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GMC Requirements
Firstly we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for teaching our students. Our role as the Teacher Development Leads is to help with you educational training needs and help you flourish and grow as teachers.
All KUMEC teachers are required to demonstrate ongoing CPD with regards to your teaching portfolio. We encourage all new tutors to attend/complete our core modules over the first two years of teaching with us, and then 2 sessions per year of teacher training. This can be a mix of online modules our yearly conference and workshops.
We have developed a set of Mastering Skills workshops which can enable you to work towards membership of the Academy of Medical Educators. This is done with three essays written over a maximum time frame of three years with formative feedback from the Teacher Development Leads and progression expected in your academic writing style and teaching reflections based on these. We also have a peer review/support system in place. If you would like to organise a peer review of your teaching please do contact Dr Rini Paul if you are interested to find out more, there is remuneration available for the peer reviewer.
We look forward to working with you and wish you every success and joy with your teaching. If you have any suggestions or ideas about Teacher Development don't hesitate to share them with us.
Teacher Development Lead
Dr Rini Paul
Email: rini.paul@kcl.ac.uk
Teacher Development Lead
Dr Laila Abdullah
Email: laila.1.abdullah@kcl.ac.uk
Our latest Teacher Development timetable
Here is our quick reference guide for the upcoming KUMEC workshops for the academic year 2024/25. We are planning to be back to face-to-face for many of our workshops this year but will be adding more Mastering Teaching Skills workshops and responding to your needs.
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SEPTEMBER 2024 |
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Wednesday 11th September Lunch: 13:00 Session: 13:30-16:30 Location TBC |
Stage 2 Year 2 - GP tutor Induction a mandatory session for Stage 2 tutors. This will be run by Dr Liza Kirtchuk, Dr Mydhili Chellappah, Mrs Yvonne Batson Wright (Stage 2) and Dr Laila Abdullah |
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Wednesday 25th September Lunch: 13:00 Session: 13:30-16:30
Location: Addison House, Guys Campus Room: 6.07
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KITT (KUMEC Introduction to Teacher Training) (AoME workshop) This course is facilitated by Drs Rini Paul and Laila Abdullah from the TD team with a welcome from Professor Anne Stephenson. This is aimed at new teachers who have not done an introductory teaching course elsewhere. It will include lesson planning, giving feedback, learning needs analysis and plenty of opportunity to practice new skills with students. |
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OCTOBER 2024 |
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Wednesday 23rd October Lunch: 13:00 Session: 13:30-16:30
Location: Addison House, Guys Campus Room: 6.07
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Supporting Learners and Colleagues with Neurodiversity (AoME workshop) This course will be facilitated by Dr Rini Paul. The aim of this workshop is to celebrate diversity in our learners and colleagues, specifically focusing on neurodiversity. We will go over the protected characteristics by law and intersectionality. By the end of this interactive session, with small group and case discussions you will be able to:
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Date TBC
Session: 09:00 - 12:30
Online (link will be shared) |
Everything you need to know to be an Educational Supervisor in Stage 2 * This interactive workshop is run by Dr. Sam Thenabadu, Stage 3 Lead at the Medical School, and Deputy Dean. This will bring ESs from Primary and Secondary Care coming and learning together. You only need to attend one of these sessions every 3 years* *External Event |
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NOVEMBER 2024 |
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Tuesday 5th November Lunch: 13:00 Session: 13:30-16:30
Location: TBC |
Stage 2 Tutor Review Day Mandatory – Stage 2 team |
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Wednesday 6th November Session: 13:00-14.30
Online (Link will be shared) |
Peer Observation (AoME workshop) With Drs Rini Paul & Stephanie Wassell. How do you know how you are doing with teaching? We are used to clinical observation and feedback, but do not often get this support with our teaching. This interactive webinar will introduce the skills, process and practices for peer observation and opportunities to support others with subsequent observations and feedback. If you are attending, please prepare a 5 min interactive microteach on a teaching or non-medical topic. |
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JANUARY 2025 |
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Wednesday 15th January
Lunch: 13:00 Session: 13:30-16:30
Location: Addison House, Guys Campus Room: 6.07 |
KITT (KUMEC Introduction to Teacher Training) (AoME workshop) This course is facilitated by Drs Rini Paul and Laila Abdullah from the TD team with a welcome from Professor Anne Stephenson. This is aimed at new teachers who have not done an introductory teaching course elsewhere. It will include lesson planning, giving feedback, learning needs analysis and plenty of opportunity to practice new skills with students. |
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Date TBC Session: 09:00 - 12:30 Online (link will be shared) |
Everything you need to know to be an Educational Supervisor in Stage 2* You only need to attend one of these sessions every 3 years* *External Event |
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FEBRUARY 2025 |
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Wednesday 26th February Session: 13:30 - 16:00
Online (Link will be shared) |
Single Best Answer (SBA) with Dr Laila Abdullah (AoME workshop) In this two-and-a-half-hour workshop you will be guided through the skill of writing single best answer (SBA) questions with the aim of generating high quality SBAs for use in our students’ assessments. You will be asked to complete some pre-reading and bring along 3 potential questions/clinical cases to the workshop where you will have training on the golden rules of SBA writing, time to develop your questions and participate in peer review. This will be a fun, interactive and creative session. We particularly welcome practice-based tutors, those who have experience in writing SBAs or have a keen interest in developing skills in assessment. If interested, please email: laila.abdullah@kcl.ac.uk or Roz.miah@kcl.ac.uk |
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MARCH 2025 |
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Wednesday 5th March
Lunch: 13:00 Session 13:30 - 16:30
Location: Addison House, Guys Campus Room: 6.07 |
Coaching and Leadership with Mrs Yvonne Batson-Wright (AoME workshop)
This interactive workshop will explore the value of coaching and inclusive leadership and how to use these skills to define, refine and achieve personal/professional goals. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
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APRIL 2025 |
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Wednesday 30th April
Lunch: 13:00 Session 13:30 - 16:30
Location: Addison House, Guys Campus Room: 6.07 |
KITT (KUMEC Introduction to Teacher Training) (AoME workshop) This course is facilitated by Drs Rini Paul and Laila Abdullah from the TD team with a welcome from Professor Anne Stephenson. This is aimed at new teachers who have not done an introductory teaching course elsewhere. It will include lesson planning, giving feedback, learning needs analysis and plenty of opportunity to practice new skills with students. |
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MAY 2025 |
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Wednesday 21st May
Lunch 13:00 Session: 13:30-16:30
Location: Addison House, Guys Campus Room: 6.07 |
Helping Students with the Clinical Reasoning & Communicating Risk with Patients with Drs Rini Paul and Niki Jakeways (AoME workshop) This interactive workshop covers some basic theory about clinical reasoning (which includes clinical decision making). Many students (and doctors) struggle to communicate evidence and population level statistics to patients to enable them to make informed individual decisions. This workshop will use patient decision aids, clinical case examples, discussions and exercises to help you explore your own reasoning and decision-making processes and unpick them with students to explain and support your learners and supervisees to develop their own reasoning skills. |
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Date TBC Session: 09:00 - 12:30 Online (link will be shared) |
Everything you need to know to be an Educational Supervisor in Stage 2* You only need to attend one of these sessions every 3 years* *External Event |
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JUNE 2025 |
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Wednesday 18th June |
Annual Primary Care Conference 2025
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How to apply for The Academy of Medical Educators (AoME)
Any of our KUMEC teachers can sign up for the MTS workshops via teaching portal access in the usual way. The workshops can be undertaken with the aim of applying for AoME membership, or simply as part of your own ongoing continuing professional development.
If you would like to apply for membership of AoME, you will need to complete a reflective writing piece of work for three MTS workshops, over a course of two years. Titles can be found under workshop details in this handbook and will also be given out at each workshop.Your writing should reflect a personal account of your teaching, what you're learning from the workshop and wider reading has taught you, and how you plan to put this into action. It is a scholarly piece of work, so should contain references and be structured in a formal way, rather than a conversational style, for example avoiding contractions such as “didn’t”, “weren’t” etc. The Teacher Development Lead can support you with this, with previous examples and guidance on scholarly writing.
Written work should be submitted to the Teacher Development Leads for review and formative feedback. On completion of three pieces which have demonstrated progression and incorporating the feedback, you will be issued with a certificate of completion and, a reference for your AoME application, which you will need to submit with your application.
Further details can be found here: http://www.medicaleducators.org/write/MediaManager/Membership_Application_Guidance.pdf
Please keep an eye on our website (and newsletters) for more details of the workshops. You can sign up using the KUMEC portal if you have your login details and/or contacting our Teacher Development administrator or kumecteachers@kcl.ac.uk (some events will have different sign up methods/links).
You may also want to have a look at our KUMEC Teachers YouTube channel which has a growing number of short videos recorded on Educational Theory and Teaching remote consulting and online teaching sessions.
