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Education

Our partnership recognises the importance of education and training:

  • for the future of our healthcare workforce
  • for current and future students
  • in the development of our local community, and
  • in bringing about improved patient care through the faster translation of research

To achieve this, we have brought our education and training activities (including continuing professional development) together with our clinical services and research. The vehicle for delivering this integration is our newly created Clinical Academic Groups.

Our ambitious strategy for education includes:

For information about undergraduate and postgraduate courses, please visit the website of our university partner King’s College London.

Our Education Academy

The Education Academy will oversee the education and training activities of the founding organisations to ensure consistent standards of excellence and will include all students and staff.
Working with the Clinical Academic Groups it will map workforce needs, delivering or procuring courses/programmes to ensure needs are met. Within the Academy will be “Institutes” focusing on Innovation (including a Centre for Distance Learning) and Global Health Education and Training.
The Academy will effect a cultural shift in educational practices towards a portfolio of learning approaches that include the best, proven technological developments to meet the diverse needs of learners. It will be responsible for accreditation and quality assurance and dissemination of innovative learning methods and technologies.
The Academy is made up of twelve cross-cutting themes. They are:

 

  • Careers management - led by Camilla Kingdon
  • Global health education & training - led by Andy Leather
  • Improving health & well-being - led by Hilary McCallion
  • Innovative technology & teaching - led by Pat Reynolds
  • Interprofessional education and training - led by Elaine Gill
  • Leadership - lead by Margaret Murphy
  • Pedagogic research - led by Paul Blackmore
  • Postgraduate clinical education - led by Diana Hamilton-Fairley
  • Quality assurance - led by Sheila Kitchen
  • Research & teaching - led by Andrew Cope
  • Simulation - led by Peter Jaye
  • Widening participation - currently vacant

The Academy sits at the centre of our Health Innovation Education Cluster (HIEC). The HIEC will work with local health services, ensuring our innovation in clinical care, teaching methods and research improves the health of our “local” population.

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