http://foundation.severndeanery.org(c) DocCom5 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:56:54 GMT Would you like to work with your colleagues to make a difference to the quality of patient care and feel great about what you can achieve? On 20th/21st November 2010, at the Clifton Pavilion, Bristol Zoo we will be hosting a Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Event for all  Foundation Doctors. We are delighted to bring you a range of motivating, engaging, informative and fun workshops and lectures, focusing on Leadership, Human Factors, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. We can promise that this event won’t be just another one of ‘those events’ fun at the time, instantly forgettable and what is promised doesn’t even start to happen. This will be a really exciting opportunity for you to start changing the patient safety culture in the South West. You can get more information by contacting Olivia Pirie by email olivia.pirie@southwest.nhs.uk or on 07738585017. Please note that this event is free to all. For more details, please click on the flier Quality Improve...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6945_45 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:01:17 GMT We want to make sure that moving to the 2010 FP Curriculum is as simple as possible, so the UKFPO and NES have put together a quick guide to help ease the transition. There are two providers of the Foundation Learning e-Portfolio in the UK: Horus (used in the North Western Foundation School) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) which is used in the rest of the UK. From August, there will no longer be a paper-based version of the learning portfolio on the UKFPO website. This guide particularly pertains to the NES e-portfolio. What’s new for the 2010 Curriculum? Foundation doctors and administrators will not see a major change in how the site looks or functions, but there have been a few improvements and amendments to the content of the site. 2010 Curriculum and the e-Portfolio - Quick Guide       ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6816_45 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:28:34 GMT We are in the process of establishing a new, free Network for junior doctors, medical students and newly qualified Consultants and GPs interested in clinical leadership and medical management. We would love for you to join us! If you are interested please register at http://networkwithnoname.net/ We'd also love to hear your views on this area, understand what you might want from such a network and offer you the opportunity to name this new network! Please go to the following link to complete an on-line survey that will take no longer than 5 minutes to ensure your views are heard!! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/networkwithnoname We look forward to hearing from you Katie de Wit Medical Student Barts and London School of Medicine&Dentistry Junior Associate, Diagnosis katie.dewit.1@gmail.com Toby Hillman Respiratory Registrar Darzi Fellow, London tobyh@doctors.org.uk Nikki Kanani GP Specialty Trainee Clinical Lead APOH NHS London Prepare to Lead RCGP ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6815_45 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:16:12 GMTThe College is committed to offering a high level of support throughout a surgeon’s career. The Affiliate Scheme is an integral part of this commitment and we greatly value the association of early years trainees with the College. Please could you draw this to the attention of your new Foundation Trainees as those interested in Surgery could greatly benefit from participation in the scheme. Full information and online registration can be found here The College has expanded and improved the Affiliate Scheme to include medical and dental students to ensure that anyone with an interest in surgery has access to facilities, events, valuable information and advice which will support them in pursuing their career and enable them to make an informed choice of surgical or dental specialty.  The new Affiliate Scheme includes the following benefits:  Selected bursaries available for Affiliates FREE online access to the College’s Annals, Bulletin, FDJ and other e-journals and e-resources ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6755_45 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:28:41 GMTNew GMC guidance – Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making Doctors are to receive new guidance to help them make complex decisions at the end of life. In publishing the new guidance, the General Medical Council seeks to improve end-of-life treatment and care for all patients. The guidance was developed over a two year period and involved an extensive consultation with doctors, patients and their carers, family members and health care teams. For the first time, the GMC has given doctors in the UK guidance on advance care planning for patients nearing the end of life.  It emphasises to doctors the importance of listening to patients and recording an advance care plan to help ensure that everyone involved in treating the patient can understand and follow their wishes. Creating opportunities for patients and families to talk about the care they want before death, and explaining the options open to patients in a way they can understand, will ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6410_45 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:15:42 GMT Guide to involving foundation doctors in clinical audit The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has produced some new guidance to aid and support the requirements in the Curriculum for foundation doctors to to take part in clinical audit. Please find a copy of this guidance attached. More information on the HQIP’s work to promote and improve clinical audit can be found on their website www.hqip.org.uk ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6398_45 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:39:19 GMT The Foundation Programme Curriculum and the Foundation Programme Reference Guide (formerly known as the Operational Framework), were published on the UKFPO website on 14 April. These documents will come into effect from August 2010 and will be used by those doctors entering their F1 year at that time. Both originally published in 2005, these documents have been updated following feedback from PMETB/COPMED surveys, the Tooke Report and widespread consultation with a broad range of stakeholders. The Reference Guide has been approved by the four UK health departments and GMC and PMETB have approved the Curriculum. The Foundation Programme Curriculum outlines the areas in which foundation doctors must demonstrate their competency. These include communication and consultation skills, patient safety and teamwork as well as the more traditional elements of medical training. The Curriculum’s companion document, the Reference Guide, was developed to support the implementation and del...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6118_45 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:23:11 GMTBOTA (British Orthopaedic Trainees Association) Junior Membership and Conference BOTA are delighted to offer Junior Membership of BOTA to all qualified doctors from FY1 upwards. This will be administered by the BOA and will entitle these members access to the BOTA website, the BOTA Yearbook, access to the BOA Instructional and BOTA Educational courses as well as other benefits/opportunities that present themselves via BOTA. Alexander Young is the Junior BOTA Members' representative at each committee meeting and will represent the views and concerns of junior members. The cost of membership will be £30 per annum. This year, the 8th BOTA Instructional Course will be held on Friday 11th June to Sunday 13th June. This will include various lectures and Workshops. In addition to this there will be several dry bone workshops on Saturday morning. Many junior doctors, who have been unable to attend this weekend in the past, can now do so. There will be a Junior Mem...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=6056_45 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:47:11 GMTAre you a medical student and considering a career in academic medicine? Are you soon to make your application for Foundation Year jobs? If so, come and listen to presentations about the Academic Foundation Years training schemes, including talks from current AF doctors and their experiences. Academic Foundation Years Showcase Tuesday 25th May 2010 5:30‐7:30pm Lecture Theatre E29 School of Medical Sciences University of Bristol Academic FPs Showcase Flyer...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=5940_45 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTA safety checklist that reduces deaths and complications during operations must now be used in all NHS hospitals.Surgeons will have to double-check their patient's identity, diagnosis and proposed treatment. The checklist was devised by the World Health Organisation. Research in eight hospitals around the globe has shown that it reduces major complications and deaths by more than a third. According to the NHS National Patient Safety Agency, in 2007 there were 129,000 reported surgical errors, which resulted in severe harm to more than 1,000 patients and the deaths of 271. Anne Pullyblank, consultant surgeon at the North Bristol NHS Trust, has been pioneering an adapted form of the checklist in her operating theatre. She said mistakes in the NHS were rare, but could result in serious consequences, such as patients having the wrong kidney removed. Her team of doctors and nurses now gather around the anaesthetised patient before starting the operation to ensure the proc...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=5187_45 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTOur inaugural Welcome Fair was held on 5 January 2010.  Many thanks to all those who attended and contributed. A webpage including the presentations delivered on the day can be found here Welcome Fair 2010. ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=4791_45 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTBMJ Learning: 1 in 12 hospital prescriptions are wrong: how many of  these are yours? This week a survey of 19 hospitals, commissioned by the GMC, revealed that 1 in 12  junior doctors' prescriptions contained errors. There were 11,000 errors in their sample, of these over 200 were potentially fatal. Most prescription errors are picked up and corrected by pharmacists, but it shows that we need to be on our guard. Fortunately, BMJ learning can help, with this module on injectable medicines: Injectable medicines: prescribing, preparing, and administering And this, on learning from your (or your colleagues) mistakes: How to report and audit significant events: a users' guide Surely it's not all mistakes though? Some of us will have a little spare time over the holiday period - just the opportunity to write up that paper you've been meaning to do for months. Find out how to do it well: How to write a research paper and get it published ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=4560_45 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe application process for entry to the Foundation Programme in 2010 closed on 23 October.  Allocation to Foundation School was announced on 9 December via the national Foundation Programme website.  Please see the national FP website and our Entrants to F1 August 2010 webpage for further details of the application process. ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=3171_45 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Medical Specialty Training (England) 2010 Please find below a Quick Guide to recruitment to medical specialty training in England for 2010. Co-produced and designed with specialty trainees and trainers, the guide gives applicants information on: What to expect What is involved How the recruitment process works Where to find out more In addition, you may be interested to note that the Quick Guide will be published as a supplement to the 7th November issue of BMJ Careers. We also attach the Medical Specialty Training 2010 Bulletin 1 with the latest information for applicants. ST Recruitment Quick Guide ST Recruitment Bulletin We will still be encouraging applicants to access the main Applicant Guide, which contains full details on all aspects of the process and both the Quick Guide and Applicant Guide will be available on the MMC website.  The MMC website is currently being updated and re-organised to improve access to specialty training recruitment informa...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=4172_45 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTDownload a copy of the GP Careers and Recruitment Flyer ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=3925_45 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTDeanery Flu Pandemic Plan 2009 PMETB principle in relation to trainees and training during times of national emergency July 2009 Swine Flu and Training         ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=3752_45 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT The UKFPO has produced a careers advice leaflet for medical students and foundation doctors. Entitled, 'Planning Your Medical Career: A practical guide', it contains realistic careers guidance, a step-by-step guide to structuring your decision-making process as well as links to a range of further resources. Click here to download a copy Planning Your Medical Career - A practical guide ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=3617_45 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:12:34 GMT doc2doc is giving away its new e-book "You will survive: the doc2doc guide for newly qualified doctors".  The guide is written by members of the BMJ Group's social networking site doc2doc.  It includes dozens of tips and tales to help newly qualified doctors get through their first days on the wards.  It also has a handy reference guide and telephone directory to print off and take to work. To get the guide all you need to do is register on doc2doc.  It's completely free and only takes a minute.  Once you've registered click on the link on the homepage to view and download it. http://doc2doc.bmj.com ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=3172_45 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:56:18 GMTWelcome to the new Severn Foundation School portal. Here you will find all the latest news announcements, documentation and information concerning the Foundation School. ...http://foundation.severndeanery.org/display?itemfeedid=2762_45