Educator Development

Mentoring is a role that includes coaching, but also embraces broader counselling and support, such as career counselling (Landsberg 1996). Having said that, it is very important as a mentor, to recognise your boundaries with the counselling arena.

You may find this template useful when collecting / recording educational activity and evidence (against the GMC domains) for accreditation, appraisal and revalidation.

This year's event was held on 16th & 17th May at Hallmark Hotel in Leyland. The audience was made up of Deputy and Associate Deans and other HEE (NW) staff, DMEs, HoS, TPDs and MEMs.   

The Multiprofessional Faculty Development Unit within Health Education England  (London and South East) have produced a range of targeted faculty development educational resources for clinical teachers, which are available to other regions within HEE. 

There are some excellent resources including a series of open access short modules on the following core topics (plus others):

This event was held on Thursday 2nd February 2017 at the Mercure Norton Grange Hotel. The objectives of this event were to enable delegates to fully understand the contribution that HR and OH make to managing trainees with problems, gain more confidence in managing difficult conversations with trainees and fully understand the nature of doctors in difficulty during training and have a structured approach to managing them.

Welcome to the third issue of Education Development, a newsletter update of workstreams, activities and events of the Education Development team at Health Education England’s North West Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education department.

This edition says a fond farewell to Professor Jacky Hayden who led the department for 20 years, and hello to the new Dean, Dr Jane Mamelok, who many of you will know from her various roles throughout her years here and most recently as Deputy Dean Primary Medical Care and Public Health.

Below is our list of the most important books in the literature of the consultation. However it is a very personal list and you will not need to have read a single word of any of these to gain value form the course.

Concise and fabulous - written for teachers in the front line - the 14 tips cover a wide range of clinical teaching topics.

The tips incorporate educational theory, practical information and ideas for implementation. Each topic is of high interest to doctors who are teaching in their practice.

Wiritten and shared by Dr Steve Baldes (for EPI) this document series examines the Coaching spectrum and delivers sample OSKAR and exemplar conversation techniques. 

Following the GMC’s July 2016 deadline for the recognition and approval of trainers, here is the Autumn 2016 Trainer Standards Update. This includes information regarding gaining and retaining recognition moving forward.