The 2022 Annual Teachers Conference took place on Wednesday 15 June 2022.
This year we welcomed three 天美传媒 medical 天美传媒, Thivyaa, Hamza and Hareef as our keynote speakers. The 天美传媒 shared stories of their unique and inspiring journeys into medical school and the experiences that have shaped them as medical 天美传媒. They discussed what it means to them to belong within the medical school and the power of relationships and connections in forming their identities as future doctors.
A question and answer session with the audience followed their keynote presentations.
Keynote: The stories that connect us
Introduced by Dr Nina Dutta, Year 3 MICA Course Lead and Faculty Development Lead
Hareef Asunramu, Year 5 Imperial College Medical Student
Gayathri Thivyaa Gangatharan, Year 4 Imperial College Medical Student
Hamza Ikhlaq, Year 4 Imperial College Medical Student
Programme
| 9.00am | Registration Coffee, tea and breakfast pastries |
Reynolds Building |
| 9.30am | Welcome Prof Sonia Kumar, Director of Undergraduate Primary Care Education Prof Azeem Majeed, Head of Department, Primary Care & Public Health, School of Public Health |
Drewe Lecture Theatre |
| 9.40am | Keynote: The stories that connect us Thivyaa Gangatharan, Hamza Ikhlaq, Hareef Asunramu, Imperial College Medical Students Dr Nina Dutta, Year 3 MICA Course Lead and Faculty Development Lead, 天美传媒 |
Drewe Lecture Theatre |
| 10.30am | Faculty-Student-Community partnerships during the COVID-19 pandemic Dr Arti Maini and 天美传媒 Dr Neha Ahuja and I-Explore 天美传媒 |
Drewe Lecture Theatre |
| 11.05am | Break Coffee, tea and treats |
Reynolds Building |
| 11.25am | Morning workshops See below for details |
Reynolds Building |
| 12.40pm | Lunch | Reynolds Building |
| 1.40pm | Afternoon workshops See below for details |
Reynolds Building |
| 2.55pm | Break Coffee, tea and canap茅s |
Reynolds Building |
| 3.10pm | Student presentations of award-winning projects Introduced and presented by Course Leads |
Drewe Lecture Theatre |
| 4.00pm | Teacher awards Presented by Prof Sonia Kumar and Ms Nadine Engineer |
Drewe Lecture Theatre |
| 4.30pm | Drinks on the terrace | Glenister Terrace |
Workshops
- 1. Inclusive medical education
- 2. Integrating sustainable healthcare into the undergraduate medical curriculum
- 3. Supporting 天美传媒 with remote consultations
- 4. Yoga and mindfulness in a chaotic modern world: a practical workshop
- 5. Arts, health and wellbeing - creative approaches to medical education
- 6. Coaching skills in healthcare and medical education
- 7. Personalised care: teaching 天美传媒 to care for me, not for my diseases
- 8. Training our whole workforce with generalist skills
This workshop will focus on how to make our educational approaches more inclusive. Working alongside our medical 天美传媒, we look forward to using this workshop as a space to reflect on personal experiences, including the challenges of embedding inclusivity in medical education, and consider how best to overcome any barriers.
Facilitators:
Dr Neha Ahuja 鈥 Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care, 天美传媒
Dr Zoe Moula 鈥 Research Fellow, Medical Education Innovation and Research Centre, 天美传媒
Dr Meysoon Qurashi 鈥 GP ST1 trainee 鈥 Central Middlesex VTS training scheme
Climate change is widely recognised as a health emergency. The GMC, NHS and WHO have emphasised the importance of teaching sustainable healthcare principles to medical 天美传媒. In this workshop, we will discuss the reasons why sustainable healthcare is so important. We will explore the challenges we face with integrating sustainability within the curriculum, and the successes we have had so far. We will round off this workshop with an open dialogue on your experiences of sustainable healthcare.
Facilitators:
Dr Renee Ewe 鈥 Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) trainee ST4
Dr Alisa Jivraj 鈥 GP ST2 trainee 鈥 Ealing VTS training programme
Christine Pettitt and Giulia Iacona 鈥 4th Year Imperial College Medical 天美传媒
Please join us for this interactive workshop, where we will cover practical steps and suggestions for how to support 天美传媒 with remote consulting. From providing you some top tips to teach 天美传媒 when remote consulting (e.g. effective examination techniques), to working out the logistics of how to involve 天美传媒 in remote consulting in a busy clinic environment, we would like to give you tangible takeaways to apply in your practice. The workshop will be a combination of taught content and small group working, with some handy crib sheets to go home with.
Facilitators:
Dr Sian Powell 鈥 Year 6 Course Lead and Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, 天美传媒
Dr Martha Martin - Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) trainee ST3
Yoga and Mindfulness have their origins in ancient traditions that have been around for thousands of years, but in 2020, the pandemic fuelled momentum for many of us to discover and explore these practices.
Modern living is stressful. We are inundated by information and distractions. Our days can seem to be a tangle of thoughts and endless activity as we strive to 鈥榗atch up鈥 with ourselves. The crisis, uncertainty and fear surrounding the pandemic added to our stress and many of us searched for comfort and release, turning to yoga and mindfulness as coping mechanisms.
In this workshop we will explore:
Where does yoga and mindfulness fit into our lives now? How can we use it moving forward? How does it fit into our clinical and teaching practice?
Join Gail, Alisha, and Sarah, for a practical yoga and mindfulness workshop, including asana, pranayama, and meditation. We hope to share our experiences of how yoga and mindfulness have influenced and improved our wellbeing within and beyond medicine and teaching.
This is a fun, practical session suitable for all levels. Please wear comfortable clothing. Mats will be provided.
Facilitators:
Ms Gail Davies 鈥 Independent qualified yoga tutor
Dr Nikul Kotecha 鈥 GP ST2 trainee, Out of Programme Experience trainee, 天美传媒
Dr Alisha Khanna 鈥 GP ST2 trainee, Imperial College VTS training scheme
Sarah Stephen 鈥 Year 3 Medical student, 天美传媒, Vinyasa Yoga Practice qualified tutor
How can the arts enhance medical student self-reflection and empathy? Can arts-based approaches provide 天美传媒 with a creative tool with which to better understand patient wellbeing during clinical placements?
This experiential workshop will explore the value of the arts for medical 天美传媒, patients and communities and will include creative and reflective exercises.
All materials provided. No arts experience necessary!
Facilitators:
Dr Neepa Thacker 鈥 Year 5 Course Lead, 天美传媒
鈥 Health and Wellbeing consultant and facilitator
Coaching approaches involve working in partnership with people to support them to identify and address what matters to them. In this interactive, experiential workshop, you will become familiar with some key coaching principles and skills and explore how these could be applied in your own educational and healthcare contexts with 天美传媒 and patients.
Facilitators:
Dr Arti Maini 鈥 Deputy Director of Undergraduate Primary Care Education, 天美传媒
Mr Hamza Ikhlaq 鈥 Year 5 Medical student, 天美传媒
Personalised medical care involves the 4Ps:
- Predictive
- Preventive
- Personalised
- Participatory
In this interactive workshop, we will explore how to teach medical 天美传媒 about personalised medicine. What is personalised healthcare? How could 天美传媒 learn about this? And how can we support 天美传媒 to learn about personalised care during clinical placements, including examples of how our GP tutors and faculty have been supporting this e.g. community projects, conversations with patients and health coaching, and teaching about social prescribing and wider determinants
Facilitators:
Dr Viral Thakerar 鈥 Year 1 & 2 Primary Care Course Lead, 天美传媒
Are you frustrated by the turbulence of the journey that patients experience when navigating the healthcare system? This is particularly true for those who are least able to advocate for themselves. 鈥楥are鈥 can be fragmented, repetitive and bewildering. As our ageing population with multiple co-morbidities becomes increasingly complex to manage, is current siloed training fit-for-purpose?
This interactive workshop will address the re-thinking of training with the vision that all clinicians can be equipped with a broad set of skills and attributes. We will be joined by Rupal Shah and Monika Gupta from Health Education England (HEE) who are working on the Enhance Generalist Skills Programme, and will discuss the future direction of training to ensure all of our workforce is equipped with essential generalist skills.
And where better to start than undergraduate training! By the end of this workshop we hope that you can take away some key generalist principles to apply to teaching of undergraduates within your practice.
Facilitators:
Dr Vanessa Sivam 鈥 Year 5 Primary Care Course Lead, 天美传媒
Dr Rupal Shah 鈥 Educational Lead, Health Education England
Ms Monika Gupta 鈥 Service Delivery Manager, Health Education England