Job Title

This exciting post working in Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) is ideal for a doctor or ACP with at least 6 months experience in Emergency Medicine, seeking to further their career. It would be particularly suited for a trainee between core medical and higher training, or a higher specialist trainee with an interest in Medical Education.

About the Role

This post offers a combination of teaching and clinical activity. The post holder will undertake three days of undergraduate medical teaching in the acute care setting and two days of clinical activity per week in the Emergency Department.

• Provide supervised “shop floor” teaching for medical students in the Emergency Department and Acute Medicine Wards.
• Facilitate small group teaching and clinical skills training, including simulation exercises using Simulated Patients (SPs).
• Undertake Workplace Based Assessments (WBAs), Directly Observed Procedural Skills (DOPs), and Case-Based Discussions (CBDs).
• Support students in their critical analysis of ‘patient journeys’.
• Contribute to the formal examination of students, including assessing OSCEs and writing exam questions.
• Participate in one-to-one tutoring of students, including those struggling and those re-sitting their exams.
• Support inter-professional training for medical students in the ED.
• Help to train and develop a wider faculty for critical illness teaching, including other healthcare professionals.
• Work closely with the multi-disciplinary, multi-professional team in EAC to support efficient and effective inter-professional education.
• Contribute to clinical activity by undertaking work on the'shopfloor' for 2 days per week.