Medicine
• Success for Year 5 students
• Postgraduate News Highlights
• School of Medicine building renamed to: The David Weatherall building
• GMC accreditation
• Keele Clinical Leadership and Management
• Yette and Boris Glass Foundation

Opportunities for Student Ambassadors from the School of Medicine

Working as a Student Ambassador at Keele is a rewarding experience in many ways. Student Ambassadors can be from any academic year and are trained and paid to help out at University events throughout the year. The School of medicine is very keen to use students from all academic years so we can draw from a range of pre-clinical and clinical experiences.

We would recommend that any student wishing to help with events such as Open Days, Visit Days, Summer School etc apply to become a student ambassador. Please do think about whether you would like to help out in this way.

The School of Medicine also has an opportunity for their Students called 'MedPath' through which medical students work with local school children to raise their career aspirations.

Deadline for applications is 6th October 2013. More information is on our Medical Student Ambassador Flyer 2013.

Clinical Management & Leadership join Postgraduate Medicine

On 1^st April Postgraduate Medicine gained four new permanent members of staff when the Clinical Management & Leadership Team, previously in the School of Public Policy and Professional Practice moved to the School of Medicine.

The CM&L Team specialises in leadership and management courses and development programmes for clinicians and managers working in the NHS.  They have particular experience of working with doctors, but have also worked with multi-professional groups and management teams in a variety of healthcare organisations.

Clinical management and leadership courses have been running at Keele University since 1983, when the late Professor Roger Dyson had the vision and wisdom to see the importance of clinicians understanding and becoming involved in the management and leadership of healthcare in the United Kingdom.   

The early courses, provided by Professor Dyson, were for doctors in their final year of specialist training, aiming to equip them with the necessary management skills for successful transition to independent practice as Consultants. While these courses continue, the CM&L Team has also expanded its portfolio to include courses for Specialty, Staff Grade and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors, as well as Foundation and Advanced courses for Consultants. In addition, they provide bespoke leadership and team development programmes tailored specifically for the needs of individual healthcare organisations, building on the success of the Medical Leadership Programmes for Medical and Clinical Directors, which they provided on behalf of the Department of Health and the NHS Leadership Centre from 2001 to 2006.  They are also able to provide individual coaching and mentoring.

Jenny Cowpe (Senior Fellow), Maureen Morgan (Senior Teaching Fellow), Jane Eccleston (Postgraduate Administrator) and Clare Nicholls (Postgraduate Administrator) are based in Postgraduate Medicine at the Clinical Education Centre.

Success for Year 5 students

There's more good news as we head for the graduation of our first cohort of Keele students in July. Our year 5 students sat the 14 station Final Year OSCE the first week in April and four members of the GMC accrediting team, including the chair Professor Julius Weinberg, attended to observe the process. We were all very impressed by the performance of the students. This was reflected in a 95.5% pass rate; an outstandingly good result. The GMC were very complimentary both about the quality of our future Foundation doctors and the process itself. They commended all aspects of the OSCE and the very high level of organisation. In fact they had no recommendations at all to make for improvement and cancelled the scheduled feedback meeting. An enormous thank you to all involved; the year 5 and assessment teams, the technical and support staff at both UHNS and Shrewsbury, examiners, simulated and real patients and to the students for performing so well! Many congratulations.

Postgraduate News Highlights

• On 1^st April Postgraduate Medicine gained four new members of staff when the Clinical Management & Leadership Unit transfers from the School of Public Policy and Professional Practice into the School of Medicine.  Jenny Cowpe and Maureen Morgan are the two academics together with administrators Jane Eccleston and Clare Nicholls.  The CM&L team currently offer a range of CPD management and leadership courses for SPRs, Consultants, Specialty Doctors, Staff Grade and Associate Specialists, Nurses, Midwives, AHPs and Health Visitors.

• Faculty of Reproductive and Sexual  Health (FRSH) are expecting two cohorts of students this year on our PGA in Medical Education with up to 4 x 24 students planned each year.  Keele is now the only route to being a teacher of sexual health medicine.

• In April Kay Mohanna is travelling to Dubai for a week to deliver our Medical Education Certificate to 34 health professionals on behalf of the Dubai Health Authority and then on to Lahore in Pakistan to deliver our CPD Teaching the Teachers course in association with RCGP.

• HEIC work on COPD course and the second cohort of participants on Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity are continuing and have been well evaluated.

• March 6^th saw Postgraduate Medicine host a conference in Keele Hall on Wider Engagement in Clinically-led Commissioning which was a great success.  Speakers included Steve Field, Chair of Future Forum and National Health Inequalities, and Neil Hunt CEO of RCGP.  Patients from the local community visited and joined in.

• On March 15^th the School of Medicine and the Health Alumni Association (HUMSS) hosted the annual Sir Roy Griffiths Public Lecture given by Lord Philip Hunt entitled “NHS at 64 – Do you Still Love me”?  The event was chaired by Professor Dame Carol Black.

• March 20^th the School of Medicine received a visit from the Defence Medical Services.  Air Vice Marshall Paul Hunt, Surgeon General, is looking to work with Postgraduate Medicine to support defence medical service training when they move to Lichfield.  The lunchtime meeting was attended by the Vice-Chancellor, Andy Garner, Val Wass, Kay Mohanna and Jenny Cowpe.

• A Deanery commissioned PG Certificate in Leadership begins in April for 24 staff and associate specialist doctors. This is the first of its kind in England. 

School of Medicine building renamed - visit of Professor Sir David Weatherall

Professor Sir David Weatherall (former Chancellor of Keele University) paid a brief visit to the Medical School, Keele campus, on Thursday 9th February for a dual celebration.

During his visit Sir David unveiled a plaque to commemorate the re-naming of the building to ‘The David Weatherall Building’ in honour of his contribution to medicine at Keele. The School of Medicine was also celebrating its recent accreditation by the GMC.

Professor Sir David Weatherall is one of the outstanding British clinician scientists of his generation. He is an accomplished pioneering researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. He was Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford, 1992-2000, and is now Emeritus Regius Professor. He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by Keele in 1993. In 1989 Sir David founded the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University to foster research in molecular and cell biology with direct application to the study of human disease. Sir David is also co-author of the Oxford Text Book of Medicine.

GMC Accreditation

We were delighted to receive confirmation from the General Medical Council that their highly favourable report on recent visits to Keele will go before the GMC Council for approval in December. The Keele curriculum will then be fully accredited and our first cohort of Keele MBChB students will graduate in July with a new Keele hood for this degree. More details can be found in the EMedNews24 December edition on our EMedNews archive page.

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