Improving diabetes and endocrinology specialty training with modest resources: the Health Education West Midlands model.
Abstract
Introduction: In the current pandemic, there is a significant disruption for medical training. It is essential that clinicians can access high-quality, targeted educational content to support their clinical working and training development. This content must be delivered on a background of increasing clinical pressures and budgetary restrictions.
Methods: Educational innovations and supplementary educational content (such as digitisation, simulation, curriculum mapping, trainee representative role definition, research and innovation training) were implemented. We measured the impact of these interventions on cost reductions and changes in trainees' self-reported confidence levels to manage various clinical scenarios post-interventions.
Results: Using digital technologies reduced both costs and administrative burdens. Simulation-based learning helped improve trainees' self-reported confidence levels.
Conclusion: Collaborative working across training programme directors, specialist training committee members, educational supervisors, trainee representatives and trainees themselves can develop high-quality educational programmes that support clinical exposure. We propose that elements of the model described here can be replicated across regions and different specialties to support the highest quality of education for UK trainees.
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Date
2021-11
Type
Article
Subject
Endocrinology, Diabetes
Citation
Kempegowda P, Robbins TD, Boelaert K, Arlt W, Ayuk J, Sankar S, Karamat MA. Improving diabetes and endocrinology specialty training with modest resources: the Health Education West Midlands model. Future Healthc J. 2021 Nov;8(3):e644-e647. doi: 10.7861/fhj.2020-0091
Journal / Source Title
Future Healthcare Journal
DOI
10.7861/fhj.2020-0091
PMID
34888458
Publisher
Elsevier
Publisher’s URL
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-healthcare-journal