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Introducing the new medical education fellows! We’re all really looking forward to working in the medical education team over the next twelve months and wanted to briefly introduce ourselves: Peter Bannister I’ve come straight from Foundation in Brighton where I did both F1 and F2. I was also a medical student at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Areas I’m particularly interested in are obstetrics and gynaecology, public health and epidemiology. …
Hawkenbury Cricket Ground played host to the hotly-contested annual Consultants vs Trainees cricket match on Sunday 11 June. The 20 overs per side match took place in sweltering heat, watched by family and friends. In the absence of Dr Paul Moran who was unfortunately injured, Dr James Barron captained the Consultants and Dr Joshua Kader led the Trainees. The Consultants batted first and scored 162 in the face of excellent bowling by …
TTF1 We have welcomed our new King’s College London Transition to F1 (TTF1) students this month and they had a clinical skills day as part of their induction. We have also delivered the first workshop on common clinical scenarios, where we used an online whiteboard called ‘mural’. The students worked together in small groups and had to work through cases, write different differential diagnosis, investigations and management plans on the …
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 …
Dr Garth Sommerville will be stepping down from his role as Director of Medical Education at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust at the end of December. During his 14 years as Director, Garth has led Medical Education through a significant period of change including numerous changes in Junior Doctor training and a significant expansion of training posts in the Trust. He has also overseen the development of a Trust …
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 …
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. …