Educational Supervisors
What is an Educational Supervisor?
The GMC defines an Educational Supervisor as “a trainer who is selected and appropriately trained to be responsible for the overall supervision and management of a specified trainee’s educational progress during a clinical training placement or series of placements.”
How to become an Educational Supervisor?
Follow the steps in this flowchart.
Courses are provided by:….(TBC 2022 )
The link to register is as follows: http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/cpd/non-clinical-cpd/supervision-and-appraisal/educational-supervisor-workshop-and-accreditation
Those teaching medical students on placement from BSMS and GKT should adhere to medical school curriculum guidance and training. The Undergraduate Sub-Deans are available to advise – contact details can be found via the following link:
https://www.esht.nhs.uk/medical-education/meet-the-team/
Finally, view the Educational Supervisors SLA (Service Level Agreement), to which you must comply. Thank you.
Education Supervisors – Foundation Programme
All Foundation trainees must have a named Educational Supervisor (ES). The ES role is to help the trainee to plan their training and achieve agreed learning outcomes. The ES is appropriately trained to be responsible for the overall supervision and management of the foundation doctor’s educational progress during a training placement or series of placements.
Only clinicians who are committed to and engaged in teaching and training foundation doctors should undertake the role. They must enable foundation doctors to learn by taking responsibility for patient management within the context of clinical governance and patient safety. Training for their role should include the following:
Understanding of assessment methodology, feedback and use of approved assessment tools
Knowledge in the use of Supervised Learning Event (SLE) tools and quality feedback
Completion of equality and diversity training (normally every 3 years): eshealthcare.esht.nhs.uk
No Foundation Trainee doctor should be supervised by a consultant who has not completed his training and is not compliant with the minimum GMC Standards for Educators: http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/standards.asp
Medical Education must have a copy of the Supervisors Portfolio on file for all named Clinical and Educational Supervisors and those teaching medical students. The GMC will require evidence to ensure that all educators are fully accredited. The GMC will require evidence to ensure that all educators are fully accredited. This will also now form part of the Medical Revalidation/Consultant Appraisal process
Reminder
If you are a member of Trust PGMDE staff (including FTPDS, supervisors etc.) or a Trainee, the method for contacting the school is:
https://lasepgmdesupport.hee.nhs.uk/support/home
If trainees have already completed and passed any of these modules, they still need to complete at least 6 modules over the year, but can pick relevant modules for their rotations.
There may also be modules recommended as part of their feedback from the prescribing assessment
The modules should take approximately 30 mins to complete, including a pre and post module test
The F1/ F2 progress with SCRIPT is reported to the LFG as part of trainee reporting and any significant issues will be escalated to the trust Local Academic Board. Compliance with this will also be monitored through HEE. It is expected that the F1’s and F2’s will complete 2-3 modules each rotation rather than all in one go
A copy of the SCRIPT HEE National Tutor Guide can be accessed SCRIPT_HEE National_Tutor_Guide with London Appendix 140917
If you have any queries please contact Jane Starr on email jane.starr@nhs.net
Development Workshops
Development workshops (not faculty development) have been arranged to support Clinical Supervisors/Educational Supervisors and College Tutors. These have been commissioned with a company called Doctors Training : www.doctorstraining.com