Edition 24 - December 2011

Opening of Ludlow Accommodation for Medical Students

On Thursday 24th November, Keele staff Professor Val Wass, Professor Bob McKinley, John Johnson, Margaret Hollins and Sarah Philpott, together with medical student Jon Broad attended the opening of the new student accommodation at Ludlow Mascall Centre. The day marked an exciting milestone for the School, with the provision of purpose built accommodation for 11 medical students whilst they undertake GP placements in South Shropshire, north Herefordshire and the Powys border. It will provide a small social community for the students, and put rural practices in that part of the country within easier reach than is currently possible from our Shrewsbury or Keele campuses. The partnership between Ludlow Mascall Centre and Keele Medical School has been facilitated by a variety of sponsorship donations including the Roy Fletcher Foundation Trust and Shropshire Council’s Market Towns Revitalisation Programme, and is the result of much hard work by a number of Keele staff including John Johnson (Faculty of Health Business Manager), Margaret Hollins (School Business Manager), Sarah Philpott (Placements Co-ordinator), and academic staff Professor Bob McKinley and Dr Maggie Bartlett. Professor Wass gave a short speech on behalf of the School, expressing our appreciation of the substantial help given by Centre staff, designers and builders, and final year student Jon Broad from Biddulph, told the audience about his positive and rewarding placements experience at one of the GP practices in Ludlow. Our picture above shows Libby Cooper from the Roy Fletcher Trust cutting the ribbon at the accommodation. The first group of students moved into the accommodation at the beginning of December at the start of a 15 week placement with GP practices in the area.

Margaret Hollins, School Business Manager

GMC Accreditation – The Final Hurdle Update from Head of School As we start the new Academic Year there is a true sense of excitement. 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. This is clearly a great achievement for all the Keele team both staff and students. The GMC team remain most complimentary and their report is now available on their website: http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/medical_school_reports_full_list.asp. As the course has developed, so has our partnership with students. Their input into the course has been crucial and we received excellent feedback at the Student Away Day in June. Changes have been made to improve the student experience with the development of web linked feedback on assessment and the e-STOKER system for navigating and integrating previous basic science teaching with current clinical learning. I am particularly delighted that a Student Council is now being formed to strengthen participation in school affairs and ensure student representation on our Committees. The introduction of student academic advisers in years 1 and 3, to be extended to all years in the future, will offer consistent and individual support to all our students as they move through the course. All these changes have entailed very hard and committed work from everyone involved but will undoubtedly strengthen the curriculum as we move from design to full delivery. The GMC will visit once again in February and again to observe the year 5 OSCEs in April. They have complimented us on the warm and welcoming atmosphere of the Keele campus and seem to enjoy coming. It will be strange to move forward without their regular visits. Now we are truly on the last hurdle. Professor Val Wass, Head of School

Visitors to Keele

Gary Hamlin, Bond University, Australia

It was a pleasure to meet Gary Hamlin from Bond University who came to Keele recently on a fact-finding mission to see how we have developed and implemented our Keele curriculum. No doubt Richard Hays, one of his bosses at Bond, will have highlighted Keele as a centre of excellent practice. Gary and I had a

lively discussion about design and delivery of a medical curriculum from, it turns out, a very similar perspective. Like me, his speciality is bioscience and not clinical medicine - so we could share stories of the helpfulness of clinicians in curriculum design. It is clear that the issues we face in this country are similar to those he finds in Australia. As with all our colleagues undertaking a big enterprise (and there is no doubt that designing a medical curriculum is a big enterprise), the quality of contribution varies from the fantastic, through the 'I'm only interested in my particular speciality' until you get to 'if it was good enough for me then, it has to be fine for students now'. It was interesting to hear how all those strands, originally stimulated by the first Tomorrow's Doctors in the 1990s, are still being woven into

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different ways of delivering medical education. I was able to reflect on the processes at Keele, including how to deliver someone else's curriculum, and at St George's in London - I am sure Bond will have some useful insights as they develop their own approach. In the end, we agreed that the key to learning to be a doctor is to be a good student and that, in England and in Australia, medical students are great - enthusiastic, motivated, engaged and, above all, able to learn however we choose to teach them. So long as that continues, the medical profession will continue to remain in safe hands. Dr Lindsay Bashford, Dir of Academic Undergraduate Studies

Roger Strasser, Founding Dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine , 13 October 2011

Roger is the Foundation Dean of Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), a School founded with the intention to educate and graduate the doctors which Northern Ontario needs. Those needs have been identified by the communities scattered across Northern Ontario which the school serves and in which its students learn. The

School serves a population of 800,000 people over an area of 800,000 km2 - area with 1/250 of the population density of Shropshire and Staffordshire. Many communities are not served by roads and are only accessible by air. This brings an extreme perspective to rural medicine. He was invited by John Wynn Jones, President of the Institute of Rural Health and SL in Medical Education at the Keele. We hoped to both show Roger what we were doing at Keele in our third sector programme and our rural campus and to learn from someone who is undoubted an international leader in the field. In the morning Roger visited the rural campus at Ludlow where he saw our students learning with David Partridge at Station Road, our plans for the Ludlow student accommodation hub which will take its first 11 students on the 5th December (see our next issue for further news). In the afternoon at Keele he met staff with an interest in rural and socially responsible education, when he gave an inspiring talk about the foundation of NOSM, how it has continued to strengthen its links with the community it serves, the impact it has had on it and some indicators of success. Its graduates ranked first on skills and sixth for knowledge in the Canadian national exams, with 63% of its graduates choosing family medicine and 33% ‘general’ specialities. And, astonishingly, every dollar invested in NOSM has been estimated to generate another two dollars of benefit to the community. Roger was very complimentary about the opportunities we are offering our students in our rural campus and our third sector programme. We discussed the challenges of evaluating these aspects of our course and produced ideas which we hope to incorporate in our work. The meeting ended with a commitment to continue to share ideas and a keen desire to visit NOSM to learn more what Roger and the School are doing. Bob McKinley, Professor of Academic General Practice

Professor David Haslam’s visit: Keele GP Society’s first event

On 27 October we were lucky enough to have Professor David Haslam, President of the BMA and former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners give a talk on “A Career in General Practice” I can’t think of someone more fitting to give such a talk as he has had

such a successful and varied career through being a GP. We had a attendance consisting of a range of people including GPs, academic doctors and foundation doctors and medical students from years one to five. We began the evening with refreshments and a lot of the staff and students got the chance to speak to Prof Haslam before the talk. Prof Haslam spoke about his personal experiences, challenges and advantages to being a general practitioner and the incongruity of perceived values of specialists and generalists. After the talk we gave an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. Prof Haslam said that he was very impressed with the students he spoke to and very much enjoyed visiting Keele. We will be having another high profile speaker Dr Roger Neighbour coming to speak and hopefully do a teaching session for an event in the New Year. Roger Neighbour has written many books, developed a consultation model and is also a previous president of the Royal College of General Practitioners. If you are interested, you can join our Facebook group or email u7x76@students.keele.ac.uk. Finally, thank you to everyone that helped, especially Prof Val Wass, who assisted with the organisation of the event and donated wine for the evening. Lucy Venyo, 5th year medical student, Keele GP Society President

Staff Development Seminars

Research Communication Seminar and Inaugural Evening Seminar On Wednesday 12 October nearly thirty members of staff attended a staff development seminar run by Professor Celia Roberts, Professor of Applied Linguistics at King’s College London. Celia described how her research is concerned with language and ethnicity. Using two qualitative methodologies, interactional sociolinguistics and ethnography, she looks at disadvantages faced by linguistic and ethnic minorities in interaction with institutions. Her publications cover patient-health professional communication, language and cultural practices in the workplace, English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and institutional selection processes and their potential for indirect discrimination. In the last five years she has directed 6 government funded research projects on health communication, selection interviewing and ESOL. Celia facilitated a workshop that challenged stereotypes and asked us to consider how we can improve both patient-doctor consultations in our clinical practices and also how examinations and even recruitment practice can be made fairer and more transparent. On the 9 November, the hugely successful Inaugural Evening Seminar "Cell Therapies for Brain Repair", was presented by Dr Rose Fricker, during which she described her front-line research concerned with the treatment of Parkinson’s disease with Stem Cells. Dr Clive Gibson, Director of Academic Staff Development

Undergraduate Update Intercalation Programme update The Keele Medical School intercalation programme has had considerable success in 2010-11. We received 24 applications from students expressing an interest in intercalating, a dramatic increase over previous years. 16 students went on to receive permission to intercalate. The choices of course being undertaken this year range

from the Keele Clinical MPhil programmes (overseen by Christian Mallen) to MSc Sports Science, MSc Biomedical Engineering, MA Medical Ethics & Law and BSc Physiology, with some of the courses being undertaken externally at Leeds and London universities. The majority of our students have chosen to intercalate after Module 4. We have been successful in raising funding from external sources to support the ICD programme, including a Jean Shanks Foundation bursary to support Matthew Roughley’s MPhil in Primary Care, as well as a Wolfson Intercalation Award, administered by the Royal College of Physicians, to support Paul Nderitu’s MPhil in Nephrology. Paul will be conducting his research project with Professor Simon Davies - the Wolfson Award is a first for Keele so congratulations to Paul and Simon. The Guy Hilton Research Charitable Fund at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire generously provided £5000 support and a further £4000 was provided by the Keele University Key fund. We were fortunate in being able to set up a small hardship bursary fund administered by a School Steering Group. The group met for the first time in October to consider the applications received, and made five awards. They merit a special mention and thanks for their rapid action on awarding the bursaries. An MSc in Blood Science, MRes in European Scientific Training and BSc in History of Medicine have been added to the list of courses offered at Keele. The MRes programme in European Scientific Training will offer our students the opportunity to learn a new language and undertake research placements in world renowned research institutions such as the Pasteur Institute. We hope to have a new MMed Sci (Anatomical Sciences) approved in the new year. Keele’s intercalation programme was also represented at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Intercalation Fair held in London in November 2010, which we hope will assist in raising the profile of our programme. We certainly continue to see a significant rise in the numbers of queries from students from external medical schools, wishing to undertake intercalated degrees at Keele. Kirsty Hartley has now handed over the role of intercalation support to Vicky Hawley. 2010-11 was a challenging year for all those involved with the intercalation programme, given the major changes the programme was undergoing; Kirsty ensured that the complex procedural aspects ran like clockwork allowing us to achieve our objective efficiently, a role for which she deserves sincere thanks. Dr Divya Maitreyi Chari, Coordinator For Medical Intercalated Degrees

Postgraduate Update

Postgraduate Medicine Student nominated for Health Service Journal Award

Ann Marie Field, who is a masters student on the MMedSci (Leadership for Healthcare Professionals) is Team Leader and Specialist Diabetes/Weight Management Dietitian at Heart of England

NHS Foundation Trust. Her project for the Advanced Leadership module was based around a community engagement project on diabetes awareness. She worked with the head of year in a local secondary school and with teachers in science, food technology and Personal, Social and Health Education to design a week long

programme aimed at increasing awareness about diabetes and healthy living. Birmingham is the most ethnically diverse city in the UK with an estimated non-white population of around 36% compared with 30.4% for London and 7.9% for the UK as a whole. Heartlands Hospital serves a population with a high proportion of South Asian patients who are at high risk of diabetes, especially type 2. Ann Marie also liaised with a restaurant and the local Mosque leader as part of the project. The school pupils were encouraged to start discussions with their parents as part of their homework and so enjoyed the programme that Ann Marie has been invited back again next year.

Academic Collaborations Overseas Debbie Paddison (Postgraduate Manager) and Kay Mohanna (Director of Postgraduate Medicine) travelled to three cities in India this year as part of INDUS 2011, a series of conferences seeking academic twinning, student and faculty exchange and research collaborations. The visit was informed by discussions with Anand Pandyan, Annette Kratz and Kevin Mattinson in response to the Keele Internationalisation agenda.

The photographs show Debbie and Kay with Mr S B Anumolu, President of the Indus Foundation and Kay and Debbie in front of one of the ornate wall hangings in the Nehru Conference Centre, Mumbai

India has the world’s second largest post secondary school population of 14 million, set to double in the next ten years. The Indian government’s aim is for 10 million students in higher education by 2017. They simply do not have the infrastructure for this, hence the need for foreign investment and partnering. An estimated 1000 Indian educational institutions attended in total and around 100 overseas institutions. This was also the first outing for our new postgraduate video made by Mike Lancaster, which can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH1ZHsRARiI As a result of this tour we are actively building collaborations with the department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute in Bangalore, Amity Institute of

Biotechnology in Uttar Pradesh and the Government Medical College in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. These projects will include articulation agreements between Indian and Keele postgraduate awards, student elective visits in both directions, joint teaching programmes and faculty exchange. The first of these will be the visit of Dr Chinmay Shah, Assoc Prof Medical Education this summer, who is visiting with a view to setting up a joint Keele Teaching the Teachers programme with Keele in Bhavnagar.

Keele leads with a Leadership Development Programme for the Midland Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners

An initial five-day residential leadership module at Keele, lead by Jenny Cowpe co-director of the Keele Clinical Leadership Academy, kicked off a successful programme for local GPs involved in clinical commissioning this year. Five additional days of teaching

spread over six months followed, including sessions from Colonel Robin Simpson from the Defence Medical Services, David Pendelton and Jenny King from Edgculme Consulting. Dr Dominic Horne lead this part of the programme and mentored 18 GPs who enrolled for a PGCert or a PGAward for which they all completed a workplace-based service improvement project. These projects included assessing the effectiveness of service for housebound patients, designing a Local Enhanced Service for diabetes, setting up a practice-based urgent care system, running a practice-based weight management scheme, evaluating a practice-based orthopaedic pre-op clinic, setting up and evaluating the effectiveness of a GPwSI (GPs with Specialist Interest) Substance Misuse service and co-ordinating the establishment of the board of a GP Commissioning Consortium. The opportunities presented by the Government’s continuing emphasis on the development of clinical leaders within the NHS means that postgraduate medicine programmes in healthcare leadership continue to be a popular strand of activity for us. See our video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVtzucA7ZLk

Royal Society of Medicine conference: “Safer doctors, Safer patients” Another Postgraduate Medicine student was out on a high profile stage recently. Dr Sarah Wren who is on the MMedSci (Primary Care) had two posters accepted for the Royal Society of Medicine’s conference in November entitled “Safer doctors, Safer patients: Improving care from the front-line”. The keynote speech at the conference was given by Sir Liam Donaldson, Chair, National Patient Safety Agency, former Chief Medical Officer for England. Sarah graduated from Dundee in 2008 and enrolled in the MMedSci led by Dr Alwyn Ralphs when she started in the Foundation programme at Burton on Trent. Her posters arose from her work for masters modules based on audits in the workplace.

China In August Kay Mohanna was invited to give a keynote speech at the Huaxi Higher Education Conference, in Xi’an, home of the Terracotta Warriors. Her talk, “Supporting learners who are studying or training using a second language: preventing problems and maximising potential” was based on work with international medical graduates.

Whilst there she took the opportunity to forge some links in line with the RCGP initiatives in Primary Care Development in China. The Chinese Ministry of Health signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Health Cooperation with the Department of Health in September 2010. A subsequent action plan has been developed which has pledged to develop Primary Care Systems, General Practice Curriculum Design, Lecturer and GP Training and Research in Community Settings. The Department of Health’s ‘Health is Global: An outcomes framework 2011-2015’ reaffirms that the government has identified China as priority country for development. The RCGP has been involved in the development of Primary Care in China for some time. The programmes have been predominantly centred around inward missions by Chinese community doctors undertaking study tours. At the core of the learning programme is an observational attachment, generally four week placements with a UK GP training practice. The College is always looking for new host practices, contact Kay Mohanna or Val Wass if you are interested.

Training the Trainers for the Committee of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

Keele Postgraduate Medicine has been selected by the FRSH to develop a postgraduate award to accredit the Faculty Letter of Competence in Medical Education. This PGA will be a 30 credit, bespoke ‘named route’ in the Keele MMedEd In a pilot group in Spring 2012, a dedicated cohort of sexual health

trainers will enrol as Keele postgraduate students. FSRH course organisers will deliver a 2 day residential programme with Dr Charlotte Hart (Director of the MMed) who is also developing a new VLE to support the students. From now on, all new trainers for the FRSH will have to go through this Keele blended learning training programme to become an accredited trainer. Debbie Paddison (Postgraduate Manager) and Kay Mohanna (Director of Postgraduate Medicine)

Staff Conference Update

4th International Clinical Skills Conference, Prato, May 2011 In May 2011, Keele Medical School was well represented at the 4th International Clinical Skills Conference in Prato, Tuscany by Dr Lucy Ambrose, Dr Maggie Bartlett, Dr Simon Gay, Dr Janet Lefroy and Professor Robert McKinley. We renewed old acquaintances and made many new friends in institutions as far away as Australia, New Zealand and the USA. We were fortunate to hear many excellent speakers talk about such things as the hidden curriculum, unlearning and the fictional contract in simulation learning.

Keele’s offerings to the conference included presentations from Dr Ambrose, Dr Lefroy, Dr Gay, and a poster presentation by Dr Bartlett – all of which were well received.

In addition, a workshop on clinical reasoning run by the entire Keele contingent proved to be so popular with conference delegates that it had to be moved to a larger venue to accommodate all who wished to attend!! However, with the possible exception of the excellent course dinner held at the beautiful Villa Castelletti on a sunny Italian evening overlooking Florence, the icing on the Keele cake had to be Lucy Ambrose winning a conference prize for two excellent presentations on her patient safety research. Dr Simon Gay, Clinical Lecturer in Medical Education

Reflections on Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Conference, Bristol, 6-8 July 2011 This was my second annual SAPC conference which was extremely enjoyable and was held in the beautiful city of Bristol. The atmosphere remained as friendly as ever but with the added advantage of numerous, trendy cafés and restaurants nearby. Highlights of the conference included an inspiring plenary speech on leadership by Dr David Pendleton (famous for his Pendleton rules of giving feedback which he says people still keep getting wrong after 25 years!) Our very own Dr Rob Jones and our new clinical teaching fellow, Dr Catherine Hyde, presented at the Undergraduate Education parallel sessions which were hosted by Prof Bob McKinley. We also had some poster presentations by Keele staff. It was also a pleasure to see some of the Keele GP Society 4th year students (Rebecca Ewers and Victoria Silverwood) at the conference too, as they attended the medical students meeting which was aimed those interested in a career in GP or academic medicine. (You can read their report of the conference later in this edition of MedNews). In 2012, for the first time ever, there will be a joint annual SAPC/RCGP conference which will definitely be one to put down in the diary. Milan M Mehta, Clinical Teaching Fellow

Edinburgh, Sunshine and ASME – Keele Basic Bites on Tour This year’s Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) conference was held on 13 - 15 July using the impressive Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh (RCPE) as the venue. The theme of the conference was “Diversity in an age of standardisation”. As is always the case with ASME conferences, there was a great deal going on in very interesting parallel sessions throughout the three days along with a few whole meeting sessions. One of these was the notable “The Lord Cohen Lecture”, given this year by Prof. Chris McManus from UCL, an extremely charismatic speaker who challenged a number of preconceptions about diversity in medical education and his talk was a clear highlight of the event. Other highlights of the event were the sunny weather (a first for Edinburgh, we believe!) and a significant Keele presence throughout the whole conference. Crowning glory for Keele was the presentation of an Education Innovation Award winning study by Dr. Simon Gay and Dr. Maggie Bartlett on an integrated approach to teaching clinical reasoning, which garnered a great deal of praise and attention for them and for Keele. Both members of the Keele Basic Bites (KBB) team were present at this year’s event, furiously networking and looking for collaboration opportunities with such innovative projects as new 3D stereoscopic anatomy technology and investigating ways in which KBB might be integrated into live simulation-based medical education. The future seems bright and it`s only a matter of time until KBB is unveiled at ASME, so watch this space… Dr Russell Crawford and Dr Andrew Morris, Teaching Fellows You can also read about this conference from a student’s point of view later in this edition of MedNews.

AMEE Conference 2011 The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) is an international organisation, extending well beyond Europe, committed to fostering communication among medical educators and hence to promoting excellence in the education of health professionals. A major activity towards achieving this end is its annual conference, which this year was held at the Reed Messe Wien in Vienna over the August bank holiday weekend. The conference is now a huge event. It was attended by over 2850 participants from 85 countries. It comprised over 200 sessions – a mixture of short presentations, poster presentations, expert updates and special interest groups. There were a small number of plenary talks by world experts. It has to be said that a major challenge was working out which sessions to attend from a huge choice. Highlights of the conference included a presentation by Donald Clarke, CEO of the leading company in the UK e-learning market. He did his best to court controversy, undermining some of the cherished principles of education – reflective learning, Maslow’s needs, setting educational objectives. His suggestions for new ways of learning were never less than stimulating and his talk was entertaining. The real highlights of the conference, however, were gems within the concurrent sessions – necessarily a matter of personal interest and preference. I particularly enjoyed some of the presentations within the research sessions, with studies ranging from the impact of ethnicity and social networks on medical students’ learning, to simulation in laparoscopic gynaecology. For me, the interest lay in the results but also in the methodologies.

On a Keele note, the School was represented by 9 members, who presented in a variety of sessions. Each of the Keele attendees produced a short summary of what they’d taken away from the conference which has been pooled and circulated by Val Wass to all School members. Finally, a brief mention of the city. Vienna is wonderful, efficient, aesthetic and welcoming; a privilege to visit. Professor Andrew Hassell, Director of Undergraduate Programmes

Medical School Secretaries Conference, Glasgow, June 2011 The annual Medical School Secretaries Conference was held north of the border this year, and as usual was an enjoyable, informative and thought-provoking event. The conference took place in the Wolfson Medical School building at Glasgow University. A packed agenda included much discussion around the re-structuring of Teaching and Research in some institutions, with a “college” structure having been introduced at some universities, and the impact of these changes. It was interesting to see how many different variations there are in structures; having been through Keele 2006 restructuring and the division of research into Research Institutes and teaching into Schools, I was able to speculate on how things might have been at Keele with some of the differing models. We also had interesting updates and discussions on Academic Health Sciences collaborations, CRB and immigration changes, and the use of performance frameworks in relation to academic performance. The first day closed with an enjoyable whisky tasting reception and conference dinner including (of course) bagpipe playing, and the local version of the 3 tenors, who serenaded us during the dessert and coffee courses. The second day opened with plenty of coffee for those who had over-indulged with the whisky tasting (not guilty, m’lud!), and a presentation by Martin Hart and Jim McKillop from the GMC about future QA arrangements. A group photograph and tour of some areas of the University including the Hunterian art gallery followed (some very impressive buildings and views over the city, and some beautiful paintings in the gallery including a number of Whistlers); an update from Katie Petty-Saphon from the Medical Schools Council preceded lunch. Jim McKillop then kindly took us on a tour of the Wolfson Medical School building – they have a super communications skills suite of rooms, lucky people! And after some speculative discussion about the future management of Postgraduate Deaneries, we all headed home. Grateful thanks to Glasgow for being such good hosts – if you get an opportunity to look around the University there, it’s worth a visit. I’m certainly thinking of going back to have a much longer visit to the Hunterian. Margaret Hollins, School Business Manager

Visit to Queensland, Australia Dr Roger Worthington, (Lecturer & Lead for Law and Ethics) recently gave a talk on Professionalism and Curriculum Development at Bond University School of Medicine in Queensland, Australia. It was autumn time in Australia but still a pleasant 20-25 degrees. The spacious, attractive campus is about five miles inland from the Gold Coast. Roger has an honorary appointment there as Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Law. Bond is a private university ranked top in a recent poll of Australian universities against a number

of criteria. Professor Richard Hays (former Head of School at Keele) is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, and he and Roger ran a workshop for staff and students on Professional Behaviours. They are currently working on a book comparing responses to unprofessional behaviours in North America, Europe, and Australasia. Dr Roger Worthington, Lecturer & Lead for Law and Ethics

Office Moves at UHNS There was a major re-organisation of offices at UHNS over the summer. Keele School of Medicine had been using 3 buildings, The Medical School (UHNS Campus), The Clinical Education Centre (CEC) and also the Courtyard Annexe, which was mostly used by postgraduate medicine. It was decided that there should be consolidation of office and building use both within the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. After much planning and negotiation the offices were re-arranged between the Medical School building and the CEC, so that most medical school personnel, apart from the Skills and IT teams and teaching fellows, were within the Medical School and most of the School of Nursing staff are now in CEC. The Courtyard Annexe was handed over for Trust use. From an administrative viewpoint this has had major advantages. The Teaching Support Office is now in the old underutilised Student Resource Room at the Medical School. This has made more space available for a welcome desk and seating area for students waiting to have their queries dealt with. The team are now in easy reach of the medical academics and the Hospital Dean and Deputy Dean to deal with queries on a more informal basis. We feel that the re-arrangement has created a much more pleasant environment for Teaching Support and for students who go to see them. The team are always very pleased for students to drop in and tell them how things are going. It is an easy way to monitor the Hospital experience – especially at the time when there are major upheavals because of the opening of the new hospital building. The teaching support office was officially opened on 11 November 2011 by Mr Kirby cutting a ribbon with a scalpel! There is still a student resource room in the Medical School and a Student Support Room which can also be used if confidential conversations have to be held. If you are at UHNS Campus and have not seen the new arrangement –please call in to have a look. Professor Rob Kirby, Consultant Surgeon and UHNS Hospital Dean

News from Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital (SaTH) We continued with our jam packed year by taking part in the Severn Hospice Dragon Boat Festival on Sunday 26 June. 34 teams in fancy dress and themed outfits took to the water to compete for the title of Champions. With just one

capsize most of the teams stayed surprisingly dry and they, and hundreds of spectators, were able to enjoy the sunshine and the racing. The Dragon Boats Events Ltd team did a wonderful job of organising the event and making sure things ran to time despite a high, fast river and some rather alarming debris. Our team of 17 Module 4 medical students and 1 (slightly mad) administrator were placed a very creditable 9th overall – well done team “Cool Runnings”! The following weekend saw the final game of the annual SaTH Cricket Festival held at Wrekin College, Telford. As current holders of the William Withering Shield, the UGMS team were given an automatic pass to the final and found themselves up against the Telford Princess

Royal Hospital Foundation Year Doctors. Unfortunately, despite a bravely fought battle we were unable to retain the trophy this year; however we are poised to make a dramatic comeback in 2012. Thanks go to Dr

Srinivasan for once again arranging a fabulous day. After the summer break the Module 5 students were welcomed to Shropshire with a “meet your F1” pizza evening which was very well attended and which also proved a good opportunity for some of the tutors and admin staff to meet the new students. More recently we held our bi-annual clinical dinner for students, junior doctors and consultants with guests Dr Richard Heinink, who spoke on “Fibrosis of the Lungs”, and Mr Bruce Summers, who presented “Coccydynia a pain in the Ass”. A huge well done goes to Dr John Jones (SaTH Hospital Dean) who recently completed the Chester marathon in a super-speedy 3hrs 28min. As always please see our facebook group “Keele Medics in Shropshire” for up to date event information and other news. Ang Walford, SaTH

Staff News Three Academic General Practitioners Appointed Fellowship Doctors Sheena Gibson and Janet Lefroy from the Medical School and Joanne Protheroe from Primary Care Sciences Research Institute, were recently appointed Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Left to right:- Joanne Protheroe, Sheena Gibson, Val Wass and Janet Lefroy

The award is the highest category of membership of the College and can only be obtained with the support of their peers. A Fellow of the

College exemplifies its motto ‘cum scientia caritas’ (science with compassion), and is an ambassador for the College’s standards and values in whom the College is happy to signal its pride. Fellowship is an exceptional honour, denoting the esteem in which a Member of the College is held by his or her peers. It is an accolade marking either recognition for contributions made in a number of areas over extended periods of time, or marking outstanding and far-reaching achievement in a relatively narrow field. The photograph shows the three Fellows being congratulated by the Head of School Professor Val Wass at the award ceremony in London.

Medical Education Research: PhD success! As many of you will know I started at Keele as a PhD student in June 2008 and graduated, following successful submission and defence of my thesis, in July this year. My research has been focused on ‘Understanding authentic early experience in undergraduate medical education’ from a socio-cultural perspective. It involved qualitative analysis of interviews with students, workplace supervisors of placements for modules one and two, and members of the medical school staff with responsibility for this part of the curriculum. In particular I sought to gain a better understanding of first, how and why students construct useful knowledge and make meaning from their experiences, and then second, what students do with this knowledge. The findings showed that experiences were shaped by several variables that affected how students interacted with others in workplaces. The consequences of authentic early experiences were broader than simply achieving intended learning outcomes. The implications of these findings for practice include the following: 1) A need to increase awareness of the impact of expectations. Often expectations of student ability to understand workplace culture were too high, while simultaneously expectations of the learning potential from early experience placements were too low, with, for example, a lack of integration of medical content between these experiences and other parts of the curriculum. 2) A need for explicit discussion between students and workplace supervisors about the differences they see in ‘pragmatic’ practice from the ideals taught within the medical school about best practice in order to help students understand when there are good reasons for doing something differently, and why. 3) A need for collaborative working between workplace supervisors and medical school staff to develop a clear understanding of risk management in a competency-based curriculum which facilitates participation of students in workplaces rather than unintentionally creating a culture of uncertainty about what they are ‘allowed’ to do. Tools which might help those designing and implementing these experiences have been drafted and are now being discussed within the medical school. I am now working as a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Medical Education Research, based within the medical school (Keele campus) 50% of the time and working clinically at Douglas Macmillan Hospice as an SpR in Palliative Medicine. If you would like more information on my PhD research or to discuss research opportunities in Medical Education then please do email me s.yardley@hfac.keele.ac.uk Sarah Yardley - NIHR Clinical Lecturer

Staff Personal News / Achievements

Race for Life, 7 June 2011 Several ladies from the Medical School had a successful night at Trentham Gardens raising in excess of £300 for the Douglas Macmillan Hospice. The ladies taking part were: Ann Clowes, Sue Cartwright, Helen Derbyshire, Janet McNicholas and Margaret Bourke. It was a dry evening, although everyone arrived with their waterproofs, and Mrs Derbyshire with her bunny’s ears! A good night was had by all with an excellent atmosphere from all who took part on the night. Janet McNicholas, Admissions

Haywood Foundation C2C sponsored cycle The Haywood Foundation is a local charity whose mission is to improve the lot of people in North Staffordshire who suffer from arthritis and related conditions. It achieves this by various means, including buying key items of clinical equipment (eg a bone densitometer, used to assess for osteoporosis), sponsoring the development of health professionals, and by funding a clinical and laboratory research programme at the Haywood. This May, 22 members and friends of the Foundation undertook the coast to coast cycle, from the Irish Sea at Whitehaven to the North Sea and Tynemouth, via some stunning, steep and long parts of the country. The ride took us 3 days: Day one was through the North Lakes, spectacular views and all, and included a ride up Whinlatter – a devilish taste of things to come. Day two was the most gruelling – hill upon hill (or so it seemed), culminating in the unforgiving climb of Hartside in continuous, pouring rain. After Hartside, the landscape changes somewhat, being more typical of the moors. Day two ended soon after Allenheads, which claims to be the highest village in England (but I thought that was Flash. Just how many highest villages are there?) Day three was largely downhill and took us through Northumberland and Durham, along an old railway line, including two viaducts with terrific views. The trip ended with fish and chips in Tynemouth – from the “best fish and chip shop in the North east”.

We raised £10,300 for the Foundation from the venture – many, many thanks to all who sponsored us. Particular thanks go to Kay Stevenson and Pam Smith, who organised the trip, but most of all to Paul Stevenson who was back up man and cycle transporter (I stress to and from the Lakes only!) Professor Andrew Hassell, Director of Undergraduate Programmes

Student News

Intercalated Degree Experience I undertook the MPhil in Primary Care Sciences between my fourth and fifth years of Medicine at Keele because it offered me the chance to conduct my own research. The actual experience exceeded my expectations academically and has rewarded me with opportunities beyond those I expected. I was awarded funding from the Jean Shanks foundation, though I was the only student to undertake the course last year (and only the second since its creation). The Alzheimers Research UK (ARUK) Primary Care Centre has since taken on 4 students with an additional 2 students doing MPhils in other departments. As well as completing a systematic literature review, a taught epidemiology and statistics module and most challengingly a thesis, which were requirements for my degree, I also presented at both regional and international medical conferences. In addition, I am also drafting 2 separate articles intended for high impact medical journals and submitting an abstract for a national medical conference next year. I enjoyed being given more freedom and responsibility for my own learning than is usually given to medical students which I believe has greatly improved my time-management skills. Having the MPhil and the other academic achievements has led to me being awarded a sponsored elective (8 week medical attachment) organized by ARUK and also an academic foundation job offer from the South Thames Foundation Trust. Beyond my initial medical training, doing this MPhil is likely to continue to aid me both as a doctor and a researcher. Adam Hancock, Module 5

Student Prizes Congratulations to Rebecca Ewers and Victorial Silverwood who were awarded the 2011 Thomas Bakewell Essay Prize for Medical Students at the Spring Divisional Academic Meeting in Dudley in May. The essay topic was to 'Discuss the presentation and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across the lifespan'. Matthew Neal was awarded 'highly commended' for his entry.

ASME Conference, Edinburgh Attending a conference on medical education may not seem like a typical student activity, but try telling that to the large student presence at this year’s annual Association for the Study of Medical Education conference in Edinburgh. As a first-time attendee I was unsure as to the relevance to myself as a current medical student, but none-the-less I was keen to give it a try. The conference itself did not officially start until Thursday, but attendees arriving on the Wednesday could sample a variety of workshops, not all of them the usual educational topics; I enjoyed a morning spent learning ways that creative writing could be incorporated into medicine. Thursday consisted of a variety of talks around current educational research and also this year’s theme, ‘Diversity in the Age of Standardisation’. Should you be worried about how much of this will pass over your cranium, many of the talks had a large student

element, with students delivering many of the presentations. The junior branch of ASME (JASME) also organised a variety of workshops for students and delegates including a ‘teaching toolkit’ and how to set up a research project, all of which were thoroughly informative and perfectly pitched. Friday’s format was similar, and as I listened to the various lectures, I realised just how much work goes into our medical education. I thoroughly recommend attending next year’s conference, there is something for everyone regardless of experience, and you will finally appreciate those teaching sessions! Thomas Kwan, Module 4

SAPC Conference Report During our time as Keele students, we have been given the opportunity to explore medical research opportunities. Having undertaken research projects as part of the SSC component of the course, our interest in academic medicine has grown. As a budding general practitioner and psychiatrist, and as keen potential academics, we understand the importance of primary care research to the future of patient care. Due to this we were both keen to attend the 2011 conference of ‘The Society of Academic Primary Care’ (SAPC) in Bristol. The SAPC aims to bring together a variety of researchers and practitioners (not just GPs!) to promote excellence in the delivery and development of primary care. We were able to talk to doctors currently pursuing academic careers and gain an understanding of current important areas of research and medical education. The choice of lectures was very varied and there was something available to suit all interests. We chose to attend meetings on medical education, psychiatry and obstetric care; all of which were very interesting and thought provoking. We were also able to meet with medical students from other medical schools to discuss how to make primary care medicine a more attractive career option for medical students. We would highly recommend that any students interested in careers in primary care and other related disciplines attend such an event. Student involvement and opinion is often sought, as without our interest and enthusiasm the future of medical research would look a lot less bright. The ability to get involved in some sort of research whilst at medical school is very rewarding and lets you understand the complexities of patient care from a different perspective. Rebecca Ewers and Victoria Silverwood, Final Year Medical Students

European Emergency Medicine Summer School, Croatia In August 2011 I travelled to Croatia for the European Medical Students Emergency Medicine Summer School. The 8 day course was aimed at students with an interest in emergency medicine who had either just graduated or were about to enter their final year. Despite having only just completed 3rd year I was accepted on the course on the basis that I had just undertaken a recent SSC placement in UHNS A&E. The course was very intense and packed with tutorials, seminars and lots of practical sessions. We were placed into small groups for training in incident management, advanced life support and trauma life

support. At the end of every day there was always a sightseeing trip or a cultural event planned. On one innocent afternoon trip to a nearby island we disembarked from the boat to be greeted by one of the tutors screaming for help. We rounded the corner to find 5 emergency medicine OSCE stations to be completed in our groups, complete with defibrillators, manikins and trauma bags that had been shipped over to the island earlier that day! Sunglasses, beach towels and ice-creams were quickly discarded as we got to work on the stations. Not only were we practising clinical skills but we were also learning how to work as a team of individuals who have all studied in different countries, the majority of whom did not have English as their first language. Looking back at the course, what surprised me the most was the difference in standards at medical schools across Europe. When I applied for the course I was concerned that I would struggle with it as all the other students were at least 1-2 years ahead of me. However I was surprised to find that because of the excellent education we receive at Keele, I was at the same standard as the other students. In fact when it came to clinical skills, I had by far the most experience. Most of the final year students from other European medical schools had never cannulated, catheterised, intubated or performed ABG other than on a manikin. They said that most of their clinical years are spent doing bedside teaching in groups of 10; they were amazed when I described the opportunities I had had already in only my 3rd year. Some of the recently graduated students had never fully clerked in a patient, and they were certainly not allowed to write in the patient notes. I certainly now appreciate the fantastic education and opportunities I have had so far at Keele. If anyone is interested in attending next year see the website: www.ess-hr.com Jennifer Hands, Module 4 student

Student Summer School on Obesity

Over the summer holidays I was given the fantastic opportunity to attend the College of Medicine’s Multidisciplinary Student Summer School at the University of Southampton. This was a two day conference on the theme of: ‘Obesity - a patient centred approach

through multidisciplinary collaboration’. The first day of the conference was a teaching day where we were given a number of talks by a range of different speakers all on the topics of obesity research and the approaches to treatment. I found these invaluable in broadening my knowledge and understanding of obesity and its great significance in our society today. Professor David A. Bender’s (Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, University College London) talk on how ‘obesity leads to metabolic syndrome leads to diabetes’ and Dr Susan Jebb’s (Head of Nutrition and Health, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge) talk on the best ways to treat obesity were particularly intriguing. However, the most enlightening lecture of the day was on ‘the psychology of obesity and its treatment’ by Professor Jane Ogden (Professor of Health

Psychology, University of Surrey). I was fascinated by the great extent that psychology plays on the development of this life-threatening disease and how our environment and society as a whole is also a major contributor. This lecture also enhanced my understanding of the psychology of how we as human beings behave. A particular example, which was mentioned by Odgen, is the ‘Theory of Ironic Control’. This is all about the psychological process whereby an individual’s deliberate attempts to avoid certain things (such as sugary foods) make those thoughts even more persistent. This helps to explain why dieting can fail. The following day all the delegates were split into groups, each with an expert patient. The aim of this session was to speak to these patients who had kindly volunteered to share their experiences of living with obesity and diabetes with us. Whilst talking to the patient we had to come up with a list of obstacles that our patient found whilst trying to lose weight. As a group we then had to come up with ideas of how we as health care professionals can help to overcome these obstacles to make it easier for patients to lose weight. The findings of each group were then presented back to everyone during a chaired plenary discussion. These findings will be presented on the College of Medicine’s website. During this session I learnt a lot about patients’ perspectives of the health care system and the way it deals with obese and diabetic patients. One of the biggest problems that were mentioned by the patients was the limited amount of time that they had to speak to their GPs. Another major problem that was mentioned was that the patients felt that they were not given specific, personalised care to help them with their condition. One example that was mentioned was how the patients were recommended to go to the gym to lose weight, but due to their busy work schedule and family commitments they were unable to go. This made me realise that I need to consider all aspects of a patient’s life before suggesting treatment strategies to them and not to apply the “one rule fits all” policy, which the patients feel are used today. All in all, this was a brilliant, well planned conference which I thoroughly enjoyed and gained a lot from; not only from the talks given by the speakers, but also from what the patients had to say about their experiences, all of which I’m sure will be invaluable to me as I continue my medical education. It was also interesting to speak to other students from different year groups and from different universities and share our experiences of medical school so far. Moreover, I also had the opportunity to talk to delegates in the other disciplines, such as physiotherapy and podiatry. I believe this interdisciplinary interaction is very important, as I am aware that as a doctor I will need to work in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team when caring for and making decisions about patients. I would finally like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Kate Fismer and everyone else at the University of Southampton who was involved in putting together and organising this conference. Arani Vivekanantham, Module 2 Student

Keele Students at Yale Two Keele medical students spent the summer undertaking an SSC at Yale University. Having been selected from a strong field of over 20 Module 3 applicants, Thomas Craig and Tina Isinkaye (now 4th year students) are

to be congratulated. They spent two months at a summer school at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics as part of the regular exchange of medical students between Keele and Yale. Between classes, there was a little time for relaxation. In the picture Tina and Tom are sitting at the back with some final year Yale medical students, plus Kristel Carrington, whom people may remember from her visit to Keele in 2010-11. Roger, also in the photograph, was there to give a talk on curriculum development for the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine. Roger Worthington, Law & Ethics Lead

Coast to Coast Walk for Charity Over the summer holidays my girlfriend Rosie and I took on the challenge of walking 200miles from coast to coast- from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hoods Bay in Yorkshire. We set off, with no small amount of trepidation, our bags packed (weighing around 2 stone, most of the 2 stone being Rosie’s homemade banana bread) and our Compede at the ready. To help us keep going along the 13 days of walking we had decided to raise money for the Elderly Care wards at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire to allow them to purchase a Reminiscence Pod. The cause is close to both our hearts, having both had family with dementia- a condition which the Reminiscence Pod is designed to help with. Walking the Coast to Coast route, made famous by Alfred Wainwright, was a fantastic experience that we’d recommend to anyone (who doesn’t mind a bit of walking). We visited some beautiful places and met some fabulous and friendly people from all over the world, as far afield as Australia and as close to home as Stoke-on-Trent. Our favourite fellow walker has to be the 75 year old man who had had a triple heart bypass, was doing the entire route on his own, wild camping along the way and drank his water out of a Fairy Liquid bottle.

We are both really proud of the achievement of walking all the way across the country, but this is made all the better for having raised money for our local hospital in the process. With the help of UHNS

Charity we reached our goal of raising £1,500 to purchase the pod and it is now in place on the Elderly Care wards. You can still donate and help us exceed our target by donating online at www.justgiving.com/russ-n-rosies-charity-jaunt - any further monies raised will go towards improving the Elderly Care facilities. Russell Birkett, Module 4 student

Charity Auction Results Thank you to everyone who came and supported the Annual Keele Medics Charity Society Auction in October. The event was great fun and raised an astonishing £3000 for Scope!!! Kirsty Hartley

Book Reviews

Get Through Medical School: 1100 SBAs/BOFs and EMQs 2nd edition

Seema Khan. Paperback: £19.99 The book is divided into five specialities which are Surgery, Medicine, Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Paediatrics. These are all the topics that are tested in the finals exams. Within these specialties the questions are either Single Best Answers (SBA), Best Of Five (BOF) or Extended Match Questions(EMQ), all of which are supplied with answers. The Medicine and Surgery sections have approximately 300 SBA/BOFs and 40 themed EMQs, with the specialties subjects having about 50 SBA/BOFs and 7 EMQ themed questions. This book is a very disappointing as only a limited number of answers are explained and even then it is by no means comprehensible. The answers do not go far enough to explain why the other options to the questions are not suitable. However, this edition is a slight improvement to the previous edition, in that it has more questions, albeit basic. It is very expensive for a book that does not contain enough explanations. The book allows the reader to expand their knowledge by directing them to relevant topics that need to be covered to pass the final medical exams. Disappointingly this book does not cover medical ethics. The book would be beneficial for students who have thoroughly revised the material needed to pass written element of the exams and just wish to obtain some practice in answering questions. Student Rating: ���� ���� ����

Complete OSCE Skills for Medical and Surgical Finals

Dr. Kate Tatham and Dr. Kinesh Patel. £16.99

If you are looking for a semi-detailed book on OSCE skills, this should be the one.

At first glance, I was a bit put off by the amount of text and monotone colour (black and purple - neither of which are my favourite!), but I soon found it useful when I got to the wards. Other than the typical review on systems examination that most OSCE books have, it also gives a summary on signs, symptoms, examination and history relevant to common illnesses. Another thing I like about it is that it sections causes of diseases according to systems (e.g. cardiovascular, respiratory) instead of just a list like most books, making it a lot easier to remember. I was in for even greater surprises when it came to one of the last few chapters of the book. It went through ECGs and all the skills I need in my year (e.g. CXR, ABG) in a systematic and concise manner. With practice I am sure that will come to good use! If you find your clinical examination book too detailed, I would consider this a good alternative! I would give this book a 5/5 rating if only it had more pictures to go with the text! Student Rating: � � � �

Many thanks to Hodder Education for donating the books. If you would like to become a book reviewer, please take a look at the website http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/HigherEducation.aspx and let me know which books you would like to review.

Upcoming Events

Staff Development Evening Seminar The second Evening Seminar in this stimulating series will be delivered by Professor Christine Roffe, Consultant in Stroke Medicine and a Reader and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine at Keele. The evening will begin with light refreshments at 6pm on Wednesday 11 January 2012 in the School of Medicine at Keele. Christine Roffe took up her post as consultant/senior lecturer in October 1996. She has shaped the development of the acute and rehabilitation stroke services in North Staffordshire. Her research interests are acute stroke, stroke rehabilitation and ethics. Ongoing projects include the Stroke Oxygen Study, a clinical trial of oxygen supplementation after acute stroke, a study of the effect of thickeners in drinks on oxygen saturation in dysphagic stroke patients, a questionnaire survey of consumer views of artificial feeding after stroke, and, in collaboration with researchers from the School of Health and Rehabilitation, studies of Botulinum toxin and electrical stimulation early after stroke. She is the Clinical Lead for the West Midlands Stroke Local Research Network. Registration forms will be available closer to the date but please contact me if you have any questions. For details of our ‘Teaching the Teachers – 2 Day Introductory workshops – 2012’ and the 2012 Medical Education Conference - see below Dr Clive Gibson, Director of Academic Staff Development c.gibson@keele.ac.uk

GP Society – Dr Roger Neighbour Dr Roger Neighbour will be coming to speak and hopefully do a teaching session for an event in the New Year. Roger Neighbour has written many books, developed a consultation model and is also a previous president of the Royal College of General Practitioners. If you are interested, you can join our Facebook group or email u7x76@students.keele.ac.uk

Hello………… Keele Campus Sarah Gulfraz, Student Appraisals Administrator (to end of July 2012) Susan Farrington, Deputy Admissions Manager Dr Alex Clark - Deputy Director of Assessments Dr Andy Spencer, Deputy Director for Admissions commencing in February 2012 Clinical Teaching Fellows at Keele Dr Catherine Hyde Dr Patricia Celis, Teaching Assistant in Bioscience

UHNS Hospital Campus Dr Ruth Kinston, Lead for implementation of Mod 5 at UHNS, following the retirement of Mr Vere Carlin. Dr Neena Bodasing, Lead for undergraduate teaching in Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UHNS. Dr Raana Haqqee, Acute Medicine Lead at UHNS Dr Fiona Leslie, Deputy Hospital Dean Clinical Teaching Fellows at UHNS Dr Graham Heyes Dr Clifford Shelton Dr Zoe Cousland Dr Tara Fleming

Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust Dr Michelle Mohajer, UG Tutor, Women's Health Dr David Barton, UG Tutor, Medicine Mr Andrew Elves, UG Tutor, Surgery Dr Shu Fatt Ho, UG Tutor, Medicine Dr David Green, UG Tutor, Critical Care Dr Paul Jones, UG Tutor, Critical Care Dr Ramaswamy Diwakar, UG Tutor, Medicine

North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Dr Dennis Okolo, Hospital Dean at North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. Dr Rashi Negi, UG Tutor, Psychiatry Dr Sridhar Sridharan, UG Tutor, Psychiatry Lynn Glasby, Administrator

Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Ashit Shah, Deputy Hospital Dean Dr Nick Bosanko, Support Tutor in Medicine

Internal School changes of Role or Title Beth Barlow - Student Welfare & Progress Co-ordinator. Vanessa Hooper - Quality Assurance and Enhancement Manager. Vikki Hawley has moved to Keele as Quality Assurance Administrator for the QA office. Mike Turner covering Nikki Crouch's Maternity leave as Education Office Co-ordinator.

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UHNS Hospital Campus Ms Elaine Mann

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Congratulations to: Lorraine & Andrew Salt on the birth of their son Lewis Sarah & Steve Hart on the birth of their daughter, Martha on Tuesday 18 October 2011, weighing 6 lb 2oz.

Nikki Crouch & David Thompson on the birth of son Isaac Joseph Walter Thompson 19 October 2011, weighing 7 lbs. 10 oz.

We are always looking for items of general interest, forthcoming events etc. If you would like to contribute to the next edition of MedNews, due out June 2012, please contact Susan Farrington on s.m.farrington@hfac.keele.ac.uk

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2012 Medical Education Conference

“Global Health Education for Tomorrow’s Doctors” How does the Distinctive Keele Curriculum prepare our

students for the changing world of medicine?

Tuesday 17 April 2012 (Afternoon) Pre-Conference Educational Research

Workshop

Dr Lynn Monrouxe Director of Medical Education Research

Cardiff University School of Medicine

Professor Charlotte Rees Director, Centre for Medical Education, Dundee University

Wednesday 18 April 2012 (Full Day) Main Conference

Headline speakers already confirmed:

Professor Deborah Murdoch Eaton Professor of Medical Education

Leeds University School of Medicine

Dr Peter Coventry Director of Curriculum

Keele University School of Medicine

Plus full programme of Workshops

Contact Vikki Hawley for further details Phone: 734679, Email: v.k.hawley@hfac.keele.ac.uk