North West School of Surgery - Resources for Educational Supervisors

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Resources for Educational Supervisors

Enhancing Supervision for Resident Doctors

Standards in Supervision

Enhancing Supervision for Resident Doctors – Handbook

Becoming an Assigned Educational Supervisor (AES) or Clinical Supervisor (CS)

Presentation from Alison Waghorn: Preparing to be a CS or AES

NHS England North West: Educator Standards and Guidance

Bullying and Harassment

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Anti-Bullying and Undermining Campaign - including an online e-module. This emodule guides you through the facts, identifies the problem and suggests ways of managing our own behaviour in order to change the surgical culture. CPD accredited. RCSEd online account holders can access the emodule by logging in with your RCSEd account here. Non-RCSEd online account holders will first need to register to create an online RCSEd account here. Once you have registered, you can then log in to complete the emodule with your new RCSEd account here.

The Lead Employer's Respect and Dignity at Work policy can be downloaded from Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's Lead Employer 'Policies and Forms' page (formerly St Helens and Knowsley Teahcing Hospitals NHS Trust).

Care of Private (non-NHS) Patients and Working in non-NHS Settings

NHS England Guidance on the involvement of postgraduate medical, dental and pharmacy trainees in the care of private (non-NHS) patients and working in non-NHS settings

Checklist for Supervisor Meetings with Resident Doctors

Example of a checklist for Educational and Clinical Supervisors when meeting with resident doctors

Clinical Supervision of Resident Doctors at Out-Patient Clinics

COPMeD: Resident Doctors and clinical supervision at out-patient clinics

Cultural Awareness

There are three 'Cultural Awareness for Surgeons' modules available on the JCST/ISCP Youtube channel:

Module 1: Language - Guidance on how to speak appropriately to people from different cultures, showing typical characteristics of language, both verbal and non-verbal.

Module 2: Politeness - Guidance on understanding the two universal components of politeness, giving instruction on how cultures convey politeness differently.

Module 3: Power and Status - Guidance on how cultures react differently to power and status and tips on how to address those differences in positive ways in surgical practice.

Data Protection and Data Security

An e-learning module on 'Data Security Awareness' can be accessed through NHS England's e-learning for Healthcare website.

The Lead Employer's Code of Confidentiality policy can be downloaded from Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's 'Our policies and procedures' page and there is also a social media policy which can be found on Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's Lead Employer 'Policies and Forms' page. (Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust were formerly known as St Helens and Knowsley Teahcing Hospitals NHS Trust).

eSurgery - e-learning resource for Surgeons

eSurgery is a free e-learning resource supporting surgical resident doctors in their early years of surgical training. It is a collaboration between NHS England's e-Learning for Healthcare programme and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It is a free e-learning resource for NHS employees and anyone delivering NHS commissioned care.

e-Learning for Healthcare - eSurgery

Gold Guide

The Gold Guide is a Reference Guide for Postgraduate Specialty Training in the UK and is applicable to all resident doctors in training taking up appointments in specialty training which commenced on or after 1 August 2007. The tenth edition published in August 2024 replaces all previous editions of the Gold Guide with immediate effect and can be downloaded from the COPMeD website.

Guidance on Job Planning for Educational Roles

NHS England North West's Guidance on Job Planning for Educational Roles

How to write an AES Report

Creating an Educational Faculty in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

How to Write a Good Assigned Educational Supervisor’s Report for Surgical Resident Doctors - by Mr Vijay Bhalaik

JCST Quality Indicators

Learning Agreements and Multi Consultant Reports

In all programmes, surgical resident doctors in the north west should complete two, six-month Learning Agreements on ISCP each year*. All parts of both the Learning Agreements (Objective setting, Mid-Point Meeting, and Final Meeting and AES Report) for the year must be signed off by the doctor and their AES before the ARCP Assessment Panel.

LTFT resident doctors must still complete the same number of Learning Agreement meetings and MCRs per six-calendar month placement, as a full time doctor.

The Multi Consultant Report (MCR) must be fully completed before the Learning Agreement meetings can be signed off. Due to the two-week lock out for the MCR, resident doctors will need to adequately plan when the various parts of the Learning Agreement and MCR are signed off.

Learning Agreement (LA) and Multi Consultant Report (MCR) timeline

*Except resident doctors doing four-month placements, in which case they should do three - one for each four month block. For four-month placements, the Mid-Point MCR can be skipped.

Less Than Full Time Training

NHS England North West's full LTFT guidance and application process can be found on the LTFT pages of this website and you can contact the LTFT via england.ltft.nw@nhs.net

COPMED - Principles for supporting programme management of LTFT resident doctors in training

Email from Jon Hossain RE: Educational Supervisors Less Than Full Time Training Package

Locum Policy

Guidance for resident doctors and trainers on undertaking additional work whilst in a postgraduate medical education training programme

Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS)

Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) in the modern NHS

New 2016 Junior Doctors Contract

Extract from new Junior Doctor Contract

Booklet for educational supervisors - timeline factsheet and work schedule

Non-Medical Workforce

"A Question of Balance" - Royal College of Surgeons

Presentation from Clare Sutherland - Corporate Lead for Advanced Practice, Royal Derby Teaching Hospitals

Presentation from Ralph Tomlinson - Deputy Director, Professional and Clinical Standards, Royal College of Surgeons

Presentation from Sara Dalby - Associate Lecturer, Winston Churchill Fellow

Personal Development Plans (PDP)

"Professional development plans for surgeons" by Mr Vijay Bhalaik

Reflective Practice

You must ensure that all reflections in the portfolio, and used as evidence for appraisal and revalidation, must have any personal information that can identify individuals (including patient identifiers) or organisations removed prior to loading.

Improving feedback and reflection to improve learning, A practical guide for resident doctors and trainers

Recording of reflective practice - letter from Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Recording of reflective practice - Academy of Medical Royal Colleges - Guidance for entering information on e-portfolios

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and COPMeD Reflective Practice Toolkit

GMC - Reflective practice guidance

Returning to Work/Training

Please visit the North West School of Surgery SuppoRTT page and NHS England North West's Supported Return to Training page.

Support for Doctors

Support for doctors - Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Support for Doctors with Mental Health or Addiction Concerns

NHS Practitioner Health is a free and confidential NHS service for doctors and dentists with issues relating to a mental health concern or addiction problem, especially where these may affect their work.

The service is open to any medical or dental practitioners in England, who are GMC or GDC registered, or those looking to return to clinical practice.

NHS Practitioner Health Leaflet

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday 8am-2pm

Telephone: 0300 030 3300

Email: prac.health@nhs.net

Website: www.practitionerhealth.nhs.uk