LWMS News Autumn 2005
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email: [email protected] web: www.lwms.ac.uk A look at activities in and around the Leicester Warwick Medical Schools AUTUMN 2005 themselves, Mr Bettles says, will be Inside Issue 11... designed by architects specialising University Bid for in medical architecture and will be state of the art in both construction and functionality, highly reliant on Dental School the latest technology both for teaching and management of A Leicester Medical School bid to Mr Roger Bettles, a Member of the patients, including radiology. It is set up a new dental school has been University’s Council, who is also a hoped that each Academy will incor- shortlisted, along with five other retired consultant in dental public porate a full dental practice and centres across the country. health and a former National Presi- facilities for training Dental Thera- Leicester’s bid provides a revolu- dent of the British Dental Associa- pists, Hygienists and Dental Nurses. tionary model for dental training. tion, commented: “It is a very Teaching techniques will be p3 Research Focus – Evaluating Interprofessional Education Instead of a central dental school, exciting project for a dental school, adapted from those developed for the plan is to base the clinical compared with what is currently medical students training in centres teaching in four regional academies available. Only in the last few years away from the parent university, in the communities of Northampton, have dental schools been starting to such as between Leicester and Corby, Leicester, and Boston, try and place students reaching the Warwick. Lincolnshire. end of their training into a setting The bid has enthusiastic backing Annual intake would be 80 more like dental practice. from the community of dentists in students plus four overseas students “This bid turns all of that on its the region, who have been consulted on a four-year graduate entry head, and students will experience throughout the development of the programme, the first dental school right from the outset training in a plans. Roger Bettles said: “They are in the country to offer this fast-track primary dental care environment.” all very excited at what is proposed, option. Teachers will be carefully selected and say it addresses all the weak- p4 GMC Accreditation – What it’s all about If successful, Leicester’s bid will and trained for working in the acad- ness they would have highlighted transform dentistry in Leicester and emies in an Institute at the centre from their undergraduate teaching. Northampton, which have the which will be part of the Pathway A lot of them are very keen to lowest rate of dental provision in the project. involve themselves in teaching in the UK. The concept of the Academies Academies”. Annual Staff-Student cricket match: Batsman Will Beynon, one of the A course that takes to the top student scorers, with p5 hills, plus a Warwick Graduate the Dean, Professor Ian who is a world champion Lauder, in the background. Final score: staff 79, students 95. The trophy is dedicated to the late Graham Wheat, former porter at the Leicester Medical School, who founded the cricket match. It will eventually be kept in a trophy cabinet in the Maurice Student news – Wilderness Shock Medical Sciences p6 medicine, plus Warwick students at European Building. Conference Leicester Warwick Medical Schools News Autumn 2005 2 Leicester Warwick Medical Schools News focus Autumn 2005 RESEARCH Technology to Tell INTERPROFESSIONAL Tales of the Dead New technology in the field of EDUCATION (IPE)–Evaluating post-mortem examinations will revolutionise the ways autopsies are conducted within our own lifetimes, the Regional Strategy with a ‘massive’ impact on religious groups - particularly Jewish and BY LUCY THORPE, REGIONAL EVALUATOR OF INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, Islamic communities across the DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL AND SOCIAL CARE EDUCATION, LEICESTER MEDICAL SCHOOL world - Guy Rutty, Professor of Forensic Pathology at the University In the Summer 2005 edition of of Leicester claimed. The Forensic LWMS News Dr Liz Anderson talked Pathology Unit is pioneering within about the development of a regional the UK in its use of new technolo- gies to establish cause of death, and strategy for interprofessional educa- in September Professor Rutty tion (IPE) which commenced this presented his views at the Sixth September within Leicestershire, International Symposium on Northamptonshire and Rutland Advances in Legal Medicine in Strategic Health Authority. Hamburg. In a paper in Forensic The overall aim of this strategy is Science, Medicine, and Pathology to prepare a wide range of health published the same month, and social care students with inter- Professor Rutty questioned whether professional team-working knowl- invasive autopsies are always edge and skills relevant for working necessary. Advances in diagnostic in the modern health and social investigations like axial radiography care workplace settings. (CT) and MRI mean that certain Evaluation is essential to the long- diagnoses can be done without the term relevance and sustainability of need for invasive autopsies. this regional strategy and to inform Professor Rutty said the key area of the wider education debate. Despite controversy was whether state-of- its growing momentum within the art technology should replace health and social care education, to pate in before and after interviews exposed to any IPE teaching, and autopsies or complement them. date there is only a small UK in order to determine whether any then again at the end of their course evidence base on the effectiveness preconceived views they hold about just prior to qualification. Trainee Doctors' and impact of IPE. The opportuni- IPE change over time with experi- The effects of interprofessional ties to evaluate a regional perspec- ence. Educators who are already learning on pre-registration students Lack of Sleep tive in which three universities experienced in IPE teaching/facilita- will also be captured over the dura- Teaching staff at Warwick (Leicester, Northampton, and De tion are being asked to share their tion of their training through the use Medical School have long been Montfort) work collaboratively will attitudes and beliefs on the subject of evaluation questionnaires, focus concerned that trainee doctors do offer a unique national perspective through participating in either a group sessions, and by conducting not get enough sleep. Sleep in the in IPE. I have been in post as focus group session, a one-to-one small group observations. classroom that is. Despite sleep Regional Evaluator of IPE for just interview, or by completing a ques- The final stage of the evaluation is patterns being a major contributor over a year now and am going to tell tionnaire survey. to assess the impact of IPE on the to a number of illnesses, on you about my research role. The effect of interprofessional NHS staff and patients/service users average most undergraduate The overall aim is to evaluate the learning on pre-registration students involved in it and this will be doctors in the UK receive only five impact of the IPE strategy on the is also being evaluated. We are keen achieved through holding focus minutes education on sleep medi- educators, the students, and on the to determine the impact of IPE on group sessions and by adminis- cine. Warwick Medical School has stakeholders involved (NHS staff students’ knowledge, attitudes, tering a questionnaire survey to the now moved to redress that and patients/service users). We are behaviours and skills, and to iden- relevant groups. balance and has just ended a pilot undertaking a multi-method evalua- tify student views on the most effec- We very much hope that you will year in which it offered a sleep tion, using a variety of research tive IPE teaching models. From this be willing to take part in the evalu- study option in its curriculum for techniques to obtain our data: semi- September onwards all first year ation should you be approached trainee doctors. In the pilot year structured interviews, focus groups, pre-registration health and social and we thank you in advance for 10 students signed up for the questionnaires, and observation care students at the region’s three your anticipated participation in this special option which gave them methods. main universities will be asked to unique and exciting piece of over 30 hours of sleep study. The The main focus of our evaluation complete an interprofessional research. course inspired one student, Andy Currie (also LWMS News student is the impact of IPE on the educa- learning questionnaire which can be Anyone who is interested rep), to publish an article in the tors, as very few studies report on used to explore differences in in finding out more about the BMJ careers journal, and another this in the published literature. students’ perception and attitudes IPE strategy evaluation can student on the course, Sarah Educators new to the field of IPE towards multiprofessional learning. contact me, Lucy Thorpe on: Padley, has decided to take her who are about to become involved Students will complete this at two tel 0116 2523044, or email sleep studies further, choosing to with teaching/facilitating IPE time points: as early as possible in [email protected] work with sleep specialists in sessions, are being asked to partici- their course before they become Harvard for her elective. 3 news Leicester Warwick Medical Schools News CURRICULUM Autumn 2005 The General Medical Council (GMC) Iraqi Visit Part is currently working closely with of Post-War Leicester Warwick Medical Schools to make preparations for its statutory Reconstruction review of our undergraduate medical The University of Leicester courses in 2005/6. This process of Quality Assurance Medical School hosted a visit by a of Basic Medical Education (QABME) group of nine psychiatrists from occurs once every five years for all Iraq, who came to this country to medical school programmes across learn how things have changed in the UK.