Clinical Fellow in Ambulatory Emergency Care

at  Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

The post holders will work in an outpatient setting providing initial assessment of patients, organization of relevant investigations and planning the ongoing management and discharge of patients back to the community. The AEC works closely with inpatient teams, including radiology, ED, surgery, orthopedics, medical specialties, microbiology as well as community teams such as our Virtual Ward service which is co-located with AEC. The ambulatory care unit has a dedicated Consultant and Senior Nurse who supervise the diagnosis, management and treatment of patients on the unit and provide teaching and support for the many procedures (chest drains, ascitic drains, lumbar punctures, infusions and diagnostic imaging) which take place there. Undergraduate medical teaching (10% of each post) The post-holders teaching responsibilities are (1) to deliver teaching within the medical specialties to undergraduate medical students at the Whittington campus of UCL Medical School (supported by curriculum leads), and (2) continue development of teaching skills The post-holder will be teaching module A, year 4 (first clinical year) curriculum.
Module A consists of Acute medicine, Cardiology and Respiratory Medicine. There will be opportunities to develop as a teacher and educator. As an example, a recent fellow developed paediatric simulation teaching for the intercalated BSc for year 5 UCL students and wrote tutor guides for those who provide undergraduate teaching across specialties. The post-holder will need to be flexible in their approach as the teaching and clinical commitments may vary throughout the year based on the students academic term timetable.
The post-holder must have some experience at providing pastoral care for peers and/or students thus far in their career. The post-holder will be expected to build a generic clinical educational portfolio. They will be supported in this by an educational, developmental and appraisal process. They will be encouraged to complete a formal qualification in medical education if desired.
A personalised development plan will be constructed to provide suitable learning opportunities and encourage exposure to advanced teaching techniques including (where relevant) behavioural feedback, high fidelity full immersion simulation, and technologically advanced part task trainers and other technical skills-based devices. The post-holder will be encouraged to undertake research in any area of medical education, but we particularly welcome applicants with a strong background and interest in novel teaching approaches

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