Congratulations to Education Academy Award winners
Exceptional contributions that King’s Health Partners colleagues have made to education and training over 2021 were recently recognised.
The King’s Health Partners Education Academy Awards are an opportunity to celebrate individuals and teams across the partnership who have gone the extra mile to develop and share education and training with their colleagues and patients. Our winners describe how they felt receiving their awards below.
Overview
- Education and Training making a difference in practice: Richard Fisher, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KCH).
- Multiprofessional Learning: Prof James Galloway, Senior Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London (KCL) and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology, KCH.
- Workplace Based Learning: Dr Sian Holdridge, Core Psychiatry Trainee, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)
- Mind and Body: Natalia Stepan on behalf of King’s Health Partners Mind & Body Programme team.
- Adapting curriculum CPD for parity of esteem: Dr Biba Stanton, Consultant Neurologist, KCH.
- Link to redesign pathway: Claire Squire, Community Matron, and Nykki Hetherton, Dementia Clinical Nurse Specialist, SLaM.
- Education for innovation – working in different ways: Dr Lalani Carlton Jones, Consultant Neuroradiologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT), Evelina London and KCH.
- Value based education: Dr Matthew Edwards, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine, KCH.
- Peter Hyland’s Award: Kai-Loke Chan and the King’s Health Partners simulation team - Richard Pudney, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Wendy Crossey, Royal Brompton and Harefield; Chris Eaton, GSTT; Kate Pine, KCH; Loren Bailey, SLaM; and Colin Rook, GSTT.
Category: Education and Training making a difference in practice
Winner: Dr Richard Fisher, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, KCH
Dr Fisher was nominated by six senior clinical fellows for his pioneering work in developing and implementing an extremely successful echocardiography training programme for all healthcare professionals working in our Department. As part of this project, Dr Fisher organised and led countless practical and theoretical supervision sessions on basic and advanced echocardiography. As a result, numerous junior doctors, nurses, and advanced practitioners were able to acquire the necessary knowledge and practical skills to conduct high standard echocardiography exams.
Over the last 2 years, Dr Fisher’s dedication and investment in this project was truly impressive. To this day, he continues to organise weekly supervision meetings, ad-hoc practical sessions, and regional echo courses open to anyone who is interested in learning echocardiography. Over time, he supported numerous healthcare professionals in obtaining an echo certification. He is an excellent educator that has always maintained the highest possible didactic standards.
Category: Multiprofessional Learning
Winner: Prof James Galloway [pictured below], Senior Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London (KCL) and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology, KCH.
James received an award for his engaging work supporting early academic career clinicians in their research and application skills, increasing research capacity and reaching a number of multidisciplinary team members.
James commented on the positive news:
I am absolutely delighted to receive this award. It is an enormously welcome surprise – and it will go towards sending my research team to our National congress in Glasgow in the Spring. Three of my team were students on the DCR this year and have managed to get abstracts into the congress – so this is an amazing opportunity to get them to see their research on a national platform!
I am enormously fortunate to have educational roles within King’s Health Partners. The work with early academic career clinicians provides incredible motivation for me to work harder on my own studies! Watching trainees build their research skills, craft applications to funders such as the NIHR, and ultimately see their publications appear in PubMed – it is a very satisfying thing to be involved in. It is perhaps relevant to say that during the pandemic, despite the enormous impacts on every part of life, we have continued to support an incredible cohort of academic clinical trainees.
Category: Workplace Based Learning
Winner: Dr Sian Holdridge [pictured below], Core Psychiatry Trainee, SLaM.
Talking about receiving the award for Workplace Based Learning, Sian Holdridge said:
I feel very proud to have won a King’s Health Partners Education Academy Award in the workplace learning category. I had the idea for Bite-Sized Medicine when a colleague talked about a rare physical health condition that she had come across when covering the psychiatric inpatient wards on call. It occurred to me how useful it would be for her to share this knowledge with fellow trainees. As psychiatry trainees it is paramount that we maintain a high standard of physical health medicine yet there are many physical health issues that are unique to psychiatry and may not have been studied in depth at medical school.
I designed Bite-Sized Medicine to help bridge that gap. It consists of a once-monthly, ten minute/ten slide session whereby trainees present acute physical health issues when covering the psychiatric wards. It is by trainees, for trainees. I believe that the sharing of knowledge between peers is a powerful resource that can ultimately produce safer doctors and better patient care, and that this can be done in an informal, non-didactic way. Thus far it has been implemented in the Croydon borough of the Maudsley Training Programme. It is an honour to win this award and it has strengthened my resolve to expand the project further into other boroughs.
Category: Mind and Body
Winner: Natalia Stepan on behalf of King’s Health Partners Mind & Body Programme team [pictured below].
The award panel were impressed by the scale and reach of the Mind & Body education and training resources with over 8,000 delegates accessing the materials in 165 countries. This work allows staff to learn relevant clinical skills from one another ‘on the job’ and ensures that a wider range of staff are able to deliver high quality mind and body care to patients.
Natalia Stepan, on behalf of the Mind & Body Programme commented on receiving the award:
Thank you so much, this is great news. The Mind & Body training is really valuable in helping every member of staff feel confident in addressing our patients’ mind and body needs. The team, with invaluable support from Florin and the Mind & Body Expert Advisory Group, have done a lot of work to bring it online, expand it, and increase access, so it’s nice to see that acknowledged.
Category: Adapting curriculum CPD for parity of self esteem
Winner: Dr Biba Stanton [pictured below], Consultant Neurologist, KCH.
Dr Stanton won the award for developing engaging and accessible online learning modules for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).
She commented about her work and the award:
FND is a common condition in which neurological symptoms arise from a problem with the functioning of the nervous system. Health professionals often get very little training in FND, so find it hard to make the diagnosis and explain the condition to patients. I developed a set of interactive online learning modules, to try to fill this gap. The modules take about 30 minutes each, so hopefully it is something that clinicians can fit in around their busy schedules. I also had great support from our Service User and Carer Advisory Group, who made videos to share their experience of living with FND. It’s great that King’s Health Partners Neurosciences have supported this work, and I hope that colleagues will find them useful.
Category: Link to redesign pathway
Winner: Claire Squire, Community Matron, and Nykki Hetherton, Dementia Clinical Nurse Specialist, SLaM.
Claire and Nykki received their award for developing vital ‘End of Life Resources’ for clinicians, a now nationally recognised and multidisciplinary service. Commenting on the award, they said:
We are absolutely thrilled to receive this award from KHP for the Link to redesign pathway category. This recognises collaborative efforts, commitment and dedication of both staff members and coproducing partners in the last 2 years, to successfully implement our End of Life Resources. All those involved are driven by a desire to improve end of life care for all. We remain committed to improved outcomes for our patients, their loved ones and continue to develop our work. This award has been a tremendous boost to our groups and will further bolster our continued efforts to improve our services.
Category: Education for innovation – working in different ways
Winner: Dr Lalani Carlton Jones, Consultant Neuroradiologist, GSTT, Evelina London and KCH.
The panel awarded Dr Carlton Jones for her work towards virtual neuroradiology education, which was recognised for its reach wide reach to lower income countries.
Following the announcement, she said:
It was a great honour to have received an award from King’s Health Partners for my work contributing to virtual neuroradiology education. As part of the British Society of Neuroradiologists Education committee, for which I am the educational programme co-lead, we have designed several initiatives to deliver virtual education. The main education program is novel in structure in that it uses interactive virtual case review alongside traditional lectures in which participants anywhere in the world can review and assess full imaging cases themselves live. We have had more than 1,500 registrants to the program from all around the globe including many lower income countries.
I am immensely proud of our team for innovating to deliver high quality radiology education initially in response to, but which has gone beyond the COVID 19 pandemic. Delivering this has been challenging and rewarding in equal measure. This would not have been possible without the hard work of the incredible British Society of Neuroradiologists Training and Education Subcommittee team and the support of so many of the neuroradiology community who took the time to prepare and deliver sessions and we are grateful to them all.
Category: Value based education
Winner: Dr Matthew Edwards, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine, KCH.
Dr Edwards’ colleagues praised his work in their nomination for him:
Matt has an obvious passion for teaching, advocating its importance in not only enhancing skillsets and building better teams, but also the positive influence it has on well-being and motivation. Despite the challenges and unpredictability that the pandemic has created, over the last 18 months he has tirelessly driven forwards with a low-moderate fidelity in situ simulation-based programme across the Emergency Department, encompassing both adult and paediatric emergency care. The minimum weekly 15-20 minute sessions involve all the healthcare professionals who work within the emergency department, welcoming doctors, nurses, students, mental health liaison staff, security and allied specialities to learn together to improve their knowledge.
He is involved in writing clinical scenarios, delivering newly developed guidance or pathways, or embedding CQC and adverse incident themes. He is resolute in his ambition to improve the quality of this “shopfloor based, accessible for all” teaching, even creating a model thorax at home with DIY materials to deliver thoracotomy teaching, and a head for traumatic brain injury education, alongside the more traditional aides such as ECGs, blood gases, monitoring equipment, etc. His teaching style, versatility and enthusiasm has been admired by all the team and he truly deserves a high accolade for his dedication.
Talking about the award, the panel said:
This was a wonderful nomination, demonstrating wider multiprofessional engagement. His enthusiasm, despite the challenges of the pandemic are admirable and really shone out in the nomination. He takes the teaching opportunities to support and develop his staff, which is so important. He receives positive feedback from colleagues which is a further supportive element as our winning entry.
Category: Peter Hyland’s Award
Winner: Kai-Loke Chan and the King’s Health Partners simulation team - Richard Pudney, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Wendy Crossey, Royal Brompton and Harefield; Chris Eaton, GSTT; Kate Pine, KCH; Loren Bailey, SLaM; and Colin Rook, GSTT.
The nomination for Kai-Loke Chan and the King’s Health Partners simulation team stated:
Pharmacy pre-registration students need exposure to realistic situations they will encounter in clinical practice, in order to be effective clinicians. Some situations are not commonly seen in routine practice. To date, simulation in pharmacy has been underutilised.
Kai-Loke and the pharmacy simulation team aimed to establish a model and infrastructure for using simulation as a method of training for pre-registration pharmacists, to provide exposure to difficult challenges they might face in their practice. The team designed and tested 9 simulation scenarios, mapped to GPhC Training Standards. Since the pilot began, 68 trainees have undertaken training, with early evaluation suggesting statistically significant improvements in pre and post training scores on the Mental Health Clinicians Attitudes Scale and the Human Factors Skills for Health Care Instrument.
Talking about the value of the King’s Health Partners simulation team’s project, the panel said:
Kai-Love Chan and the team deserve to win the Peter Hyland award because their pilot, applying simulations in pre-reg pharmacy training, is innovative in this setting and has demonstrated the positive impact of this type of immersive training (eg confidence, better understanding of Human Factors and attitudes to mental health) and has immense potential to scale.