The great escape: innovative ‘escape room’ helps develop medical education

Education teams are combining technology simulating the clinical environment with a novel ‘escape room’ format to help medical students at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) develop their skills. Simulation technology enables the Trust’s Medical Education teams to recreate scenarios they may rarely experience in real life, and tests healthcare professionals in challenging situations. Simulation manikins let the students practice, in safety, the technical and non-technical skills they need …

Medical Education Fellows blog, June 2023

Saying goodbye to our Year 4 students This week we said goodbye to our last block of year 4 students for the year! We have been teaching them weekly for the last year on topics requested by them before they start their 7 weeks placement with us. Their placement started with a clinical skills day where they follow a patient’s journey throughout the day, requesting tests and practising skills as …

Medical Education Fellows blog, April 2023

Careers in medicine Last month we welcomed almost one hundred Year 11 and 12 students from 21 local schools to Tunbridge Wells Hospital for an evening of talks around a career in medicine. The evening aimed to provide information about what a career in medicine entails, with opportunities to talk to doctors and ask questions. Sessions included: Talks from the director of undergraduate medical education and medical school admissions tutors …

Medical Education Fellows blog, March 2023

Valentine’s Escape Room  This month we carried out our second Medical Escape Room; this time with a Valentine’s motif. In this iteration we had teams of 4th and 5th year medical students race against the clock to untangle each clue and weave their way through some wild twists and turns to save our patient (and themselves) from heartbreak.   We had an incredible turn out with close competition and fantastic …

Medical Education Fellows blog, January 2023

Medical escape room This month we were very excited to introduce our first ever Medical Escape Room! This was a Christmas themed simulation with an added ‘tangled’ twist… breaking our patient Mabel out of all the Christmas decorations she was tangled up in! This was not a straight forward A-E Assessment by any means. We had Year 4 and 5 students involved in teams of 3-4 attempting to go through …

Medical Education Fellows blog

It has been a busy few months for the Medical Education Fellows, getting several projects up and running, with many more in the pipeline! Here’s a roundup of a few projects that we have set up recently: Clinical Skills days We were handed down a clinical skills day teaching plan from our predecessors which we have adapted and run every few weeks for our new fourth and fifth year medical …

First cohort of students welcomed from Kent and Medway Medical School

The first cohort of medical students studying at Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS), which opened its doors in 2020, have started their placements at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) is providing clinical placements for medical students at KMMS, a collaboration between the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University, which attracts talented students from all backgrounds, from the local community and beyond. …

Medical Students Welcomed

King’s College London Year 4 medical students welcomed

On Monday 21 March we welcomed the final block of Year 4 Medical Students from King’s College London. As part of their Induction week the students attend a Clinical Skills Day organised and delivered by our Medical Education Fellows, Tom, Russell & Allen. Students are provided with a scenario which allows them to contextualise the skills that they are being shown and gain a deeper understanding of why some of the …

What we’ve achieved so far

So far, we have implemented a new format for the clinical skills day for our undergraduate students which has been well received, with over three quarters of students strongly agreeing that the skills day improved their confidence for their placement ahead.