PROGRAMME

“Ensuring Quality in Medical Education”

28 November 2008

Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place,

Regent’s Park, London

0900-0925     REGISTRATION AND COFFEE                      

0925-0930     Welcome - Dr Liz Spencer, Chair NACT UK

Session One: Good Ingredients? (The interface between U/graduate & PGME)

Chair:         Prof Stuart MacPherson, PMETB
0930-0950     Keynote Speaker Prof David Sowden, Acting Director of Medical Education, NHS England

0950-1010     The Impact of transistions in the delivery of high quality medical education, Dr John Jenkins, Council Member, GMC

1010-1030     Discussion

1030-1100     COFFEE

Session Two: How good is the kitchen? – (How does the workface fit in?)

Chair:          Dr Mike Watson, Chair COPMeD

1100-1130     Standards of Teachers- set by whom?, Prof John Bligh,

1130-1200     What we expect the workplace to deliver, Mr Stuart Carney, Found School Dir, LNR

1200-1230     Discussion

1230-1330              LUNCH

1330-1400  

Chair:          Dr Liz Spencer, Chair NACT UK

The ES Meyer Memorial Lecture, Dr Penny Gordon, NACTUK/Wyeth Travelling Fellow 2008

 Session Three: How do we make the workplace deliver High Quality Training

Chair:            Dr Alistair Thomson, Vice Chair, NACT UK

1400-1420     Workplace Delivering Training, Mrs Heather Lawrence CE Chelsea & Westminster
1420-1440     View from the Deaneries, Prof Stuart Irvine,

1440-1500     View from a Trainee, Dr Nicky Cohen, Immediate past Chair of Academy Trainees Committee

1500-1520              Discussion

1520-1550     TEA

Session Four:

Chair:          Prof Bill Reid, Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, SE Scotland
1550-1620     How will we achieve the Quality Product, Prof Neil
D ouglas  Head of Education, AoMRC

1630-1700     Discussion