Research & Development
The Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network is pleased to announce that it has awarded six small grants to support research and development in clinical skills in Scotland 2011-12 as part of its ongoing grants programme. The successful applicants are:
(North)
Sundari Joseph et al, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen: Peer teaching of clinical skills by undergraduate students from medicine, nursing and health sciences.
Prof Jean Ker et al, University of Dundee: Standards of safe clinical practice in the elderly - identifying the components for a core clinical skills bundle.
Kenneth Walker et al, North Deanery, NHS Education for Scotland: Highland Surgical Bootcamp: using self-regulated learning microanalysis to determine if sequential simulations can accelerate non-technical and technical skills acquisition in new-start surgical trainees.
(South & East)
Kirsty Egan, Edinburgh Patient Partnership/University of Edinburgh: Exploring ways of gathering feedback from patients involved in UG Medical Education.
Edward Mellanby, University of Edinburgh: Development of a behavioural marker system for newly qualified doctors in managing acutely unwell patients.
(West)
Sofia Chaudhri et al, RAH, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde: Evaluation of the introduction of a skills-based difficult airway training programme for critical care.
Research was asked to have demonstrable benefit to the patient experience or patient safety, focussing around: Human factors for patient safety; Transferring skills from simulation into practice; Measuring the impact of skills education in the workplace; Accreditation of skills; Inter-professional aspects of skills teaching, and Partnership working.
The successful applicant teams will have the opportunity to showcase their work at the annual CS MEN R&D conference, to be held in autumn 2012.
