Haematology Medical Education Fellow inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED MON 2 DEC 2024

The post is for a London Haematology Education fellow to work on specific training projects and deliver on the education strategy of HEE and the RCPath. The role will involve working closely with the Royal College of Pathologists, the British Society of Haematology and other London TPDs/colleagues to develop specific training modules and consolidate local resources for the haematology subsection of the Pathology Portal - an innovative, adaptive learning platform available to all healthcare trainees and professionals.

Using technology to enhance learning, the Portal incorporates the ability to digitally host and view whole slide images and a wide range of other resources, including teaching sessions, videos and quizzes. The development of the Pathology Portal is ongoing but requires dedicated time to fully utilise all of its potential functions and develop specific modules, mapped to the curriculum that trainees can work through during their time in training. We are keen to contribute our vast local catalogue of Barts Health teaching resources and cases to this unique educational resource as well as teaching material developed by other training rotations to reduce duplication and provide broader access.

In addition to developing online and digital resources we have recently reflected on the impact of remote learning, accelerated by the COVID pandemic on the trainee experience1. Moving to a remote platform and allowing "on-demand" access has increased equity of teaching for those training away from teaching hospitals and who work less than full time. But it has led to some loss of social cohesion that was facilitated by attending in-person teaching and also impacted the ability to deliver interactive, problem-solving seminars which involve applying knowledge and being able to freely ask questions in real time. The proposed Education fellow would work to recover and create learning contexts which are enhanced by in-person attendance and focus on areas of the new haematology curriculum that are often neglected in traditional lecture formats such as consent training and palliative care.

The proposed Education fellow will therefore be instrumental in ensuring we maintain a comprehensive and multifaceted approach to haematology training and develop both online platforms such as the Pathology Portal as well as organise in-person training sessions for all London trainees in areas that have historically been overlooked such as communicating bad news, consent training, practical procedures, and critical thinking/problem solving.

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The clinical fellow will be supervised by the North East London Haematology Training Programme Director (Dr Shamzah Araf) and be based at Barts Health. They will be encouraged to develop skills in medical education: teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, assessment (written and practical), faculty development, resource development and leadership in medical education.

In addition, the post holder depending on their specific interests will be asked to select a subspeciality: (diagnostics and haemato-pathology), haemato-oncology, haemostasis and thrombosis, transfusion haematology and will be expected to do a haematology clinic supervised by a consultant in their chosen area or other clinical/diagnostic work. There may well be a need to also participate on the on call rota but this will be agreed with the appointee based on their experience.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for the main responsibilities of this role.

Please be advised that the vacancy advertisement may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received therefore, we recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.