KUMEC GP Teachers Conference 2023 – Innovations in GP Med Ed

KUMEC Teacher Development Events 

Upcoming Teacher Development workshop dates, details and how to sign up

2021 Conferences Onwards

KUMEC Conferences

2020 Conferences

The 2020 Annual KUMEC Community Teachers Conference

Conference Introduction 2020

ED Talks - Dr Russell Hearn

ED Talks - Dr James Munro

ED Talks - Dr Dominique Thompson

ED Talks - Dr Jeeves Wijesuriya

ED Talks - Afro Carribean Medical Society

Remote Teaching Resources:

KUMEC Microsoft Teams Training

2019 Conferences

The 2019 Annual KUMEC Community Teachers Conference

Workshops:

Word On The Street

Navigating the multidimensions of professionalism

The impact of everyday ‘isms’

SAPC (Society of Academic Primary Care) Conference

Dr Niki Jakeways presented the work that KUMEC have been doing in encouraging 2^nd year medical students to promote physical activity whilst on their GP placements: ‘Promoting Active Practice: medical students in action’. This presentation was a team effort and built on the work of Dr Laila Abdullah, Dr Liza Kirtchuk (both on maternity leave) and Dr Ann Wylie. Please take a look at the presentation to see some of the projects that the students designed and worked on.

Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) Conference

Tristan Fraser is a final year King’s medical student who won the Student Prize at ASME this year.Tristan's paper titled "Peer Marking for Written Assessment" explored a seldom-used application of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) in written work, investigating whether students can provide valid, reliable marks as well as helpful peer feedback on essays previously submitted as part of SSCs. Qualitative analysis on the surveys and focus group transcripts showed peers enjoyed the different insight peers provide, whilst quantitative analysis on the peer marks showed no significant difference between peer and faculty marks. This pilot study may show the benefit of using peers to mark written work for students to gain a novel insight into providing feedback, as well as relieving faculty teaching burden.

Pete Tayler-Hunt gave a debate-provoking presentation examining the impact of student honesty on an online system for recording lecture attendance. The findings of the study correlated with those conducted within other educational establishments: students are more comfortable being dishonest online, likely as a consequence of the lack of affective feedback inherent in online interactions. Whilst lecture attendance is a strong predictor of academic success, causality cannot be assumed, and lecture attendance is probably not the most accurate measure of student engagement in an academic programme.

Dr Anicka Sufraz (a recent KCL graduate) gave a presentation on the use of a family translator in the Phase 3 RCGP sessions

2018 Conferences

The 2018 Annual KUMEC Community Teachers Conference

The 2018 KUMEC conference was on the Mind and Body, Integrating Mental and Physical Healthcare and the feedback reminded us of how important it is to look after ourselves first and also our students, colleagues and patients. Here are the PDFs of the slides from our two Keynote Speakers and some of our workshop facilitators.

Dr Zoe Williams: Physical Activity for the Management and Prevention of Disease

Dr Sean Cross: Overcoming barriers to mental and physical healthcare integration in our hospitals

Workshops:

Michelle Robinson: Student Support for Struggling Students

Dr Jonathan Tomlinson: Trauma

SAPC (Society of Academic Primary Care) Conference

Neelam Parmar is Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in primary care at King’s. At this year’s UK SAPC (Society of Academic Primary Care) conference, she was winner of the best education presentation (her work with Drs Russell Hearn, Patrick White and Shaine Mehta. The paper was entitled: “Emotional responses from medical students provoked by professionalism issues in simulated primary care consultations”.

Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) Conference 2018

Dr Liza Kirtchuk and Dr Niki Jakeways presented an “Evaluation of an innovative undergraduate longitudinal placement for 2^nd year medical students in General Practice: What works and what needs to improve”. Key findings from the evaluation of the inaugural year of the programme illustrated the successes that centred around the continuity and legitimacy of the student role in the GP learning environment, as well as the challenges and next steps for continued improvement. For more information, please find the abstract attached, or contact us.

2017 Conferences

The 2017 Annual KUMEC Community Teachers Conference

Please see the Graphic Narration from the day.

Society for Academic Primary Care Conference 2017

GP Speciality Teachers as Trainees

by Liza Kirtchuk and Kerry Boardman

Encouraging registrars from local schemes to teach our students is something we have been doing for a few years at KUMEC, and for the past year we have been more formally evaluating this, in collaboration with UCL who run Innovative Training Posts (ITPs) in medical education at their local GP specialty training schemes. Our analysis of the routine student evaluation data (the feedback given at the end of placement) shows that trainees are receiving evaluations on a par with qualified tutors and students feel they demonstrate effective teaching strategies, positive attitudes towards students and represent good role models. Interviews we have conducted with trainees indicate that teaching contributes to development of their clinical knowledge, as well as an understanding of themselves as learners. They view themselves as near peers and feel this contributes to a safe learning environment. They have some concerns about their limited GP experience and how this impacts on their teaching. The next phase of our research will be to carry out focus groups and interviews with both students who have been taught by trainees, and other key stakeholders in medical education, such as PDs, Heads of Teaching at universisities and GP trainers. We are exploring the development of an ITP in medical education within our local training schemes as well.

Click here to see a recent presentation at the Society for Academic Primary Care conference proposing that all GP trainees should be given the opportunity to teach, and a summary of their project and findings so far are here. 

Stephenson A., Bliss J. (2020) Supporting the Development of Professionalism in the Education of Health Professionals. In: Nestel D., Reedy G., McKenna L., Gough S. (eds) Clinical Education for the Health Professions. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6106-7_100-1

Stephenson, A., Mueller, M., Grabinar, J. 2017, 2^nd edition. 100 Cases in General Practice. London: CRC Press. Japanese version published 2011.

Stephenson, A. (ed.) 2011, 3rd edition. A Textbook of General Practice. London: Hodder Arnold. (1^st edition 1998 and 2^nd edition 2004). Winner of the Basic Book Category, The Society of Authors/ Medical Society of London Medical Book Awards, 1998; Second edition highly commended in the Primary Health Care category of the 2005 BMA Medical Book Competition. Third edition Highly Commended in the 2012 BMA Book Awards. Greek editions published 2011 and 2018. Lithuanian edition published 2016.

Smyth Zahra, F., Leedham-Green, K. E., Stephenson, A. E., Dunton, K. & Hurwitz, B. S.,

Thinking Outside the Box for Health & Healthcare: Humanities-Based Approaches to Clinical Learning. Nov 2018, In : Conference: Transform MedEd 2018, Singapore. Imperial College London and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Singapore.

Anne Stephenson. Book Review. Mapping uncertainty in medicine: What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Education for Primary Care 2016; 2(6):509-10

M. Chourdakis, E. Smyrnakis, I. Doundoulakis, K. Leedham-Green, A. Wylie, A. Benos, A. Stephenson

Degree of Motivation and Perception of Targeted Weight Loss among Overweight and Obese Patients in Primary Care during a Novel Behavioral Change Consultation. Clinical Nutrition 2016;Vol. 35, S228

Leedham-Green KE., Smynakis, E., Wylie, A., Chourdakis, M., Stephenson, AE. & Benos, A. Letters: Breaking down the barriers to international collaboration through technology. Education for Primary Care 2016. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14739879.2016.1203269.

Hugh Alberti, Joe Rosenthal, Liza Kirtchuk, Harish Thampy & Michael Harrison (2019) Near peer teaching in general practice: option or expectation? , Education for Primary Care, DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2019.1657363

Sandhu P, Wylie A, Jakeways N, Kirtchuk L, 2018, 'Clinical Humanities in Primary Care for Year 2 Medical Students: A Student perspective ', MedEdPublish, 7, [3], 55

Harish Thampy, Hugh Alberti, Liza Kirtchuk, Joe Rosenthal Br J Near peer teaching in general practice, Gen Pract 2019; 69 (678): 12-13. DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19X700361

Drain P, Wylie A. Global awareness, Chapter 11 in Section 4 Curriculum themes In: Dent J, Harden R, Hunt D, editors. Practical Guide for Medical Teacher fifth ed. UK: Elsevier; 2017. p. 236-42.

Leedham-Green KE, Pound R, Wylie A. Enabling tomorrow’s doctors to address obesity in a GP consultation: an action research project. Education for Primary Care. 2016:1-8.

Leedham-Green KE, Smyrnakis E, Wylie A, Chourdakis M, Stephenson A, Benos A. Breaking down the barriers to international collaboration through technology. Education for Primary Care. 2016

Wylie A, Leedham-Green K. Piloting quality improvement projects in undergraduate medical education. Medical Education. 2017;51(5):543-4.

Wylie A, Leedham-Green K. Health promotion in medical education: lessons from a major undergraduate curriculum implementation. Education for Primary Care. 2017:1-9.

The medical response to the Boston Marathon bombings: An analysis of social media commentary and professional opinion. Cote E. & Hearn R., Perspectives in Public Health; 2016. PMID: 27161388

Stephenson A., Bliss J. (2020) Supporting the Development of Professionalism in the Education of Health Professionals. In: Nestel D., Reedy G., McKenna L., Gough S. (eds) Clinical Education for the Health Professions. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6106-7_100-1

Stephenson, A., Mueller, M., Grabinar, J. 2017, 2^nd edition. 100 Cases in General Practice. London: CRC Press. Japanese version published 2011.

Stephenson, A. (ed.) 2011, 3rd edition. A Textbook of General Practice. London: Hodder Arnold. (1^st edition 1998 and 2^nd edition 2004). Winner of the Basic Book Category, The Society of Authors/ Medical Society of London Medical Book Awards, 1998; Second edition highly commended in the Primary Health Care category of the 2005 BMA Medical Book Competition. Third edition Highly Commended in the 2012 BMA Book Awards. Greek editions published 2011 and 2018. Lithuanian edition published 2016.

Smyth Zahra, F., Leedham-Green, K. E., Stephenson, A. E., Dunton, K. & Hurwitz, B. S.,

Thinking Outside the Box for Health & Healthcare: Humanities-Based Approaches to Clinical Learning. Nov 2018, In : Conference: Transform MedEd 2018, Singapore. Imperial College London and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Singapore.

Anne Stephenson. Book Review. Mapping uncertainty in medicine: What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Education for Primary Care 2016; 2(6):509-10

M. Chourdakis, E. Smyrnakis, I. Doundoulakis, K. Leedham-Green, A. Wylie, A. Benos, A. Stephenson

Degree of Motivation and Perception of Targeted Weight Loss among Overweight and Obese Patients in Primary Care during a Novel Behavioral Change Consultation. Clinical Nutrition 2016;Vol. 35, S228

Leedham-Green KE., Smynakis, E., Wylie, A., Chourdakis, M., Stephenson, AE. & Benos, A. Letters: Breaking down the barriers to international collaboration through technology. Education for Primary Care 2016. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14739879.2016.1203269.

Hugh Alberti, Joe Rosenthal, Liza Kirtchuk, Harish Thampy & Michael Harrison (2019) Near peer teaching in general practice: option or expectation? , Education for Primary Care, DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2019.1657363

Sandhu P, Wylie A, Jakeways N, Kirtchuk L, 2018, 'Clinical Humanities in Primary Care for Year 2 Medical Students: A Student perspective ', MedEdPublish, 7, [3], 55

Harish Thampy, Hugh Alberti, Liza Kirtchuk, Joe Rosenthal Br J Near peer teaching in general practice, Gen Pract 2019; 69 (678): 12-13. DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19X700361

Drain P, Wylie A. Global awareness, Chapter 11 in Section 4 Curriculum themes In: Dent J, Harden R, Hunt D, editors. Practical Guide for Medical Teacher fifth ed. UK: Elsevier; 2017. p. 236-42.

Leedham-Green KE, Pound R, Wylie A. Enabling tomorrow’s doctors to address obesity in a GP consultation: an action research project. Education for Primary Care. 2016:1-8.

Leedham-Green KE, Smyrnakis E, Wylie A, Chourdakis M, Stephenson A, Benos A. Breaking down the barriers to international collaboration through technology. Education for Primary Care. 2016

Wylie A, Leedham-Green K. Piloting quality improvement projects in undergraduate medical education. Medical Education. 2017;51(5):543-4.

Wylie A, Leedham-Green K. Health promotion in medical education: lessons from a major undergraduate curriculum implementation. Education for Primary Care. 2017:1-9.

The medical response to the Boston Marathon bombings: An analysis of social media commentary and professional opinion. Cote E. & Hearn R., Perspectives in Public Health; 2016. PMID: 27161388

KUMEC Med Ed Podcasts

10-15 minute podcasts on hot topics in Medical Education

KUMEC x KCL ACMS Podcast

Student experiences of racism

Tackling Racism in Medical Schools Podcast with Gurdas Singh 

Rini interviews Medical student Gurdas Singh

KUMEC x Structure & the Clinic – Decolonising the Medical Curriculum Podcast 

Decolonising the Medical Curriculum

KUMEC x The Bigger Picture presents Kathryn Mannix 

Kathryn Mannix share stories from her book to normalise death and dying

Bigger Picture x KUMEC Liz O’Riordan Webinar 

Liz shared her story of diagnosis of Stage 3 breast cancer whilst working as a consultant breast surgeon and her subsequent journey.

• Learning in General Practice  Guiding principles and resources for undergraduate GPs
• KUMEC Teachers YouTube Channel  Short videos giving details about the curriculum and preparing to teach etc
• Helping recruit patients for OSCEs  Recruitment of patients to the patient bank for the GKT Medical School OSCEs
• Remote Teacher Training Resources  How to facilitate online synchronous seminars with recording
• Teaching Theory Videos Helping students with the clinical reasoning process