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Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education for Kent, Surrey & Sussex Dean Director Professor David Black Head of Education Professor Zoë Playdon
Local Academic Boards & Local Faculty Groups
GEAR: Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations
Gearing Up for Patient Safety
GEAR: Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations ‐ Gearing up for Patient Safety
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Contents
Introduction to Third Edition Guide to the Amendments to second Edition of GEAR Local Academic Board GEAR Regulations 1 4 6
LAB Annual Audit and Review
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Local Faculty Group GEAR Regulations
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South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Minute template Local Academic Board Minute Template LFG Handbook generic template
Annual Audit and Review templates and models Foundation Specialty
General Practice
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1: KSS Quality Management Overview Appendix 2: Educational Supervision i. QESP: Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme Appendix 3: LAB GEAR Roles and Responsibilities of London Deanery and KSS Working Together Appendix 4: GEAR Mapping Document against PMETB Generic Standards for Training (September 2009) Appendix 5: LFG GEAR mapping against PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) Appendix 6: GUIDANCE FOR DOCUMENTATION: Local Faculty Groups (Post Foundation)(Re. Handling of Trainees in Difficulty) Record Keeping List of abbreviations and references
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Introduction to the Third Edition
These Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations (GEAR) are published as the Postgraduate Deanery for Kent, Surrey and Sussex’s response to the National Framework for Postgraduate Medical Education and Training.
Local Faculty Groups
Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Deanery’s response to the introduction of the Foundation Programme was to organise Local Faculty Groups (LFGs) in each Local Education Provider (LEP). All of the people involved in providing the new Foundation Programme in each LEP were brought together as a learning set, facilitated by a KSS Education Adviser, for five half‐day meetings. Their task was to write their local curriculum for the Foundation Programme, showing who would be teaching what, how assessment and supervision would be carried out, what the rights and responsibilities of learners were, and mapping the progress of the learner from first contact with their employer to leaving post. The focus for this work was the production of a local Student Handbook, and the creation of three annual LFG meetings, at which the progress of every Foundation doctor is reviewed and the educational development needs of their teachers are considered. As the new Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) national curriculum frameworks were produced by Royal Colleges, so a similar process was used to set up LFGs for Surgery, Medicine, and the other Specialties in turn. Up to that point, KSS Education Advisers had attended LFG meetings to provide professional support and input. In phase two of the development of the KSS GEAR system of governance, Consultant Education Advisers have been appointed and allocated to LFGs. These educational specialists further support the consolidation of LFGs. The LFG then provides the first tier of local accountability for postgraduate medical education and an effective unit for its management in LEPs.
Local Academic Boards
Building on existing local Medical Education Committees, we developed the concept of a Local Academic Board (LAB) to which the LEP’s LFGs would report. The LAB also meets three times a year, and receives reports from each LFG. The LAB is the senior LEP forum for medical education, chaired by the Director of Medical Education (DME), and with the Medical Education Manager (MEM) performing the Registry function traditionally carried out by senior university professional staff. To ensure engagement with the LEP’s clinical and managerial agendas, the LAB includes the Medical Director, Library and Knowledge Services Manager, Human Resources Director and Director of Finance and IT in its membership, as well as a postgraduate doctor representative and a lay member. The efficiency of this unit of management means that it is possible for KSS to send an Education Adviser and a Dean to each LAB meeting, so that there is regional expertise on hand within the meeting to provide advice and to support problem solving. Reflecting the agenda of the LFGs, the LAB actions or signs off both the satisfactory progress of postgraduate doctors and the learning needs that Faculties have identified for themselves.
Governance structure
In practice, therefore, LFGs provide the first line of academic management for postgraduate doctors, and supply any additional support or remediation that is needed by their learners. The LAB oversees these activities, while providing an immediate point of referral for any special circumstances. Consideration of special circumstances, and decisions about the appropriateness of action to be taken, are carried out with
the full knowledge and engagement of both the LEP’s senior management and the immediate advice of the Deanery. In this way, a local remedy can be applied to any problem area; KSS has immediate awareness of any unusual circumstances; and the KSS Head of School for Foundation or a particular Specialty becomes involved only when it is necessary and appropriate. At all stages, everyone – learner, teacher, employer, School – has a clear communication route and awareness of action taken.
GEAR
Once the principle of a LAB had been agreed with our DMEs and MEMs, in order to provide a coherent approach across the Deanery, and to ensure clarity of communication channels, we produced the GEAR, which are contained in this document. A detailed exercise was carried out to map the GEAR to the Standards for Training provided by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) and by the General Medical Council (GMC); to the PMETB’s Quality Assurance of the Foundation Programme requirements; to the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) Risk Management Standards for Acute Trusts; and to the Care Quality Commission (CQC’s) Annual Health Check. This provided the educational governance required by MMC, made an explicit link with clinical governance, and demonstrated the material benefits available to LEP Chief Executives who invest in high‐quality education. The title, GEAR, new to Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (PGME) but long‐standing in mainstream higher education, reflects the document’s nature; it prescribes formal requirements for the local academic management of a graduate programme of study. The regulations thus provide a link into the language and processes of university education, reflecting a desire for better articulation between undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. However, it has also been written as a generic document, which could be applied to other, non‐MMC areas of education, and some KSS LEPs have already created a LFG for undergraduate medical education, reporting to the LAB, as a means of streamlining and gathering together all of their medical education under one academic umbrella.
Financial and organisational implications
There are, of course, financial and organisational implications to introducing GEAR, and in particular, we have had to make provision for administrative support for LFGs, with their administrators being managed by MEMs. The cost of quality, however, is always less than the cost of no quality, and the benefits – ensuring that KSS patients, their families and their carers are attended by doctors who are competent to provide care; reducing clinical risk for LEPs; and making sure that our learners get the best possible education – provide rewards that far outweigh that investment. n.b.We use the term ‘Postgraduate Doctors’ to cover all those learners whose progress is managed by our LFG structures.
Acknowledgements
All of our work comes about through a collaborative process, in which many people, including the authors, participate. As GEAR has developed and embedded, we have benefited from the best practice developed by our GP Deanery and by our Foundation School. These contributions, the longer‐term experience of the Foundation Programme, and the maturely developed contexts of Primary Care, have been invaluable in developing GEAR to a third edition and are gratefully acknowledged. We should also like to acknowledge the contribution of our academic colleagues, including David Wood, and the alumni of our Master of Arts (Clinical Education) programme, who provided the intellectual and professional debate that informed the creation of GEAR; our Dean Director, Professor David Black, our Deputy Dean Secondary Care, Dr Kevin
Kelleher, and their teams of Deans and Heads of School, who supported this innovative trajectory of development; and above all, the MEMs and their DMEs, the ‘ancient reluctant conscripts’ of Carl Sandburg’s poem, who joined us willingly on another voyage, through another portal of discovery. Professor Zoë Playdon, Head of Education Dr Pam Shaw, Deputy Head of Education
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Guide to the Amendments to the Second Edition of GEAR
This revised edition of the GEAR responds to the following PMETB publications, which collectively form the National Framework for Postgraduate Medical Education and Training: Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) Generic standards for training (September 2009) Standards for deaneries (July 2008) (where appropriate) Standards for Foundation Training LEPs across the region have successfully embedded the new system of educational governance proposed by the GEAR (2008) and this third edition will help to enhance and streamline practice ‘in the field’ across the KSS region. The relationship of GEAR to Contract review. KSS has revised the Contract Review process in 2010. GEAR describes how LEPs should quality manage the processes of complying and being accountable for their LEP contract with KSS for PGME. Contract Review describes the contractual obligations and how they will be reviewed annually. Both Contract Review and the GEAR align with and are mapped against GMC requirements for PGME.
The evaluation of GEAR (1/2009) undertaken by Professor Della Fish acknowledged the substantial strengths of GEAR as a quality management process. We have incorporated several of the recommendations from the Evaluation in this edition, such as providing guidance for areas colleagues may wish to comment upon in the Annual Audit and Review sections. Key changes within this new version of GEAR are as follows: We have divided GEAR into two sections. Section 1, GEAR itself, is a shorter document containing the regulations for LABs and LFGs across the region. The second section comprises a bundle of Appendices. These include pro‐forma templates for various quality processes and supporting information. This second section comprises, therefore, the resources and paperwork colleagues will need in order to comply with the regulations. The mapping of LAB terms of reference with the new PMETB Generic Standards for Training (Sept 2009). All other documents – including templates for Annual Audit and Review and the model Training Handbook ‐ are updated in line with the most recent versions of GMC standards. All of this is also matched to the prescribed format of the KSS Annual Report to GMC. The mapping of the LAB’s work to the Care Quality Commission’s latest inspection guides and their related Department of Health core standards (June 2009). the Mapping of the LAB’s and the LFG’s work to the Third Edition of the PMETB Gold Guide to Postgraduate Training (June 2009) The incorporation into GEAR of quality management processes for KSS Library and Knowledge Services. The incorporation into GEAR of quality management processes for KSS Pharmacy education.
Each year every LFG must complete the LFG Annual Audit and Review. This is due at KSS at the latest by the date (see Calendar below) published by the Deanery for that current year, as is the LAB Annual Audit Review. These documents should be sent to the Quality Office at quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk An electronic copy of GEAR along with the LFG AAR and LAB AAR Templates can be found under the documents section at: http://www.kssdeanery.org/resources.php
A guide to working with GEAR
Colleagues in the field will find different ways of working with GEAR documentation, according to their role within the system of educational governance. The following, however, is a suggested timeline and guide to working with GEAR that will ensure that essential meetings and the generation of documentation follow the rhythm of the Postgraduate Doctors’ academic year. Please note that there has been consistently good practice in agenda‐setting and minute‐taking within many LFGs and therefore we have not found it necessary to provide a template for these within this edition of GEAR. However, centres wishing to follow a model for agendas and minutes might wish to refer to those provided by the South Thames Foundation School, which all Foundation LFGs must employ within their meetings.
Educational Governance Academic Year Calendar (August to July)
August: LAB receives and finalises dates for LFG meetings Dates of LAB meetings published Postgraduate Doctors’ Handbooks distributed at induction Postgraduate Doctors’ Representatives elected November December March/April LFG Meeting 1 sends minutes to LAB 1 LAB Meeting 1 LFG Meeting 2 – sends minutes to LAB 2 LAB Meeting 2 May Late June By 15 July By end of July LFG Meeting 3 sends minutes and LFG AAR to LAB 3 LAB receives all LFG AARs for finalisation LAB sends LAB AAR and LFG AARs to Quality Office quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk Review and finalise actions to take forward from LAB and LFG AARs for the forthcoming academic year in relation to implementation of curricula Finalise handbooks for forthcoming academic year
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Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations for Local Academic Boards
1 Purpose and scope
1.1 This document describes the arrangements (procedures, policies and organisation) within KSS LEPs (health authorities, NHS Trusts, GP practices, charitable and independent sectors), which ensure that Postgraduate Doctors and Pharmacists receive education and training that meets local, national and professional standards for PGME1. LABs fulfil the educational governance function for LEPs of postgraduate medical education in the KSS Deanery region. They undertake the quality control of postgraduate medical training programmes in order to ensure patient safety2.
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1.3 KSS LABs undertake their work in accordance with the following principles: to serve the rights and interests of patients, their families and their carers; to serve the rights and interests of KSS LEPs and other employers; to uphold the rights, entitlements and interests of the doctor in training and of the faculty which educates them.
2 LAB remit and terms of reference
2.1 LABs monitor and oversee the quality of training programmes provided by LFGs, currently including Foundation/Specialty and educational structures as agreed. They are the centralised conduit of communication, about PGME and training, between NHS Acute or Community‐based Trusts, the KSS Deanery and its Foundation/Specialty Schools, including mandated relationships with neighbouring Deaneries. Within their LEP, they are the locus both for quality control of PGME and for Local Foundation/Specialty Faculty development and quality enhancement. As such they would expect to receive and consider the implications of the annual KSS Specialty School reports. LABs meet formally three times a year. They receive and consider audit and review and other regular reports on programmes of PGME from LFGs. They audit, accept them and offer advice before forwarding them to the Schools and Deanery. They have the authority to require changes in the local delivery of programmes of PGME in line with PMETB Generic standards for Training (Sept 2009) and appropriate PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008). They may initiate LEP internal reviews of programmes of PGME and may set up and monitor quality enhancement projects, establishing sub‐committees and steering groups as appropriate. LABs host and manage quality assurance and management visits to the LEPs, most notably KSS Deanery Contract Review, specialty quality visits, and also, as required, monitoring and visits on behalf of GMC and as part of the Care Quality Commission’s Annual Health
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Check3. In this last respect, the work of the LAB addresses the following Department of Health Core Standards contained in the CQC’s guidance for NHS trusts; C1a Healthcare organisations protect patients through systems that identify and learn from all patient safety incidents and other reportable incidents, and make improvements in practice based on local and national experience and information derived from the analysis of incidents. C5b Healthcare organisations ensure that clinical care and treatment are carried out under supervision and leadership. C11a Healthcare organisations ensure that staff concerned with all aspects of the provision of healthcare are appropriately recruited, trained and qualified for the work they undertake C11b Healthcare organisations ensure that staff concerned with all aspects of the provision of healthcare participate in mandatory training programmes. C11c Healthcare organisations ensure that staff concerned with all aspects of the provision of healthcare participate in further professional and occupational development commensurate with their work throughout their working lives. 2.4 The LAB’s day‐to‐day executive work is most commonly carried out by the LEP’s MEM in the role of Academic Registrar and the LAB is normally chaired by the DME or equivalent clinician who is ultimately responsible for the probity of the LAB’s functions. These LAB regulations adopt broadly the same format as those for LFGs. They are cross‐ referenced to the GMC Domains and Standards and, where relevant, to the MMC Gold Guide 3rd edition (2009). The LAB GEAR are also mapped to the NHSLA Risk Management Standards for Acute Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and Independent Sector Providers of NHS Care (2009/10) ‐ notably 2.4: Supervision of medical staff in training ‐ and to the KSS Deanery’s GEAR for LFGs. The LAB is subject to the quality control requirements of PMETB, the CQC, KSS Deanery and the relevant LEP. Additionally the LAB must facilitate the quality management process for Library and Knowledge Services in the LEP. This will include an annual KSS verification visit which is part of the KSS Contract Review process. It will take place during a day visit to LKS in the LEP, by a verification team. The team will scrutinize the Quality Manual and discuss notable practice and exceptions with the LEP Head of LKS and other staff as appropriate. The content of the quality manual, the verification team’s report and the evidence provided as part of the LAB Strategy informs the LEP’s Contract Review. Going forward, to avoid duplication, this process is expected to align as far as possible with the NHS Library Quality Assurance Framework (2010). In this way the procedure can satisfy both national and local LKS requirements in one quality management process. The outcomes of the review must be summarized in a report and presented to Contract Review in the LEP.
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In addition the Head of LKS for KSS (or a designated proxy) will attend the LEP’s annual contract review meeting. 2.8 The quality management processes for Pharmacy Education across KSS are aligned with GEAR. These processes apply to the programme for Pre‐registration Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technician training and Pharmacists taking their PG Diploma. The quality control of Pharmacy education in each LEP will be the responsibility of a Pharmacy Local Faculty Group, normally chaired by the Chief Pharmacist in the LEP. A Pharmacy LFG may not be viable or cost efficient in small trusts or those with a small number of Pharmacists and/or individuals in training. In such cases the Chief Pharmacist may report directly to the LAB and conduct quality control processes within LAB agendas. The decision on whether this is appropriate rests with the Pharmacy Workforce Lead who will consult with the relevant LAB Chair. Pharmacy Education must comply with the standards and provisions of the General Pharmaceutical Council (2010). These standards and provisions must be the basis of the GEAR annual audit and review produced by the Pharmacy LFG. Additionally the Pharmacy Workforce Manager may from time to time specify local KSS regulations and provisions which must be addressed in the Pharmacy LFG audit and review. Through the work of LFGs, the LAB ensures adherence to the curriculum requirements of the Royal Colleges via the GMC and the Foundation/Specialty Schools. The LAB has the following functions which are listed below:
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Domains for quality control
The LAB’s role is to monitor, oversee and be responsible for all general issues of educational governance related to PGME in the LEP. This will require the LAB to meet the requirements of the PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) and PMETB Generic standards for training (Sept 2009) in conjunction with the LFGs within their remit. LABs are therefore required4:
Domain 1 Patient Safety
To oversee the work of LFGs in monitoring the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4)5.
Domain 2 Quality Management, review and evaluation
To supervise the LEP’s quality control of PGME by: a) monitoring compliance with PMETB’s statutory codes, policies, processes, domains and standards; b) managing the annual KSS Deanery Contract Review process and specialty hospital visits;
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This remit is cross‐referenced to the September 2009 PMETB Generic Standards for Training; see figures in brackets for details. n.b. Some functions described in the domains, for example the publication of recruitment statistics, are carried out by KSS Deanery or Royal Colleges. In line with the provisions and exceptions relating to ‘duty of care’ of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007.
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c) overseeing the LFGs’ relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools, the General Pharmaceutical Council and Royal Colleges); d) maintaining communication on quality with the LEP management and KSS Deanery; e) through the work of the LEP Human Resources department, monitoring compliance with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
a) To receive and consider information from LFGs about reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4); b) through the work of the KSS Medical Staffing and the LEP Human Resources department, to ensure that LFG training programmes’ comply with employment law, the Disability Discrimination Act, Race Relations (Amendment) Act, Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Acts, the Human Rights Act and other equal opportunity legislation that may be enacted and amended in the future (3.1).
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment
a) To receive and consider KSS Deanery, LFG‐ and LEP reports and information about recruitment, selection and appointment processes; b) to monitor the composition of LFG selection panels to ensure they consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5).
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
a) To satisfy itself that the academic curricula provided by the LEP meet the requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes; b) to receive and consider LFG four‐monthly reports and annual programme audit and reviews, offering advice and referring issues to the relevant KSS Deanery Foundation/Specialty School and other Deaneries as agreed in Service Level Agreements between KSS and partner Deaneries, as appropriate; c) to consider periodical reports from LKS. d) to monitor and develop the work of LFGs in order to supervise the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); e) in liaison with Foundation/Specialty Schools and KSS to monitor academic appeals procedures and to monitor the conduct and outcomes of ARCP appeals conducted by Schools (see the PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.24ff).
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
a) To establish, publicise, monitor and manage systems by which postgraduate doctors feedback, in confidence, their concerns and views about their training and education experience to an appropriate member of local faculty (6.7); b) to ensure that LFGs maintain Foundation/Specialty Careers leads who will make certain that postgraduate doctors receive career advice and support as appropriate and to monitor the LFGs in maintaining, developing and appraising the Foundation/Specialty Careers leads (6.8);
c) to ensure intervention if postgraduate doctors are subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that undermines their professional confidence or self‐esteem (6.11); d) to ensure that those following an academic path, are in flexible programmes of academic training allowing multiple entry and exit points throughout training (6.24); e) to monitor the provision of specialist training in supervision, including qualifying Clinical and Educational Supervisors through the KSS Deanery programme and ensuring attendance at triennial diversity and equality training (PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.18) and to ensure that all supervisors, trainers and assessors have completed relevant training; f) to monitor the appraisal of supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); g) to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular their use of assessment tools, their understanding of portfolios (hard copy or electronic) and progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into service provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training (6.34); h) to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio of trainers to trainees, that there are physical resources such as meeting rooms, AV equipment (8.5) and, where stipulated in PMETB‐approved curricula, such resources as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); i) if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and selected in accordance with the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (6.33).
Domain 7 Management of education and training
a) To conduct periodic internal programme reviews and host and manage external reviews of training programmes to ensure that they meet relevant standards; b) to audit their own LAB processes on an annual basis and to provide a short summative report to the Deanery; c) to share good practice and learn from other LABs; d) to initiate quality enhancement projects, special interest groups (SIGs) and foster collaboration among training programmes; e) to advise on such other matters as the LEP or KSS Deanery may refer to the LAB; f) to ensure that all those with a role in the management of education and training are familiar with GEAR and its detailed provisions (7.1, 7.2); g) to monitor the prevalence and progress of Trainees in Difficulty (TiD) through the LFG Reports and to oversee processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); h) to monitor the attendance and engagement of those involved in administering and managing training and education at LEP level, through the LFG and quality processes (7.5); i) to advise and liaise with other LEP Educational bodies.
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
a) To advise on and make representations about the distribution of resources necessary to maintain the educational capacity of the LEP and any unit offering training posts/programmes and locally‐
appointed trust posts so as to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); b) through the finance/IT and LKS functions of the LEP, to maintain access to educational facilities (including Library and Knowledge Services) and resources (including access to the Internet in all workplaces) of a standard to fulfil the KSS Education Contract and enable trainees to achieve the outcomes of the programme as specified in the approved curriculum (8.2, 8.5).
To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes.
Domain 9 Outcomes
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Membership of LABs/Roles and responsibilities
n.b. The membership is configured so that it has the collective expertise and authority to address the PMETB Generic Standards for Training (Sept 2009). DME or equivalent clinician (Chair) Academic Registrar Library and Knowledge Services Manager IT Representative Medical Director LEP Human Resources LEP Finance Senior LEP Pharmacist Representatives of LFGs as appropriate Representative of Postgraduate Doctors Representative of the KSS Education Department KSS Associate Dean Lay representative selected by LEP to represent the patient’s perspective Co‐optees at the Chair’s discretion Roles and responsibilities Academic Registrar – This title reflects the role of overseeing the implementation of the regulations as described in the Introduction. It is a role most commonly undertaken by the MEM in the LEP. Library and Knowledge Services Manager ‐ to advise on all library and knowledge services and their management issues as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. IT – to advise on all aspects of IT as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making (IT may be encompassed by the LKS Manager). Medical Director – to advise on all aspects of Clinical Governance as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. Human Resources – to advise on all aspects of HR as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. Finance – to advise on all aspects of Finance as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. KSS Education Rep.– to provide educational externality and to advise on all teaching, learning and educational management issues as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. Associate Dean – to provide Clinical externality and to advise on all medical workforce and school‐ based issues as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making.
n.b. The Head of Library and Knowledge Services (LKS) for KSS (or a proxy) has the right to attend any LAB so as to be present for any agenda item or issue generic or relevant to the provision of LKS in the KSS region. The LAB Chair or the Head of LKS or the LEP Head of LKS may request this, and the LAB Chair, local Head of LKS in the LEP and MEM will be informed about the attendance of the Head of LKS, normally at least two working days before the LAB meeting.
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Procedural Regulations for LABs
The LAB retains the overall responsibilities defined in its terms of reference (see 2 above). However, it may delegate specific activities and authorities as it considers appropriate to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities. Meetings and agendas i. ii. iii. iv. LABs will meet a minimum of three times a year. There must also be provision for convening extraordinary meetings (see below). Meetings must be convened by the Academic Registrar. The Academic Registrar should ensure that agendas and papers are circulated to all members to arrive at least three days before the meeting. The Chair, with the Academic Registrar, should plan an annual schedule of standing agenda items, so that the LAB can monitor the provision of LKS, promptly manage and control the cycle of LFG Annual Audit and Reviews, Contract Review, production and monitoring of the Action Plan and of the Quality Manual and LAB strategy documents. The annual schedule should be approved by the LAB. These documents feed in to the LAB Annual Audit and Review. If a LAB agenda item, decision or discussion causes a conflict of interest for a member of the LAB, it is the absolute responsibility of the LAB member in question to declare that interest and, normally, to withdraw for the duration of the item. Because one LAB member is a representative of Postgraduate Doctors, there must be a LAB provision for ‘closed business,’ i.e. items to be discussed and/or decided after this representative has left at the end of the meeting. LABs may make provision for extraordinary meetings. Academic Registrars may convene these to discuss single urgent agenda items, which the LAB need to discuss before its next scheduled meeting. For the Academic Registrar to convene an extraordinary meeting either at least three LAB members must request this in writing or the Chair must request it. The Academic Registrar should ensure that notification of the date, time, venue and item to be discussed in the extraordinary meeting is circulated to all members to arrive at least three days before the meeting.
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Minutes viii. The Academic Registrar (or his/her nominee as agreed by the DME) should normally arrange for minutes of the meetings to be taken. These must include action points and timetables for action. Formal minutes of meetings must be taken and distributed to members within two working weeks of each meeting. Copies of the minutes must be sent electronically to the KSS Deanery via Schools.
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When the LAB discusses an individual trainee, education provider or supervisor, a confidential minute must be taken and stored securely as an appendix to the minutes. This confidential appendix will be made available to LAB members. While confidential appendices will not routinely be made available to individuals themselves, LAB members should bear in mind that the individual may make a DPA request to obtain a copy, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
Membership xi. xii. A third of voting members shall constitute a quorum. The LAB Postgraduate Doctor Representative’s role is to represent the interests of all doctors in training. S/he will be elected from among the LFG representatives as soon as they are in place at the start of a Foundation or specialty programme, and in any case, prior to the first LAB meeting of the year. The Academic Registrar will annually notify the LFG that it may nominate a Postgraduate Doctor Representative to the LAB. The Academic Registrar will conduct an email ballot among Postgraduate Doctors, in order to select a LAB representative from the nominees. If there is a single nominee the DME will appoint this individual to the LAB by default, informing LFGs to this effect. In the event of a tie in voting, the DME will exercise a casting vote. In the event of there being no nominee, the DME will identify a suitable representative. Sub‐committees or steering groups may be set up by the LAB; membership will be agreed by the LAB and an individual identified to lead and report back. The LAB must annually elect a Vice Chair to undertake the duties of chair in the event of the Chair’s absence. Proxies for other members of the LAB may attend meetings with the permission of the Chair. The LAB should annually seek to identify from among its membership, individuals who can take responsibility for advising on TiDs, LTFT training, careers and recruitment respectively. Such individuals will normally have an expertise or an interest in the specific area. The LAB membership must include a lay member6 who will usually be selected and invited from local nominees. LAB lay members should be non‐medical and will usually be drawn from employing bodies or postgraduate higher education. The principal role of the lay member is to represent patients and the public and to provide externality in the LAB’s exercise of consistent, robust and transparent decision making.
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Conducting LAB business xvii. The LAB can take various courses of action when it formally receives LFG audit and reviews or other formal reports from training programmes. It may: ratify the conclusions and action points arising from the report; require conditions, addressing issues raised in the report, to be met by specific dates; make recommendations or give advice in response to issues in the report; require re‐submission of the report to include specific changes or additions in line with relevant policy requirements in place from time to time.
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Each year the LAB must: formally acknowledge receipt and approval of Foundation/Specialty handbooks; formally acknowledge receipt and approval of the KSS Deanery Contract Review Action Plan; KSS Deanery Specialty Visit Reports; formally acknowledge receipt and approval of each LFG’s Annual Audit and Review; formally submit the LAB Annual Audit and Review to the Quality Management Group at the KSS Deanery. All of the above courses of action should be consistent with GMC, CQC, KSS Deanery, the relevant LEP, the Royal Colleges and the Foundation/Specialty Schools’ up‐to‐date curriculum requirements and policies. Additionally the LAB must facilitate the annual KSS verification visit to Library and Knowledge Services in the LEP. KSS Verifiers will comprise: The Head of Knowledge Services Development or the Deputy Head of Knowledge Services Development, who will formally lead the Verification Team. A Library and Knowledge Services Manager from another KSS LEP, or another person as deemed appropriate by the KSS Library and Knowledge Services Team. xviii. Decisions of the LAB will normally be reached by consensus of opinion; voting may be resorted to in certain matters at the discretion of the Chair; on such occasions motions will be proposed and duly seconded by members of the LAB, and decisions will be reached by simple majority vote of members present. In the event of a split‐vote, the Chair of the meeting will give a second (or casting) vote. The LAB should receive information – from LEPs, Specialty Schools or other bodies conducting enquiries as appropriate – about cases of TiD, poor performance, postgraduate doctor disciplinary proceedings or under‐performance by clinical or educational supervisors. This information allows the LAB to monitor the prevalence of such cases and the potential effect on quality in a training programme. This business must be conducted under the ‘closed business’ provision detailed above. n.b. In Higher Specialty Training programmes comprising Postgraduate Doctors rotating through different trusts(LEPs), the programme quality information will (except where alternative arrangements have been agreed locally) be presented to the LAB in the LEP where the Training Programme Director is employed. Postgraduate doctors’ individual progress will still be tracked by the Specialty LFG ‐ where it exists ‐ of the employing LEP. The LAB may provide and support leads for cross‐curricular areas of work, such as Leadership, Careers, Simulation, etc., who will work collaboratively in Special Interest Groups (SIGs)across the KSS region. Typically, Special Interest Groups will: comprise colleagues with a particular interest in sharing practice and developing expertise in the cross‐curricular area; meet on three occasions each year, usually once in each of the three ‘terms’ of the academic year; contribute to the development and implication of the appropriate KSS Deanery policy and strategy; develop its terms and conditions at its first meeting; be chaired by a designated Assistant Dean (Education); produce an annual report towards the end of each academic year.
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xxi. xxii.
Through the annual cycle of LFG reporting, the LAB must always be made aware of the resources available to each Foundation/Specialty programme for training. LABs, through the DME, MEM and LFGs, should ensure that LEP employees – particularly postgraduate doctors and education providers and supervisors – are aware of the responsibilities, function and authority of the LAB. The Academic Registrar should thus ensure a wide distribution of information which explains the above. The business of LABs must be conducted at all times in accordance with legislation about, and principles of, equality and diversity7. Through the Academic Registrar, the LAB should seek periodically to peer benchmark its work against another similar LAB, possibly on a reciprocal basis. There must be provision for a LFG Postgraduate Doctor Representative to bring a Foundation/Specialty programme issue directly to the LAB for resolution, if s/he can demonstrate that the issue has not been addressed and/or resolved at LFG meetings. The LAB Chair may decide to grant the request or dismiss it on procedural grounds. If the LAB Chair receives and approves such a request, the Academic Registrar must inform the relevant LFG Chair of the Postgraduate Doctor Representative’s submission within two working days, and must require the LFG Chair’s written report of the issues within two working weeks. As a result of including this representative’s submission within a LAB agenda, the LAB may refer the issue back to the LFG, offer advice or require the LFG to take a course of action. The LEP must ensure that the DME and Academic Registrar have sufficient time and support commensurate with undertaking and supervising the work of the LAB, in the ultimate interests of patient safety.
xxiii. xxiv. xxv.
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xxvii. Through the Chair, the LAB may make representations about resources to the LEP Board, either in respect of its own resources or in order to resolve a resource issue referred to the LAB from a LFG. xxviii. LABs will note, from LFG reports, outcomes of Postgraduate Doctors appeals against decisions following their Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP). xxix. Academic Registrars must meet annually to review these regulations and to establish new provisions based on precedent and best practice.
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See PMETB’s Domain 3: Equality, Diversity and Opportunity.
KSS Local Academic Board (LAB) Annual Audit and Review
This Annual Audit and Review is part of the Postgraduate Deanery for KSS GEAR for LABs. The Annual Audit and Review must be sent to KSS by the publicised date each year. Please send to Quality Office at: quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk
Regulation
Each year the LAB must agree and sign off an Annual Audit and Review against GEAR LAB Domains 1‐9. LEP Name Location
LAB Chair (usually DME but if not DME please give job title) Academic Registrar (usually MEM but if not MEM please give job title) Number of LFGs in LEP
Local Academic Board (Please list places of meeting) LAB meeting 1 LAB meeting 2 LAB Meeting 3
Attendees DME or equivalent clinician (Chair) Academic Registrar (in an LEP, normally the MEM) Library & Knowledge Services Manager Medical Director LEP Human Resources/IT Representative LEP Finance/IT Representative Senior Trust Pharmacist Representatives of LFGs as appropriate (insert no.) Representative of Postgraduate Doctors Representative of the KSS Education Department KSS Associate Dean Lay Representative selected by LEP Co‐optees at the Chair’s discretion Signature of Chair Date Annual Audit and Review Completed Date received by Core Specialty Schools Advisory Group (STEAG) (Deanery to complete) Date received by KSS Quality Office Date of each meeting 1 2. 3. Please tick box if person attended meeting
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QESP data Part 1
Total number of Educational Supervisors by Specialty
ACCS Anaesthetics Medicine O&G Paeds Psychiatry Foundation Surgery Other
Number of Educational Supervisors registered through Grandparents’ Rights Number of Educational Supervisors currently enrolled on QESP 1 Number of Educational Supervisors awarded QESP 1 No of Trainees in Specialty Ratio of Postgraduate Doctors to Educational Supervisors(eg 3‐1)
Part 2
Total number of Educational Supervisors by Specialty
ACCS
Anaesthetics
Medicine
O&G
Paeds
Psychiatry
Foundation
Surgery
Others
Number of Educational Supervisors registered through Grandparents’ Rights Number of Educational Supervisors currently enrolled on QESP 2 Number of Educational Supervisors awarded QESP 2 Ratio of Postgraduate Doctors to Educational Supervisors (eg 3‐1)
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Each Section of the A&R is cross referenced to one or more of the nine Domains of PMETB’s Generic Standards for training (see mapping document, Appendix 5) The text boxes are designed so issues can be written up to meet the GMC Quality Framework for ‘Exception Reporting’, i.e. key areas of achievement and notable practice, past issues and problems resolved, key areas for improvement, action proposed/ proposed dissemination of notable practice. For detailed information on the standards and processes, please refer to the LAB and LFG GEAR. Domain 1 – Patient Safety To oversee the work of LFGs in monitoring the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 2 – Quality Management Review and Evaluation To supervise the LEP’s quality control of PGME by: monitoring compliance with PMETB’s statutory codes, policies, processes, domains and standards; managing the action plan from KSS Deanery Contract Review and specialty quality visits; overseeing the LFGs’ relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools and Royal Colleges); maintaining communication on quality with the LEP management and KSS Deanery; through the work of the LEP Human Resources department, monitoring compliance with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity To receive and consider information from LFGs about reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4); through the work of the KSS Medical Staffing/LEP Human Resources department, to ensure that LFG training programmes’ comply with employment law, the Disability Discrimination Act, Race Relations (Amendment) Act, Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Acts, the Human Rights Act and other equal opportunity legislation that may be enacted and amended in the future (3.1). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment To receive and consider KSS Deanery and LEP reports and information about recruitment, selection and appointment processes; to monitor the composition of LFG selection panels to ensure they consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment To satisfy itself that the academic curricula provided by the LEP meet the requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes; to receive and consider LFG four‐monthly reports and annual programme audit and reviews, offering advice and referring issues to the relevant KSS Deanery Foundation/Specialty School and other Deaneries as agreed in Service Level Agreements between KSS and partner Deaneries, as appropriate; to monitor and develop the work of LFGs in order to supervise the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); in liaison with Foundation/Specialty Schools and KSS to monitor academic appeals procedures and to monitor the conduct and outcomes of ARCP appeals conducted by Schools (see the PMETB Gold Guide 7.24ff). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty To establish, publicise, monitor and manage systems by which postgraduate doctors feedback, in confidence, their concerns and views about their training and education experience to an appropriate member of local faculty (6.7); to ensure that LFGs maintain Foundation/Specialty Careers leads who will make certain that postgraduate doctors receive career advice and support as appropriate and to monitor the LFGs in maintaining, developing and appraising the Foundation/Specialty Careers leads (6.8); to ensure intervention if postgraduate doctors are subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that undermines their professional confidence or self‐esteem (6.11); to ensure that those following an academic path, are in flexible programmes of academic training allowing multiple entry and exit points throughout training (6.24); to monitor the provision of specialist training in supervision, including qualifying Clinical and Educational Supervisors through the KSS Deanery programme and ensuring attendance at triennial diversity and equality training (PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.18) and ensure that all who have completed training act as supervisors; to monitor the appraisal of supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular their use of assessment tools, their understanding of portfolios (hard copy or electronic) and progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into service provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training (6.34); to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio of trainers to trainees), that there are physical resources such as meeting rooms, AV equipment (8.5) and, where stipulated in GMC‐approved curricula, such resources as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and selected in accordance with the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (6.33). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
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Domain 7 Management of education and training To conduct periodic internal programme reviews and host and manage external reviews of training programmes to ensure that they meet relevant standards; to audit their own LAB processes on an annual basis and to provide a short summative report to the Deanery; to share good practice and learn from other LABs; to initiate quality enhancement projects and foster collaboration among training programmes; to advise on such other matters as the LEP or KSS Deanery may refer to the LAB; to ensure that all those with a role in the management of education and training are familiar with GEAR and its detailed provisions (7.1), 7.2); to monitor the prevalence and progress of Trainees in Difficulty (TiD) through the LFG Reports and to oversee processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); to monitor the attendance and engagement of those involved in administering and managing training and education at LEP level (7.5); to advise and liaise with other LEP Educational bodies. Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity To advise on and make representations about the distribution of resources necessary to maintain the educational capacity of the LEP and any unit offering training posts/programmes and locally‐appointed trust posts so as to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); through the finance/IT function of the LEP, to maintain access to educational facilities (including Library and Knowledge Services) and resources (including access to the Internet in all workplaces) of a standard to fulfil the KSS Education Contract and enable trainees to achieve the outcomes of the programme as specified in the approved curriculum (8.2). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes. Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
(List full membership on page 1); Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LAB procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them:
Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations Standards for Local Faculty Groups
6 Purpose and scope
The purpose of these Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations for Local Faculty Groups (GEAR‐ LFG) is to ensure that LEPs provide high‐quality PGME, for the Deanery’s postgraduate doctors, by: a. maintaining standards for curriculum management, that is, the systems and processes through which learning programmes, teaching, assessment and awards must be developed, implemented and evaluated; b. maintaining the leadership, management and administrative systems and processes that underpin and provide high‐quality learning environments; c. relating both sets of standards to: The approved curriculum requirements of the relevant Royal College; the GMC’s ‘Good Medical Practice;’ PMETB Generic standards for training and standards for curricula and assessment systems; Foundation and Specialty Schools’ policies, regulations and governance; And, where appropriate, to the NHSLA Risk Management Standards for Acute Trusts, CQC, Primary Care Trusts and Independent Sector Providers of NHS Care. the role of LFGs in curriculum and assessment; the educational entitlement for postgraduate doctors in KSS; standards for quality control by LFGs; the evidence base against which KSS and GMC will evaluate the local provision of PGME a framework against which LFGs can develop their practice.
Thus, the LFG GEAR describe:
7 LFGs Terms of reference – a summary
The LFG exercises quality control over a foundation/specialty programme in the following Domains, which correspond to those set out in the PMETB Generic standards for training (Sept 2009).
Domain 1 Patient Safety
a) To monitor the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4);
b) to establish and exercise clear procedures to address immediately any concerns about patient safety arising from the training of doctors.
Domain 2 Quality Management, review and evaluation
a) To manage and maintain the relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools and Royal Colleges); b) to comply with LAB processes and procedures; c) to comply with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
To consider and make reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4).
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment
To ensure selection panels consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5).
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
a) To meet the curriculum requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes and approved by GMC 5.2); b) to manage the approved assessment system, ensuring it is fit for purpose (5.5‐5.8); c) to maintain the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9)
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
a) To support trainees to acquire the necessary skills and experience through induction, effective educational supervision, an appropriate workload and time to learn; b) to maintain, develop and appraise the Foundation/Specialty Careers lead (6.8); c) to intervene if postgraduate doctors are subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that undermines their professional confidence or self‐esteem (6.11); d) to maintain the regular appraisal of supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); e) to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular their use of assessment tools, their understanding of portfolios (hard copy or electronic) and progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into service provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training (6.34); f) to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio of trainers to trainees),
that there are physical resources such as meeting rooms, simulation facilities, AV equipment (8.5) and, where stipulated in GMC‐approved curricula, such resources as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); g) to review and analyse the raw data GMC’s annual trainee survey; h) if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and selected in accordance with the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (6.33).
Domain 7 Management of education and training
a) To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; b) to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3);
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
a) To manage and maintain the resources necessary to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); b) when necessary, to make representations about resource needs to the LEP through the LAB.
Domain 9 Outcomes
To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes (9.1).
8 Specification of Mandatory Requirements for Curriculum Management
The LFG has primary responsibility for complying with the approved specialty/foundation curriculum, KSS Deanery GEAR specifications and GMC mandatory requirements8 as detailed below:
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. The Handbook must have details of well‐organised handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6). The Handbook must provide clear guidelines on taking consent (1.4). The Handbook must include a clear statement about the GMC ethical requirements and ensure the Postgraduate Doctor has an understanding of this.
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
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These are cross referenced to the PMETB Generic standards for training (in brackets)
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning.
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
Handbooks must contain appropriate reference to equality and diversity in educational programmes (3.1). All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Foundation/Specialty programme leads (3.1).
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment
The Handbook must contain details of, and directions to, appeals information for Foundation and Specialty Postgraduate Doctors (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the LEP to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in Foundation/the given Specialty. The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3).
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National Foundation or Specialty programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. A Local Foundation/Specialty programme Handbook must be accessible to all teachers and Postgraduate Doctors and must be updated and reviewed on an annual basis, taking into account teachers’ and Postgraduate Doctors’ feedback. The Handbook must show how the programme works in the local setting by mapping it to the national curriculum framework. The Handbook must provide a timetable for appropriate teaching, which sets out the Postgraduate Doctors’ entitlement to time for teaching in an appropriate range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum, including appropriate involvement in clinical audit (6.13).
LFGs must ensure that postgraduate doctors: are familiarised with the principles of Good Medical Practice (5.3); the overall purpose of the approved assessment system, and all of its components must be documented in handbooks, available, in the public domain and implemented (5.5,5.6); and can access training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme (5.4). The LFG must ensure that the sequence of approved assessments match progression through the career pathway, and that individual assessments add unique information and build on previous assessments (5.7, 5.8). The Handbook must provide a clear statement about the purpose and operation of portfolios and/or e‐ portfolios. The Handbook must provide clear targets for progression in accordance with relevant School Policies. The Handbook must describe a Postgraduate Doctor’s entitlement to LTFT training. The Handbook must include a clear and stated process for communicating changes in regulations and requirements within the academic year to Postgraduate Doctors, teachers and the LAB.
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
The Handbook must provide formal policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. Induction processes must be evaluated and must include follow up of all those who fail to complete local induction (6.1). The LFG must be satisfied that postgraduate doctors: have access to a comprehensive and timely induction to their programme (6.1); have a rota by day and by night which is appropriate for learning (6.9); have a designated supervisor (6.3), a learning agreement, (6.4) a portfolio (6.5) and meet and discuss their progress, mutual expectations, programme aims and objectives and support systems with their supervisor (6.2) at least every 3 months (6.6). The Handbook must describe an entitlement of postgraduate doctors to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. The Handbook must also detail a named Educational Supervisor for each trainee and a named Clinical Supervisor for each placement in their training programme (where several Clinical Supervisors are working with a trainee in any particular placement, one Clinical Supervisor should be identified as the point of liaison with the Education Supervisor). The Handbook must describe the processes for regular, ongoing Clinical Supervision and review. The LFG must provide a process to ensure that all Educational and Clinical Supervisors are aware of the processes through which KSS and Schools support TiD (6.26). All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. The progress of all Postgraduate Doctors must be discussed by the LFG at its three meetings during the year, so that any problems are identified at the earliest possible opportunity and feedback given in a timely and constructive manner (6.27).
Postgraduate Doctors experiencing difficulty must receive written advice from the LFG detailing the action they must take to ensure satisfactory progress, the standards they must meet and the roles and responsibilities of those involved in supporting their progress. All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Grievance and Disciplinary matters. All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures concerning bullying and harassment (6.11). LEPs must demonstrate that they are monitoring the implementation of such a policy and implementing action plans to address any identified deficiencies. The LFG must ensure that Postgraduate Doctors are regularly involved in clinical audit (6.13); The LFG must ensure that Postgraduate Doctors have access to Occupational Health services (6.14) and confidential counselling (6.18) if needed. The LFG must monitor the deployment of Postgraduate Doctors such as they have time to attend relevant, timetabled, organised educational meetings, including training in generic professional skills (6.16), or other events of educational value agreed with the educational supervisor (6.15) and have the opportunity to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals (6.17). The LFG must monitor study leave arrangements so that Postgraduate Doctors are aware of how to apply and are guided as to appropriate courses and funding (6.19) and take study leave up to the maximum permitted (6.20). LFGs must alert their Postgraduate Doctors to the academic opportunities available in their specialty (6.22) and encourage those with academic skills and aptitudes to investigate an academic career (6.23). LFGs must provide a clear plan and timescale for ensuring that all assessors have moderated their standards with each other and against national standards (6.29). LEPs must ensure that there are clear processes and procedures for appraisal of Educational Supervisors and assessors. All those supervising Postgraduate Doctors must provide honest and justifiable comments when giving references for or writing reports about them and include all relevant information which relates to the Postgraduate Doctor’s competence, performance and conduct. LFGs must ensure that all teachers, Educational Supervisors and assessors have appropriate time to carry out their educational duties (6.30).
Domain 7 Management of education and training
LFGs must publish and make clear, through transparent processes, who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme. LFGs must manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3).
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching.
The educational resources and capacity of the LEP must be adequate to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all healthcare professionals in the same unit (8.1). LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for Postgraduate Doctors. Each Foundation LFG must identify a Faculty Careers Lead and Specialty LFGs must identify Careers Leads as appropriate. Each LFG must identify leads responsible for LTFT training. All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to appropriate career advice. The LFG must clearly define the infrastructure, processes and support for career support and must communicate these to teachers, Educational Supervisors and Postgraduate Doctors. LFGs must ensure that educational facilities and resources, including clinical and educational supervision, meeting rooms, library and knowledge services, simulation facilities, specialist resources such as ‘wet labs’ and clinical skills centres and access to internet in the workplace, are sufficient to enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve curriculum outcomes (8.3, 8.4).
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to analysis of outcomes of assessments, RITAs/ARCPs and exams for each programme and each location, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1).
9 Membership of the LFGs
The LFG must include: a. Foundation/Specialty local programme Director (Chair)* b. Foundation/Specialty local programme administrator c. Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme d. Postgraduate Doctor representatives from each year/specialty and may also include: e. LEP HR representative f. Library and Knowledge Services Manager or his/her designated proxy. g. the Careers Lead h. Other co‐opted individuals in appropriate work and specialty areas i. GP Lead as appropriate * GP LFGs must be chaired by a GP Associate Dean or their Deputy and must include a GP programme Director in its membership.
10 Procedural regulations for LFGs
LFGs must comply with: the Education Contract signed between KSS and the LEP; the KSS Action Plan agreed by the LEP at Contract Review; Action plans produced by the LEP’s LAB;
i. ii. iii. iv. v.
And any other mandatory requirements following LEP monitoring visits.
The LFG must have clear, robust and transparent quality control processes and be able to evidence its practice in relation to Postgraduate Doctors’ progression. The LFG must meet a minimum of three times a year and may call additional extraordinary meetings at the requirement of the LFG Chair or the LAB Chair or the Head of School. The LFG must ensure that all meetings have written agendas, are minuted with action points and timescales for action, and are confidential. The LFG must routinely send a copy of its minutes to the LAB and to the Head of the Foundation/Specialty School via the quality team. The LFG must produce a record of all Postgraduate Doctors’ progression at the end of each faculty meeting. n.b. In Higher Specialty Training programmes comprising Postgraduate Doctors rotating through different trusts(LEPs), the programme quality information will (except where alternative arrangements have been agreed locally) be presented to the LAB in the LEP where the Training Programme Director is employed. Postgraduate doctors’ individual progress will still be tracked by the Specialty LFG ‐ where it exists ‐ of the employing LEP. A copy of the record of Foundation Doctors’ progression must be sent to the Foundation School following each LFG meeting. The LFG must notify the DME of any Postgraduate Doctor’s failure to make progress. The DME will then notify the LAB and Head of the Foundation/Specialty School. Any Postgraduate Doctor who is failing to make progress must be managed by the LFG within the relevant national and KSS guidelines. The LFG must review attrition rates each year, based on figures collated for the LEP Contract Review. The LFG must also review the raw statistics from the annual GMC trainee survey and contribute to the LAB’s analysis of them. The LFG must ensure that all competency forms and other documentation relating to progression and awards are signed off formally, within KSS and national guidelines and processes. At least once a year, the LFG must review job planning to ensure supervisors have teaching and supervision recorded among their job planning responsibilities. Additionally the LFG must make a summary of Educational and Clinical Supervisors’ feedback, outlining their main issues and showing how these have been addressed by the LFG. LFGs must ensure that the voice of Postgraduate Doctors is heard and taken into account in developing the programme. At each of its meetings, the LFG must receive a summary of feedback from Postgraduate Doctors, outlining what they value in their programme and their main issues and concerns. Each year the LFG must agree and sign off an Annual Audit and Review of the Foundation/Specialty programme, and send copies to the LAB and the Head of School. LFGs must establish a Postgraduate Doctor year group appropriate to the programme. Postgraduate Doctor year groups must meet three times a year, in advance of the LFG meetings. Each Postgraduate Doctor year group must elect one representative to sit on the LFG within six weeks of commencement of post.
vi. vii. viii.
ix. x.
xi.
xii. xiii. xiv. xv.
xvi. xvii. xviii. xix.
Postgraduate Doctor year group representatives must compile a short report from their year group meetings for discussion at each LFG meeting. Postgraduate Doctor year group representatives must feedback relevant responses and information from the LFG to their year group, thus closing the feedback loop. All Postgraduate Doctor year group representatives must be inducted into their role using material provided by the KSS at the trainee year group representative workshops. LFGs must ensure that all Postgraduate Doctors are informed of and understand whistle‐blowing procedures. Documentation must include reference to the processes for staff to raise concerns.
Templates
Template 1: South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Minute Template Template 2: Local Academic Board Minute Template Template 3: Sample Specialty/Foundation Training Handbook Template 4: South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review Template Template 5: KSS Speciality School Local Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review Template Template 6: KSS General Practice Programme Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review Template
South Thames Foundation School
TEMPLATE FOR FOUNDATION LOCAL FACULTY GROUP MINUTES NAME OF TRUST
FOUNDATION FACULTY GROUP
Minutes of the Meeting held on (insert date) (NB: to be produced within four weeks of the meeting taking place) Present:
Name Role Apologies were received from Minutes
Minutes of the Meeting held on (insert date) 1. Action: Heading Sub‐heading x. Text x. Summary of trainee feedback F1 x. F2 Any other business Dates of future meetings SUMMARY OF ACTION Min See overleaf for Appendix 1 – Reserved items Action Responsibility
GEAR: Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations ‐ Gearing up for Patient Safety
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APPENDIX 1 STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
NB: j) Copies of this document will be tabled at the meeting, collected at the end and then destroyed.
k) A copy of this document will be circulated to only the DME, FTPD and STFS Director by confidential cover together with the minutes of the meeting. RESERVED ITEMS 1. j) The progress of all Foundation doctors was reviewed (see overleaf): F1
k) F2
Local Academic Board Minute Template9 – Reports from LFGs Composite Report for all LFGs (after each comment indicate the LFG referred to) Domain 1 Patient Safety Notes on discussion/report: Good practice? Please tick Domain 2 Management, and evaluation Quality Notes on discussion/report: review Good practice? Please tick Domain 3 diversity opportunity Equality, Notes on discussion/report: and Good practice? Please tick Domain 4 Recruitment, Notes on discussion/report: selection and
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Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
This template is designed so that LAB academic registrars can easily transfer minutes to the corresponding sections of their annual report. In turn this can be transferred to the Deanery’s annual report to GMC which must align with its Generic Standards for Training.
appointment
Appeal noted? Good practice? Please tick
Out of Programme permission noted Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Domain 5 Delivery of Notes on discussion/report: approved curriculum including assessment Good practice? Please tick Domain 6 Support and Notes on discussion/report: development of trainees, trainers and local faculty Good practice? Please tick Domain 7 Management Notes on discussion/report: of education and training Good practice?
Please tick
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve? Issue referred on? Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Domain 8 Educational Notes on discussion/report: resources and capacity Good practice? Please tick Domain 9 Outcomes Notes on discussion/report: Good practice?
Please tick
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
(n.b. closed business – confidential minute)
NAME OF TRUST
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
FOUNDATION FACULTY GROUP (insert date) – F1 PROGRESS REVIEW
Guidance Notes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
All F1 Doctors to be listed and discussed. By the end of November, all F1s are expected to have successfully completed one‐third of their assessments (usually 7). By the end of January, all F1s are expected to have successfully completed 10 assessments in order to be eligible to rank F2 programmes. STFS F1s are required to attend at least 70% of centrally organised teaching sessions. The maximum permitted non‐statutory leave (i.e. sickness/maternity leave but excluding study leave) during each of the F1 and F2 years is four weeks before it is necessary for a trainee to complete additional training in order to be signed off. If ‘No’ entered for any trainee in the ‘on course for sign‐off’ column, an appointment should be made with the FTPD to discuss the situation with the Foundation doctor. The meeting should be documented and a copy sent to both the trainee and the Foundation School. Copies of this document will be tabled at the meeting, collected at the end and then destroyed. A copy of this document will be circulated to only the DME, FTPD and STFS Director by confidential cover together with the minutes of the meeting.
Name of Foundation Doctor
Educational Supervisor
Number of Assessments Completed
See 2 & 3 above
Comments/Concerns
Attendance at
Core Teaching Sessions
See 4 above
No. of Sick Days
See 5 above
On course for sign‐ off at time of the meeting Yes/No
See 6 above
Action Required
RELIABLE, Amar
Parry, M Dr
DOPS CbD CEX
3 3 2
Excellent progress, no concerns.
100%
0
Yes
None
Mini‐PAT 1 2 2 2 1 0 1 1 0
AILING, Flora
Cottee, M Dr
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
Some time off required following broken 80% leg. No educational concerns.
15
Yes
Monitor sickness absence
ABSENT, Awol
Welch, J Dr
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
Concerns raised by clinical supervisors 20% regarding performance.
25
No
To see FTPD
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
NAME OF TRUST
Guidance Notes:
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
FOUNDATION FACULTY GROUP (insert date) – F2 PROGRESS REVIEW
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
All F2 Doctors to be listed and discussed. By the end of November, all F2s are expected to have successfully completed one‐third of their assessments (usually 7). By the end of January, all F2s are expected to have successfully completed 10 assessments in order to be eligible to rank F2 programmes. STFS F2s are required to attend at least 70% of centrally organised teaching sessions. The maximum permitted non‐statutory leave (i.e. sickness/maternity leave but excluding study leave) during each of the F1 and F2 years is 4 weeks before it is necessary for a trainee to complete additional training in order to be signed off. If ‘No’ entered for any trainee in the ‘on course for sign‐off’ column, an appointment should be made with the FTPD to discuss the situation with the Foundation doctor. The meeting should be documented and a copy sent to both the trainee and the Foundation School. Copies of this document will be tabled at the meeting, collected at the end and then destroyed. A copy of this document will be circulated to only the DME, FTPD and STFS Director by confidential cover together with the minutes of the meeting.
Name of Foundation Doctor
Educational Supervisor
Number of Assessments Completed
See 2 & 3 above
Comments/Concerns
Attendance at Core Teaching Sessions
See 4 above
No. of Sick Days
See 5 above
On course for sign‐ off at time of the meeting Yes/No
See 6 above
Action Required
Surname, Forenames
DOPS CbD CEX MSF
DOPS
CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF
Postgraduate Handbook Template
Kent Surrey and Sussex Postgraduate Deanery for Medical and Dental Education
X [Add Foundation or Specialty as appropriate] FACULTY HANDBOOK A GUIDE FOR POSTGRADUATE DOCTORS AND STAFF IN X Trust This Handbook is mapped to the KSS Deanery’s Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations (GEAR)
1. Recommended Handbook style
Front has logos of KSS Deanery/South East Coast/Trust If this is a handbook for South Thames Foundation School (STFS), please add the STFS logo Date of Handbook Please write in Arial 11 Headings are in Arial 12 Throughout address the Handbook to ‘you’ – i.e. the postgraduate doctor
2. Introduction
Welcome to the Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Postgraduate Deanery. Welcome to [add X Postgraduate Centre in X Trust]. This Faculty Handbook is written for you as a Postgraduate Doctor and all who will be working with you during your time here at X. Its purpose is to give you information about how your programme works, and who the key people are who will be working with you. This Handbook contains generic information, but is specifically written to support those of you who are on X [add Foundation/Specialty] programme. It should be read in conjunction with your curriculum [found at www.]. This Handbook also includes a profile of the X Foundation/Specialty department [see below]. It also incorporates Foundation/Specialty specific information as appropriate [see below –The X Foundation/Specialty Curriculum]. This Handbook is updated annually based on feedback to the Faculty Group from you as a Postgraduate Doctor and from your Supervisors.
3. Location
During your time with us you will be based at [give location/s].
The Postgraduate Centre is at X.
4. Brief Profile of the X department
The X department [please add]
5. Key people
There are several key people who will support you during your time with us. The Programme Lead is [add name and contact details]. The MEM is [add name and contact details]. A list of people directly involved in your Programme, e.g. Educational Supervisors, Clinical Supervisors, Administrative Staff, Faculty Group, KSS Staff, KSS Careers and Library Knowledge Service Staff with their contact details is given in Appendix A. [Add with telephone numbers and e‐mails as appropriate] for Local Faculty Groups.
6. Local programme administrative arrangements
The administrative arrangements for the local management of your programme are managed by the MEM/Faculty Administrator in conjunction with your Programme Lead. The national arrangements for the management of your programme are contained in your e‐portfolio [add link] and [add any other docs/links to website, e.g. ISCP]. If you experience any local administration issues your first point of contact is the Postgraduate Centre.
7. The X [add Foundation/Specialty] Curriculum
The curriculum for your X [add Foundation/Specialty] can be found at [add www.] and a hard copy is also in the PG Centre or Library. The Local X [add Foundation/Specialty] Faculty is responsible for ensuring that the X [add Foundation/Specialty] programme is such that it will enable you to meet specific competences required in any given year by your X curriculum. The local programme is thus mapped to the Foundation/Specialty national curriculum. [Show how this is mapped to the national curriculum] The X Curriculum also includes opportunities for you to work with other healthcare professionals, such as [add]. Please ensure that all trainees have access to ‘Good Medical Practice’. Also please ensure that at all stages training programmes are compliant with current Employment Law and Equality & Rights Legislation. 7.1 The aims and objectives of the X curriculum (GEAR S 1.4)
The aims and objectives of the X [add Foundation/Specialty] curriculum are [briefly state what the aims and objectives of curriculum are – take exactly from the relevant Specialty curriculum document online – no more than 5 bullet points]. 7.2 How you complete X curriculum This X curriculum is competency based and leads to [say what you gain at the end of it]. You will be supported during your time at X Trust by your Programme Lead, an allocated Educational Supervisor and Clinical Supervisors, all of whom will give you regular feedback about your progress. You should never be in any doubt about your progress and what you can do to improve this. 7.3 The X [add Foundation/Specialty] programme structure This Faculty Handbook, however, gives you details of how the national curriculum for X is organised here at X Trust. It gives you details of your local programme, which has been devised to meet the requirements of the X curriculum and shows how this works locally. It will include ward‐based, half day local teaching, regional study days, clinical audit and exposure to academic opportunities. The programme is structured to comply with the Generic standards for training (September 2009) of the Postgraduate Medical and Education Training Board (PMETB) and the Gold Guide 2009 or Standards for Training in the Foundation Programme. [Add details of your local programme and how initial learning needs are assessed with details of your local generic teaching programme including topics to be taught during the year / for each year of the curriculum for which you have postgraduate doctors/on which site/times/topics/ Assessment points/Hand in dates/ARCP dates/Submission of assessments.] 7.4 Induction/Handover/Taking consent You will be inducted to the Trust, your Foundation/Specialty Programme and your Foundation/Specialty Department [add link to Trust website and CD Rom]. The policy for handover to ensure patient care is [add]. The policy for taking consent is [add]. Patient safety is paramount in your programme. The policy and process for addressing concerns about patient safety are [add]. 7.5 Relevant to Foundation Faculty Handbooks only: The Foundation Programme The Foundation Programme is a two‐year training programme that forms the bridge between medical school and specialty/general practice training. All graduates of UK medical schools are required to complete the Foundation Programme before applying for specialty training. During the Foundation Programme, trainees will have the opportunity to gain experience in a series of placements in a variety of specialties and healthcare settings.
Foundation Year 1 (F1) The first year of the Foundation Programme builds upon the knowledge, skills and competences acquired in undergraduate training. Foundation Year 2 (F2) The second year Foundation Programme builds on the first year of training. In F2, the focus is on training in the assessment and management of the acutely ill patient. Training also encompasses the generic professional skills applicable to all areas of medicine – teamwork, time management, communication and IT skills. 7.6 Training days and study leave Trainees must be able to access and be free to attend training days, tasters (relevant to Foundation Programme only), and any other courses or material that form an intrinsic part of their training programme. Please ensure that all trainees have access to the Deanery’s Study days. You are entitled to less than full‐time training as follows: [add] Leave Guidance.
8. Educational Supervision
The KSS approach to meeting the GMC requirements for educational supervision are outlined in Appendix 2: Educational Supervision in KSS Deanery, GEAR. 8.1 Your Educational Supervisor – roles and responsibilities Your Educational Supervisor is responsible for overseeing your training and ensuring sure that you make the necessary clinical and educational progress. You should have regular feedback from your Educational Supervisor . The responsibilities of an Educational Supervisor are given in the Gold Guide 2009 (4.15‐23) or Standards for Training in the Foundation Programme/or Operational Framework for Foundation. 8.2 Your Clinical Supervisor – roles and responsibilities Your Clinical Supervisor is responsible for your progress within each placement and for your day‐to‐day clinical progress. You should have regular feedback from your Clinical Supervisor. The process by which information about your progress is collated by your Educational Supervisor from your Clinical Supervisor is [add].
9. Your role as a learner
You are responsible for your own learning within the programme with the support of key people as above. You should ensure that you have regular meetings with your supervisors, that you maintain your portfolio, keep up to date with assessments as required and be signed off.
10. Local Faculty Groups
Local Faculty groups (LFGs) hold a Quality Control remit within the system of educational governance operational in KSS Deanery.
10.1 The Local X [add] Faculty Group The X Faculty Group’s remit is threefold: to ensure that the local X programme is fit for purpose and in line with X curriculum requirements, to quality control the local X programme and to ensure that trainee progression is tracked, supported and audited. The Local X Faculty meets three times a year, in March, June and November. The Local Faculty’s work is quality managed by the KSS Deanery Standards for the Local Faculty Group. 10.2 Your Year Group Each Foundation/Specialty group needs to meet as a Year Group three times a year, to elect a Year Group Representative and to give feedback to the Local Faculty Group about the local programme. 10.3 Your Year Group Representative This is key part of the feedback process. This is a member of your cohort who will undertake to consult with the whole cohort (either face‐to‐face or by e‐mail) to gather feedback about the local programme and to give this feedback at the thrice yearly meetings of the Local X Faculty Group. The feedback loop must be closed as relevant information/responses from the LFG need to go back to the cohort. This is the responsibility of the Year Group Representative.
11. The LAB
There is a Local Academic Board (LAB) in each Trust whose responsibility it is to ensure that postgraduate medical trainees receive education and training that meets local, national and professional standards. The LAB undertakes the quality control of postgraduate medical training programmes. It receives Annual Audit and Review Reports from LFGs.
12. Your Foundation/Specialty School
Details of your X School can be found at www.stfs.org.uk (for Foundation) and at http://cssag.kssdeanery.org (for Specialty School).
13. How will you learn in this programme?
In this programme we adopt a variety of learning approaches. These include web‐based, CDs, ward‐based clinical teaching, exposure to outpatients and theatres at the appropriate identified level, group learning, private study, courses, reflective practice, audit projects, regular teaching specific to year and Specialty, but also multi‐Specialty if appropriate. 13.1 Curriculum development Postgraduate Doctors are entitled to a voice in the implementation of national curricula and can actively contribute to its development at local and national levels. If there are changes to your curriculum regulations and requirement during your training we will [add] 13.2 Feedback This is a crucial aspect of your programme. You can expect to receive detailed feedback on your progress from your Educational Supervisor and from your Clinical Supervisor. This will happen during on going
review meetings with your Educational Supervisor. You should have a clear idea of your progress in the programme at any given time and what you have to do to move to the next stage. 13.3 Annual appraisal In this Trust the arrangements for annual appraisal are [add] [the above must be explained with attention to time limits for annual appraisals to be returned] 13.4 Learning portfolio or e‐learning portfolio This is a key aspect of your learning in the programme. It is your responsibility to maintain an e‐ portfolio [change if paper based]. This is an essential mandatory requirement as it provides an audit of your progress and learning. Further information on how to manage and complete the Foundation/Specialty e‐ portfolio can be found at your Royal College or STFS: www.stfs.org.uk e.g. (CMT: http://www.jrcptb.org.uk/assessment/Pages/default.aspx) (Surgery: http://www.iscp.ac.uk) (Foundation: www.stfs.org.uk) 13.5 How are you assessed? This programme is competency based. The assessment tools are [add]. For further details please see [add www. link to Foundation/Specialty]. The assessments are recorded in (clarify whether paper based on line and e‐portfolios). It is your responsibility to undertake the assessment process in accordance with your Specialty curriculum guidance. In this local programme relevant information about the local assessment process is [add how it works locally/the management of the process/deadlines/key assessment points in the year]. 13.6 What assessment meetings should you know about? [Add signing off process] 13.7 What is the appeals process? [Add local appeals process – must be in accordance with the STFS appeals process against failure to gain certification for Foundation doctors and the Gold Guide (sections 6.37,38) for Specialty Training]
14. What if you need help?
Most Postgraduate Centres operate an ‘Open Door’ approach and here you can find information about local Trust policies, e.g. Grievance, Bullying and Harassment and Equal Opportunities [add online at]. KSS Deanery also offers support for trainees in difficulty (TiD). Details of the KSS Deanery Trainees in Difficulty Guide can be found on the KSS Deanery website. You may also refer to the Foundation Reference Guide 14.1 How can you access career support? Information about the KSS Deanery Career Service can be accessed at http://careers.kssDeanery.org
The Foundation Faculty has a designated Faculty Careers Lead. Specialty Schools are nominating a careers lead. Local careers information and support can be accessed by [add]. 14.2 Personal job description Service commitment, confirm that job description and rotas all comply and ensure that training time has been given. 14.3 Using educational resources Add Library and educational resources in the PGC, study leave, IT/computer access. 14.4 How do you access other educational opportunities? Various opportunities that may be able to be taken during normal working are [add ]. 14.5 How about study leave? [Add – the allowance and how to apply] 14.6 How do you apply for annual leave? Add – the allowance and how to apply] 14.7 GMC Ethical Guidelines 14.8 How about less than full time training? [Add – how to apply]
15. Useful names and numbers
Local, regional and national KSS Deanery Website – www.kssDeanery.ac.uk KSS Deanery Careers – http://careers.kssDeanery.org KSS Deanery GEAR for LFGs PMETB Generic standards for training (July 2008) – www.pmetb.org.uk Gold Guide – www.mmc.nhs.uk/pdf/Gold%20Guide%202008%20‐%20FINAL.pdf Add Specialty Links – www – as appropriate National Patient Safety Agency – www.npsa.nhs.uk Care Quality Commission – www.cqc.org.uk 15.1 Faculty Group educational support The KSS Deanery offers a range of educational support/programmes
For details please go to http://education.kssDeanery.ac.uk/fac_dev‐Accredited_Programmes.php
Appendix A
Here is a list with contact details of Education and Clinical Supervisors in the Trust who will be working with you.
South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review
This template is part of the KSS GEAR for LFGs To be used for: I. LFG Annual Audit and Review to LAB II. Report to Foundation School LEP Name Location Associate Dean
Foundation Training Programme Director (as appropriate) LFG Chair Medical Education Manager LFG Administrator
Local Faculty Group Meetings (Please list place of meetings)
LFG meeting 1 LFG meeting 2 LFG Meeting 3
Attendees
Date of each meeting 1. 2. 3.
Please tick box if person attended meeting
Foundation Training Programme Director(s)(Chair)* Foundation Programme Administrator (s) Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme (insert no.) Postgraduate Doctors representatives from each year of the programme Medical staffing Library services Careers GP Lead as appropriate Other appropriate work and Specialty areas Educational Network
F1
F2
Number of Educational Supervisors (given as a proportion of the total number qualified for the role e.g 6:10) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the start of programme Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the end of programme
Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to KSS for careers advice Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty committee Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors appointed locally (Headroom) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors who have appealed against educational decisions
Number of staff who took part in recruitment (scoring of applications for Foundation)
Summary of Trainees Progress
See attached confidential spreadsheet
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. Areas you may wish to comment on: handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6); guidelines on taking consent (1.4); GMC ethical requirements and the Postgraduate Doctors’ understanding of this.
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning. Areas you may wish to comment on: The curriculum and timetable; The European Working Time Directive and rotas; curriculum evaluation. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Foundation programme leads (3.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: support for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and any with additional needs; any adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities; any other equality and diversity issues. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 4 recruitment, selection and appointment
The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the LEP to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in Foundation.
Areas you may wish to comment on: Local recruitment processes; appeals; recruitment support provided by LEP staff to the Deanery; Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National Foundation programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. Areas you may wish to comment on: the Foundation programme handbook and responses to it; the range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum; access to training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme; the provision of timetabled, organised educational meetings and the local centrally organised core teaching programme including training in generic professional skills; the approved assessment system; changes in regulations and requirements in the reporting year. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
Policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. There must be an Education Supervisor for each trainee and a named Clinical Supervisor for each point of their training. Supervisors must have sufficient time to carry out their duties and access to support and training. Postgraduate doctors have an entitlement to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. LFGs must implement and monitor policies and incidents of grievance and discipline, bullying and harassment. Postgraduate doctors must have academic and study leave opportunities, and the opportunity to learn from and with other healthcare professionals. Areas you may wish to comment on: induction; educational and clinical supervision including supervisor moderation, appraisal training and support; bullying and harassment and grievance and disciplinary issues (which should be generic and preserve anonymity);
opportunities to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals; study leave and academic opportunities;
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 7 Management of education and training
To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3). Areas you may wish to comment on: The responsibilities of all Trust staff involved in the Foundation programme; TiD and the TiD policy.
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all postgraduate doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching. LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for postgraduate doctors. Areas you may wish to comment on: the availability of resources; the appropriateness of educational facilities; the work of the careers lead and the effectiveness of careers advice, support and guidance. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to an analysis of outcomes of assessments, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: an analysis of outcomes of assessments; comparators and benchmarks derived from other Foundation programmes.
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LFG procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them:
Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Please tick to confirm that you have appended Local Faculty Handbook GEAR Local Faculty Standards Quality Manual Contract Review Report Please send to Quality Office at: quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk by the publicised date from Deanery each year.
KSS Specialty add specialty name Programme Local Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review
This template is part of KSS GEAR for LFGs. To be used for: I. LFG Annual Audit and Review to LAB II. Report to Specialty School LEP Name Location Associate Dean Specialty Programme Director(s) (as appropriate) LFG Chair(s) Medical Education Manager(s) LFG Administrator(s) Numbers
of Postgraduate Doctors in the Specialty (by level of training)
No. of Staff Grade Doctors in the Specialty (incl. specialty, Assoc specialist & Trust doctors)
Local Faculty Group Meetings (Please list place of meetings)
LFG meeting 1 LFG meeting 2 LFG Meeting 3
Attendees Specialty Local Programme Director(s) (Chair)* Specialty Local Programme Administrator(s)
Date of each meeting 1. 2. 3.
Please tick box if person attended meeting
Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme (insert no.) Postgraduate Doctors representatives from each year of Specialty Medical Staffing Library Services Careers GP Lead as appropriate Other appropriate work and Specialty areas Educational Network
Number of Educational Supervisors (given as a proportion of the total number qualified for the role eg 3:6) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the start of programme Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the end of programme
Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to KSS for careers advice Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to KSS Trainees in Difficulty committee Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors appointed locally (Headroom) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors who have appealed against educational decisions Number of staff who took part in recruitment on national or local panels
Summary of Trainees’ Progress
See attached confidential spreadsheet
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. Areas you may wish to comment on: handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6); guidelines on taking consent (1.4); GMC ethical requirements and the Postgraduate Doctors’ understanding of this. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning. Areas you may wish to comment on: The curriculum and timetable; The European Working Time Directive and rotas; curriculum evaluation. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Specialty programme leads (3.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: support for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and any with additional needs; any adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities; any other equality and diversity issues. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 4 recruitment, selection and appointment
The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the LEP to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in the specialty.
Areas you may wish to comment on: appeals; recruitment support provided by trust staff to the Deanery; Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National Specialty programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. Areas you may wish to comment on: the specialty programme handbook and responses to it; the range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum; access to training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme; the approved assessment system; changes in regulations and requirements in the reporting year. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
There must be policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. There must be an Education Supervisor for each postgraduate doctor and a named Clinical Supervisor for each point of their training. Supervisors must have sufficient time to carry out their duties and access to support and training. Postgraduate doctors have an entitlement to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. LFGs must implement and monitor policies and incidents of grievance and discipline, bullying and harassment. Postgraduate doctors must have academic and study leave opportunities, and the opportunity to learn from and with other healthcare professionals. Areas you may wish to comment on: induction; educational and clinical supervision including supervisor moderation, appraisal training and support; bullying and harassment and grievance and disciplinary issues (which should be generic and preserve anonymity); the provision of timetabled, organised educational meetings, including training in generic professional skills;
opportunities to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals; study leave and academic opportunities;
Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 7 Management of education and training
To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); Areas you may wish to comment on: The responsibilities of all LEP staff involved in the specialty programme; TiD and the TiD policy.
Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching. LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for postgraduate doctors. Areas you may wish to comment on: the availability of resources; the appropriateness of educational facilities; the work of the careers lead and the effectiveness of careers advice, support and guidance. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to an analysis of outcomes of assessments, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: an analysis of outcomes of assessments; comparators and benchmarks derived from other specialty programmes. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LFG procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them: Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Signed by Local Faculty Lead Date signed Please tick to confirm that you have appended Local Faculty Handbook GEAR Local Faculty Standards Quality Manual Centre Review Report
Please send to Quality Office at: quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk by the publicised date from the KSS each year.
KSS General Practice Programme Local Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review
To be used for: LEP Name Associate GP Dean GP Programme Directors LFG Annual Audit and Review to LAB Report to GP Specialty School
MEM(s)
LFG Administrator(s)
Local Faculty Group (Please list place of meetings)
LFG meeting 1 LFG meeting 2 LFG Meeting 3
Attendees
Dates of each meeting 1. 2. 3.
Please tick box if person attended meeting
GP Associate Dean or Deputy(Chair) Specialty Local Programme Administrator Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme (insert no.) Postgraduate Doctors representatives from each year of Specialty Medical Staffing Library Services Careers GP Programme Directors as appropriate GP Trainers (Please list by name)* Clinical Supervisors of GP trainees (please list by name and Specialty)* Other appropriate work and Specialty areas *Extend boxes as required Educational Network Number of Accredited GP Trainers Number of FY2 Clinical Supervisors
Number of FY2 Community Educational Supervisors trained Number of Trainers now left the programme Number of Trainer Overlaps
Summary of Trainees
See attached spreadsheet
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. Areas you may wish to comment on: handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6); guidelines on taking consent (1.4); GMC ethical requirements and the Postgraduate Doctors’ understanding of this. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning. Areas you may wish to comment on: The curriculum and timetable; The European Working Time Directive and rotas; curriculum evaluation.
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Foundation programme leads (3.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: support for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and any with additional needs; any adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities; any other equality and diversity issues. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 4 recruitment, selection and appointment
The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the Trust to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in training. Areas you may wish to comment on: appeals; recruitment support provided by trust staff to the Deanery;
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National GP programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. Areas you may wish to comment on: the GP programme handbook and responses to it; the range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum; access to training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme; the approved assessment system; changes in regulations and requirements in the reporting year. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
Policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. There must be an Education Supervisor for each trainee and a named Clinical Supervisor for each point of their training. Supervisors must have sufficient time to carry out their duties and access to support and training. Postgraduate doctors have an entitlement to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. LFGs must implement and monitor policies and incidents of grievance and discipline, bullying and harassment. Postgraduate doctors must have academic and study leave opportunities, and the opportunity to learn from and with other healthcare professionals. Areas you may wish to comment on: induction; educational and clinical supervision including supervisor moderation, appraisal training and support; bullying and harassment and grievance and disciplinary issues (which should be generic and preserve anonymity); the provision of timetabled, organised educational meetings, including training in generic professional skills;
opportunities to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals; study leave and academic opportunities;
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 7 Management of education and training
To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3). Areas you may wish to comment on: The responsibilities of all Trust and hospital staff involved in the GP programme; TiD and the TiD policy. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all postgraduate doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching. LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for postgraduate doctors. Areas you may wish to comment on: the availability of resources; the appropriateness of educational facilities; the work of the careers lead and the effectiveness of careers advice, support and guidance.
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to an analysis of outcomes of assessments, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: an analysis of outcomes of assessments; comparators and benchmarks derived from other GP programmes. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LFG procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them: Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Signed by Local Faculty Lead Date signed
Appendices
Appendix 1:
KSS Quality Management Overview
Appendix 2:
Educational Supervision in KSS Deanery The KSS Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme (QESP) Overview
Appendix 3:
Roles and Responsibilities of London and KSS Deaneries
Appendix 4:
LAB GEAR Mapping Document against PMETB Standards for Deaneries (July 2008), PMETB Generic standards for training (including Foundation standards) (July 2008) and PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) and other key documentation (as appropriate)
Appendix 5:
LFG GEAR Mapping Document against PMETB Standards for Curricula and assessment systems (July 2008)
Appendix 7:
GUIDANCE FOR DOCUMENTATION: Local Faculty Groups (Post Foundation) (Re. Handling of Trainees in Difficulty) Record Keeping
Appendix 1 KSS Quality Management Overview
Regulatory Requirements
National regulatory bodies a. UK PGME is quality assured by the GMC with the purpose of developing a single, unifying framework for PGME. b. GMC is responsible for: a. certifying doctors for the GP and specialist registers; b. prospective approval of all training posts that lead to the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT); c. approving specialist training curricula and assessments which are devised and submitted to GMC by the medical Royal Colleges; d. quality assurance and evaluation of the management of postgraduate training; e. setting the overarching principles under which selection into specialist training must operate; f. providing policy development for the sector.
1. To achieve these aims, GMC works closely and regularly consults with: 1. medical Royal Colleges and Faculties; 2. the four UK departments of health; 3. Postgraduate Deaneries; 4. strategic health authorities, Trusts and hospitals; 5. trainees; 6. patient groups; 7. professional bodies; 8. other healthcare regulatory bodies; 9. the general public. Deanery and LEP roles 10. KSS operates as the regional representative of the GMC for all LEP quality management for PGME. It performs this function in collaboration with the medical Royal Colleges, to provide a single Visiting Body for LEPs. Whereas in the past, LEPs were subject to multiple visits, now the only requirement for visiting with which they must comply is the KSS Contract Review process. 11. LEPs may, of course, invite developmental or pastoral visits from other external agencies where their Chief Executives find a cost benefit in doing so.
12. As figure 1 shows, in formal terms, GMC is responsible for Quality Assurance and thus for setting Standards; Deaneries are responsible for Quality Management by implementing a Regulatory function; and LEPs are responsible for Quality Control by providing an Audit process. All three have a responsibility for ensuring that their quality processes support the development and improvement of PGME.
National Quality System for PGME PMETB/ GMC Quality Assurance Role Standards and Development
DEANERY Quality Management Role Regulation and Development
LOCAL EDUCATION PROVIDER [LEP]Quality Control Role Audit and Development
Figure 1: National Quality System for PGME
Contractual relationships a. The basis for any quality system is a formal Contract, that is, a document that describes ‘an exchange of considerations’. Typically, a commissioner or purchaser exchanges funding in consideration for services from a provider. The Contract specifies precisely what each party will give and receive. b. In KSS, an Education, Training and Development Contract is signed each year between KSS and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its LEP. This provides the basis for payment from KSS to the LEP, in consideration of which the LEP contracts to provide PGME of the specified standard. The detailed Specifications to the Contract then provide the standards against which each party judge whether or not the other has met their agreement. c. That contractual relationship then extends from the CEO of the LEP to its clinical and non‐clinical staff, through their Contracts of Employment. In an LEP, for example, the CEO contracts hospital consultants to provide teaching and educational supervision. That agreement is then demonstrated through an individual’s Job Plan, which includes those responsibilities as part of their formal employment role. If an individual hospital consultant decides that they do not want to provide teaching or educational supervision then that, too, will be reflected in their Job Plan. Figure 2 illustrates these relationships.
Contractual Relationships ŅAn exchange of considerationsÓ
DH/SHA/ Deanery Education Contract Starting point for Quality Management Signed between Deanery/ SEC and LEP Chief Executive Basis for payment from Deanery to LEP In consideration of specified services
Local Education Provider Contracts of Employment Legal obligation of employees to fulfil job role Negotiation between employer and employee on Job Plan Choice of whether or not to have trainees If have trainees, have to meet contractual requirements
Figure 2: Contractual Relationships
The KSS Quality Management System
Educational governance and clinical governance a. KSS Deanery ensures a close relationship between Educational Governance and Clinical Governance. We believe that excellent teaching and excellent educational supervision produces excellent patient care. b. In the same way that standards for clinical practice are ultimately ethically decided, we recognise education as fundamentally a morally charged activity. It is from this standpoint that the KSS Quality Management System (QMS), and the processes associated with it, have been developed. A principled approach to practice 13. All of the work of the Education Department is informed by the approach that we advocate – A Principled Approach to Practice (see Figure 3). Its starting point is an explicitly ethical stance, summarised as Kant’s Categorical Imperative: ‘treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself.’ With those principles foregrounded, we move directly into the real‐life, complex, problematic world of everyday clinical practice. Our intention is to develop practical solutions to practical problems, drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives. 14. This means that our QMS is: i. highly collaborative: we design it in collaboration with the people who are going to have to implement it at local level; developmental for both sides: we aim to learn more about each other’s contexts and needs; flexible: we hope to encourage local diversity and creativity within regional and national guidelines.
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The professional conversation 15. At the heart of our collaborative practice is what we term ‘the Professional Conversation’, an ongoing discussion with stakeholders about principles, processes and patients. It is through this dialogue that we invite change in PGME, across the range of our working contexts (see Figure 3). 16. At present, the contexts in which professional conversations take place include: i. one‐to‐one discussions with hospital consultants to develop their teaching in real‐life clinical settings; open‐invitation meetings to consult DMEs and MEMs about the Specifications for the Education, Training and Development Contract; advisory roles with LABs and LFGs; collaborative meetings with Heads of Schools to share operational issues and identify strategic routes ahead; e‐discussions to arrange, manage and discuss the results of the GMC survey;
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internal KSS meetings to integrate its four key work areas – Education, Schools, Workforce, and Operations – as part of the process of developing an appropriate KSS QMS.
Key elements of the QMS 17. The QMS contains five key elements: i. Contract Review: an annual visit to LEPs to verify their Quality Manual, agree progress on their Education Strategy, and sign the Education Contract. Academic Development Programmes: through which educational expertise and capacity is grown in the region. This includes: a. Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme (QESP); b. MA Education in Clinical Settings; c. Postgraduate Certificate Managing Medical Careers; d. Co‐mentoring for new consultants; e. KSS Simulation Strategy; f. KSS School of Clinical Leadership. g. GEAR, which set out the operational requirements for LEP LABs and LFGs. It provides structure, process and standards to implement GMC Domains. h. KSS School Development, including: i. ii. iii. iv. i. LEP Visiting; Responses to the annual GMC survey; Developing shared practice with undergraduate medical schools and the medical Royal Colleges; Developing the academic role of Schools.
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Medical Workforce Management, especially: a. Creating common quality management processes for recruitment and workforce management across all Schools; b. Developing appropriate IT structures to support workforce data management and communications; c. Providing administrative support to Schools’ Committees; d. Providing administrative support to the LEP Visiting Process; e. Advising and supporting workforce functions in LEPs.
18. The QMS is supported by: The KSS internal Committee structure, especially: f. The Quality Management Steering Group, chaired by the Dean Director; The Quality Management Operations Group, co‐ordinated by the KSS Quality Manager. The KSS School, LAB and LFG structure, which provide local Quality Control for all PGME functions (see Figure 4).
g. Mapping to national standards, including GMC standards; GMC Domains and Standards; MMC Gold Guide; Foundation and Specialty Schools’ policies, regulations and governance; NHSLA Risk Management Standards, the quality management metrics that LEPs will be measured against. h. Best practice from other mainstream quality systems for Education, Training and Development, especially the QAA; Investors in People; LSCs; ISO 9000; and Ofsted. i. j. Partnership processes to develop, manage and control quality participatively with our LEPs. Strong, regular KSS presence in LEPs to provide ongoing support and development.
From practice to policy 19. The QMS reflects the operational needs of LEPs to provide excellent PGME in real‐life clinical settings. It describes standards and processes for supporting and operating a values‐based curriculum in practice. 20. Effectively, therefore, it integrates and operationalises the domains, standards and mandatory requirements described by GMC in its Generic Standards for Training; Standards for Curricula and Assessment Systems; and Standards for Deaneries. In this way, it draws a line of continuity from the individual teacher and learner in the clinical setting to the national policy development reflected in PMETB’s documentation. 21. In this way the QMS stabilises the necessary tension between the local clinical environment’s need to provide continuity of care and of education, and national requirements for change in the organisation and management of PGME10. 22. The QMS, therefore, is deliberately organised in a way that reflects the everyday practice of teaching, learning, curriculum development and education management in real‐life clinical settings. This is reflected, for example, in the organisation of GEAR into ‘standards for practice’. 23. A particular role and task of the Deanery, therefore, is to translate LEP reports, which are made against ‘standards for practice’, into its Annual Audit and Review (AAR) report to GMC, which is organised as ‘Domains of Policy’. This is carried out by the Education Department, which uses qualitative research methodologies to provide a meta‐analysis of LEP AARs and to organise those data into GMC Domains. 24. This approach is considered important to: i. ii. enable LABs and their LFGs to develop their new local curricula out of best clinical practice; make a clear relationship between the management roles of providing a strong educational infrastructure and the leadership roles of developing excellent teaching and educational supervision; support individual practitioners in developing their practice, in a period of intense change in governance; reduce turbulence and maintain focus on teaching and learning in practice;
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The rapid change in policy development and implementation for PGME is well described in PMETB (2008) The State of Postgraduate Medical
Education and Training: a changing landscape. London: PMETB.
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enable precision in thinking about the needs of a values‐based curriculum; ensure that the best practice, which has always typified PGME, is ‘held in transition’, not ‘lost in translation’.
A Principled Approach to Practice Coherent ethical framework for all Education Department work Relates Educational Governance to Clinical Governance Operates through the Professional Conversation
Centre Review Annual exercise Local Educational Infrastructure Verify Quality Manual Agree Education Strategy Sign Contract
Academic Development QESP MA Clinical Education PG Cert Careers Mentoring Simulation Leadership
GEAR Structure, Process and Standards to implement GMC Domains Local Academic Boards Local Faculty Groups Supports local ownership
School Development LEP Visiting Annual GMC Questionnaire Developing academic role Sharing practice with Royal Colleges and Medical Schools
Medical Workforce Recruitment and Workforce Management Data Management & Communication School administrative support LEP Support
Provide data for: Hospital Visiting Deanery Annual Audit and Review report to PMETB Managed by: Deanery Quality Management Steering Group Deanery Quality Management Operations Group
Figure 3: A Principled Approach to Practice
Deanery Schools Acute Care Common Stem, Anaesthetics, Foundation, General Practice, Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery. Heads of Schools are members of Deanery Quality Management Steering Group
LEP Local Academic Board Director of Medical Education (Chair); Medical Education Manager; Library Services Manager; Medical Director; Human Resources Director; Finance & IT Director Trainee Representative and Lay Representative Deanery Education Adviser & Associate Dean Meets three times a year to: Approve Reports from Local Faculty Groups; Manage Quality Control; Oversee Local Faculty Development; Produce Annual Audit and Review.
Local Faculty Groups Everyone involved in providing the programme LFG Lead relates to relevant Deanery Head of School Produces, reviews and updates local curriculum and trainee handbook Manages QESP throughput Identifies LFG Lead on key roles e.g. Careers Meets three times a year to: Review and report to LAB on progress of every learner; Review Faculty members’ own development needs. Reports to: Local Academic Board Figure 4: KSS School, LAB and LFG Structure
Appendix 2:
Educational Supervision in KSS Deanery
1.0 Overview 1.1 The purpose of this document is to outline the role and responsibilities of Educational Supervisors working in postgraduate medical education in the KSS Deanery in relation to Foundation and Specialty Training. This guidance may also support LEPs, LFGs and LABs in their quality control as they educationally support, manage, audit and resource the educational role of Educational Supervisors within KSS Trusts. This guidance is mapped to the PMETB Gold Guide 2009; Postgraduate Medical and Education Training Board (PMETB) Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008); and Generic Standards for Training (Sept 2009). Education and training for all consultants who wish to qualify as Educational Supervisors, offered by the KSS Educational Department, is outlined. The role of Educational Supervisor is supported by the Local Faculty group and Local Academic Board infrastructure within KSS and the KSS Deanery GEAR. The requirements of the PMETB Generic Standards for Training are mapped
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2.0 Scope of the role in KSS 2.1 The approach taken in KSS is to educate and train all hospital consultants as Educational Supervisors and on a long‐term programme, which promotes those currently in the role. We see the role of Educational Supervisor as distinct from, but having points of overlap with, that of Clinical Supervisor. By educating and training all consultants as Educational Supervisors, we ensure the robustness of education and training for all clinical supervisors, while ensuring that those who wish to take on a more expanded role of Educational Supervisor are also equipped to do so. Organisationally the formal roles of Clinical Supervisor and Educational Supervisor are disaggregated for the purposes of job planning.
3.0 Definitions These have been updated from the PMETB standards and the Gold Guide (both 2009) 3.1 Educational supervision The revised definition of Educational Supervisor is: “A trainer who is selected and appropriately trained to be responsible for the overall supervision and management of a specified trainee’s educational progress during a training placement or series of placements. The Educational Supervisor is responsible for the trainee’s Educational Agreement.” (Gold Guide 4.22) 3.2 Clinical supervision The revised definition of Clinical Supervisor is:
“A trainer who is selected and appropriately trained to be responsible for overseeing a specified trainee’s clinical work and providing constructive feedback during a training placement. Some training schemes appoint an Educational Supervisor for each placement. The roles of Clinical and Educational Supervisor may then be merged.” (Gold Guide 4.23) 4.0 Educational Supervisor role and responsibilities This is a complex role which spans the areas of educational management, educational supervision and feedback, clinical supervision, an understanding of the role of assessment in learning, the use of portfolios as a learning and assessment tool, an understanding of how to identify, support and manage a trainee in difficulty, and of supporting trainee career decision making. 4.1 The Educational Supervisor (Educational Management) The Educational Supervisor: 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 enables trainees to learn by taking responsibility for patient management within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); understands and demonstrates ability in the use of the approved in‐work assessment tools and is clear as to what is deemed acceptable progress (6.26); regularly reviews the trainee’s progress through the training programme, adopts a constructive approach to giving feedback on performance, advises on career progression and understands the process for dealing with a trainee whose progress gives cause for concern (6.27); ensures that clinical care is valued for its learning opportunities; learning and teaching must be integrated into service provision (6.28); liaises as necessary with other trainers both in their clinical departments and within the organisation to ensure a consistent approach to education and training and the sharing of good practice across specialties and professions (6.29); is responsible for the educational progress of a trainee over an agreed period of training (in KSS this is normally of a year’s duration) set against knowledge of an approved curriculum; undertakes supervision of a trainee, giving regular, appropriate feedback according to the stage and level of training, experience and expected competence of the trainee (6.25); undertakes or delegates assessment of trainees as appropriate, has been trained in assessment and understands the generic relationship between learning and assessment and particularly that within a specific curriculum (6.35); meets with trainees at agreed, specified times in accordance with the requirements of Foundation or Specialty curricula (6.6);
4.1.4 4.1.5
4.1.6 4.1.7 4.1.8
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4.1.10 liaises with Clinical Supervisors to gain an overview of trainee progression (6.29); 4.1.11 attends Local Faculty Group meetings as required and disseminates relevant information to clinical supervisors and trainees as appropriate (LFG GEAR); 4.1.12 liaises with the appropriate Training Programme Director (Foundation or Specialty) over trainee progression (LFG GEAR); 4.1.13 liaises with the postgraduate centre about requested information regarding trainee progression; 4.1.14 ensures appropriate training opportunities in order for trainees to gain the required competences;
4.1.15 acts as a first port of call for trainees who have concerns or issues about their training and manages this in accordance with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guide; 4.1.16 participates in any visiting processes as required (LAB GEAR); 4.1.17 discusses career intentions as appropriate, and offers support either individually or via KSS Faculty Career Lead/Specialty School career structure (6.27). 5.0 Educational meetings: initial
The Educational Supervisor arranges to meet trainees at the beginning of each rotation to: 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 6.0 check that the trainee has received a local induction; ensure that competency check lists have been completed; ensure that the trainee has relevant Handbooks; Specialty, Faculty etc.; discuss trainee learning needs, how these will be developed and which assessment methods will be used to evaluate whether the trainee is meeting required competencies; record all meetings, outcomes of meetings as required and communicate these to trainee, Faculty Group, Training Programme Director as appropriate; discuss the range of evidence that might contribute to the building of a portfolio of trainee progression; review the trainee’s portfolio at each meeting and adapt/monitor learning needs in relation to curricula requirements. Education meetings: mid point
The Educational Supervisor meets the trainee at the mid point of each rotation to: 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 discuss progress to date, and review progress. If necessary amend learning outcomes; discuss taster opportunities if appropriate and ensure that these are relevant and appropriate to career intentions; review learning portfolio and support trainee development of evidence of competency; ensure that the trainee is appropriately engaging in the assessment process, learning from this and achieving the expected competencies for the stage and level of training; negotiate remedial efforts if required.
7.0 Education meetings: end point of rotation The Educational Supervisor meets the trainee at the end of each rotation to: 7.1 7.2
review progress to date in relation to the requirements of the curriculum; ensure that all appropriate assessments have been completed, review with the trainee which competencies have been met; and amend professional development plan as appropriate, noting what needs to be carried forward to the next rotation and forward plan future trainee learning needs; ensure that all relevant documentation has been completed.
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8.0 ARCP appraisal, assessment and annual planning (Gold Guide 7.24 ff) 8.1 The Educational Supervisor is responsible for bringing together the structured report which looks at evidence of progress in training and for undertaking work‐based appraisals with their trainees
(NHS Appraisal). In the Foundation Programme the Educational Supervisor signs off the Foundation Achievement of Competency Document (FACD), which is then countersigned by the Training Programme Director. 9.0 Appraisal and revalidation 9.1 The Education Supervisor appraises trainees annually as appropriate using the NHS Appraisal Documentation, which can be found at:
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Humanresourcesandtraining/EducationTrainingandDevelopment/ Appraisals/DH_4031937 10.0 Educational supervision and local faculty development 10.1 The KSS Deanery offers a range of professional development programmes. Specifically it offers the QESP, Part One: the Certificate in Teaching and Part Two: the Certificate in Educational Supervision. This two‐part programme is the KSS Deanery’s qualification for those undertaking the Educational Supervisor role. Details of this and other professional development programmes for Local Faculty and Educational Supervisors, such as the MA in Clinical Education, the Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Medical Careers, and Supporting Trainees in Difficulty can be found at: http://education.kssdeanery.ac.uk/fac_dev‐AccreditedProgrammes.php Copies of GEAR for LFGs and LABs have been distributed to NHS Trusts in the KSS region. If you would like copies, please contact Judith Mason at KSS Deanery: jmason@kssdeanery.ac.uk or 020 7415 3454.
Educational and Clinical Supervisor Job Planning Tariff
Background The expectations on those undertaking educational roles have increased enormously in the last few years. There is now a requirement to properly induct, plan, assess, deliver specific curriculum objectives and, vitally, record many aspects of doctors’ performance during training. To do this takes time and training of the trainers. KSS Deanery has currently started the first three of a five‐year programme to offer training in teaching and educational supervision to every Consultant in KSS. However, time and, by implication, resource, must also be made available through the job planning process as part of the new Consultant contract. It is also an expectation of every LEP, as set out in the Deanery’s annual education contract with every LEP. This guidance may also support LEP, Local Faculty Groups and Local Academic Boards in their quality control as they educationally support manage, audit and resource the educational role of Educational Supervisors within KSS LEP. The approach taken in KSS is to educate and train all hospital consultants as Educational Supervisors. We see the role of Educational Supervisor as distinct from, but having points of overlap with, that of Clinical Supervisor. By educating and training all consultants as Educational Supervisors, we ensure the robustness of education and training for all clinical supervisors, whilst ensuring that those who wish to take on a more expanded role of Educational Supervisor are also equipped to do so. Organisationally the formal roles of Clinical Supervisor and Educational Supervisor are disaggregated for the purposes of job planning. Educational Supervision The educational supervisor is responsible for the supervision of a trainee’s progress over time. Educational supervisors are responsible for ensuring that trainees are making the necessary clinical and educational progress [Gold Guide 4.22]. Clinical Supervision Each trainee should have a named clinical supervisor for each placement, usually a senior doctor, who is responsible for ensuring that appropriate clinical supervision of the trainee’s day to day clinical performance occurs at all times, with regular feedback. [Gold Guide 4.27] Educational Supervisor role and responsibilities This is a complex role which spans the areas of educational management, educational supervision and feedback, clinical supervision, an understanding of the role of assessment in learning, the use of portfolios as a learning and assessment tool, an understanding of how to identify, support and manage a trainee in difficulty, and of supporting trainee career decision making. Allocation The following typical allocation sets out our view, after wide consultation, of the usual contractual requirements to undertake the common education roles.
Job Description Typical Allocation Comment
Clinical Supervisor
Providing safe clinical oversight of trainees during routine ward rounds, out‐patients, operating sessions or other clinical sessions. Undertaking a small number per year of workplace‐ based assessments (less than 10 a year) and contributing to 360° feedback.
0.25 PAs per week Not dependent on number of trainees. If operating lists are extended, or clinic maximum lists extended because of supervision of trainees, or if undertaking assessments, then the number of patients in that clinic or list, should reflect that, thus allowing the time for education within the standard working week. Optional but preferred to undertake KSS QESP.
Educational Supervisor
Responsible for a named trainee for all 0.25 PAs per week, This would usually be planned as part of routine SPA time. However, an aspects of personal development per trainee Educational Supervisor, by agreement in planning, appraisal, attending faculty a Department, might have a significantly meetings, completing reports and higher than average number of trainees, helping the trainee complete and SPA time must also cover other workplace‐based assessment. governance activities on educational Completing relevant sections of activities for all Consultants. On e‐portfolios and offering help for occasion extra PA time may be needed. careers guidance and TiD. However, this might well be by agreement within a Department, still maintaining on average 2.5 SPAs per Consultant. Must have undertaken KSS training in teaching and educational supervision. This sessional time is also needed for those consultants who are active hospital supervisors of GP trainees – including completing all assessments and full use of the e‐portfolio.
Job
Description
Typical Allocation
Comment
College Tutor (Local Trust Specialty Training Programme Director)
1 PA for up to For all future appointments KSS expects 20 trainees in College Tutors Represents the Trust on the KSS Specialty (excluding to be jointly appointed by the Trust Core Training Committee. Foundation). DME (or MD) and the relevant KSS Head of Specialty School. Leads the LFG in their Specialty, 1.5 PAs for 20 and representing to 40. In the past, the role of College Tutor it on the Trust Education Academic was not terribly taxing, with very little Board. 2 PAs for more than responsibility attached, and certainly 40. Ensure the delivery of the none to KSS or the Trust. The role has PMETB/College curriculum within changed enormously the Trust. in the last 18 months. Roles:
Monitors the number and type of
posts and their educational opportunities.
Works with the Educational
Supervisors and Programme Directors.
Helps undertake workplace
assessments and 360° feedback.
Ensure systems are in place for
each trainee to have an annual RITA/ARCP in their Specialty.
Although part of the time for the College Tutor role may be able to come out of SPA time, many people undertaking such roles also have multiple Educational Supervisor responsibilities and other governance responsibilities. We expect that for many Consultants some time, if not all, will need to come out of PA time. Foundation Training Programme Directors are separately remunerated. A College Tutor or deputy will be needed on each major clinical site, a minimum of 1 PA per site.
Ensure that induction process
is in place in each Department.
Ensure that all trainees have a
signed and completed learning agreement with their Educational Supervisor.
Co‐ordinate QESP within the
Department.
Provide support in the use
of e‐portfolios etc.
Provide Specialty career advice. Provide advice on access to study
leave opportunities.
Support the KSS Quality Control
arrangements, including the GEAR process and provide an annual report to the Local Trust Academic Board.
Co‐ordinate local recruitment within the appropriate school.
Job
Description
Typical Allocation
0.25 to 0.5 PA, usually SPA time, or 1 to 6 days exceptional leave per annum.
Comment
Recruitment and Shortlisting and speciality interviewing ARCP activities for both KSS and London Deaneries. (in addition to For core training, this will be once or local College twice Tutor activities) a year. For Specialty training, this will be two or three times a year. For Foundation allocation this will be once a year. It is an expectation that every Foundation Educational Supervisor will spend time on this once a year.
Shortlisting and interviewing load tends to be significantly greater for core training recruitment than Specialty training currently. Overall, recruitment being centralised to Deaneries is far more efficient in Consultant time, but much more obvious when it occurs on an annual basis. Recruitment is particularly onerous in Core Medicine and Core Surgery, requiring the equivalent of 1 day for shortlisting and up to 3 days for interviewing for each recruitment round. It is significantly less onerous in other specialties, and for Foundation is a maximum of 1 day’s scoring per annum.
Lead for Simulation
Developing scenarios, faculty
development and delivery of simulation training. Relevant for both Foundation and Specialty trainees.
0.25 PA, usually SPA time.
Patient safety and rehearsal are a national priority. Simulation is totally dependent on a trained and enthusiastic faculty. It is very time intensive.
STC members
Provide representation on
Specialty Training Committees.
Help advise on rotations,
LTFT training and other administrative matters.
Usually nil for Committee members. Variable for Programme Directors, STC Chairs.
The more onerous role of Programme Director is now receiving some direct remuneration from the London/KSS Deaneries. While STC Chairs receive a small sum towards administrative support, this does not cover all the time required to undertake the role. Both roles may need local discussion about PA or SPA time, up to 1 PA per week.
Undertake Quality
Management roles within the STC.
The KSS Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme (QESP)
The KSS QESP meets the PMETB generic standards for training, July 2008. The GMC has made it a mandatory requirement for Deaneries to ensure that trainers are adequately trained and qualified to carry out five key educational roles: a. teaching; b. assessment; c. educational supervision; d. careers advice; e. supporting TiD. A key feature of the QESP is that highly experienced Education Advisers work with candidates in their clinical settings to develop their educational practice. The QESP comprises two parts: a. Part one focuses on principles of teaching and learning and develops the participant’s ability to support learning in clinical settings. It requires attendance at a half‐day workshop followed by a minimum of three observational visits and one‐to‐one ‘professional conversations’ between the participant and an Education Adviser. This part of the programme was formerly known as the Certificate in Teaching. The observation visits take place in the candidate’s real‐life work settings, such as theatres, clinics, ward rounds, seminars. b. Part two focuses on the principles and practice of assessment, supervision, careers advice and supporting TiD. It builds on the learning in part one, to apply its principles and practice to the specific contexts of educational supervision. It requires attendance at a workshop followed by a minimum of two visits and one‐to‐one ‘professional conversations’ between the participant and an Education Adviser, and one (optional) peer observation. This part of the programme was formerly known as the Certificate in Educational Supervision. A certificate is awarded for successful completion of each part of the QESP. For a full list of the QESP FAQs please see the following link: http://admin.kssdeanery.org/files/education.kssdeanery.ac.uk/qespfaqsversion25pub27nov08.pdf
Appendix 3:
Roles and Responsibilities of London and KSS Deaneries
London Deanery has two roles in quality management for KSS: a. the Foundation Programme; b. Higher Specialty Training. Foundation Programme Trainees at South London LEPs are part of KSS Deanery’s South Thames Foundation School. The Head of the South Thames Foundation School is appointed jointly by KSS Deanery and London Deanery and reports to the Dean Director of KSS Deanery. London Deanery does not sub‐contract any aspect of quality management of the posts for the Foundation Programme in South London LEPs to KSS Deanery. Thus KSS Deanery does not have any authority to take action beyond informing London of issues that come to the Foundation School or KSS attention. London Deanery quality manages the Foundation posts in South London LEPs. Higher Specialty Training i. KSS Deanery sub‐contracts management of programmes of Higher Specialty Training and their trainees to London Deanery. However, the quality of training provided to HST trainees employed by KSS LEPs remains the responsibility of KSS Deanery and their training must be compliant with KSS GEAR for LFGs and for LABs. The quality of training of HST trainees in a KSS LEP is the responsibility of the LEP’s LFG. Reports on their training must be sent to the LEP LAB. The LAB will then forward a Report to the appropriate London Deanery School to which KSS Deanery has sub‐contracted that work. Copies of Reports to London Deanery Schools must be sent at the same time to the relevant KSS Head of School and to the KSS Deputy Postgraduate Dean for Secondary Care. London Deanery Schools may only act in KSS LEPs with the agreement of KSS Deanery. For example, a London School may not decide on its own initiative to visit a KSS LEP, and it may not decide on its own initiative to set up new or additional quality control or quality management processes in a KSS LEP. All action in KSS Deanery LEPs by London Deanery Schools must be authorised formally and directly by the KSS Deputy Postgraduate Dean for Secondary Care.
ii.
iii.
iv.
Appendix 4:
GEAR Mapping Document
This document maps the LAB and LFG terms of reference, as developed from the GMC Standards for Deaneries (July 2008), against the PMETB Generic standards for training (including Foundation standards) (Sept 2009) and other key documentation (as appropriate). LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 1 Patient Safety To oversee the work of LFGs in monitoring the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4)11.
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
To monitor the duties, rotas (1.5), Meets Domain 1 Standards: Duties working hours and supervision of trainees working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) must be consistent with the delivery of and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of high quality, safe patient care. Must be postgraduate doctors in order to clear procedures to address immediately assure themselves that training any concerns about patient safety arising programmes are consistent with the from training. Mandatory requirements delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4); 1.1 to 1.6 to establish and exercise clear procedures to address immediately any concerns about patient safety arising from the training of doctors.
11
In line with the provisions and exceptions relating to ‘duty of care’ of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007.
LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 2 Quality Management review and evaluation To supervise the LEP’s quality control of PGME by: monitoring compliance with PMETB’s statutory codes, policies, processes, domains and standards; managing the action plan from KSS Deanery Contract Review and hospital visits; overseeing the LFGs’ relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools, the General Pharmaceutical Council and Royal Colleges); maintaining communication on quality with the LEP management and KSS Deanery; through the work of the LEP Human Resources department, monitoring compliance with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
Meets Domain 2 Standards: Postgraduate training must be quality managed locally by deaneries, working with others as appropriate, but within an overall delivery system for postgraduate medical education for which deans are responsible. Mandatory requirements 2.1 (2.2 & 2.3 are the responsibility of KSS Deanery)
LFG Terms of Reference
To manage and maintain the relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools and Royal Colleges); to comply with LAB processes and procedures; to comply with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 3 Equality, diversity & opportunity To receive and consider information from LFGs about reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4); Through the work of the KSS Medical Staffing and the LEP Human Resources department, to ensure that LFG training programmes’ comply with employment law, the Disability Discrimination Act, Race Relations (Amendment) Act, Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Acts, the Human Rights Act and equal opportunity other legislation that may be enacted and amended in the future (3.1).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 3 Standards: Postgraduate To consider and make reasonable adjustments to programmes to training must be fair and based on accommodate flexibility for principles of equality. Mandatory postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those Requirements 3.1,3.3,3.4 with disabilities, special educational or (3.2, & 3.5 are the responsibility of KSS other relevant needs (3.4). Deanery)
LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 4 Recruitment selection and appointment To receive and consider KSS Deanery and LEP reports and information about recruitment, selection and appointment processes; To monitor the composition of LFG selection panels to ensure they consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 4 Standards: Processes for To ensure selection panels consist of recruitment, selection and appointment persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and must be open, fair, and effective. include a lay person (4.4, 4.5). Mandatory Requirements 4.4 & 4.5. (4.1,4.2 & 4.3 are the responsibility of KSS Deanery and its Foundation and Specialty Schools)
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment To satisfy itself that the academic curricula provided by the LEP meet the requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes; To receive and consider LFG four‐monthly reports and annual programme audit and reviews, offering advice and referring issues to the relevant KSS Deanery Foundation/Specialty School and other Deaneries as agreed in Service Level Agreements between KSS and partner Deaneries, as appropriate; To monitor and develop the work of LFGs in order to supervise the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
To meet the curriculum requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes and approved by PMETB (5.2); The approved assessment system must be to manage the approved assessment fit for purpose. Mandatory requirements: system, ensuring it is fit for purpose 5.1 – 5.8. (5.5‐5.8); to maintain the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); to ensure that postgraduate doctors: are familiarised with the principles of Good Medical Practice (5.3); can access training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme (5.4).
Meets Domain 5 Standards: The requirements set out in the approved curriculum must be delivered and assessed
LAB Terms of Reference
competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); in liaison with Foundation/Specialty Schools and KSS to monitor academic appeals procedures and to monitor the conduct and outcomes of ARCP appeals conducted by Schools (see the PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.24ff).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
GEAR: Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations ‐ Gearing up for Patient Safety LAB Terms of Reference
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PMETB Generic LFG Terms of Reference Training Standards The LFG must be satisfied that postgraduate Meets Domain 6 Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, Standards: Trainees doctors: trainers and local faculty To establish, publicise, monitor and manage systems by must be supported to have access to a comprehensive and timely which postgraduate doctors feedback, in confidence, acquire the necessary induction to their programme (6.1); their concerns and views about their training and skills and experience have a rota by day and by night which is education experience to an appropriate member of local through induction, appropriate for learning (6.9); faculty (6.7); effective educational have a designated supervisor (6.3), a learning to ensure that LFGs maintain Foundation/Specialty supervision, an agreement, (6.4) a portfolio (6.5) and meet and Careers leads who will make certain that postgraduate appropriate discuss their progress, mutual expectations, workload, personal programme aims and objectives and support doctors receive career advice and support as support and time to systems with their supervisor (6.2) at least every appropriate and to monitor the LFGs in maintaining, learn. (Support, developing and appraising the Foundation/Specialty 3 months (6.6). training and effective The LFG must ensure that postgraduate doctors Careers leads (6.8); supervision must be are regularly involved in clinical audit (6.13); to ensure intervention if postgraduate doctors are provided for subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that The LFG must ensure that postgraduate doctors undermines their professional confidence or self‐ foundation doctors.) have access to Occupational Health services esteem (6.11); Trainers must provide (6.14) and confidential counselling (6.18) if to ensure that those following an academic path, are in a level of supervision needed. appropriate to the The LFG must monitor the deployment of flexible programmes of academic training allowing postgraduate doctors such as they have time to competence and multiple entry and exit points throughout training experience of the (6.24); attend relevant, timetabled, organised trainee. to monitor the provision of specialist training in educational meetings, including training in supervision, including qualifying Clinical and Educational Trainers must be generic professional skills (6.16), or other events Supervisors through the KSS Deanery programme and involved in and of educational value agreed with the educational ensuring attendance at triennial diversity and equality contribute to the supervisor (6.15) and have the opportunity to training (PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.18) and ensure that learning culture in learn with, and from, other healthcare which patient care professionals (6.17). all who have completed training act as supervisors; The LFG must monitor study leave arrangements to monitor the appraisal of supervisors such that they occurs. encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within Trainers must be so that postgraduate doctors are aware of how the context of clinical governance and patient safety supported in their to apply and are guided as to appropriate role by a (6.25); courses and funding (6.19) and take study leave to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular postgraduate medical up to the maximum permitted (6.20). their use of assessment tools, their understanding of education team and LFGs must alert their postgraduate doctors to the progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to have a suitable job academic opportunities available in their specialty (6.22) and encourage those with conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice plan with an on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), appropriate workload academic skills and aptitudes to investigate an integration of learning and teaching into service and time to develop academic career (6.23). provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share trainees. LFGs must maintain the regular appraisal of good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance Trainers must supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training understand the structure and context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.34); to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have purpose of, and their (6.25); role in, the training LFGs monitor the performance of trainers, in adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio programme of their particular their use of assessment tools, their of trainers to trainees), that there are physical resources designated trainees. understanding of progress by postgraduate such as meeting rooms, AV equipment (8.5) and, where Mandatory doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct stipulated in PMETB‐approved curricula, such resources Requirements: LAB constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice terms of reference on career progression, response to concerns as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); meet (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and service provision (6.28), liaison with other selected in accordance with the General and Specialist 6.7,6.8,6.11,6.24‐ trainers to share good practice (6.29) and Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications)6.30,6.33,6.34. knowledge and compliance with the GMC Order 2003 (6.33). regulatory framework for medical training (6.34).
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 7 Management of Education and Training To conduct periodic internal programme reviews and host and manage external reviews of training programmes to ensure that they meet relevant standards; to audit their own LAB processes on an annual basis and to provide a short summative report to the Deanery; to share good practice and learn from other LABs; to initiate quality enhancement projects and foster collaboration among training programmes; to advise on such other matters as the LEP or KSS Deanery may refer to the LAB; to ensure that all those with a role in the management of education and training are familiar with GEAR and its detailed provisions (7.1), 7.2); to monitor the prevalence and progress of Trainees in Difficulty (TiD) through the LFG Reports and to oversee processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); to monitor the attendance and engagement of those involved in administering and managing training and education at LEP level (7.5); to advise and liaise with other LEP Educational bodies.
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 7 standard: Education and training must be planned and maintained through transparent processes which show who is responsible at each stage. Mandatory Requirements 7.1‐7.3 & 7.5. 7.4 is at the discretion of the LEP Board.
LFGs must publish and make clear, through transparent processes, who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme. LFGs must manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3).
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity To advise on and make representations about the distribution of resources necessary to maintain the educational capacity of the LEP and any unit offering training posts/programmes and locally‐ appointed trust posts so as to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); through the finance/IT function and LKS of the LEP, to maintain access to educational facilities (including a library) and resources (including access to the Internet in all workplaces) of a standard to fulfil the KSS Education Contract and enable trainees to achieve the outcomes of the programme as specified in the approved curriculum (8.2).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
LFGs must ensure that educational Meets Domain 8 standard: The educational facilities, infrastructure and facilities and resources, including leadership must be adequate to deliver clinical and educational supervision, the curriculum. Mandatory Requirements meeting rooms, library and knowledge 8.1, 8.2, 8.5 met by the LAB. 8.3, 8.4 met services, specialist resources such as ‘wet labs’ and clinical skills centres and by the LFG. access to internet in the workplace, are sufficient to enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve curriculum outcomes (8.3, 8.4).
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 9 Outcomes To review and, where appropriate, act upon the outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes.
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 9 standard: The impact of the standards must be tracked against trainee outcomes and clear linkages should be reflected in developing standards. Mandatory Requirement 9.1 met by the LAB. And LFG
To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes (9.1).
Appendix 5:
LFG GEAR: Mapping against PMETB Standards for Curricula and assessment systems (July 2008)
This mapping identifies the sections of GEAR that address the standards that are appropriate to KSS and LEPs/NHS Trusts and those that are formed by the National Curriculum for Foundation and Specialty developed by the Royal Colleges. Planning: Standards 1 and 2 Curriculum purpose and development
Standard 1 The purpose of the curriculum must be stated, including linkages to previous and subsequent stages of the trainee’s training and education. The appropriateness of the stated curriculum to the stage of learning and to the Specialty in question must be described.
Mandatory requirements: 1.1 LFG GEAR
The curriculum must state how it was developed and consensus reached S1.i (LAB) on:
how content and teaching/learning methods were chosen; how the curriculum was agreed and by whom; the role of teachers and trainees in curriculum development. 1.2
There must be an adequate number of appropriately qualified and experienced staff in place to deliver an effective training programme. Subject areas of the curriculum must be taught by staff with relevant specialist expertise and knowledge. S1.iv (LAB)
1.3
2.1 (Ed. Sup)
The assessment system must be fit for purpose
Standard 2 The overall purpose of the assessment system must be documented and in the public domain.
Mandatory requirements: 2.1
The functions of each and all components of the assessment system must be specified and available to trainees, educators, employers, professional bodies including the regulatory bodies, and the public.
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
Mandatory requirements: 2.2
The sequence of assessments must match the progression through the approved curriculum Individual assessments within the system should add unique information and build on previous assessments.
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
2.3
Content: Standards 3 and 4 Content of the Curriculum
Standard 3 The curriculum must set out the general, professional, and Specialty–specific content to be mastered, including:
the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes demonstrated through behaviours and expertise; the recommendations on the sequencing of learning and experience should be provided, if appropriate; the general professional content should include a statement about how Good Medical Practice is to be
addressed.
Mandatory requirements: 3.1
The curriculum should:
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
cover both generic professional and Specialty‐specific areas; be a description of the training structure (entry requirements, length
and organisation of the training programme including its flexibilities and assessment systems);
have a description of expected methods of learning, teaching,
feedback and supervision;
enable safe and effective practice by the integration of theory and
practice which must be central to the curriculum;
remain relevant to current practice; assist autonomous and reflective thinking and evidence‐based
practice through the delivery of the curriculum;
ensure that the range of learning and teaching approaches used are
appropriate to the subjects within the curriculum.
Mandatory requirements: 3.2
Content areas should be presented in terms of the intended outcomes of learning benchmarked to identifiable stages of training, where appropriate:
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
To include what the trainee will know, understand,
describe, recognise, be aware of and be able to do at the end of the course.
The content of the assessment will be based on curricula for postgraduate training which themselves are referenced to all of the areas of Good Medical Practice.
Standard 4 Assessments must systematically sample the entire content, appropriate to the stage of training, with reference to the common and important clinical problems that the trainee will encounter in the workplace and to the wider base of knowledge, skills and attitudes demonstrated through behaviours that doctors require.
Mandatory requirements: 4.1
The blueprint detailing assessments in the workplace and national examinations will be referenced to the approved curriculum and Good Medical Practice and must be available to trainees and trainers in addition to assessors/examiners.
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
Delivery: Standards 5, 6, 7 and 8 Managing curriculum implementation
Standard 5 Indication should be given of how curriculum implementation will be managed and assured locally and within approved programmes.
Mandatory requirements: 5.1
This should include:
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks PG handbook template section 8 PG handbook template section 10 PG handbook template section 9 S4.ii (LAB), S1.(LFG) S1.(LFG)
intended use of the curriculum document by Programme Directors,
trainers and trainees;
means of ensuring curriculum coverage; recommended roles of the LEP in curriculum implementation; responsibilities of trainees for curriculum implementation; curriculum management in posts and attachments within approved
programmes;
curriculum management across programmes as a whole.
Model of learning
Standard 6 The curriculum must describe the model of learning appropriate to the Specialty and stage of training.
Mandatory requirements: 6.1
To be achieved through a general balance of work‐based experiential learning, independent self‐directed learning and appropriate ‘off‐the‐ job’ education.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
Learning experiences
Standard 7 Recommended learning experiences must be described which allow diversity of methods covering, at a minimum:
learning from practice; opportunities for concentrated practice in skills and procedures; learning with peers; learning in formal situations inside and outside the department; personal study; specific trainer/supervisor inputs. Mandatory requirements: LFG GEAR
Mandatory requirements: 7.1
To be achieved through developing educational strategies that are suited to work‐based experiential learning and appropriate education. The duration of the training programme must be appropriate to the achievement of the learning outcomes.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
7.2
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Assessment system methods
Standard 8 The choice of assessment method(s) should be appropriate to the content and purpose of that element of the curriculum.
Mandatory requirements: 8.1
Methods will be chosen on the basis of validity, reliability, feasibility, cost effectiveness, opportunities for feedback and impact on learning. The rationale for the choice of each assessment method will be documented and evidence‐based. Large scale competence tests (e.g. MRCP, MRCGP, MRCPsych):
LFG GEAR
Royal College
8.2
Royal College
Approaches to the development and piloting of test items/clinical
skills assessments for national tests of competence will be documented and available for external quality assurance. Studies to establish the validity of new methods will be undertaken.
Systematic data collection will support the routine reporting
of the reliability of tests of competence in high stakes pass/fail examinations. These statistics will be in the public domain. Workplace‐based assessments (e.g. direct observation of consulting, 360° assessment and case‐based discussions):
must be subject to reliability and validity measures; evidence must be collected and documented systematically; evidence must be judged against pre‐determined published criteria
where available;
the weight placed on different sources of evidence must be
determined by the blueprint and the quality of the evidence;
the synthesis of the evidence and the process of judging it must be
made explicit. Methods for work place‐based assessment e.g.:
systematic observation of clinical practice; Direct Observational Procedure; video; judgements of multiple assessors; consulting with simulated patients; Case Record Review, including OPD letters; case‐based discussions; oral presentations; 360º peer assessment; patient feedback surveys; audit projects; critical incident review.
Mandatory requirements: 8.3
LFG GEAR
The LEP must maintain a thorough and effective system for delivery and S6(LFG) S2.3(LFG) monitoring of all assessment systems for which they have responsibility.
Outcomes: Standards 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 Supervision of the trainee
Standard 9 Mechanisms for supervision of the trainee should be set out.
Mandatory requirements: 9.1
The learning, teaching and supervision must be designed to encourage safe and effective practice, independent learning and professional conduct of the doctor and safety of the patient. Unless other arrangements are agreed, trainers, supervisors, assessors and examiners must:
LFG GEAR
Ed. Sup 7.1, 7.7, 7.8
9.2
Ed. Sup 7.1, 7.7, 7.8
have relevant qualifications and experience; undertake appropriate training. Role of the Assessor
Standard 10 Assessors/examiners will be recruited against criteria for performing the tasks they undertake.
Mandatory requirements: 10.1 The roles of assessors/examiners will be clearly specified and used as
the basis for recruitment and appointment.
LFG GEAR
10.2 Assessors/examiners must demonstrate their ability to undertake the
role.
7.2,7.3
10.3 Assessors/examiners should only assess in areas where they have
competence.
10.4 The relevant professional experience of assessors should be greater
than that of candidates being assessed.
10.5 Equality and diversity training will be a core component of any
assessor/examiner training programme.
Assessment feedback to the trainees
Standard 11 Assessments must provide relevant feedback to the trainees.
Mandatory requirements: 11.1 The policy and process for providing feedback to trainees following
assessments must be documented and in the public domain.
LFG GEAR
PG handbook template section 13.2. Royal College
11.2 The form of feedback to the trainees must match the purpose of the
assessment.
11.3 Outcomes from assessments must be used to provide feedback to the
trainees on the effectiveness of the education and training where consent from all interested parties has been given.
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11.4 The measurement of trainee performance and progression must be an
integral part of the wider process of monitoring and evaluation, and use objective criteria.
Handbook 10.1, S2.6, S2.7 (LFG)
Standards for classification of trainees’ performance/competence
Standard 12 The methods used to set standards for classification of trainees’ performance/competence must be transparent and in the public domain.
Mandatory requirements: 12.1 Standards in tests of competence, such as national Royal College
examinations, will be set using recognised methods based on test content and the judgments of competent assessors.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
12.2 Where the purpose of the test is to provide a pass/fail decision,
information from the performance of reference groups of peers should inform, but not determine, the standard.
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12.3 The precision of the pass/fail decision must be reported on the basis of
data about the test. The purpose of the test must determine how the error around the pass/fail level affects decisions about borderline candidates.
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12.4 Reasons for choosing either pass/fail or rank ordering should
be described.
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12.5 Standards for determining successful completion of training to CCT level Royal College
should be explicit.
12.6 Assessment regulations must clearly specify requirements for: trainee progression and achievement within the approved
programme;
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the procedure for the right of appeal for trainees. Documentation will be standardised and accessible nationally
Standard 13 Documentation will record the results and consequences of assessments and the trainee’s progress through the assessment system.
Mandatory requirements: 13.1 Information will be recorded in a form that allows disclosure and
appropriate access, within the confines of data protection and freedom of information.
LFG GEAR
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13.2 Uniform documentation will be suitable not only for recording progress
through the assessment system but also for submission for purposes of registration and performance review.
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13.3 Documentation should provide evidence for revalidation and
compliance with Good Medical Practice.
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13.4 Documentation should be transferable and accessible as the trainee
moves location.
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Mandatory requirements: 13.5 Documentation should be comprehensive and accessible to both the
trainee and to those responsible for training.
LFG GEAR
Review: Standards 14, 15, 16 and 17 Curriculum review and updating
Standard 14 Plans for curriculum review, including curriculum evaluation and monitoring, must be set out.
Mandatory requirements: 14.1 The schedule for curriculum updating, with rationale, must be provided
including reference to governance arrangements where appropriate.
LFG GEAR
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14.2 Mechanisms for involving trainees, patients and lay people in curriculum Royal College
updating must be in place and operational.
Resources
Standard 15 Resources and infrastructure will be available to support trainee learning and assessment at all levels (national, KSS and LEP).
Mandatory requirements: 15.1 Resources will be made available for the proper training of assessors,
trainers and examiners.
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S2 (LAB) S7 (LFG).
15.2 The facilities and resources needed to ensure the welfare and well‐being S2(LAB) S7 (LFG)
of trainees must be both adequate and accessible, and must support the required learning and teaching activities of the curriculum and assessments.
15.3 Resources and expertise will be made available to develop and
implement appropriate assessment methods.
S2(LAB) S7 (LFG)
15.4 Resources will support the assessment of trainees at national and local
levels.
S2(LAB) S7 (LFG)
15.5 Appropriate infrastructure at national, KSS and LEP levels will support
the assessment process.
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Lay and patient involvement
Standard 16 There will be lay and patient input in the development and implementation of assessments.
Mandatory requirements: 16.1 Lay and patient/carer opinion will be sought in relation
to appropriate aspects of the development, implementation and use of assessments for the classification of candidates.
LFG GEAR
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16.2 Lay people may act as assessors/examiners for areas
of competence they are capable of assessing for which they will be given
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Mandatory requirements:
appropriate training.
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Equality and diversity
Standard 17 The curriculum should state its compliance with equal opportunities and anti‐discriminatory practice.
Mandatory requirements: 17.1 LEPs, Deaneries and Colleges/Faculties must have equal opportunities
and anti‐discriminatory policies in place in relation to trainees and trainers, together with an indication of how these will be implemented and monitored.
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2.11(LFG) xxii(LAB)
17.2 LEPs, Deaneries and Colleges/Faculties must ensure necessary 2.11(LFG) xxii(LAB)
information is publicly available for all stakeholders.
17.3 A range of learning and teaching methods that enables the rights and
needs of patients and colleagues to be respected.
PG Handbook template section 7.4,13
Appendix 6
GUIDANCE FOR DOCUMENTATION: Local Faculty Groups (Post Foundation) (Re. Handling of Trainees in Difficulty) Record Keeping
Introduction
The following is guidance on recording information relating to handling of trainees in difficulty by Local Faculty Groups (LFGs) based upon good practice. This must be used in conjunction with Trainees in Difficulty Guide published by KSS Deanery and Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations (GEAR). Documentation of meetings of the Faculty Groups must be in line with guidance provided by the Data Protection Act in relation to processing, retention and security of records. The possibility is that recording of processes relating to handling of a trainee in difficulty may subsequently form part of regulatory proceedings. Therefore recording of information must be of a standard and character where undue legal challenges could be avoided. The Freedom of Information Act (2005) allows the right of access to information held about practitioners/trainees (subject to exemptions where appropriate) and any documentation by faculties could be assessed through this.
Principles
1. 2. 3. 4. The LFGs may discuss the matter in detail but the minutes should only contain a factual summary. (The individual supervisor concerned should hold detailed notes of training etc but this must not form part of the minutes). Confidentiality of the trainee concerned must be protected. Also confidentiality of others involved e.g. patients and work colleagues must be preserved. Details of documentation may depend on the stage the problem has reached but there must be consistency. Principles of equality and diversity must be observed. Do not record third party statements in the minutes. Exclude information about aspects of the trainee’s life not directly related to his or her work even if discussed during the course of the meeting for other reasons. Information being presented to the Faculty Groups regarding a trainee should be recorded in a ‘standard concern form’, completed by the Educational Supervisor and the chair of the Faculty Groups. Record place of meeting/time/length/names of those present Record notes promptly after any meetings/event and agree it with those present as soon as possible (within two weeks).
5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10. Record discussions in a balanced way. The minutes should be objective and unbiased, written in an accurate and concise style. Once written, they should be checked for accuracy and distributed to the members as soon as possible. The minutes of trainee in difficulty should be recorded in bullet points as follows: a. Issues raised b. Conclusions c. Action points and time lines d. Review date 11. At the end of formal the LFG meetings confidential information sheets should be returned the responsible officer to be shredded in line with local Trust policy. 12. In recording, keep to facts only not suppositions/hypotheses discussed during meetings. 13. Minutes of notes will need to be retained for 7 years. At the end of a case file being closed, agree final notes with trainee/trainees representative if available. 14. The sharing of information recorded must be with permission of the LFG Chair and is in keeping with other guidance regarding this. E‐mailing notes to a third party by members for any other purpose should be avoided.
A practical approach to record keeping
• The Chair of the LFG/DME may choose to refer to the individual trainee in the minute through a coding process and they will be responsible to keep the key to coding confidential. The trainee in the note might be referred to as follows: Trust code/numerical number/the year. For example John Smith is the first trainee who has been discussed in the faculty that year. The minutes will show the Trust code/1/08. • The minutes will refer to all factual issues raised. For example, not taking part in DoP’s assessments. • The conclusion of the LFG. For example, a formal letter to trainee giving them reasonable times scale to complete the assessment. Or refer to the school board. • The review period to indicate when and what the LFG will review in the case of the 3456/1/08.
List of Abbreviations and References
AAR – Annual Audit and Review APEL – Accreditation of Prior Experience and Learning ARCP – Annual Review of Competence Progression CCT – Certificate of Completion of Training CEO – Chief Executive Officer CQC – Care Quality Commission STEAG – Core Specialty Schools Advisory Group DH – Department of Health DME – Director of Medical Education DPA – Data Protection Act EWTR – European Working Time Regulations FACD – Foundation Achievement of Competency Document FTPD – Foundation Training Programme Director GEAR – Graduate Education Assessment Regulations (GEAR) GMC – General Medical Council GP – General Practice HR – Human Resources ISO – International Organisation for Standardization IT – Information Technology KSS – Kent, Surrey and Sussex LAB – Local Academic Board LEP – Local Education Provider
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LFG – Local Faculty Group LSC – Learning and Skills Council LTFT – Less Than Full Time MEM – Medical Education Manager MMC – Modernising Medical Careers NHS – National Health Service NHSLA – NHS Litigation Authority OPD – Out Patients Department PA – Professional Activities PGME – Postgraduate Medical Education and Training PMETB – Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board QAA – Quality Assurance Agency QESP – Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme QMS – Quality Management System RITA – Record of In‐Training Assessment SEC – South East Coast SFT – Standards for Trainers SHA – Strategic Health Authority SPA – Supporting Professional Activities STC – Specialty Training Committee STFS – South Thames Foundation School TiD – Trainees in Difficulty WBLA – Workplace Based Learning Assessments
References
Fish, D, et al, Gear Evaluation Report, 2009 Healthcare Commission Annual Health Check (the Care Quality Commission Annual Health Check since April 2009), publish annually since 2005 http://www.cqc.org.uk/guidanceforprofessionals/healthcare/nhsstaff/annualhealthcheck2008/09/annualhealthchec ktimetable.cfm MMC, The Gold Guide: A Reference Guide for Postgraduate Specialty Training in the UK, Second Edition, June 2008 http://www.mmc.nhs.uk/pdf/Gold%20Guide%202008%20‐%20FINAL.pdf NHS Litigation Authority, NHSLA Risk Management Standards for Acute Trusts Primary Care Trusts and Independent Sector Providers of NHS Care, Version 1, September 2006, Version 2 February 2009 http://www.nhsla.com/NR/rdonlyres/6201F9A1‐C943‐4348‐A902‐ 7F5FF66FAAD6/0/AcuteNHSLARiskManagementStandardsFinalV630109.doc PMETB, Generic Standards for Training, Revised July 2008 http://www.pmetb.org.uk/fileadmin/user/Standards_Requirements/PMETB_Gst_July2008_Final.pdf PMETB, Quality Assurance of Foundation Programme (QAFP) Overview report, December 2008 http://www.pmetb.org.uk/fileadmin/user/QA/QAFP/QAFP_Overview_report_Dec_2008.pdf PMETB, Standards for curricula and assessment systems, July 2008 http://www.pmetb.org.uk/fileadmin/user/Standards_Requirements/PMETB_Scas_July2008_Final.pdf, PMETB, The State of Postgraduate Medical Education and Training: a changing landscape, 2008 http://www.pmetb.org.uk/fileadmin/user/Communications/Publications/State_of_PMET_20081117.pdf
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Contents
Introduction to Third Edition Guide to the Amendments to second Edition of GEAR Local Academic Board GEAR Regulations 1 4 6
LAB Annual Audit and Review
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Local Faculty Group GEAR Regulations
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South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Minute template Local Academic Board Minute Template LFG Handbook generic template
Annual Audit and Review templates and models Foundation Specialty
General Practice
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1: KSS Quality Management Overview Appendix 2: Educational Supervision i. QESP: Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme Appendix 3: LAB GEAR Roles and Responsibilities of London Deanery and KSS Working Together Appendix 4: GEAR Mapping Document against PMETB Generic Standards for Training (September 2009) Appendix 5: LFG GEAR mapping against PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) Appendix 6: GUIDANCE FOR DOCUMENTATION: Local Faculty Groups (Post Foundation)(Re. Handling of Trainees in Difficulty) Record Keeping List of abbreviations and references
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Introduction to the Third Edition
These Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations (GEAR) are published as the Postgraduate Deanery for Kent, Surrey and Sussex’s response to the National Framework for Postgraduate Medical Education and Training.
Local Faculty Groups
Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Deanery’s response to the introduction of the Foundation Programme was to organise Local Faculty Groups (LFGs) in each Local Education Provider (LEP). All of the people involved in providing the new Foundation Programme in each LEP were brought together as a learning set, facilitated by a KSS Education Adviser, for five half‐day meetings. Their task was to write their local curriculum for the Foundation Programme, showing who would be teaching what, how assessment and supervision would be carried out, what the rights and responsibilities of learners were, and mapping the progress of the learner from first contact with their employer to leaving post. The focus for this work was the production of a local Student Handbook, and the creation of three annual LFG meetings, at which the progress of every Foundation doctor is reviewed and the educational development needs of their teachers are considered. As the new Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) national curriculum frameworks were produced by Royal Colleges, so a similar process was used to set up LFGs for Surgery, Medicine, and the other Specialties in turn. Up to that point, KSS Education Advisers had attended LFG meetings to provide professional support and input. In phase two of the development of the KSS GEAR system of governance, Consultant Education Advisers have been appointed and allocated to LFGs. These educational specialists further support the consolidation of LFGs. The LFG then provides the first tier of local accountability for postgraduate medical education and an effective unit for its management in LEPs.
Local Academic Boards
Building on existing local Medical Education Committees, we developed the concept of a Local Academic Board (LAB) to which the LEP’s LFGs would report. The LAB also meets three times a year, and receives reports from each LFG. The LAB is the senior LEP forum for medical education, chaired by the Director of Medical Education (DME), and with the Medical Education Manager (MEM) performing the Registry function traditionally carried out by senior university professional staff. To ensure engagement with the LEP’s clinical and managerial agendas, the LAB includes the Medical Director, Library and Knowledge Services Manager, Human Resources Director and Director of Finance and IT in its membership, as well as a postgraduate doctor representative and a lay member. The efficiency of this unit of management means that it is possible for KSS to send an Education Adviser and a Dean to each LAB meeting, so that there is regional expertise on hand within the meeting to provide advice and to support problem solving. Reflecting the agenda of the LFGs, the LAB actions or signs off both the satisfactory progress of postgraduate doctors and the learning needs that Faculties have identified for themselves.
Governance structure
In practice, therefore, LFGs provide the first line of academic management for postgraduate doctors, and supply any additional support or remediation that is needed by their learners. The LAB oversees these activities, while providing an immediate point of referral for any special circumstances. Consideration of special circumstances, and decisions about the appropriateness of action to be taken, are carried out with
the full knowledge and engagement of both the LEP’s senior management and the immediate advice of the Deanery. In this way, a local remedy can be applied to any problem area; KSS has immediate awareness of any unusual circumstances; and the KSS Head of School for Foundation or a particular Specialty becomes involved only when it is necessary and appropriate. At all stages, everyone – learner, teacher, employer, School – has a clear communication route and awareness of action taken.
GEAR
Once the principle of a LAB had been agreed with our DMEs and MEMs, in order to provide a coherent approach across the Deanery, and to ensure clarity of communication channels, we produced the GEAR, which are contained in this document. A detailed exercise was carried out to map the GEAR to the Standards for Training provided by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) and by the General Medical Council (GMC); to the PMETB’s Quality Assurance of the Foundation Programme requirements; to the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) Risk Management Standards for Acute Trusts; and to the Care Quality Commission (CQC’s) Annual Health Check. This provided the educational governance required by MMC, made an explicit link with clinical governance, and demonstrated the material benefits available to LEP Chief Executives who invest in high‐quality education. The title, GEAR, new to Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (PGME) but long‐standing in mainstream higher education, reflects the document’s nature; it prescribes formal requirements for the local academic management of a graduate programme of study. The regulations thus provide a link into the language and processes of university education, reflecting a desire for better articulation between undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. However, it has also been written as a generic document, which could be applied to other, non‐MMC areas of education, and some KSS LEPs have already created a LFG for undergraduate medical education, reporting to the LAB, as a means of streamlining and gathering together all of their medical education under one academic umbrella.
Financial and organisational implications
There are, of course, financial and organisational implications to introducing GEAR, and in particular, we have had to make provision for administrative support for LFGs, with their administrators being managed by MEMs. The cost of quality, however, is always less than the cost of no quality, and the benefits – ensuring that KSS patients, their families and their carers are attended by doctors who are competent to provide care; reducing clinical risk for LEPs; and making sure that our learners get the best possible education – provide rewards that far outweigh that investment. n.b.We use the term ‘Postgraduate Doctors’ to cover all those learners whose progress is managed by our LFG structures.
Acknowledgements
All of our work comes about through a collaborative process, in which many people, including the authors, participate. As GEAR has developed and embedded, we have benefited from the best practice developed by our GP Deanery and by our Foundation School. These contributions, the longer‐term experience of the Foundation Programme, and the maturely developed contexts of Primary Care, have been invaluable in developing GEAR to a third edition and are gratefully acknowledged. We should also like to acknowledge the contribution of our academic colleagues, including David Wood, and the alumni of our Master of Arts (Clinical Education) programme, who provided the intellectual and professional debate that informed the creation of GEAR; our Dean Director, Professor David Black, our Deputy Dean Secondary Care, Dr Kevin
Kelleher, and their teams of Deans and Heads of School, who supported this innovative trajectory of development; and above all, the MEMs and their DMEs, the ‘ancient reluctant conscripts’ of Carl Sandburg’s poem, who joined us willingly on another voyage, through another portal of discovery. Professor Zoë Playdon, Head of Education Dr Pam Shaw, Deputy Head of Education
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Guide to the Amendments to the Second Edition of GEAR
This revised edition of the GEAR responds to the following PMETB publications, which collectively form the National Framework for Postgraduate Medical Education and Training: Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) Generic standards for training (September 2009) Standards for deaneries (July 2008) (where appropriate) Standards for Foundation Training LEPs across the region have successfully embedded the new system of educational governance proposed by the GEAR (2008) and this third edition will help to enhance and streamline practice ‘in the field’ across the KSS region. The relationship of GEAR to Contract review. KSS has revised the Contract Review process in 2010. GEAR describes how LEPs should quality manage the processes of complying and being accountable for their LEP contract with KSS for PGME. Contract Review describes the contractual obligations and how they will be reviewed annually. Both Contract Review and the GEAR align with and are mapped against GMC requirements for PGME.
The evaluation of GEAR (1/2009) undertaken by Professor Della Fish acknowledged the substantial strengths of GEAR as a quality management process. We have incorporated several of the recommendations from the Evaluation in this edition, such as providing guidance for areas colleagues may wish to comment upon in the Annual Audit and Review sections. Key changes within this new version of GEAR are as follows: We have divided GEAR into two sections. Section 1, GEAR itself, is a shorter document containing the regulations for LABs and LFGs across the region. The second section comprises a bundle of Appendices. These include pro‐forma templates for various quality processes and supporting information. This second section comprises, therefore, the resources and paperwork colleagues will need in order to comply with the regulations. The mapping of LAB terms of reference with the new PMETB Generic Standards for Training (Sept 2009). All other documents – including templates for Annual Audit and Review and the model Training Handbook ‐ are updated in line with the most recent versions of GMC standards. All of this is also matched to the prescribed format of the KSS Annual Report to GMC. The mapping of the LAB’s work to the Care Quality Commission’s latest inspection guides and their related Department of Health core standards (June 2009). the Mapping of the LAB’s and the LFG’s work to the Third Edition of the PMETB Gold Guide to Postgraduate Training (June 2009) The incorporation into GEAR of quality management processes for KSS Library and Knowledge Services. The incorporation into GEAR of quality management processes for KSS Pharmacy education.
Each year every LFG must complete the LFG Annual Audit and Review. This is due at KSS at the latest by the date (see Calendar below) published by the Deanery for that current year, as is the LAB Annual Audit Review. These documents should be sent to the Quality Office at quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk An electronic copy of GEAR along with the LFG AAR and LAB AAR Templates can be found under the documents section at: http://www.kssdeanery.org/resources.php
A guide to working with GEAR
Colleagues in the field will find different ways of working with GEAR documentation, according to their role within the system of educational governance. The following, however, is a suggested timeline and guide to working with GEAR that will ensure that essential meetings and the generation of documentation follow the rhythm of the Postgraduate Doctors’ academic year. Please note that there has been consistently good practice in agenda‐setting and minute‐taking within many LFGs and therefore we have not found it necessary to provide a template for these within this edition of GEAR. However, centres wishing to follow a model for agendas and minutes might wish to refer to those provided by the South Thames Foundation School, which all Foundation LFGs must employ within their meetings.
Educational Governance Academic Year Calendar (August to July)
August: LAB receives and finalises dates for LFG meetings Dates of LAB meetings published Postgraduate Doctors’ Handbooks distributed at induction Postgraduate Doctors’ Representatives elected November December March/April LFG Meeting 1 sends minutes to LAB 1 LAB Meeting 1 LFG Meeting 2 – sends minutes to LAB 2 LAB Meeting 2 May Late June By 15 July By end of July LFG Meeting 3 sends minutes and LFG AAR to LAB 3 LAB receives all LFG AARs for finalisation LAB sends LAB AAR and LFG AARs to Quality Office quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk Review and finalise actions to take forward from LAB and LFG AARs for the forthcoming academic year in relation to implementation of curricula Finalise handbooks for forthcoming academic year
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Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations for Local Academic Boards
1 Purpose and scope
1.1 This document describes the arrangements (procedures, policies and organisation) within KSS LEPs (health authorities, NHS Trusts, GP practices, charitable and independent sectors), which ensure that Postgraduate Doctors and Pharmacists receive education and training that meets local, national and professional standards for PGME1. LABs fulfil the educational governance function for LEPs of postgraduate medical education in the KSS Deanery region. They undertake the quality control of postgraduate medical training programmes in order to ensure patient safety2.
1.2
1.3 KSS LABs undertake their work in accordance with the following principles: to serve the rights and interests of patients, their families and their carers; to serve the rights and interests of KSS LEPs and other employers; to uphold the rights, entitlements and interests of the doctor in training and of the faculty which educates them.
2 LAB remit and terms of reference
2.1 LABs monitor and oversee the quality of training programmes provided by LFGs, currently including Foundation/Specialty and educational structures as agreed. They are the centralised conduit of communication, about PGME and training, between NHS Acute or Community‐based Trusts, the KSS Deanery and its Foundation/Specialty Schools, including mandated relationships with neighbouring Deaneries. Within their LEP, they are the locus both for quality control of PGME and for Local Foundation/Specialty Faculty development and quality enhancement. As such they would expect to receive and consider the implications of the annual KSS Specialty School reports. LABs meet formally three times a year. They receive and consider audit and review and other regular reports on programmes of PGME from LFGs. They audit, accept them and offer advice before forwarding them to the Schools and Deanery. They have the authority to require changes in the local delivery of programmes of PGME in line with PMETB Generic standards for Training (Sept 2009) and appropriate PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008). They may initiate LEP internal reviews of programmes of PGME and may set up and monitor quality enhancement projects, establishing sub‐committees and steering groups as appropriate. LABs host and manage quality assurance and management visits to the LEPs, most notably KSS Deanery Contract Review, specialty quality visits, and also, as required, monitoring and visits on behalf of GMC and as part of the Care Quality Commission’s Annual Health
2.2
2.3
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PMETB Quality Framework (July 2008). This governance may include mandated relationships with neighbouring Deaneries. See 2.1 below
Check3. In this last respect, the work of the LAB addresses the following Department of Health Core Standards contained in the CQC’s guidance for NHS trusts; C1a Healthcare organisations protect patients through systems that identify and learn from all patient safety incidents and other reportable incidents, and make improvements in practice based on local and national experience and information derived from the analysis of incidents. C5b Healthcare organisations ensure that clinical care and treatment are carried out under supervision and leadership. C11a Healthcare organisations ensure that staff concerned with all aspects of the provision of healthcare are appropriately recruited, trained and qualified for the work they undertake C11b Healthcare organisations ensure that staff concerned with all aspects of the provision of healthcare participate in mandatory training programmes. C11c Healthcare organisations ensure that staff concerned with all aspects of the provision of healthcare participate in further professional and occupational development commensurate with their work throughout their working lives. 2.4 The LAB’s day‐to‐day executive work is most commonly carried out by the LEP’s MEM in the role of Academic Registrar and the LAB is normally chaired by the DME or equivalent clinician who is ultimately responsible for the probity of the LAB’s functions. These LAB regulations adopt broadly the same format as those for LFGs. They are cross‐ referenced to the GMC Domains and Standards and, where relevant, to the MMC Gold Guide 3rd edition (2009). The LAB GEAR are also mapped to the NHSLA Risk Management Standards for Acute Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and Independent Sector Providers of NHS Care (2009/10) ‐ notably 2.4: Supervision of medical staff in training ‐ and to the KSS Deanery’s GEAR for LFGs. The LAB is subject to the quality control requirements of PMETB, the CQC, KSS Deanery and the relevant LEP. Additionally the LAB must facilitate the quality management process for Library and Knowledge Services in the LEP. This will include an annual KSS verification visit which is part of the KSS Contract Review process. It will take place during a day visit to LKS in the LEP, by a verification team. The team will scrutinize the Quality Manual and discuss notable practice and exceptions with the LEP Head of LKS and other staff as appropriate. The content of the quality manual, the verification team’s report and the evidence provided as part of the LAB Strategy informs the LEP’s Contract Review. Going forward, to avoid duplication, this process is expected to align as far as possible with the NHS Library Quality Assurance Framework (2010). In this way the procedure can satisfy both national and local LKS requirements in one quality management process. The outcomes of the review must be summarized in a report and presented to Contract Review in the LEP.
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2.6 2.7
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CQC Inspection guides and their related Department of Health core standards (June 2009)
In addition the Head of LKS for KSS (or a designated proxy) will attend the LEP’s annual contract review meeting. 2.8 The quality management processes for Pharmacy Education across KSS are aligned with GEAR. These processes apply to the programme for Pre‐registration Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technician training and Pharmacists taking their PG Diploma. The quality control of Pharmacy education in each LEP will be the responsibility of a Pharmacy Local Faculty Group, normally chaired by the Chief Pharmacist in the LEP. A Pharmacy LFG may not be viable or cost efficient in small trusts or those with a small number of Pharmacists and/or individuals in training. In such cases the Chief Pharmacist may report directly to the LAB and conduct quality control processes within LAB agendas. The decision on whether this is appropriate rests with the Pharmacy Workforce Lead who will consult with the relevant LAB Chair. Pharmacy Education must comply with the standards and provisions of the General Pharmaceutical Council (2010). These standards and provisions must be the basis of the GEAR annual audit and review produced by the Pharmacy LFG. Additionally the Pharmacy Workforce Manager may from time to time specify local KSS regulations and provisions which must be addressed in the Pharmacy LFG audit and review. Through the work of LFGs, the LAB ensures adherence to the curriculum requirements of the Royal Colleges via the GMC and the Foundation/Specialty Schools. The LAB has the following functions which are listed below:
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Domains for quality control
The LAB’s role is to monitor, oversee and be responsible for all general issues of educational governance related to PGME in the LEP. This will require the LAB to meet the requirements of the PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) and PMETB Generic standards for training (Sept 2009) in conjunction with the LFGs within their remit. LABs are therefore required4:
Domain 1 Patient Safety
To oversee the work of LFGs in monitoring the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4)5.
Domain 2 Quality Management, review and evaluation
To supervise the LEP’s quality control of PGME by: a) monitoring compliance with PMETB’s statutory codes, policies, processes, domains and standards; b) managing the annual KSS Deanery Contract Review process and specialty hospital visits;
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This remit is cross‐referenced to the September 2009 PMETB Generic Standards for Training; see figures in brackets for details. n.b. Some functions described in the domains, for example the publication of recruitment statistics, are carried out by KSS Deanery or Royal Colleges. In line with the provisions and exceptions relating to ‘duty of care’ of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007.
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c) overseeing the LFGs’ relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools, the General Pharmaceutical Council and Royal Colleges); d) maintaining communication on quality with the LEP management and KSS Deanery; e) through the work of the LEP Human Resources department, monitoring compliance with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
a) To receive and consider information from LFGs about reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4); b) through the work of the KSS Medical Staffing and the LEP Human Resources department, to ensure that LFG training programmes’ comply with employment law, the Disability Discrimination Act, Race Relations (Amendment) Act, Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Acts, the Human Rights Act and other equal opportunity legislation that may be enacted and amended in the future (3.1).
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment
a) To receive and consider KSS Deanery, LFG‐ and LEP reports and information about recruitment, selection and appointment processes; b) to monitor the composition of LFG selection panels to ensure they consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5).
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
a) To satisfy itself that the academic curricula provided by the LEP meet the requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes; b) to receive and consider LFG four‐monthly reports and annual programme audit and reviews, offering advice and referring issues to the relevant KSS Deanery Foundation/Specialty School and other Deaneries as agreed in Service Level Agreements between KSS and partner Deaneries, as appropriate; c) to consider periodical reports from LKS. d) to monitor and develop the work of LFGs in order to supervise the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); e) in liaison with Foundation/Specialty Schools and KSS to monitor academic appeals procedures and to monitor the conduct and outcomes of ARCP appeals conducted by Schools (see the PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.24ff).
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
a) To establish, publicise, monitor and manage systems by which postgraduate doctors feedback, in confidence, their concerns and views about their training and education experience to an appropriate member of local faculty (6.7); b) to ensure that LFGs maintain Foundation/Specialty Careers leads who will make certain that postgraduate doctors receive career advice and support as appropriate and to monitor the LFGs in maintaining, developing and appraising the Foundation/Specialty Careers leads (6.8);
c) to ensure intervention if postgraduate doctors are subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that undermines their professional confidence or self‐esteem (6.11); d) to ensure that those following an academic path, are in flexible programmes of academic training allowing multiple entry and exit points throughout training (6.24); e) to monitor the provision of specialist training in supervision, including qualifying Clinical and Educational Supervisors through the KSS Deanery programme and ensuring attendance at triennial diversity and equality training (PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.18) and to ensure that all supervisors, trainers and assessors have completed relevant training; f) to monitor the appraisal of supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); g) to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular their use of assessment tools, their understanding of portfolios (hard copy or electronic) and progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into service provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training (6.34); h) to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio of trainers to trainees, that there are physical resources such as meeting rooms, AV equipment (8.5) and, where stipulated in PMETB‐approved curricula, such resources as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); i) if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and selected in accordance with the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (6.33).
Domain 7 Management of education and training
a) To conduct periodic internal programme reviews and host and manage external reviews of training programmes to ensure that they meet relevant standards; b) to audit their own LAB processes on an annual basis and to provide a short summative report to the Deanery; c) to share good practice and learn from other LABs; d) to initiate quality enhancement projects, special interest groups (SIGs) and foster collaboration among training programmes; e) to advise on such other matters as the LEP or KSS Deanery may refer to the LAB; f) to ensure that all those with a role in the management of education and training are familiar with GEAR and its detailed provisions (7.1, 7.2); g) to monitor the prevalence and progress of Trainees in Difficulty (TiD) through the LFG Reports and to oversee processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); h) to monitor the attendance and engagement of those involved in administering and managing training and education at LEP level, through the LFG and quality processes (7.5); i) to advise and liaise with other LEP Educational bodies.
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
a) To advise on and make representations about the distribution of resources necessary to maintain the educational capacity of the LEP and any unit offering training posts/programmes and locally‐
appointed trust posts so as to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); b) through the finance/IT and LKS functions of the LEP, to maintain access to educational facilities (including Library and Knowledge Services) and resources (including access to the Internet in all workplaces) of a standard to fulfil the KSS Education Contract and enable trainees to achieve the outcomes of the programme as specified in the approved curriculum (8.2, 8.5).
To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes.
Domain 9 Outcomes
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Membership of LABs/Roles and responsibilities
n.b. The membership is configured so that it has the collective expertise and authority to address the PMETB Generic Standards for Training (Sept 2009). DME or equivalent clinician (Chair) Academic Registrar Library and Knowledge Services Manager IT Representative Medical Director LEP Human Resources LEP Finance Senior LEP Pharmacist Representatives of LFGs as appropriate Representative of Postgraduate Doctors Representative of the KSS Education Department KSS Associate Dean Lay representative selected by LEP to represent the patient’s perspective Co‐optees at the Chair’s discretion Roles and responsibilities Academic Registrar – This title reflects the role of overseeing the implementation of the regulations as described in the Introduction. It is a role most commonly undertaken by the MEM in the LEP. Library and Knowledge Services Manager ‐ to advise on all library and knowledge services and their management issues as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. IT – to advise on all aspects of IT as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making (IT may be encompassed by the LKS Manager). Medical Director – to advise on all aspects of Clinical Governance as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. Human Resources – to advise on all aspects of HR as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. Finance – to advise on all aspects of Finance as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. KSS Education Rep.– to provide educational externality and to advise on all teaching, learning and educational management issues as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making. Associate Dean – to provide Clinical externality and to advise on all medical workforce and school‐ based issues as they affect PGME and the business of the LAB and contribute to its broader discussion and decision making.
n.b. The Head of Library and Knowledge Services (LKS) for KSS (or a proxy) has the right to attend any LAB so as to be present for any agenda item or issue generic or relevant to the provision of LKS in the KSS region. The LAB Chair or the Head of LKS or the LEP Head of LKS may request this, and the LAB Chair, local Head of LKS in the LEP and MEM will be informed about the attendance of the Head of LKS, normally at least two working days before the LAB meeting.
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Procedural Regulations for LABs
The LAB retains the overall responsibilities defined in its terms of reference (see 2 above). However, it may delegate specific activities and authorities as it considers appropriate to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities. Meetings and agendas i. ii. iii. iv. LABs will meet a minimum of three times a year. There must also be provision for convening extraordinary meetings (see below). Meetings must be convened by the Academic Registrar. The Academic Registrar should ensure that agendas and papers are circulated to all members to arrive at least three days before the meeting. The Chair, with the Academic Registrar, should plan an annual schedule of standing agenda items, so that the LAB can monitor the provision of LKS, promptly manage and control the cycle of LFG Annual Audit and Reviews, Contract Review, production and monitoring of the Action Plan and of the Quality Manual and LAB strategy documents. The annual schedule should be approved by the LAB. These documents feed in to the LAB Annual Audit and Review. If a LAB agenda item, decision or discussion causes a conflict of interest for a member of the LAB, it is the absolute responsibility of the LAB member in question to declare that interest and, normally, to withdraw for the duration of the item. Because one LAB member is a representative of Postgraduate Doctors, there must be a LAB provision for ‘closed business,’ i.e. items to be discussed and/or decided after this representative has left at the end of the meeting. LABs may make provision for extraordinary meetings. Academic Registrars may convene these to discuss single urgent agenda items, which the LAB need to discuss before its next scheduled meeting. For the Academic Registrar to convene an extraordinary meeting either at least three LAB members must request this in writing or the Chair must request it. The Academic Registrar should ensure that notification of the date, time, venue and item to be discussed in the extraordinary meeting is circulated to all members to arrive at least three days before the meeting.
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Minutes viii. The Academic Registrar (or his/her nominee as agreed by the DME) should normally arrange for minutes of the meetings to be taken. These must include action points and timetables for action. Formal minutes of meetings must be taken and distributed to members within two working weeks of each meeting. Copies of the minutes must be sent electronically to the KSS Deanery via Schools.
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When the LAB discusses an individual trainee, education provider or supervisor, a confidential minute must be taken and stored securely as an appendix to the minutes. This confidential appendix will be made available to LAB members. While confidential appendices will not routinely be made available to individuals themselves, LAB members should bear in mind that the individual may make a DPA request to obtain a copy, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
Membership xi. xii. A third of voting members shall constitute a quorum. The LAB Postgraduate Doctor Representative’s role is to represent the interests of all doctors in training. S/he will be elected from among the LFG representatives as soon as they are in place at the start of a Foundation or specialty programme, and in any case, prior to the first LAB meeting of the year. The Academic Registrar will annually notify the LFG that it may nominate a Postgraduate Doctor Representative to the LAB. The Academic Registrar will conduct an email ballot among Postgraduate Doctors, in order to select a LAB representative from the nominees. If there is a single nominee the DME will appoint this individual to the LAB by default, informing LFGs to this effect. In the event of a tie in voting, the DME will exercise a casting vote. In the event of there being no nominee, the DME will identify a suitable representative. Sub‐committees or steering groups may be set up by the LAB; membership will be agreed by the LAB and an individual identified to lead and report back. The LAB must annually elect a Vice Chair to undertake the duties of chair in the event of the Chair’s absence. Proxies for other members of the LAB may attend meetings with the permission of the Chair. The LAB should annually seek to identify from among its membership, individuals who can take responsibility for advising on TiDs, LTFT training, careers and recruitment respectively. Such individuals will normally have an expertise or an interest in the specific area. The LAB membership must include a lay member6 who will usually be selected and invited from local nominees. LAB lay members should be non‐medical and will usually be drawn from employing bodies or postgraduate higher education. The principal role of the lay member is to represent patients and the public and to provide externality in the LAB’s exercise of consistent, robust and transparent decision making.
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Conducting LAB business xvii. The LAB can take various courses of action when it formally receives LFG audit and reviews or other formal reports from training programmes. It may: ratify the conclusions and action points arising from the report; require conditions, addressing issues raised in the report, to be met by specific dates; make recommendations or give advice in response to issues in the report; require re‐submission of the report to include specific changes or additions in line with relevant policy requirements in place from time to time.
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See the Gold Guide 2009 (7.51) for the lay member’s recommended role in ARCP panels.
Each year the LAB must: formally acknowledge receipt and approval of Foundation/Specialty handbooks; formally acknowledge receipt and approval of the KSS Deanery Contract Review Action Plan; KSS Deanery Specialty Visit Reports; formally acknowledge receipt and approval of each LFG’s Annual Audit and Review; formally submit the LAB Annual Audit and Review to the Quality Management Group at the KSS Deanery. All of the above courses of action should be consistent with GMC, CQC, KSS Deanery, the relevant LEP, the Royal Colleges and the Foundation/Specialty Schools’ up‐to‐date curriculum requirements and policies. Additionally the LAB must facilitate the annual KSS verification visit to Library and Knowledge Services in the LEP. KSS Verifiers will comprise: The Head of Knowledge Services Development or the Deputy Head of Knowledge Services Development, who will formally lead the Verification Team. A Library and Knowledge Services Manager from another KSS LEP, or another person as deemed appropriate by the KSS Library and Knowledge Services Team. xviii. Decisions of the LAB will normally be reached by consensus of opinion; voting may be resorted to in certain matters at the discretion of the Chair; on such occasions motions will be proposed and duly seconded by members of the LAB, and decisions will be reached by simple majority vote of members present. In the event of a split‐vote, the Chair of the meeting will give a second (or casting) vote. The LAB should receive information – from LEPs, Specialty Schools or other bodies conducting enquiries as appropriate – about cases of TiD, poor performance, postgraduate doctor disciplinary proceedings or under‐performance by clinical or educational supervisors. This information allows the LAB to monitor the prevalence of such cases and the potential effect on quality in a training programme. This business must be conducted under the ‘closed business’ provision detailed above. n.b. In Higher Specialty Training programmes comprising Postgraduate Doctors rotating through different trusts(LEPs), the programme quality information will (except where alternative arrangements have been agreed locally) be presented to the LAB in the LEP where the Training Programme Director is employed. Postgraduate doctors’ individual progress will still be tracked by the Specialty LFG ‐ where it exists ‐ of the employing LEP. The LAB may provide and support leads for cross‐curricular areas of work, such as Leadership, Careers, Simulation, etc., who will work collaboratively in Special Interest Groups (SIGs)across the KSS region. Typically, Special Interest Groups will: comprise colleagues with a particular interest in sharing practice and developing expertise in the cross‐curricular area; meet on three occasions each year, usually once in each of the three ‘terms’ of the academic year; contribute to the development and implication of the appropriate KSS Deanery policy and strategy; develop its terms and conditions at its first meeting; be chaired by a designated Assistant Dean (Education); produce an annual report towards the end of each academic year.
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Through the annual cycle of LFG reporting, the LAB must always be made aware of the resources available to each Foundation/Specialty programme for training. LABs, through the DME, MEM and LFGs, should ensure that LEP employees – particularly postgraduate doctors and education providers and supervisors – are aware of the responsibilities, function and authority of the LAB. The Academic Registrar should thus ensure a wide distribution of information which explains the above. The business of LABs must be conducted at all times in accordance with legislation about, and principles of, equality and diversity7. Through the Academic Registrar, the LAB should seek periodically to peer benchmark its work against another similar LAB, possibly on a reciprocal basis. There must be provision for a LFG Postgraduate Doctor Representative to bring a Foundation/Specialty programme issue directly to the LAB for resolution, if s/he can demonstrate that the issue has not been addressed and/or resolved at LFG meetings. The LAB Chair may decide to grant the request or dismiss it on procedural grounds. If the LAB Chair receives and approves such a request, the Academic Registrar must inform the relevant LFG Chair of the Postgraduate Doctor Representative’s submission within two working days, and must require the LFG Chair’s written report of the issues within two working weeks. As a result of including this representative’s submission within a LAB agenda, the LAB may refer the issue back to the LFG, offer advice or require the LFG to take a course of action. The LEP must ensure that the DME and Academic Registrar have sufficient time and support commensurate with undertaking and supervising the work of the LAB, in the ultimate interests of patient safety.
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xxvii. Through the Chair, the LAB may make representations about resources to the LEP Board, either in respect of its own resources or in order to resolve a resource issue referred to the LAB from a LFG. xxviii. LABs will note, from LFG reports, outcomes of Postgraduate Doctors appeals against decisions following their Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP). xxix. Academic Registrars must meet annually to review these regulations and to establish new provisions based on precedent and best practice.
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KSS Local Academic Board (LAB) Annual Audit and Review
This Annual Audit and Review is part of the Postgraduate Deanery for KSS GEAR for LABs. The Annual Audit and Review must be sent to KSS by the publicised date each year. Please send to Quality Office at: quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk
Regulation
Each year the LAB must agree and sign off an Annual Audit and Review against GEAR LAB Domains 1‐9. LEP Name Location
LAB Chair (usually DME but if not DME please give job title) Academic Registrar (usually MEM but if not MEM please give job title) Number of LFGs in LEP
Local Academic Board (Please list places of meeting) LAB meeting 1 LAB meeting 2 LAB Meeting 3
Attendees DME or equivalent clinician (Chair) Academic Registrar (in an LEP, normally the MEM) Library & Knowledge Services Manager Medical Director LEP Human Resources/IT Representative LEP Finance/IT Representative Senior Trust Pharmacist Representatives of LFGs as appropriate (insert no.) Representative of Postgraduate Doctors Representative of the KSS Education Department KSS Associate Dean Lay Representative selected by LEP Co‐optees at the Chair’s discretion Signature of Chair Date Annual Audit and Review Completed Date received by Core Specialty Schools Advisory Group (STEAG) (Deanery to complete) Date received by KSS Quality Office Date of each meeting 1 2. 3. Please tick box if person attended meeting
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QESP data Part 1
Total number of Educational Supervisors by Specialty
ACCS Anaesthetics Medicine O&G Paeds Psychiatry Foundation Surgery Other
Number of Educational Supervisors registered through Grandparents’ Rights Number of Educational Supervisors currently enrolled on QESP 1 Number of Educational Supervisors awarded QESP 1 No of Trainees in Specialty Ratio of Postgraduate Doctors to Educational Supervisors(eg 3‐1)
Part 2
Total number of Educational Supervisors by Specialty
ACCS
Anaesthetics
Medicine
O&G
Paeds
Psychiatry
Foundation
Surgery
Others
Number of Educational Supervisors registered through Grandparents’ Rights Number of Educational Supervisors currently enrolled on QESP 2 Number of Educational Supervisors awarded QESP 2 Ratio of Postgraduate Doctors to Educational Supervisors (eg 3‐1)
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Each Section of the A&R is cross referenced to one or more of the nine Domains of PMETB’s Generic Standards for training (see mapping document, Appendix 5) The text boxes are designed so issues can be written up to meet the GMC Quality Framework for ‘Exception Reporting’, i.e. key areas of achievement and notable practice, past issues and problems resolved, key areas for improvement, action proposed/ proposed dissemination of notable practice. For detailed information on the standards and processes, please refer to the LAB and LFG GEAR. Domain 1 – Patient Safety To oversee the work of LFGs in monitoring the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 2 – Quality Management Review and Evaluation To supervise the LEP’s quality control of PGME by: monitoring compliance with PMETB’s statutory codes, policies, processes, domains and standards; managing the action plan from KSS Deanery Contract Review and specialty quality visits; overseeing the LFGs’ relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools and Royal Colleges); maintaining communication on quality with the LEP management and KSS Deanery; through the work of the LEP Human Resources department, monitoring compliance with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity To receive and consider information from LFGs about reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4); through the work of the KSS Medical Staffing/LEP Human Resources department, to ensure that LFG training programmes’ comply with employment law, the Disability Discrimination Act, Race Relations (Amendment) Act, Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Acts, the Human Rights Act and other equal opportunity legislation that may be enacted and amended in the future (3.1). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment To receive and consider KSS Deanery and LEP reports and information about recruitment, selection and appointment processes; to monitor the composition of LFG selection panels to ensure they consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment To satisfy itself that the academic curricula provided by the LEP meet the requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes; to receive and consider LFG four‐monthly reports and annual programme audit and reviews, offering advice and referring issues to the relevant KSS Deanery Foundation/Specialty School and other Deaneries as agreed in Service Level Agreements between KSS and partner Deaneries, as appropriate; to monitor and develop the work of LFGs in order to supervise the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); in liaison with Foundation/Specialty Schools and KSS to monitor academic appeals procedures and to monitor the conduct and outcomes of ARCP appeals conducted by Schools (see the PMETB Gold Guide 7.24ff). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty To establish, publicise, monitor and manage systems by which postgraduate doctors feedback, in confidence, their concerns and views about their training and education experience to an appropriate member of local faculty (6.7); to ensure that LFGs maintain Foundation/Specialty Careers leads who will make certain that postgraduate doctors receive career advice and support as appropriate and to monitor the LFGs in maintaining, developing and appraising the Foundation/Specialty Careers leads (6.8); to ensure intervention if postgraduate doctors are subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that undermines their professional confidence or self‐esteem (6.11); to ensure that those following an academic path, are in flexible programmes of academic training allowing multiple entry and exit points throughout training (6.24); to monitor the provision of specialist training in supervision, including qualifying Clinical and Educational Supervisors through the KSS Deanery programme and ensuring attendance at triennial diversity and equality training (PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.18) and ensure that all who have completed training act as supervisors; to monitor the appraisal of supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular their use of assessment tools, their understanding of portfolios (hard copy or electronic) and progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into service provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training (6.34); to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio of trainers to trainees), that there are physical resources such as meeting rooms, AV equipment (8.5) and, where stipulated in GMC‐approved curricula, such resources as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and selected in accordance with the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (6.33). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
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Domain 7 Management of education and training To conduct periodic internal programme reviews and host and manage external reviews of training programmes to ensure that they meet relevant standards; to audit their own LAB processes on an annual basis and to provide a short summative report to the Deanery; to share good practice and learn from other LABs; to initiate quality enhancement projects and foster collaboration among training programmes; to advise on such other matters as the LEP or KSS Deanery may refer to the LAB; to ensure that all those with a role in the management of education and training are familiar with GEAR and its detailed provisions (7.1), 7.2); to monitor the prevalence and progress of Trainees in Difficulty (TiD) through the LFG Reports and to oversee processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); to monitor the attendance and engagement of those involved in administering and managing training and education at LEP level (7.5); to advise and liaise with other LEP Educational bodies. Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity To advise on and make representations about the distribution of resources necessary to maintain the educational capacity of the LEP and any unit offering training posts/programmes and locally‐appointed trust posts so as to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); through the finance/IT function of the LEP, to maintain access to educational facilities (including Library and Knowledge Services) and resources (including access to the Internet in all workplaces) of a standard to fulfil the KSS Education Contract and enable trainees to achieve the outcomes of the programme as specified in the approved curriculum (8.2). Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes. Notable practice
Areas of concern/actions proposed
Areas for improvement since last report
(List full membership on page 1); Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LAB procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them:
Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations Standards for Local Faculty Groups
6 Purpose and scope
The purpose of these Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations for Local Faculty Groups (GEAR‐ LFG) is to ensure that LEPs provide high‐quality PGME, for the Deanery’s postgraduate doctors, by: a. maintaining standards for curriculum management, that is, the systems and processes through which learning programmes, teaching, assessment and awards must be developed, implemented and evaluated; b. maintaining the leadership, management and administrative systems and processes that underpin and provide high‐quality learning environments; c. relating both sets of standards to: The approved curriculum requirements of the relevant Royal College; the GMC’s ‘Good Medical Practice;’ PMETB Generic standards for training and standards for curricula and assessment systems; Foundation and Specialty Schools’ policies, regulations and governance; And, where appropriate, to the NHSLA Risk Management Standards for Acute Trusts, CQC, Primary Care Trusts and Independent Sector Providers of NHS Care. the role of LFGs in curriculum and assessment; the educational entitlement for postgraduate doctors in KSS; standards for quality control by LFGs; the evidence base against which KSS and GMC will evaluate the local provision of PGME a framework against which LFGs can develop their practice.
Thus, the LFG GEAR describe:
7 LFGs Terms of reference – a summary
The LFG exercises quality control over a foundation/specialty programme in the following Domains, which correspond to those set out in the PMETB Generic standards for training (Sept 2009).
Domain 1 Patient Safety
a) To monitor the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4);
b) to establish and exercise clear procedures to address immediately any concerns about patient safety arising from the training of doctors.
Domain 2 Quality Management, review and evaluation
a) To manage and maintain the relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools and Royal Colleges); b) to comply with LAB processes and procedures; c) to comply with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
To consider and make reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4).
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment
To ensure selection panels consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5).
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
a) To meet the curriculum requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes and approved by GMC 5.2); b) to manage the approved assessment system, ensuring it is fit for purpose (5.5‐5.8); c) to maintain the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9)
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
a) To support trainees to acquire the necessary skills and experience through induction, effective educational supervision, an appropriate workload and time to learn; b) to maintain, develop and appraise the Foundation/Specialty Careers lead (6.8); c) to intervene if postgraduate doctors are subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that undermines their professional confidence or self‐esteem (6.11); d) to maintain the regular appraisal of supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); e) to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular their use of assessment tools, their understanding of portfolios (hard copy or electronic) and progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into service provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training (6.34); f) to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio of trainers to trainees),
that there are physical resources such as meeting rooms, simulation facilities, AV equipment (8.5) and, where stipulated in GMC‐approved curricula, such resources as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); g) to review and analyse the raw data GMC’s annual trainee survey; h) if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and selected in accordance with the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (6.33).
Domain 7 Management of education and training
a) To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; b) to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3);
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
a) To manage and maintain the resources necessary to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); b) when necessary, to make representations about resource needs to the LEP through the LAB.
Domain 9 Outcomes
To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes (9.1).
8 Specification of Mandatory Requirements for Curriculum Management
The LFG has primary responsibility for complying with the approved specialty/foundation curriculum, KSS Deanery GEAR specifications and GMC mandatory requirements8 as detailed below:
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. The Handbook must have details of well‐organised handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6). The Handbook must provide clear guidelines on taking consent (1.4). The Handbook must include a clear statement about the GMC ethical requirements and ensure the Postgraduate Doctor has an understanding of this.
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
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These are cross referenced to the PMETB Generic standards for training (in brackets)
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning.
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
Handbooks must contain appropriate reference to equality and diversity in educational programmes (3.1). All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Foundation/Specialty programme leads (3.1).
Domain 4 Recruitment, selection and appointment
The Handbook must contain details of, and directions to, appeals information for Foundation and Specialty Postgraduate Doctors (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the LEP to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in Foundation/the given Specialty. The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3).
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National Foundation or Specialty programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. A Local Foundation/Specialty programme Handbook must be accessible to all teachers and Postgraduate Doctors and must be updated and reviewed on an annual basis, taking into account teachers’ and Postgraduate Doctors’ feedback. The Handbook must show how the programme works in the local setting by mapping it to the national curriculum framework. The Handbook must provide a timetable for appropriate teaching, which sets out the Postgraduate Doctors’ entitlement to time for teaching in an appropriate range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum, including appropriate involvement in clinical audit (6.13).
LFGs must ensure that postgraduate doctors: are familiarised with the principles of Good Medical Practice (5.3); the overall purpose of the approved assessment system, and all of its components must be documented in handbooks, available, in the public domain and implemented (5.5,5.6); and can access training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme (5.4). The LFG must ensure that the sequence of approved assessments match progression through the career pathway, and that individual assessments add unique information and build on previous assessments (5.7, 5.8). The Handbook must provide a clear statement about the purpose and operation of portfolios and/or e‐ portfolios. The Handbook must provide clear targets for progression in accordance with relevant School Policies. The Handbook must describe a Postgraduate Doctor’s entitlement to LTFT training. The Handbook must include a clear and stated process for communicating changes in regulations and requirements within the academic year to Postgraduate Doctors, teachers and the LAB.
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
The Handbook must provide formal policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. Induction processes must be evaluated and must include follow up of all those who fail to complete local induction (6.1). The LFG must be satisfied that postgraduate doctors: have access to a comprehensive and timely induction to their programme (6.1); have a rota by day and by night which is appropriate for learning (6.9); have a designated supervisor (6.3), a learning agreement, (6.4) a portfolio (6.5) and meet and discuss their progress, mutual expectations, programme aims and objectives and support systems with their supervisor (6.2) at least every 3 months (6.6). The Handbook must describe an entitlement of postgraduate doctors to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. The Handbook must also detail a named Educational Supervisor for each trainee and a named Clinical Supervisor for each placement in their training programme (where several Clinical Supervisors are working with a trainee in any particular placement, one Clinical Supervisor should be identified as the point of liaison with the Education Supervisor). The Handbook must describe the processes for regular, ongoing Clinical Supervision and review. The LFG must provide a process to ensure that all Educational and Clinical Supervisors are aware of the processes through which KSS and Schools support TiD (6.26). All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. The progress of all Postgraduate Doctors must be discussed by the LFG at its three meetings during the year, so that any problems are identified at the earliest possible opportunity and feedback given in a timely and constructive manner (6.27).
Postgraduate Doctors experiencing difficulty must receive written advice from the LFG detailing the action they must take to ensure satisfactory progress, the standards they must meet and the roles and responsibilities of those involved in supporting their progress. All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Grievance and Disciplinary matters. All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures concerning bullying and harassment (6.11). LEPs must demonstrate that they are monitoring the implementation of such a policy and implementing action plans to address any identified deficiencies. The LFG must ensure that Postgraduate Doctors are regularly involved in clinical audit (6.13); The LFG must ensure that Postgraduate Doctors have access to Occupational Health services (6.14) and confidential counselling (6.18) if needed. The LFG must monitor the deployment of Postgraduate Doctors such as they have time to attend relevant, timetabled, organised educational meetings, including training in generic professional skills (6.16), or other events of educational value agreed with the educational supervisor (6.15) and have the opportunity to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals (6.17). The LFG must monitor study leave arrangements so that Postgraduate Doctors are aware of how to apply and are guided as to appropriate courses and funding (6.19) and take study leave up to the maximum permitted (6.20). LFGs must alert their Postgraduate Doctors to the academic opportunities available in their specialty (6.22) and encourage those with academic skills and aptitudes to investigate an academic career (6.23). LFGs must provide a clear plan and timescale for ensuring that all assessors have moderated their standards with each other and against national standards (6.29). LEPs must ensure that there are clear processes and procedures for appraisal of Educational Supervisors and assessors. All those supervising Postgraduate Doctors must provide honest and justifiable comments when giving references for or writing reports about them and include all relevant information which relates to the Postgraduate Doctor’s competence, performance and conduct. LFGs must ensure that all teachers, Educational Supervisors and assessors have appropriate time to carry out their educational duties (6.30).
Domain 7 Management of education and training
LFGs must publish and make clear, through transparent processes, who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme. LFGs must manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3).
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching.
The educational resources and capacity of the LEP must be adequate to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all healthcare professionals in the same unit (8.1). LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for Postgraduate Doctors. Each Foundation LFG must identify a Faculty Careers Lead and Specialty LFGs must identify Careers Leads as appropriate. Each LFG must identify leads responsible for LTFT training. All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to appropriate career advice. The LFG must clearly define the infrastructure, processes and support for career support and must communicate these to teachers, Educational Supervisors and Postgraduate Doctors. LFGs must ensure that educational facilities and resources, including clinical and educational supervision, meeting rooms, library and knowledge services, simulation facilities, specialist resources such as ‘wet labs’ and clinical skills centres and access to internet in the workplace, are sufficient to enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve curriculum outcomes (8.3, 8.4).
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to analysis of outcomes of assessments, RITAs/ARCPs and exams for each programme and each location, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1).
9 Membership of the LFGs
The LFG must include: a. Foundation/Specialty local programme Director (Chair)* b. Foundation/Specialty local programme administrator c. Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme d. Postgraduate Doctor representatives from each year/specialty and may also include: e. LEP HR representative f. Library and Knowledge Services Manager or his/her designated proxy. g. the Careers Lead h. Other co‐opted individuals in appropriate work and specialty areas i. GP Lead as appropriate * GP LFGs must be chaired by a GP Associate Dean or their Deputy and must include a GP programme Director in its membership.
10 Procedural regulations for LFGs
LFGs must comply with: the Education Contract signed between KSS and the LEP; the KSS Action Plan agreed by the LEP at Contract Review; Action plans produced by the LEP’s LAB;
i. ii. iii. iv. v.
And any other mandatory requirements following LEP monitoring visits.
The LFG must have clear, robust and transparent quality control processes and be able to evidence its practice in relation to Postgraduate Doctors’ progression. The LFG must meet a minimum of three times a year and may call additional extraordinary meetings at the requirement of the LFG Chair or the LAB Chair or the Head of School. The LFG must ensure that all meetings have written agendas, are minuted with action points and timescales for action, and are confidential. The LFG must routinely send a copy of its minutes to the LAB and to the Head of the Foundation/Specialty School via the quality team. The LFG must produce a record of all Postgraduate Doctors’ progression at the end of each faculty meeting. n.b. In Higher Specialty Training programmes comprising Postgraduate Doctors rotating through different trusts(LEPs), the programme quality information will (except where alternative arrangements have been agreed locally) be presented to the LAB in the LEP where the Training Programme Director is employed. Postgraduate doctors’ individual progress will still be tracked by the Specialty LFG ‐ where it exists ‐ of the employing LEP. A copy of the record of Foundation Doctors’ progression must be sent to the Foundation School following each LFG meeting. The LFG must notify the DME of any Postgraduate Doctor’s failure to make progress. The DME will then notify the LAB and Head of the Foundation/Specialty School. Any Postgraduate Doctor who is failing to make progress must be managed by the LFG within the relevant national and KSS guidelines. The LFG must review attrition rates each year, based on figures collated for the LEP Contract Review. The LFG must also review the raw statistics from the annual GMC trainee survey and contribute to the LAB’s analysis of them. The LFG must ensure that all competency forms and other documentation relating to progression and awards are signed off formally, within KSS and national guidelines and processes. At least once a year, the LFG must review job planning to ensure supervisors have teaching and supervision recorded among their job planning responsibilities. Additionally the LFG must make a summary of Educational and Clinical Supervisors’ feedback, outlining their main issues and showing how these have been addressed by the LFG. LFGs must ensure that the voice of Postgraduate Doctors is heard and taken into account in developing the programme. At each of its meetings, the LFG must receive a summary of feedback from Postgraduate Doctors, outlining what they value in their programme and their main issues and concerns. Each year the LFG must agree and sign off an Annual Audit and Review of the Foundation/Specialty programme, and send copies to the LAB and the Head of School. LFGs must establish a Postgraduate Doctor year group appropriate to the programme. Postgraduate Doctor year groups must meet three times a year, in advance of the LFG meetings. Each Postgraduate Doctor year group must elect one representative to sit on the LFG within six weeks of commencement of post.
vi. vii. viii.
ix. x.
xi.
xii. xiii. xiv. xv.
xvi. xvii. xviii. xix.
Postgraduate Doctor year group representatives must compile a short report from their year group meetings for discussion at each LFG meeting. Postgraduate Doctor year group representatives must feedback relevant responses and information from the LFG to their year group, thus closing the feedback loop. All Postgraduate Doctor year group representatives must be inducted into their role using material provided by the KSS at the trainee year group representative workshops. LFGs must ensure that all Postgraduate Doctors are informed of and understand whistle‐blowing procedures. Documentation must include reference to the processes for staff to raise concerns.
Templates
Template 1: South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Minute Template Template 2: Local Academic Board Minute Template Template 3: Sample Specialty/Foundation Training Handbook Template 4: South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review Template Template 5: KSS Speciality School Local Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review Template Template 6: KSS General Practice Programme Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review Template
South Thames Foundation School
TEMPLATE FOR FOUNDATION LOCAL FACULTY GROUP MINUTES NAME OF TRUST
FOUNDATION FACULTY GROUP
Minutes of the Meeting held on (insert date) (NB: to be produced within four weeks of the meeting taking place) Present:
Name Role Apologies were received from Minutes
Minutes of the Meeting held on (insert date) 1. Action: Heading Sub‐heading x. Text x. Summary of trainee feedback F1 x. F2 Any other business Dates of future meetings SUMMARY OF ACTION Min See overleaf for Appendix 1 – Reserved items Action Responsibility
GEAR: Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations ‐ Gearing up for Patient Safety
39
APPENDIX 1 STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
NB: j) Copies of this document will be tabled at the meeting, collected at the end and then destroyed.
k) A copy of this document will be circulated to only the DME, FTPD and STFS Director by confidential cover together with the minutes of the meeting. RESERVED ITEMS 1. j) The progress of all Foundation doctors was reviewed (see overleaf): F1
k) F2
Local Academic Board Minute Template9 – Reports from LFGs Composite Report for all LFGs (after each comment indicate the LFG referred to) Domain 1 Patient Safety Notes on discussion/report: Good practice? Please tick Domain 2 Management, and evaluation Quality Notes on discussion/report: review Good practice? Please tick Domain 3 diversity opportunity Equality, Notes on discussion/report: and Good practice? Please tick Domain 4 Recruitment, Notes on discussion/report: selection and
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Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
This template is designed so that LAB academic registrars can easily transfer minutes to the corresponding sections of their annual report. In turn this can be transferred to the Deanery’s annual report to GMC which must align with its Generic Standards for Training.
appointment
Appeal noted? Good practice? Please tick
Out of Programme permission noted Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Domain 5 Delivery of Notes on discussion/report: approved curriculum including assessment Good practice? Please tick Domain 6 Support and Notes on discussion/report: development of trainees, trainers and local faculty Good practice? Please tick Domain 7 Management Notes on discussion/report: of education and training Good practice?
Please tick
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve? Issue referred on? Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Domain 8 Educational Notes on discussion/report: resources and capacity Good practice? Please tick Domain 9 Outcomes Notes on discussion/report: Good practice?
Please tick
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
Problem to resolve?
Issue referred on?
Action taken?
(n.b. closed business – confidential minute)
NAME OF TRUST
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
FOUNDATION FACULTY GROUP (insert date) – F1 PROGRESS REVIEW
Guidance Notes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
All F1 Doctors to be listed and discussed. By the end of November, all F1s are expected to have successfully completed one‐third of their assessments (usually 7). By the end of January, all F1s are expected to have successfully completed 10 assessments in order to be eligible to rank F2 programmes. STFS F1s are required to attend at least 70% of centrally organised teaching sessions. The maximum permitted non‐statutory leave (i.e. sickness/maternity leave but excluding study leave) during each of the F1 and F2 years is four weeks before it is necessary for a trainee to complete additional training in order to be signed off. If ‘No’ entered for any trainee in the ‘on course for sign‐off’ column, an appointment should be made with the FTPD to discuss the situation with the Foundation doctor. The meeting should be documented and a copy sent to both the trainee and the Foundation School. Copies of this document will be tabled at the meeting, collected at the end and then destroyed. A copy of this document will be circulated to only the DME, FTPD and STFS Director by confidential cover together with the minutes of the meeting.
Name of Foundation Doctor
Educational Supervisor
Number of Assessments Completed
See 2 & 3 above
Comments/Concerns
Attendance at
Core Teaching Sessions
See 4 above
No. of Sick Days
See 5 above
On course for sign‐ off at time of the meeting Yes/No
See 6 above
Action Required
RELIABLE, Amar
Parry, M Dr
DOPS CbD CEX
3 3 2
Excellent progress, no concerns.
100%
0
Yes
None
Mini‐PAT 1 2 2 2 1 0 1 1 0
AILING, Flora
Cottee, M Dr
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
Some time off required following broken 80% leg. No educational concerns.
15
Yes
Monitor sickness absence
ABSENT, Awol
Welch, J Dr
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
Concerns raised by clinical supervisors 20% regarding performance.
25
No
To see FTPD
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
DOPS CbD CEX Mini‐PAT
NAME OF TRUST
Guidance Notes:
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
FOUNDATION FACULTY GROUP (insert date) – F2 PROGRESS REVIEW
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
All F2 Doctors to be listed and discussed. By the end of November, all F2s are expected to have successfully completed one‐third of their assessments (usually 7). By the end of January, all F2s are expected to have successfully completed 10 assessments in order to be eligible to rank F2 programmes. STFS F2s are required to attend at least 70% of centrally organised teaching sessions. The maximum permitted non‐statutory leave (i.e. sickness/maternity leave but excluding study leave) during each of the F1 and F2 years is 4 weeks before it is necessary for a trainee to complete additional training in order to be signed off. If ‘No’ entered for any trainee in the ‘on course for sign‐off’ column, an appointment should be made with the FTPD to discuss the situation with the Foundation doctor. The meeting should be documented and a copy sent to both the trainee and the Foundation School. Copies of this document will be tabled at the meeting, collected at the end and then destroyed. A copy of this document will be circulated to only the DME, FTPD and STFS Director by confidential cover together with the minutes of the meeting.
Name of Foundation Doctor
Educational Supervisor
Number of Assessments Completed
See 2 & 3 above
Comments/Concerns
Attendance at Core Teaching Sessions
See 4 above
No. of Sick Days
See 5 above
On course for sign‐ off at time of the meeting Yes/No
See 6 above
Action Required
Surname, Forenames
DOPS CbD CEX MSF
DOPS
CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF DOPS CbD CEX MSF
Postgraduate Handbook Template
Kent Surrey and Sussex Postgraduate Deanery for Medical and Dental Education
X [Add Foundation or Specialty as appropriate] FACULTY HANDBOOK A GUIDE FOR POSTGRADUATE DOCTORS AND STAFF IN X Trust This Handbook is mapped to the KSS Deanery’s Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations (GEAR)
1. Recommended Handbook style
Front has logos of KSS Deanery/South East Coast/Trust If this is a handbook for South Thames Foundation School (STFS), please add the STFS logo Date of Handbook Please write in Arial 11 Headings are in Arial 12 Throughout address the Handbook to ‘you’ – i.e. the postgraduate doctor
2. Introduction
Welcome to the Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Postgraduate Deanery. Welcome to [add X Postgraduate Centre in X Trust]. This Faculty Handbook is written for you as a Postgraduate Doctor and all who will be working with you during your time here at X. Its purpose is to give you information about how your programme works, and who the key people are who will be working with you. This Handbook contains generic information, but is specifically written to support those of you who are on X [add Foundation/Specialty] programme. It should be read in conjunction with your curriculum [found at www.]. This Handbook also includes a profile of the X Foundation/Specialty department [see below]. It also incorporates Foundation/Specialty specific information as appropriate [see below –The X Foundation/Specialty Curriculum]. This Handbook is updated annually based on feedback to the Faculty Group from you as a Postgraduate Doctor and from your Supervisors.
3. Location
During your time with us you will be based at [give location/s].
The Postgraduate Centre is at X.
4. Brief Profile of the X department
The X department [please add]
5. Key people
There are several key people who will support you during your time with us. The Programme Lead is [add name and contact details]. The MEM is [add name and contact details]. A list of people directly involved in your Programme, e.g. Educational Supervisors, Clinical Supervisors, Administrative Staff, Faculty Group, KSS Staff, KSS Careers and Library Knowledge Service Staff with their contact details is given in Appendix A. [Add with telephone numbers and e‐mails as appropriate] for Local Faculty Groups.
6. Local programme administrative arrangements
The administrative arrangements for the local management of your programme are managed by the MEM/Faculty Administrator in conjunction with your Programme Lead. The national arrangements for the management of your programme are contained in your e‐portfolio [add link] and [add any other docs/links to website, e.g. ISCP]. If you experience any local administration issues your first point of contact is the Postgraduate Centre.
7. The X [add Foundation/Specialty] Curriculum
The curriculum for your X [add Foundation/Specialty] can be found at [add www.] and a hard copy is also in the PG Centre or Library. The Local X [add Foundation/Specialty] Faculty is responsible for ensuring that the X [add Foundation/Specialty] programme is such that it will enable you to meet specific competences required in any given year by your X curriculum. The local programme is thus mapped to the Foundation/Specialty national curriculum. [Show how this is mapped to the national curriculum] The X Curriculum also includes opportunities for you to work with other healthcare professionals, such as [add]. Please ensure that all trainees have access to ‘Good Medical Practice’. Also please ensure that at all stages training programmes are compliant with current Employment Law and Equality & Rights Legislation. 7.1 The aims and objectives of the X curriculum (GEAR S 1.4)
The aims and objectives of the X [add Foundation/Specialty] curriculum are [briefly state what the aims and objectives of curriculum are – take exactly from the relevant Specialty curriculum document online – no more than 5 bullet points]. 7.2 How you complete X curriculum This X curriculum is competency based and leads to [say what you gain at the end of it]. You will be supported during your time at X Trust by your Programme Lead, an allocated Educational Supervisor and Clinical Supervisors, all of whom will give you regular feedback about your progress. You should never be in any doubt about your progress and what you can do to improve this. 7.3 The X [add Foundation/Specialty] programme structure This Faculty Handbook, however, gives you details of how the national curriculum for X is organised here at X Trust. It gives you details of your local programme, which has been devised to meet the requirements of the X curriculum and shows how this works locally. It will include ward‐based, half day local teaching, regional study days, clinical audit and exposure to academic opportunities. The programme is structured to comply with the Generic standards for training (September 2009) of the Postgraduate Medical and Education Training Board (PMETB) and the Gold Guide 2009 or Standards for Training in the Foundation Programme. [Add details of your local programme and how initial learning needs are assessed with details of your local generic teaching programme including topics to be taught during the year / for each year of the curriculum for which you have postgraduate doctors/on which site/times/topics/ Assessment points/Hand in dates/ARCP dates/Submission of assessments.] 7.4 Induction/Handover/Taking consent You will be inducted to the Trust, your Foundation/Specialty Programme and your Foundation/Specialty Department [add link to Trust website and CD Rom]. The policy for handover to ensure patient care is [add]. The policy for taking consent is [add]. Patient safety is paramount in your programme. The policy and process for addressing concerns about patient safety are [add]. 7.5 Relevant to Foundation Faculty Handbooks only: The Foundation Programme The Foundation Programme is a two‐year training programme that forms the bridge between medical school and specialty/general practice training. All graduates of UK medical schools are required to complete the Foundation Programme before applying for specialty training. During the Foundation Programme, trainees will have the opportunity to gain experience in a series of placements in a variety of specialties and healthcare settings.
Foundation Year 1 (F1) The first year of the Foundation Programme builds upon the knowledge, skills and competences acquired in undergraduate training. Foundation Year 2 (F2) The second year Foundation Programme builds on the first year of training. In F2, the focus is on training in the assessment and management of the acutely ill patient. Training also encompasses the generic professional skills applicable to all areas of medicine – teamwork, time management, communication and IT skills. 7.6 Training days and study leave Trainees must be able to access and be free to attend training days, tasters (relevant to Foundation Programme only), and any other courses or material that form an intrinsic part of their training programme. Please ensure that all trainees have access to the Deanery’s Study days. You are entitled to less than full‐time training as follows: [add] Leave Guidance.
8. Educational Supervision
The KSS approach to meeting the GMC requirements for educational supervision are outlined in Appendix 2: Educational Supervision in KSS Deanery, GEAR. 8.1 Your Educational Supervisor – roles and responsibilities Your Educational Supervisor is responsible for overseeing your training and ensuring sure that you make the necessary clinical and educational progress. You should have regular feedback from your Educational Supervisor . The responsibilities of an Educational Supervisor are given in the Gold Guide 2009 (4.15‐23) or Standards for Training in the Foundation Programme/or Operational Framework for Foundation. 8.2 Your Clinical Supervisor – roles and responsibilities Your Clinical Supervisor is responsible for your progress within each placement and for your day‐to‐day clinical progress. You should have regular feedback from your Clinical Supervisor. The process by which information about your progress is collated by your Educational Supervisor from your Clinical Supervisor is [add].
9. Your role as a learner
You are responsible for your own learning within the programme with the support of key people as above. You should ensure that you have regular meetings with your supervisors, that you maintain your portfolio, keep up to date with assessments as required and be signed off.
10. Local Faculty Groups
Local Faculty groups (LFGs) hold a Quality Control remit within the system of educational governance operational in KSS Deanery.
10.1 The Local X [add] Faculty Group The X Faculty Group’s remit is threefold: to ensure that the local X programme is fit for purpose and in line with X curriculum requirements, to quality control the local X programme and to ensure that trainee progression is tracked, supported and audited. The Local X Faculty meets three times a year, in March, June and November. The Local Faculty’s work is quality managed by the KSS Deanery Standards for the Local Faculty Group. 10.2 Your Year Group Each Foundation/Specialty group needs to meet as a Year Group three times a year, to elect a Year Group Representative and to give feedback to the Local Faculty Group about the local programme. 10.3 Your Year Group Representative This is key part of the feedback process. This is a member of your cohort who will undertake to consult with the whole cohort (either face‐to‐face or by e‐mail) to gather feedback about the local programme and to give this feedback at the thrice yearly meetings of the Local X Faculty Group. The feedback loop must be closed as relevant information/responses from the LFG need to go back to the cohort. This is the responsibility of the Year Group Representative.
11. The LAB
There is a Local Academic Board (LAB) in each Trust whose responsibility it is to ensure that postgraduate medical trainees receive education and training that meets local, national and professional standards. The LAB undertakes the quality control of postgraduate medical training programmes. It receives Annual Audit and Review Reports from LFGs.
12. Your Foundation/Specialty School
Details of your X School can be found at www.stfs.org.uk (for Foundation) and at http://cssag.kssdeanery.org (for Specialty School).
13. How will you learn in this programme?
In this programme we adopt a variety of learning approaches. These include web‐based, CDs, ward‐based clinical teaching, exposure to outpatients and theatres at the appropriate identified level, group learning, private study, courses, reflective practice, audit projects, regular teaching specific to year and Specialty, but also multi‐Specialty if appropriate. 13.1 Curriculum development Postgraduate Doctors are entitled to a voice in the implementation of national curricula and can actively contribute to its development at local and national levels. If there are changes to your curriculum regulations and requirement during your training we will [add] 13.2 Feedback This is a crucial aspect of your programme. You can expect to receive detailed feedback on your progress from your Educational Supervisor and from your Clinical Supervisor. This will happen during on going
review meetings with your Educational Supervisor. You should have a clear idea of your progress in the programme at any given time and what you have to do to move to the next stage. 13.3 Annual appraisal In this Trust the arrangements for annual appraisal are [add] [the above must be explained with attention to time limits for annual appraisals to be returned] 13.4 Learning portfolio or e‐learning portfolio This is a key aspect of your learning in the programme. It is your responsibility to maintain an e‐ portfolio [change if paper based]. This is an essential mandatory requirement as it provides an audit of your progress and learning. Further information on how to manage and complete the Foundation/Specialty e‐ portfolio can be found at your Royal College or STFS: www.stfs.org.uk e.g. (CMT: http://www.jrcptb.org.uk/assessment/Pages/default.aspx) (Surgery: http://www.iscp.ac.uk) (Foundation: www.stfs.org.uk) 13.5 How are you assessed? This programme is competency based. The assessment tools are [add]. For further details please see [add www. link to Foundation/Specialty]. The assessments are recorded in (clarify whether paper based on line and e‐portfolios). It is your responsibility to undertake the assessment process in accordance with your Specialty curriculum guidance. In this local programme relevant information about the local assessment process is [add how it works locally/the management of the process/deadlines/key assessment points in the year]. 13.6 What assessment meetings should you know about? [Add signing off process] 13.7 What is the appeals process? [Add local appeals process – must be in accordance with the STFS appeals process against failure to gain certification for Foundation doctors and the Gold Guide (sections 6.37,38) for Specialty Training]
14. What if you need help?
Most Postgraduate Centres operate an ‘Open Door’ approach and here you can find information about local Trust policies, e.g. Grievance, Bullying and Harassment and Equal Opportunities [add online at]. KSS Deanery also offers support for trainees in difficulty (TiD). Details of the KSS Deanery Trainees in Difficulty Guide can be found on the KSS Deanery website. You may also refer to the Foundation Reference Guide 14.1 How can you access career support? Information about the KSS Deanery Career Service can be accessed at http://careers.kssDeanery.org
The Foundation Faculty has a designated Faculty Careers Lead. Specialty Schools are nominating a careers lead. Local careers information and support can be accessed by [add]. 14.2 Personal job description Service commitment, confirm that job description and rotas all comply and ensure that training time has been given. 14.3 Using educational resources Add Library and educational resources in the PGC, study leave, IT/computer access. 14.4 How do you access other educational opportunities? Various opportunities that may be able to be taken during normal working are [add ]. 14.5 How about study leave? [Add – the allowance and how to apply] 14.6 How do you apply for annual leave? Add – the allowance and how to apply] 14.7 GMC Ethical Guidelines 14.8 How about less than full time training? [Add – how to apply]
15. Useful names and numbers
Local, regional and national KSS Deanery Website – www.kssDeanery.ac.uk KSS Deanery Careers – http://careers.kssDeanery.org KSS Deanery GEAR for LFGs PMETB Generic standards for training (July 2008) – www.pmetb.org.uk Gold Guide – www.mmc.nhs.uk/pdf/Gold%20Guide%202008%20‐%20FINAL.pdf Add Specialty Links – www – as appropriate National Patient Safety Agency – www.npsa.nhs.uk Care Quality Commission – www.cqc.org.uk 15.1 Faculty Group educational support The KSS Deanery offers a range of educational support/programmes
For details please go to http://education.kssDeanery.ac.uk/fac_dev‐Accredited_Programmes.php
Appendix A
Here is a list with contact details of Education and Clinical Supervisors in the Trust who will be working with you.
South Thames Foundation School Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review
This template is part of the KSS GEAR for LFGs To be used for: I. LFG Annual Audit and Review to LAB II. Report to Foundation School LEP Name Location Associate Dean
Foundation Training Programme Director (as appropriate) LFG Chair Medical Education Manager LFG Administrator
Local Faculty Group Meetings (Please list place of meetings)
LFG meeting 1 LFG meeting 2 LFG Meeting 3
Attendees
Date of each meeting 1. 2. 3.
Please tick box if person attended meeting
Foundation Training Programme Director(s)(Chair)* Foundation Programme Administrator (s) Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme (insert no.) Postgraduate Doctors representatives from each year of the programme Medical staffing Library services Careers GP Lead as appropriate Other appropriate work and Specialty areas Educational Network
F1
F2
Number of Educational Supervisors (given as a proportion of the total number qualified for the role e.g 6:10) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the start of programme Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the end of programme
Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to KSS for careers advice Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty committee Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors appointed locally (Headroom) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors who have appealed against educational decisions
Number of staff who took part in recruitment (scoring of applications for Foundation)
Summary of Trainees Progress
See attached confidential spreadsheet
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. Areas you may wish to comment on: handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6); guidelines on taking consent (1.4); GMC ethical requirements and the Postgraduate Doctors’ understanding of this.
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning. Areas you may wish to comment on: The curriculum and timetable; The European Working Time Directive and rotas; curriculum evaluation. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Foundation programme leads (3.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: support for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and any with additional needs; any adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities; any other equality and diversity issues. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 4 recruitment, selection and appointment
The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the LEP to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in Foundation.
Areas you may wish to comment on: Local recruitment processes; appeals; recruitment support provided by LEP staff to the Deanery; Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National Foundation programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. Areas you may wish to comment on: the Foundation programme handbook and responses to it; the range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum; access to training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme; the provision of timetabled, organised educational meetings and the local centrally organised core teaching programme including training in generic professional skills; the approved assessment system; changes in regulations and requirements in the reporting year. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
Policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. There must be an Education Supervisor for each trainee and a named Clinical Supervisor for each point of their training. Supervisors must have sufficient time to carry out their duties and access to support and training. Postgraduate doctors have an entitlement to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. LFGs must implement and monitor policies and incidents of grievance and discipline, bullying and harassment. Postgraduate doctors must have academic and study leave opportunities, and the opportunity to learn from and with other healthcare professionals. Areas you may wish to comment on: induction; educational and clinical supervision including supervisor moderation, appraisal training and support; bullying and harassment and grievance and disciplinary issues (which should be generic and preserve anonymity);
opportunities to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals; study leave and academic opportunities;
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 7 Management of education and training
To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3). Areas you may wish to comment on: The responsibilities of all Trust staff involved in the Foundation programme; TiD and the TiD policy.
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all postgraduate doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching. LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for postgraduate doctors. Areas you may wish to comment on: the availability of resources; the appropriateness of educational facilities; the work of the careers lead and the effectiveness of careers advice, support and guidance. Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to an analysis of outcomes of assessments, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: an analysis of outcomes of assessments; comparators and benchmarks derived from other Foundation programmes.
Foundation doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LFG procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them:
Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Please tick to confirm that you have appended Local Faculty Handbook GEAR Local Faculty Standards Quality Manual Contract Review Report Please send to Quality Office at: quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk by the publicised date from Deanery each year.
KSS Specialty add specialty name Programme Local Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review
This template is part of KSS GEAR for LFGs. To be used for: I. LFG Annual Audit and Review to LAB II. Report to Specialty School LEP Name Location Associate Dean Specialty Programme Director(s) (as appropriate) LFG Chair(s) Medical Education Manager(s) LFG Administrator(s) Numbers
of Postgraduate Doctors in the Specialty (by level of training)
No. of Staff Grade Doctors in the Specialty (incl. specialty, Assoc specialist & Trust doctors)
Local Faculty Group Meetings (Please list place of meetings)
LFG meeting 1 LFG meeting 2 LFG Meeting 3
Attendees Specialty Local Programme Director(s) (Chair)* Specialty Local Programme Administrator(s)
Date of each meeting 1. 2. 3.
Please tick box if person attended meeting
Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme (insert no.) Postgraduate Doctors representatives from each year of Specialty Medical Staffing Library Services Careers GP Lead as appropriate Other appropriate work and Specialty areas Educational Network
Number of Educational Supervisors (given as a proportion of the total number qualified for the role eg 3:6) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the start of programme Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors at the end of programme
Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to KSS for careers advice Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors referred to KSS Trainees in Difficulty committee Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors appointed locally (Headroom) Number and percentage of Postgraduate Doctors who have appealed against educational decisions Number of staff who took part in recruitment on national or local panels
Summary of Trainees’ Progress
See attached confidential spreadsheet
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. Areas you may wish to comment on: handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6); guidelines on taking consent (1.4); GMC ethical requirements and the Postgraduate Doctors’ understanding of this. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning. Areas you may wish to comment on: The curriculum and timetable; The European Working Time Directive and rotas; curriculum evaluation. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Specialty programme leads (3.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: support for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and any with additional needs; any adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities; any other equality and diversity issues. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 4 recruitment, selection and appointment
The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the LEP to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in the specialty.
Areas you may wish to comment on: appeals; recruitment support provided by trust staff to the Deanery; Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National Specialty programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. Areas you may wish to comment on: the specialty programme handbook and responses to it; the range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum; access to training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme; the approved assessment system; changes in regulations and requirements in the reporting year. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
There must be policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. There must be an Education Supervisor for each postgraduate doctor and a named Clinical Supervisor for each point of their training. Supervisors must have sufficient time to carry out their duties and access to support and training. Postgraduate doctors have an entitlement to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. LFGs must implement and monitor policies and incidents of grievance and discipline, bullying and harassment. Postgraduate doctors must have academic and study leave opportunities, and the opportunity to learn from and with other healthcare professionals. Areas you may wish to comment on: induction; educational and clinical supervision including supervisor moderation, appraisal training and support; bullying and harassment and grievance and disciplinary issues (which should be generic and preserve anonymity); the provision of timetabled, organised educational meetings, including training in generic professional skills;
opportunities to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals; study leave and academic opportunities;
Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 7 Management of education and training
To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); Areas you may wish to comment on: The responsibilities of all LEP staff involved in the specialty programme; TiD and the TiD policy.
Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching. LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for postgraduate doctors. Areas you may wish to comment on: the availability of resources; the appropriateness of educational facilities; the work of the careers lead and the effectiveness of careers advice, support and guidance. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to an analysis of outcomes of assessments, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: an analysis of outcomes of assessments; comparators and benchmarks derived from other specialty programmes. Postgraduate doctor cohort Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LFG procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them: Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Signed by Local Faculty Lead Date signed Please tick to confirm that you have appended Local Faculty Handbook GEAR Local Faculty Standards Quality Manual Centre Review Report
Please send to Quality Office at: quality@kssdeanery.ac.uk by the publicised date from the KSS each year.
KSS General Practice Programme Local Faculty Group Annual Audit and Review
To be used for: LEP Name Associate GP Dean GP Programme Directors LFG Annual Audit and Review to LAB Report to GP Specialty School
MEM(s)
LFG Administrator(s)
Local Faculty Group (Please list place of meetings)
LFG meeting 1 LFG meeting 2 LFG Meeting 3
Attendees
Dates of each meeting 1. 2. 3.
Please tick box if person attended meeting
GP Associate Dean or Deputy(Chair) Specialty Local Programme Administrator Educational Supervisors teaching on the programme (insert no.) Postgraduate Doctors representatives from each year of Specialty Medical Staffing Library Services Careers GP Programme Directors as appropriate GP Trainers (Please list by name)* Clinical Supervisors of GP trainees (please list by name and Specialty)* Other appropriate work and Specialty areas *Extend boxes as required Educational Network Number of Accredited GP Trainers Number of FY2 Clinical Supervisors
Number of FY2 Community Educational Supervisors trained Number of Trainers now left the programme Number of Trainer Overlaps
Summary of Trainees
See attached spreadsheet
Domain 1 Patient Safety
The Handbook must provide a clear statement, which immediately addresses any concern about patient safety arising from the training of doctors, and the roles and responsibilities of teachers, Postgraduate Doctors and the LFG. Areas you may wish to comment on: handover arrangements, ensuring continuity of patient care at the start and end of periods of day or night duties (1.6); guidelines on taking consent (1.4); GMC ethical requirements and the Postgraduate Doctors’ understanding of this. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 2 Quality management review and evaluation
The curriculum and timetable must take appropriate account of working hours including EWTR (2.1) and issues such as avoiding sleep deprivation and providing an appropriate intensity of work in relation to learning. Areas you may wish to comment on: The curriculum and timetable; The European Working Time Directive and rotas; curriculum evaluation.
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 3 Equality, diversity and opportunity
All Postgraduate Doctors must have access to information about their employer’s policy and procedures for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (3.1, 3.2). Additional support must be provided for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and all those who have additional needs in line with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guidelines. Those trainees with particular identified needs must have access to independent counselling services and Occupational Health Services as needed (3.4). In line with the Disability Discrimination Act, it is the LEP’s responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities in consultation with Foundation programme leads (3.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: support for Postgraduate Doctors identified as vulnerable and any with additional needs; any adjustments to programmes for Postgraduate Doctors with disabilities; any other equality and diversity issues. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 4 recruitment, selection and appointment
The LFG must have an accessible and transparent recruitment policy which outlines requirements for fairness, objectivity and equality of opportunity in selection procedures (4.3). In consultation with the DME, the LFG Lead must take responsibility for ensuring an appropriate level of recruitment support is provided by the Trust to the KSS recruitment process proportionate to the number of Postgraduate Doctors in training. Areas you may wish to comment on: appeals; recruitment support provided by trust staff to the Deanery;
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment
The local curriculum must be appropriate for the National GP programme curriculum framework and must enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve the competences and professionalism required for them adequately to fulfil their present roles and future career intentions. Areas you may wish to comment on: the GP programme handbook and responses to it; the range of educational and clinical activities as set out in the curriculum; access to training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme; the approved assessment system; changes in regulations and requirements in the reporting year. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
Policies and procedures for induction to LEPs, departments and clinical teams. There must be an Education Supervisor for each trainee and a named Clinical Supervisor for each point of their training. Supervisors must have sufficient time to carry out their duties and access to support and training. Postgraduate doctors have an entitlement to regular, ongoing educational supervision, including an agreed minimum allocation of time for educational supervision meetings and a timetable for clinical supervision meetings. All LFGs must adhere to the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Policy and be able to demonstrate how this works in practice. LFGs must implement and monitor policies and incidents of grievance and discipline, bullying and harassment. Postgraduate doctors must have academic and study leave opportunities, and the opportunity to learn from and with other healthcare professionals. Areas you may wish to comment on: induction; educational and clinical supervision including supervisor moderation, appraisal training and support; bullying and harassment and grievance and disciplinary issues (which should be generic and preserve anonymity); the provision of timetabled, organised educational meetings, including training in generic professional skills;
opportunities to learn with, and from, other healthcare professionals; study leave and academic opportunities;
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 7 Management of education and training
To publish and make clear through transparent processes who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme; to manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3). Areas you may wish to comment on: The responsibilities of all Trust and hospital staff involved in the GP programme; TiD and the TiD policy. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity
There must be sufficient resources to provide the opportunity for all postgraduate doctors to achieve the educational outcomes specified in the curriculum and to receive full teaching. LFGs must establish effective mechanisms to provide high‐quality career advice, guidance, support and referral for postgraduate doctors. Areas you may wish to comment on: the availability of resources; the appropriateness of educational facilities; the work of the careers lead and the effectiveness of careers advice, support and guidance.
Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Domain 9 Outcomes
Postgraduate Doctors must have access to an analysis of outcomes of assessments, benchmarked against other programmes (9.1). Areas you may wish to comment on: an analysis of outcomes of assessments; comparators and benchmarks derived from other GP programmes. Notable practice
Areas of concern with time‐bound targets for action with named responsibility
Areas of improvement since last report
Comment on any difficulties in securing full membership here:
Comment here on any issues relating to the LFG procedural regulations; difficulties, steps taken to resolve them: Confirm that trainees are represented on LFGs and LAB. Describe and comment on their induction. Monitor attendance at the KSS Deanery Postgraduate Doctors Representatives Workshops
Signed by Local Faculty Lead Date signed
Appendices
Appendix 1:
KSS Quality Management Overview
Appendix 2:
Educational Supervision in KSS Deanery The KSS Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme (QESP) Overview
Appendix 3:
Roles and Responsibilities of London and KSS Deaneries
Appendix 4:
LAB GEAR Mapping Document against PMETB Standards for Deaneries (July 2008), PMETB Generic standards for training (including Foundation standards) (July 2008) and PMETB Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008) and other key documentation (as appropriate)
Appendix 5:
LFG GEAR Mapping Document against PMETB Standards for Curricula and assessment systems (July 2008)
Appendix 7:
GUIDANCE FOR DOCUMENTATION: Local Faculty Groups (Post Foundation) (Re. Handling of Trainees in Difficulty) Record Keeping
Appendix 1 KSS Quality Management Overview
Regulatory Requirements
National regulatory bodies a. UK PGME is quality assured by the GMC with the purpose of developing a single, unifying framework for PGME. b. GMC is responsible for: a. certifying doctors for the GP and specialist registers; b. prospective approval of all training posts that lead to the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT); c. approving specialist training curricula and assessments which are devised and submitted to GMC by the medical Royal Colleges; d. quality assurance and evaluation of the management of postgraduate training; e. setting the overarching principles under which selection into specialist training must operate; f. providing policy development for the sector.
1. To achieve these aims, GMC works closely and regularly consults with: 1. medical Royal Colleges and Faculties; 2. the four UK departments of health; 3. Postgraduate Deaneries; 4. strategic health authorities, Trusts and hospitals; 5. trainees; 6. patient groups; 7. professional bodies; 8. other healthcare regulatory bodies; 9. the general public. Deanery and LEP roles 10. KSS operates as the regional representative of the GMC for all LEP quality management for PGME. It performs this function in collaboration with the medical Royal Colleges, to provide a single Visiting Body for LEPs. Whereas in the past, LEPs were subject to multiple visits, now the only requirement for visiting with which they must comply is the KSS Contract Review process. 11. LEPs may, of course, invite developmental or pastoral visits from other external agencies where their Chief Executives find a cost benefit in doing so.
12. As figure 1 shows, in formal terms, GMC is responsible for Quality Assurance and thus for setting Standards; Deaneries are responsible for Quality Management by implementing a Regulatory function; and LEPs are responsible for Quality Control by providing an Audit process. All three have a responsibility for ensuring that their quality processes support the development and improvement of PGME.
National Quality System for PGME PMETB/ GMC Quality Assurance Role Standards and Development
DEANERY Quality Management Role Regulation and Development
LOCAL EDUCATION PROVIDER [LEP]Quality Control Role Audit and Development
Figure 1: National Quality System for PGME
Contractual relationships a. The basis for any quality system is a formal Contract, that is, a document that describes ‘an exchange of considerations’. Typically, a commissioner or purchaser exchanges funding in consideration for services from a provider. The Contract specifies precisely what each party will give and receive. b. In KSS, an Education, Training and Development Contract is signed each year between KSS and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its LEP. This provides the basis for payment from KSS to the LEP, in consideration of which the LEP contracts to provide PGME of the specified standard. The detailed Specifications to the Contract then provide the standards against which each party judge whether or not the other has met their agreement. c. That contractual relationship then extends from the CEO of the LEP to its clinical and non‐clinical staff, through their Contracts of Employment. In an LEP, for example, the CEO contracts hospital consultants to provide teaching and educational supervision. That agreement is then demonstrated through an individual’s Job Plan, which includes those responsibilities as part of their formal employment role. If an individual hospital consultant decides that they do not want to provide teaching or educational supervision then that, too, will be reflected in their Job Plan. Figure 2 illustrates these relationships.
Contractual Relationships ŅAn exchange of considerationsÓ
DH/SHA/ Deanery Education Contract Starting point for Quality Management Signed between Deanery/ SEC and LEP Chief Executive Basis for payment from Deanery to LEP In consideration of specified services
Local Education Provider Contracts of Employment Legal obligation of employees to fulfil job role Negotiation between employer and employee on Job Plan Choice of whether or not to have trainees If have trainees, have to meet contractual requirements
Figure 2: Contractual Relationships
The KSS Quality Management System
Educational governance and clinical governance a. KSS Deanery ensures a close relationship between Educational Governance and Clinical Governance. We believe that excellent teaching and excellent educational supervision produces excellent patient care. b. In the same way that standards for clinical practice are ultimately ethically decided, we recognise education as fundamentally a morally charged activity. It is from this standpoint that the KSS Quality Management System (QMS), and the processes associated with it, have been developed. A principled approach to practice 13. All of the work of the Education Department is informed by the approach that we advocate – A Principled Approach to Practice (see Figure 3). Its starting point is an explicitly ethical stance, summarised as Kant’s Categorical Imperative: ‘treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself.’ With those principles foregrounded, we move directly into the real‐life, complex, problematic world of everyday clinical practice. Our intention is to develop practical solutions to practical problems, drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives. 14. This means that our QMS is: i. highly collaborative: we design it in collaboration with the people who are going to have to implement it at local level; developmental for both sides: we aim to learn more about each other’s contexts and needs; flexible: we hope to encourage local diversity and creativity within regional and national guidelines.
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The professional conversation 15. At the heart of our collaborative practice is what we term ‘the Professional Conversation’, an ongoing discussion with stakeholders about principles, processes and patients. It is through this dialogue that we invite change in PGME, across the range of our working contexts (see Figure 3). 16. At present, the contexts in which professional conversations take place include: i. one‐to‐one discussions with hospital consultants to develop their teaching in real‐life clinical settings; open‐invitation meetings to consult DMEs and MEMs about the Specifications for the Education, Training and Development Contract; advisory roles with LABs and LFGs; collaborative meetings with Heads of Schools to share operational issues and identify strategic routes ahead; e‐discussions to arrange, manage and discuss the results of the GMC survey;
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internal KSS meetings to integrate its four key work areas – Education, Schools, Workforce, and Operations – as part of the process of developing an appropriate KSS QMS.
Key elements of the QMS 17. The QMS contains five key elements: i. Contract Review: an annual visit to LEPs to verify their Quality Manual, agree progress on their Education Strategy, and sign the Education Contract. Academic Development Programmes: through which educational expertise and capacity is grown in the region. This includes: a. Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme (QESP); b. MA Education in Clinical Settings; c. Postgraduate Certificate Managing Medical Careers; d. Co‐mentoring for new consultants; e. KSS Simulation Strategy; f. KSS School of Clinical Leadership. g. GEAR, which set out the operational requirements for LEP LABs and LFGs. It provides structure, process and standards to implement GMC Domains. h. KSS School Development, including: i. ii. iii. iv. i. LEP Visiting; Responses to the annual GMC survey; Developing shared practice with undergraduate medical schools and the medical Royal Colleges; Developing the academic role of Schools.
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Medical Workforce Management, especially: a. Creating common quality management processes for recruitment and workforce management across all Schools; b. Developing appropriate IT structures to support workforce data management and communications; c. Providing administrative support to Schools’ Committees; d. Providing administrative support to the LEP Visiting Process; e. Advising and supporting workforce functions in LEPs.
18. The QMS is supported by: The KSS internal Committee structure, especially: f. The Quality Management Steering Group, chaired by the Dean Director; The Quality Management Operations Group, co‐ordinated by the KSS Quality Manager. The KSS School, LAB and LFG structure, which provide local Quality Control for all PGME functions (see Figure 4).
g. Mapping to national standards, including GMC standards; GMC Domains and Standards; MMC Gold Guide; Foundation and Specialty Schools’ policies, regulations and governance; NHSLA Risk Management Standards, the quality management metrics that LEPs will be measured against. h. Best practice from other mainstream quality systems for Education, Training and Development, especially the QAA; Investors in People; LSCs; ISO 9000; and Ofsted. i. j. Partnership processes to develop, manage and control quality participatively with our LEPs. Strong, regular KSS presence in LEPs to provide ongoing support and development.
From practice to policy 19. The QMS reflects the operational needs of LEPs to provide excellent PGME in real‐life clinical settings. It describes standards and processes for supporting and operating a values‐based curriculum in practice. 20. Effectively, therefore, it integrates and operationalises the domains, standards and mandatory requirements described by GMC in its Generic Standards for Training; Standards for Curricula and Assessment Systems; and Standards for Deaneries. In this way, it draws a line of continuity from the individual teacher and learner in the clinical setting to the national policy development reflected in PMETB’s documentation. 21. In this way the QMS stabilises the necessary tension between the local clinical environment’s need to provide continuity of care and of education, and national requirements for change in the organisation and management of PGME10. 22. The QMS, therefore, is deliberately organised in a way that reflects the everyday practice of teaching, learning, curriculum development and education management in real‐life clinical settings. This is reflected, for example, in the organisation of GEAR into ‘standards for practice’. 23. A particular role and task of the Deanery, therefore, is to translate LEP reports, which are made against ‘standards for practice’, into its Annual Audit and Review (AAR) report to GMC, which is organised as ‘Domains of Policy’. This is carried out by the Education Department, which uses qualitative research methodologies to provide a meta‐analysis of LEP AARs and to organise those data into GMC Domains. 24. This approach is considered important to: i. ii. enable LABs and their LFGs to develop their new local curricula out of best clinical practice; make a clear relationship between the management roles of providing a strong educational infrastructure and the leadership roles of developing excellent teaching and educational supervision; support individual practitioners in developing their practice, in a period of intense change in governance; reduce turbulence and maintain focus on teaching and learning in practice;
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The rapid change in policy development and implementation for PGME is well described in PMETB (2008) The State of Postgraduate Medical
Education and Training: a changing landscape. London: PMETB.
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enable precision in thinking about the needs of a values‐based curriculum; ensure that the best practice, which has always typified PGME, is ‘held in transition’, not ‘lost in translation’.
A Principled Approach to Practice Coherent ethical framework for all Education Department work Relates Educational Governance to Clinical Governance Operates through the Professional Conversation
Centre Review Annual exercise Local Educational Infrastructure Verify Quality Manual Agree Education Strategy Sign Contract
Academic Development QESP MA Clinical Education PG Cert Careers Mentoring Simulation Leadership
GEAR Structure, Process and Standards to implement GMC Domains Local Academic Boards Local Faculty Groups Supports local ownership
School Development LEP Visiting Annual GMC Questionnaire Developing academic role Sharing practice with Royal Colleges and Medical Schools
Medical Workforce Recruitment and Workforce Management Data Management & Communication School administrative support LEP Support
Provide data for: Hospital Visiting Deanery Annual Audit and Review report to PMETB Managed by: Deanery Quality Management Steering Group Deanery Quality Management Operations Group
Figure 3: A Principled Approach to Practice
Deanery Schools Acute Care Common Stem, Anaesthetics, Foundation, General Practice, Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery. Heads of Schools are members of Deanery Quality Management Steering Group
LEP Local Academic Board Director of Medical Education (Chair); Medical Education Manager; Library Services Manager; Medical Director; Human Resources Director; Finance & IT Director Trainee Representative and Lay Representative Deanery Education Adviser & Associate Dean Meets three times a year to: Approve Reports from Local Faculty Groups; Manage Quality Control; Oversee Local Faculty Development; Produce Annual Audit and Review.
Local Faculty Groups Everyone involved in providing the programme LFG Lead relates to relevant Deanery Head of School Produces, reviews and updates local curriculum and trainee handbook Manages QESP throughput Identifies LFG Lead on key roles e.g. Careers Meets three times a year to: Review and report to LAB on progress of every learner; Review Faculty members’ own development needs. Reports to: Local Academic Board Figure 4: KSS School, LAB and LFG Structure
Appendix 2:
Educational Supervision in KSS Deanery
1.0 Overview 1.1 The purpose of this document is to outline the role and responsibilities of Educational Supervisors working in postgraduate medical education in the KSS Deanery in relation to Foundation and Specialty Training. This guidance may also support LEPs, LFGs and LABs in their quality control as they educationally support, manage, audit and resource the educational role of Educational Supervisors within KSS Trusts. This guidance is mapped to the PMETB Gold Guide 2009; Postgraduate Medical and Education Training Board (PMETB) Standards for curricula and assessment systems (July 2008); and Generic Standards for Training (Sept 2009). Education and training for all consultants who wish to qualify as Educational Supervisors, offered by the KSS Educational Department, is outlined. The role of Educational Supervisor is supported by the Local Faculty group and Local Academic Board infrastructure within KSS and the KSS Deanery GEAR. The requirements of the PMETB Generic Standards for Training are mapped
1.2
1.3
1.4 1.5
2.0 Scope of the role in KSS 2.1 The approach taken in KSS is to educate and train all hospital consultants as Educational Supervisors and on a long‐term programme, which promotes those currently in the role. We see the role of Educational Supervisor as distinct from, but having points of overlap with, that of Clinical Supervisor. By educating and training all consultants as Educational Supervisors, we ensure the robustness of education and training for all clinical supervisors, while ensuring that those who wish to take on a more expanded role of Educational Supervisor are also equipped to do so. Organisationally the formal roles of Clinical Supervisor and Educational Supervisor are disaggregated for the purposes of job planning.
3.0 Definitions These have been updated from the PMETB standards and the Gold Guide (both 2009) 3.1 Educational supervision The revised definition of Educational Supervisor is: “A trainer who is selected and appropriately trained to be responsible for the overall supervision and management of a specified trainee’s educational progress during a training placement or series of placements. The Educational Supervisor is responsible for the trainee’s Educational Agreement.” (Gold Guide 4.22) 3.2 Clinical supervision The revised definition of Clinical Supervisor is:
“A trainer who is selected and appropriately trained to be responsible for overseeing a specified trainee’s clinical work and providing constructive feedback during a training placement. Some training schemes appoint an Educational Supervisor for each placement. The roles of Clinical and Educational Supervisor may then be merged.” (Gold Guide 4.23) 4.0 Educational Supervisor role and responsibilities This is a complex role which spans the areas of educational management, educational supervision and feedback, clinical supervision, an understanding of the role of assessment in learning, the use of portfolios as a learning and assessment tool, an understanding of how to identify, support and manage a trainee in difficulty, and of supporting trainee career decision making. 4.1 The Educational Supervisor (Educational Management) The Educational Supervisor: 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 enables trainees to learn by taking responsibility for patient management within the context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.25); understands and demonstrates ability in the use of the approved in‐work assessment tools and is clear as to what is deemed acceptable progress (6.26); regularly reviews the trainee’s progress through the training programme, adopts a constructive approach to giving feedback on performance, advises on career progression and understands the process for dealing with a trainee whose progress gives cause for concern (6.27); ensures that clinical care is valued for its learning opportunities; learning and teaching must be integrated into service provision (6.28); liaises as necessary with other trainers both in their clinical departments and within the organisation to ensure a consistent approach to education and training and the sharing of good practice across specialties and professions (6.29); is responsible for the educational progress of a trainee over an agreed period of training (in KSS this is normally of a year’s duration) set against knowledge of an approved curriculum; undertakes supervision of a trainee, giving regular, appropriate feedback according to the stage and level of training, experience and expected competence of the trainee (6.25); undertakes or delegates assessment of trainees as appropriate, has been trained in assessment and understands the generic relationship between learning and assessment and particularly that within a specific curriculum (6.35); meets with trainees at agreed, specified times in accordance with the requirements of Foundation or Specialty curricula (6.6);
4.1.4 4.1.5
4.1.6 4.1.7 4.1.8
4.1.9
4.1.10 liaises with Clinical Supervisors to gain an overview of trainee progression (6.29); 4.1.11 attends Local Faculty Group meetings as required and disseminates relevant information to clinical supervisors and trainees as appropriate (LFG GEAR); 4.1.12 liaises with the appropriate Training Programme Director (Foundation or Specialty) over trainee progression (LFG GEAR); 4.1.13 liaises with the postgraduate centre about requested information regarding trainee progression; 4.1.14 ensures appropriate training opportunities in order for trainees to gain the required competences;
4.1.15 acts as a first port of call for trainees who have concerns or issues about their training and manages this in accordance with the KSS Trainees in Difficulty Guide; 4.1.16 participates in any visiting processes as required (LAB GEAR); 4.1.17 discusses career intentions as appropriate, and offers support either individually or via KSS Faculty Career Lead/Specialty School career structure (6.27). 5.0 Educational meetings: initial
The Educational Supervisor arranges to meet trainees at the beginning of each rotation to: 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 6.0 check that the trainee has received a local induction; ensure that competency check lists have been completed; ensure that the trainee has relevant Handbooks; Specialty, Faculty etc.; discuss trainee learning needs, how these will be developed and which assessment methods will be used to evaluate whether the trainee is meeting required competencies; record all meetings, outcomes of meetings as required and communicate these to trainee, Faculty Group, Training Programme Director as appropriate; discuss the range of evidence that might contribute to the building of a portfolio of trainee progression; review the trainee’s portfolio at each meeting and adapt/monitor learning needs in relation to curricula requirements. Education meetings: mid point
The Educational Supervisor meets the trainee at the mid point of each rotation to: 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 discuss progress to date, and review progress. If necessary amend learning outcomes; discuss taster opportunities if appropriate and ensure that these are relevant and appropriate to career intentions; review learning portfolio and support trainee development of evidence of competency; ensure that the trainee is appropriately engaging in the assessment process, learning from this and achieving the expected competencies for the stage and level of training; negotiate remedial efforts if required.
7.0 Education meetings: end point of rotation The Educational Supervisor meets the trainee at the end of each rotation to: 7.1 7.2
review progress to date in relation to the requirements of the curriculum; ensure that all appropriate assessments have been completed, review with the trainee which competencies have been met; and amend professional development plan as appropriate, noting what needs to be carried forward to the next rotation and forward plan future trainee learning needs; ensure that all relevant documentation has been completed.
7.3
8.0 ARCP appraisal, assessment and annual planning (Gold Guide 7.24 ff) 8.1 The Educational Supervisor is responsible for bringing together the structured report which looks at evidence of progress in training and for undertaking work‐based appraisals with their trainees
(NHS Appraisal). In the Foundation Programme the Educational Supervisor signs off the Foundation Achievement of Competency Document (FACD), which is then countersigned by the Training Programme Director. 9.0 Appraisal and revalidation 9.1 The Education Supervisor appraises trainees annually as appropriate using the NHS Appraisal Documentation, which can be found at:
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Humanresourcesandtraining/EducationTrainingandDevelopment/ Appraisals/DH_4031937 10.0 Educational supervision and local faculty development 10.1 The KSS Deanery offers a range of professional development programmes. Specifically it offers the QESP, Part One: the Certificate in Teaching and Part Two: the Certificate in Educational Supervision. This two‐part programme is the KSS Deanery’s qualification for those undertaking the Educational Supervisor role. Details of this and other professional development programmes for Local Faculty and Educational Supervisors, such as the MA in Clinical Education, the Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Medical Careers, and Supporting Trainees in Difficulty can be found at: http://education.kssdeanery.ac.uk/fac_dev‐AccreditedProgrammes.php Copies of GEAR for LFGs and LABs have been distributed to NHS Trusts in the KSS region. If you would like copies, please contact Judith Mason at KSS Deanery: jmason@kssdeanery.ac.uk or 020 7415 3454.
Educational and Clinical Supervisor Job Planning Tariff
Background The expectations on those undertaking educational roles have increased enormously in the last few years. There is now a requirement to properly induct, plan, assess, deliver specific curriculum objectives and, vitally, record many aspects of doctors’ performance during training. To do this takes time and training of the trainers. KSS Deanery has currently started the first three of a five‐year programme to offer training in teaching and educational supervision to every Consultant in KSS. However, time and, by implication, resource, must also be made available through the job planning process as part of the new Consultant contract. It is also an expectation of every LEP, as set out in the Deanery’s annual education contract with every LEP. This guidance may also support LEP, Local Faculty Groups and Local Academic Boards in their quality control as they educationally support manage, audit and resource the educational role of Educational Supervisors within KSS LEP. The approach taken in KSS is to educate and train all hospital consultants as Educational Supervisors. We see the role of Educational Supervisor as distinct from, but having points of overlap with, that of Clinical Supervisor. By educating and training all consultants as Educational Supervisors, we ensure the robustness of education and training for all clinical supervisors, whilst ensuring that those who wish to take on a more expanded role of Educational Supervisor are also equipped to do so. Organisationally the formal roles of Clinical Supervisor and Educational Supervisor are disaggregated for the purposes of job planning. Educational Supervision The educational supervisor is responsible for the supervision of a trainee’s progress over time. Educational supervisors are responsible for ensuring that trainees are making the necessary clinical and educational progress [Gold Guide 4.22]. Clinical Supervision Each trainee should have a named clinical supervisor for each placement, usually a senior doctor, who is responsible for ensuring that appropriate clinical supervision of the trainee’s day to day clinical performance occurs at all times, with regular feedback. [Gold Guide 4.27] Educational Supervisor role and responsibilities This is a complex role which spans the areas of educational management, educational supervision and feedback, clinical supervision, an understanding of the role of assessment in learning, the use of portfolios as a learning and assessment tool, an understanding of how to identify, support and manage a trainee in difficulty, and of supporting trainee career decision making. Allocation The following typical allocation sets out our view, after wide consultation, of the usual contractual requirements to undertake the common education roles.
Job Description Typical Allocation Comment
Clinical Supervisor
Providing safe clinical oversight of trainees during routine ward rounds, out‐patients, operating sessions or other clinical sessions. Undertaking a small number per year of workplace‐ based assessments (less than 10 a year) and contributing to 360° feedback.
0.25 PAs per week Not dependent on number of trainees. If operating lists are extended, or clinic maximum lists extended because of supervision of trainees, or if undertaking assessments, then the number of patients in that clinic or list, should reflect that, thus allowing the time for education within the standard working week. Optional but preferred to undertake KSS QESP.
Educational Supervisor
Responsible for a named trainee for all 0.25 PAs per week, This would usually be planned as part of routine SPA time. However, an aspects of personal development per trainee Educational Supervisor, by agreement in planning, appraisal, attending faculty a Department, might have a significantly meetings, completing reports and higher than average number of trainees, helping the trainee complete and SPA time must also cover other workplace‐based assessment. governance activities on educational Completing relevant sections of activities for all Consultants. On e‐portfolios and offering help for occasion extra PA time may be needed. careers guidance and TiD. However, this might well be by agreement within a Department, still maintaining on average 2.5 SPAs per Consultant. Must have undertaken KSS training in teaching and educational supervision. This sessional time is also needed for those consultants who are active hospital supervisors of GP trainees – including completing all assessments and full use of the e‐portfolio.
Job
Description
Typical Allocation
Comment
College Tutor (Local Trust Specialty Training Programme Director)
1 PA for up to For all future appointments KSS expects 20 trainees in College Tutors Represents the Trust on the KSS Specialty (excluding to be jointly appointed by the Trust Core Training Committee. Foundation). DME (or MD) and the relevant KSS Head of Specialty School. Leads the LFG in their Specialty, 1.5 PAs for 20 and representing to 40. In the past, the role of College Tutor it on the Trust Education Academic was not terribly taxing, with very little Board. 2 PAs for more than responsibility attached, and certainly 40. Ensure the delivery of the none to KSS or the Trust. The role has PMETB/College curriculum within changed enormously the Trust. in the last 18 months. Roles:
Monitors the number and type of
posts and their educational opportunities.
Works with the Educational
Supervisors and Programme Directors.
Helps undertake workplace
assessments and 360° feedback.
Ensure systems are in place for
each trainee to have an annual RITA/ARCP in their Specialty.
Although part of the time for the College Tutor role may be able to come out of SPA time, many people undertaking such roles also have multiple Educational Supervisor responsibilities and other governance responsibilities. We expect that for many Consultants some time, if not all, will need to come out of PA time. Foundation Training Programme Directors are separately remunerated. A College Tutor or deputy will be needed on each major clinical site, a minimum of 1 PA per site.
Ensure that induction process
is in place in each Department.
Ensure that all trainees have a
signed and completed learning agreement with their Educational Supervisor.
Co‐ordinate QESP within the
Department.
Provide support in the use
of e‐portfolios etc.
Provide Specialty career advice. Provide advice on access to study
leave opportunities.
Support the KSS Quality Control
arrangements, including the GEAR process and provide an annual report to the Local Trust Academic Board.
Co‐ordinate local recruitment within the appropriate school.
Job
Description
Typical Allocation
0.25 to 0.5 PA, usually SPA time, or 1 to 6 days exceptional leave per annum.
Comment
Recruitment and Shortlisting and speciality interviewing ARCP activities for both KSS and London Deaneries. (in addition to For core training, this will be once or local College twice Tutor activities) a year. For Specialty training, this will be two or three times a year. For Foundation allocation this will be once a year. It is an expectation that every Foundation Educational Supervisor will spend time on this once a year.
Shortlisting and interviewing load tends to be significantly greater for core training recruitment than Specialty training currently. Overall, recruitment being centralised to Deaneries is far more efficient in Consultant time, but much more obvious when it occurs on an annual basis. Recruitment is particularly onerous in Core Medicine and Core Surgery, requiring the equivalent of 1 day for shortlisting and up to 3 days for interviewing for each recruitment round. It is significantly less onerous in other specialties, and for Foundation is a maximum of 1 day’s scoring per annum.
Lead for Simulation
Developing scenarios, faculty
development and delivery of simulation training. Relevant for both Foundation and Specialty trainees.
0.25 PA, usually SPA time.
Patient safety and rehearsal are a national priority. Simulation is totally dependent on a trained and enthusiastic faculty. It is very time intensive.
STC members
Provide representation on
Specialty Training Committees.
Help advise on rotations,
LTFT training and other administrative matters.
Usually nil for Committee members. Variable for Programme Directors, STC Chairs.
The more onerous role of Programme Director is now receiving some direct remuneration from the London/KSS Deaneries. While STC Chairs receive a small sum towards administrative support, this does not cover all the time required to undertake the role. Both roles may need local discussion about PA or SPA time, up to 1 PA per week.
Undertake Quality
Management roles within the STC.
The KSS Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme (QESP)
The KSS QESP meets the PMETB generic standards for training, July 2008. The GMC has made it a mandatory requirement for Deaneries to ensure that trainers are adequately trained and qualified to carry out five key educational roles: a. teaching; b. assessment; c. educational supervision; d. careers advice; e. supporting TiD. A key feature of the QESP is that highly experienced Education Advisers work with candidates in their clinical settings to develop their educational practice. The QESP comprises two parts: a. Part one focuses on principles of teaching and learning and develops the participant’s ability to support learning in clinical settings. It requires attendance at a half‐day workshop followed by a minimum of three observational visits and one‐to‐one ‘professional conversations’ between the participant and an Education Adviser. This part of the programme was formerly known as the Certificate in Teaching. The observation visits take place in the candidate’s real‐life work settings, such as theatres, clinics, ward rounds, seminars. b. Part two focuses on the principles and practice of assessment, supervision, careers advice and supporting TiD. It builds on the learning in part one, to apply its principles and practice to the specific contexts of educational supervision. It requires attendance at a workshop followed by a minimum of two visits and one‐to‐one ‘professional conversations’ between the participant and an Education Adviser, and one (optional) peer observation. This part of the programme was formerly known as the Certificate in Educational Supervision. A certificate is awarded for successful completion of each part of the QESP. For a full list of the QESP FAQs please see the following link: http://admin.kssdeanery.org/files/education.kssdeanery.ac.uk/qespfaqsversion25pub27nov08.pdf
Appendix 3:
Roles and Responsibilities of London and KSS Deaneries
London Deanery has two roles in quality management for KSS: a. the Foundation Programme; b. Higher Specialty Training. Foundation Programme Trainees at South London LEPs are part of KSS Deanery’s South Thames Foundation School. The Head of the South Thames Foundation School is appointed jointly by KSS Deanery and London Deanery and reports to the Dean Director of KSS Deanery. London Deanery does not sub‐contract any aspect of quality management of the posts for the Foundation Programme in South London LEPs to KSS Deanery. Thus KSS Deanery does not have any authority to take action beyond informing London of issues that come to the Foundation School or KSS attention. London Deanery quality manages the Foundation posts in South London LEPs. Higher Specialty Training i. KSS Deanery sub‐contracts management of programmes of Higher Specialty Training and their trainees to London Deanery. However, the quality of training provided to HST trainees employed by KSS LEPs remains the responsibility of KSS Deanery and their training must be compliant with KSS GEAR for LFGs and for LABs. The quality of training of HST trainees in a KSS LEP is the responsibility of the LEP’s LFG. Reports on their training must be sent to the LEP LAB. The LAB will then forward a Report to the appropriate London Deanery School to which KSS Deanery has sub‐contracted that work. Copies of Reports to London Deanery Schools must be sent at the same time to the relevant KSS Head of School and to the KSS Deputy Postgraduate Dean for Secondary Care. London Deanery Schools may only act in KSS LEPs with the agreement of KSS Deanery. For example, a London School may not decide on its own initiative to visit a KSS LEP, and it may not decide on its own initiative to set up new or additional quality control or quality management processes in a KSS LEP. All action in KSS Deanery LEPs by London Deanery Schools must be authorised formally and directly by the KSS Deputy Postgraduate Dean for Secondary Care.
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Appendix 4:
GEAR Mapping Document
This document maps the LAB and LFG terms of reference, as developed from the GMC Standards for Deaneries (July 2008), against the PMETB Generic standards for training (including Foundation standards) (Sept 2009) and other key documentation (as appropriate). LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 1 Patient Safety To oversee the work of LFGs in monitoring the duties, rotas (1.5), working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of postgraduate doctors in order to assure themselves that training programmes are consistent with the delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4)11.
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
To monitor the duties, rotas (1.5), Meets Domain 1 Standards: Duties working hours and supervision of trainees working hours (6.9), handovers (1.6) must be consistent with the delivery of and supervision (1.2, 1.3) of high quality, safe patient care. Must be postgraduate doctors in order to clear procedures to address immediately assure themselves that training any concerns about patient safety arising programmes are consistent with the from training. Mandatory requirements delivery of high quality, safe patient care (1.1), including consent (1.4); 1.1 to 1.6 to establish and exercise clear procedures to address immediately any concerns about patient safety arising from the training of doctors.
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In line with the provisions and exceptions relating to ‘duty of care’ of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007.
LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 2 Quality Management review and evaluation To supervise the LEP’s quality control of PGME by: monitoring compliance with PMETB’s statutory codes, policies, processes, domains and standards; managing the action plan from KSS Deanery Contract Review and hospital visits; overseeing the LFGs’ relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools, the General Pharmaceutical Council and Royal Colleges); maintaining communication on quality with the LEP management and KSS Deanery; through the work of the LEP Human Resources department, monitoring compliance with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
Meets Domain 2 Standards: Postgraduate training must be quality managed locally by deaneries, working with others as appropriate, but within an overall delivery system for postgraduate medical education for which deans are responsible. Mandatory requirements 2.1 (2.2 & 2.3 are the responsibility of KSS Deanery)
LFG Terms of Reference
To manage and maintain the relationship with professional and statutory education and training bodies and agencies (such as Foundation/Specialty Schools and Royal Colleges); to comply with LAB processes and procedures; to comply with the EWTD, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act (2.1).
LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 3 Equality, diversity & opportunity To receive and consider information from LFGs about reasonable adjustments to programmes to accommodate flexibility for postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those with disabilities, special educational or other relevant needs (3.4); Through the work of the KSS Medical Staffing and the LEP Human Resources department, to ensure that LFG training programmes’ comply with employment law, the Disability Discrimination Act, Race Relations (Amendment) Act, Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Acts, the Human Rights Act and equal opportunity other legislation that may be enacted and amended in the future (3.1).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 3 Standards: Postgraduate To consider and make reasonable adjustments to programmes to training must be fair and based on accommodate flexibility for principles of equality. Mandatory postgraduate doctors (3.3) and those Requirements 3.1,3.3,3.4 with disabilities, special educational or (3.2, & 3.5 are the responsibility of KSS other relevant needs (3.4). Deanery)
LAB Terms of Reference
Domain 4 Recruitment selection and appointment To receive and consider KSS Deanery and LEP reports and information about recruitment, selection and appointment processes; To monitor the composition of LFG selection panels to ensure they consist of persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and include a lay person (4.4, 4.5).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 4 Standards: Processes for To ensure selection panels consist of recruitment, selection and appointment persons who have been trained in selection principles and processes and must be open, fair, and effective. include a lay person (4.4, 4.5). Mandatory Requirements 4.4 & 4.5. (4.1,4.2 & 4.3 are the responsibility of KSS Deanery and its Foundation and Specialty Schools)
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 5 Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment To satisfy itself that the academic curricula provided by the LEP meet the requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes; To receive and consider LFG four‐monthly reports and annual programme audit and reviews, offering advice and referring issues to the relevant KSS Deanery Foundation/Specialty School and other Deaneries as agreed in Service Level Agreements between KSS and partner Deaneries, as appropriate; To monitor and develop the work of LFGs in order to supervise the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
To meet the curriculum requirements and standards set by Medical Royal Colleges/Faculties, Foundation and Specialty training programmes and approved by PMETB (5.2); The approved assessment system must be to manage the approved assessment fit for purpose. Mandatory requirements: system, ensuring it is fit for purpose 5.1 – 5.8. (5.5‐5.8); to maintain the quality of teaching and ensure that specialty staff have the practical experience to support acquisition of competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); to ensure that postgraduate doctors: are familiarised with the principles of Good Medical Practice (5.3); can access training days, courses, resources and other learning opportunities that form an intrinsic part of the training programme (5.4).
Meets Domain 5 Standards: The requirements set out in the approved curriculum must be delivered and assessed
LAB Terms of Reference
competence and skills (5.1, 6.10) as set out in the approved curriculum and that they provide regular feedback to postgraduate doctors (5.9); in liaison with Foundation/Specialty Schools and KSS to monitor academic appeals procedures and to monitor the conduct and outcomes of ARCP appeals conducted by Schools (see the PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.24ff).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
GEAR: Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations ‐ Gearing up for Patient Safety LAB Terms of Reference
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PMETB Generic LFG Terms of Reference Training Standards The LFG must be satisfied that postgraduate Meets Domain 6 Domain 6 Support and development of trainees, Standards: Trainees doctors: trainers and local faculty To establish, publicise, monitor and manage systems by must be supported to have access to a comprehensive and timely which postgraduate doctors feedback, in confidence, acquire the necessary induction to their programme (6.1); their concerns and views about their training and skills and experience have a rota by day and by night which is education experience to an appropriate member of local through induction, appropriate for learning (6.9); faculty (6.7); effective educational have a designated supervisor (6.3), a learning to ensure that LFGs maintain Foundation/Specialty supervision, an agreement, (6.4) a portfolio (6.5) and meet and Careers leads who will make certain that postgraduate appropriate discuss their progress, mutual expectations, workload, personal programme aims and objectives and support doctors receive career advice and support as support and time to systems with their supervisor (6.2) at least every appropriate and to monitor the LFGs in maintaining, learn. (Support, developing and appraising the Foundation/Specialty 3 months (6.6). training and effective The LFG must ensure that postgraduate doctors Careers leads (6.8); supervision must be are regularly involved in clinical audit (6.13); to ensure intervention if postgraduate doctors are provided for subjected to, or subject others to, behaviour that The LFG must ensure that postgraduate doctors undermines their professional confidence or self‐ foundation doctors.) have access to Occupational Health services esteem (6.11); Trainers must provide (6.14) and confidential counselling (6.18) if to ensure that those following an academic path, are in a level of supervision needed. appropriate to the The LFG must monitor the deployment of flexible programmes of academic training allowing postgraduate doctors such as they have time to competence and multiple entry and exit points throughout training experience of the (6.24); attend relevant, timetabled, organised trainee. to monitor the provision of specialist training in educational meetings, including training in supervision, including qualifying Clinical and Educational Trainers must be generic professional skills (6.16), or other events Supervisors through the KSS Deanery programme and involved in and of educational value agreed with the educational ensuring attendance at triennial diversity and equality contribute to the supervisor (6.15) and have the opportunity to training (PMETB Gold Guide 2009 7.18) and ensure that learning culture in learn with, and from, other healthcare which patient care professionals (6.17). all who have completed training act as supervisors; The LFG must monitor study leave arrangements to monitor the appraisal of supervisors such that they occurs. encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within Trainers must be so that postgraduate doctors are aware of how the context of clinical governance and patient safety supported in their to apply and are guided as to appropriate role by a (6.25); courses and funding (6.19) and take study leave to monitor the performance of trainers, in particular postgraduate medical up to the maximum permitted (6.20). their use of assessment tools, their understanding of education team and LFGs must alert their postgraduate doctors to the progress by postgraduate doctors (6.26), their ability to have a suitable job academic opportunities available in their specialty (6.22) and encourage those with conduct constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice plan with an on career progression, response to concerns (6.27), appropriate workload academic skills and aptitudes to investigate an integration of learning and teaching into service and time to develop academic career (6.23). provision (6.28), liaison with other trainers to share trainees. LFGs must maintain the regular appraisal of good practice (6.29) and knowledge and compliance Trainers must supervisors such that they encourage their supervisees to take responsibility within the with the GMC regulatory framework for medical training understand the structure and context of clinical governance and patient safety (6.34); to manage and monitor resources so that trainers have purpose of, and their (6.25); role in, the training LFGs monitor the performance of trainers, in adequate support, time and resources to undertake their training role (6.30, 8.3) that there is a suitable ratio programme of their particular their use of assessment tools, their of trainers to trainees), that there are physical resources designated trainees. understanding of progress by postgraduate such as meeting rooms, AV equipment (8.5) and, where Mandatory doctors (6.26), their ability to conduct stipulated in PMETB‐approved curricula, such resources Requirements: LAB constructive progress reviews, feedback, advice terms of reference on career progression, response to concerns as clinical skills centres or ‘wet labs’ (8.4); meet (6.27), integration of learning and teaching into if relevant, to ensure GP trainers are trained and service provision (6.28), liaison with other selected in accordance with the General and Specialist 6.7,6.8,6.11,6.24‐ trainers to share good practice (6.29) and Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications)6.30,6.33,6.34. knowledge and compliance with the GMC Order 2003 (6.33). regulatory framework for medical training (6.34).
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 7 Management of Education and Training To conduct periodic internal programme reviews and host and manage external reviews of training programmes to ensure that they meet relevant standards; to audit their own LAB processes on an annual basis and to provide a short summative report to the Deanery; to share good practice and learn from other LABs; to initiate quality enhancement projects and foster collaboration among training programmes; to advise on such other matters as the LEP or KSS Deanery may refer to the LAB; to ensure that all those with a role in the management of education and training are familiar with GEAR and its detailed provisions (7.1), 7.2); to monitor the prevalence and progress of Trainees in Difficulty (TiD) through the LFG Reports and to oversee processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3); to monitor the attendance and engagement of those involved in administering and managing training and education at LEP level (7.5); to advise and liaise with other LEP Educational bodies.
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 7 standard: Education and training must be planned and maintained through transparent processes which show who is responsible at each stage. Mandatory Requirements 7.1‐7.3 & 7.5. 7.4 is at the discretion of the LEP Board.
LFGs must publish and make clear, through transparent processes, who is responsible for each element and at each stage of the training programme. LFGs must manage processes for identifying, supporting and managing Trainees in Difficulty (7.3).
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 8 Educational resources and capacity To advise on and make representations about the distribution of resources necessary to maintain the educational capacity of the LEP and any unit offering training posts/programmes and locally‐ appointed trust posts so as to accommodate the practical experiences required by the curriculum, along with the educational requirements of all health care professionals in the same unit (8.1); through the finance/IT function and LKS of the LEP, to maintain access to educational facilities (including a library) and resources (including access to the Internet in all workplaces) of a standard to fulfil the KSS Education Contract and enable trainees to achieve the outcomes of the programme as specified in the approved curriculum (8.2).
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
LFGs must ensure that educational Meets Domain 8 standard: The educational facilities, infrastructure and facilities and resources, including leadership must be adequate to deliver clinical and educational supervision, the curriculum. Mandatory Requirements meeting rooms, library and knowledge 8.1, 8.2, 8.5 met by the LAB. 8.3, 8.4 met services, specialist resources such as ‘wet labs’ and clinical skills centres and by the LFG. access to internet in the workplace, are sufficient to enable Postgraduate Doctors to achieve curriculum outcomes (8.3, 8.4).
LAB Terms of Reference:
Domain 9 Outcomes To review and, where appropriate, act upon the outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes.
PMETB Generic Standards for Training
LFG Terms of Reference
Meets Domain 9 standard: The impact of the standards must be tracked against trainee outcomes and clear linkages should be reflected in developing standards. Mandatory Requirement 9.1 met by the LAB. And LFG
To review and, where appropriate, act upon outcomes of assessments and exams for each programme and each location benchmarked against other programmes (9.1).
Appendix 5:
LFG GEAR: Mapping against PMETB Standards for Curricula and assessment systems (July 2008)
This mapping identifies the sections of GEAR that address the standards that are appropriate to KSS and LEPs/NHS Trusts and those that are formed by the National Curriculum for Foundation and Specialty developed by the Royal Colleges. Planning: Standards 1 and 2 Curriculum purpose and development
Standard 1 The purpose of the curriculum must be stated, including linkages to previous and subsequent stages of the trainee’s training and education. The appropriateness of the stated curriculum to the stage of learning and to the Specialty in question must be described.
Mandatory requirements: 1.1 LFG GEAR
The curriculum must state how it was developed and consensus reached S1.i (LAB) on:
how content and teaching/learning methods were chosen; how the curriculum was agreed and by whom; the role of teachers and trainees in curriculum development. 1.2
There must be an adequate number of appropriately qualified and experienced staff in place to deliver an effective training programme. Subject areas of the curriculum must be taught by staff with relevant specialist expertise and knowledge. S1.iv (LAB)
1.3
2.1 (Ed. Sup)
The assessment system must be fit for purpose
Standard 2 The overall purpose of the assessment system must be documented and in the public domain.
Mandatory requirements: 2.1
The functions of each and all components of the assessment system must be specified and available to trainees, educators, employers, professional bodies including the regulatory bodies, and the public.
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
Mandatory requirements: 2.2
The sequence of assessments must match the progression through the approved curriculum Individual assessments within the system should add unique information and build on previous assessments.
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
2.3
Content: Standards 3 and 4 Content of the Curriculum
Standard 3 The curriculum must set out the general, professional, and Specialty–specific content to be mastered, including:
the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes demonstrated through behaviours and expertise; the recommendations on the sequencing of learning and experience should be provided, if appropriate; the general professional content should include a statement about how Good Medical Practice is to be
addressed.
Mandatory requirements: 3.1
The curriculum should:
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
cover both generic professional and Specialty‐specific areas; be a description of the training structure (entry requirements, length
and organisation of the training programme including its flexibilities and assessment systems);
have a description of expected methods of learning, teaching,
feedback and supervision;
enable safe and effective practice by the integration of theory and
practice which must be central to the curriculum;
remain relevant to current practice; assist autonomous and reflective thinking and evidence‐based
practice through the delivery of the curriculum;
ensure that the range of learning and teaching approaches used are
appropriate to the subjects within the curriculum.
Mandatory requirements: 3.2
Content areas should be presented in terms of the intended outcomes of learning benchmarked to identifiable stages of training, where appropriate:
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
To include what the trainee will know, understand,
describe, recognise, be aware of and be able to do at the end of the course.
The content of the assessment will be based on curricula for postgraduate training which themselves are referenced to all of the areas of Good Medical Practice.
Standard 4 Assessments must systematically sample the entire content, appropriate to the stage of training, with reference to the common and important clinical problems that the trainee will encounter in the workplace and to the wider base of knowledge, skills and attitudes demonstrated through behaviours that doctors require.
Mandatory requirements: 4.1
The blueprint detailing assessments in the workplace and national examinations will be referenced to the approved curriculum and Good Medical Practice and must be available to trainees and trainers in addition to assessors/examiners.
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks
Delivery: Standards 5, 6, 7 and 8 Managing curriculum implementation
Standard 5 Indication should be given of how curriculum implementation will be managed and assured locally and within approved programmes.
Mandatory requirements: 5.1
This should include:
LFG GEAR
Specialty Curriculum and LFG Handbooks PG handbook template section 8 PG handbook template section 10 PG handbook template section 9 S4.ii (LAB), S1.(LFG) S1.(LFG)
intended use of the curriculum document by Programme Directors,
trainers and trainees;
means of ensuring curriculum coverage; recommended roles of the LEP in curriculum implementation; responsibilities of trainees for curriculum implementation; curriculum management in posts and attachments within approved
programmes;
curriculum management across programmes as a whole.
Model of learning
Standard 6 The curriculum must describe the model of learning appropriate to the Specialty and stage of training.
Mandatory requirements: 6.1
To be achieved through a general balance of work‐based experiential learning, independent self‐directed learning and appropriate ‘off‐the‐ job’ education.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
Learning experiences
Standard 7 Recommended learning experiences must be described which allow diversity of methods covering, at a minimum:
learning from practice; opportunities for concentrated practice in skills and procedures; learning with peers; learning in formal situations inside and outside the department; personal study; specific trainer/supervisor inputs. Mandatory requirements: LFG GEAR
Mandatory requirements: 7.1
To be achieved through developing educational strategies that are suited to work‐based experiential learning and appropriate education. The duration of the training programme must be appropriate to the achievement of the learning outcomes.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
7.2
Royal College
Assessment system methods
Standard 8 The choice of assessment method(s) should be appropriate to the content and purpose of that element of the curriculum.
Mandatory requirements: 8.1
Methods will be chosen on the basis of validity, reliability, feasibility, cost effectiveness, opportunities for feedback and impact on learning. The rationale for the choice of each assessment method will be documented and evidence‐based. Large scale competence tests (e.g. MRCP, MRCGP, MRCPsych):
LFG GEAR
Royal College
8.2
Royal College
Approaches to the development and piloting of test items/clinical
skills assessments for national tests of competence will be documented and available for external quality assurance. Studies to establish the validity of new methods will be undertaken.
Systematic data collection will support the routine reporting
of the reliability of tests of competence in high stakes pass/fail examinations. These statistics will be in the public domain. Workplace‐based assessments (e.g. direct observation of consulting, 360° assessment and case‐based discussions):
must be subject to reliability and validity measures; evidence must be collected and documented systematically; evidence must be judged against pre‐determined published criteria
where available;
the weight placed on different sources of evidence must be
determined by the blueprint and the quality of the evidence;
the synthesis of the evidence and the process of judging it must be
made explicit. Methods for work place‐based assessment e.g.:
systematic observation of clinical practice; Direct Observational Procedure; video; judgements of multiple assessors; consulting with simulated patients; Case Record Review, including OPD letters; case‐based discussions; oral presentations; 360º peer assessment; patient feedback surveys; audit projects; critical incident review.
Mandatory requirements: 8.3
LFG GEAR
The LEP must maintain a thorough and effective system for delivery and S6(LFG) S2.3(LFG) monitoring of all assessment systems for which they have responsibility.
Outcomes: Standards 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 Supervision of the trainee
Standard 9 Mechanisms for supervision of the trainee should be set out.
Mandatory requirements: 9.1
The learning, teaching and supervision must be designed to encourage safe and effective practice, independent learning and professional conduct of the doctor and safety of the patient. Unless other arrangements are agreed, trainers, supervisors, assessors and examiners must:
LFG GEAR
Ed. Sup 7.1, 7.7, 7.8
9.2
Ed. Sup 7.1, 7.7, 7.8
have relevant qualifications and experience; undertake appropriate training. Role of the Assessor
Standard 10 Assessors/examiners will be recruited against criteria for performing the tasks they undertake.
Mandatory requirements: 10.1 The roles of assessors/examiners will be clearly specified and used as
the basis for recruitment and appointment.
LFG GEAR
10.2 Assessors/examiners must demonstrate their ability to undertake the
role.
7.2,7.3
10.3 Assessors/examiners should only assess in areas where they have
competence.
10.4 The relevant professional experience of assessors should be greater
than that of candidates being assessed.
10.5 Equality and diversity training will be a core component of any
assessor/examiner training programme.
Assessment feedback to the trainees
Standard 11 Assessments must provide relevant feedback to the trainees.
Mandatory requirements: 11.1 The policy and process for providing feedback to trainees following
assessments must be documented and in the public domain.
LFG GEAR
PG handbook template section 13.2. Royal College
11.2 The form of feedback to the trainees must match the purpose of the
assessment.
11.3 Outcomes from assessments must be used to provide feedback to the
trainees on the effectiveness of the education and training where consent from all interested parties has been given.
Royal College
11.4 The measurement of trainee performance and progression must be an
integral part of the wider process of monitoring and evaluation, and use objective criteria.
Handbook 10.1, S2.6, S2.7 (LFG)
Standards for classification of trainees’ performance/competence
Standard 12 The methods used to set standards for classification of trainees’ performance/competence must be transparent and in the public domain.
Mandatory requirements: 12.1 Standards in tests of competence, such as national Royal College
examinations, will be set using recognised methods based on test content and the judgments of competent assessors.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
12.2 Where the purpose of the test is to provide a pass/fail decision,
information from the performance of reference groups of peers should inform, but not determine, the standard.
Royal College
12.3 The precision of the pass/fail decision must be reported on the basis of
data about the test. The purpose of the test must determine how the error around the pass/fail level affects decisions about borderline candidates.
Royal College
12.4 Reasons for choosing either pass/fail or rank ordering should
be described.
Royal College
12.5 Standards for determining successful completion of training to CCT level Royal College
should be explicit.
12.6 Assessment regulations must clearly specify requirements for: trainee progression and achievement within the approved
programme;
Royal College
the procedure for the right of appeal for trainees. Documentation will be standardised and accessible nationally
Standard 13 Documentation will record the results and consequences of assessments and the trainee’s progress through the assessment system.
Mandatory requirements: 13.1 Information will be recorded in a form that allows disclosure and
appropriate access, within the confines of data protection and freedom of information.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
13.2 Uniform documentation will be suitable not only for recording progress
through the assessment system but also for submission for purposes of registration and performance review.
Royal College
13.3 Documentation should provide evidence for revalidation and
compliance with Good Medical Practice.
Royal College
13.4 Documentation should be transferable and accessible as the trainee
moves location.
Royal College
Mandatory requirements: 13.5 Documentation should be comprehensive and accessible to both the
trainee and to those responsible for training.
LFG GEAR
Review: Standards 14, 15, 16 and 17 Curriculum review and updating
Standard 14 Plans for curriculum review, including curriculum evaluation and monitoring, must be set out.
Mandatory requirements: 14.1 The schedule for curriculum updating, with rationale, must be provided
including reference to governance arrangements where appropriate.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
14.2 Mechanisms for involving trainees, patients and lay people in curriculum Royal College
updating must be in place and operational.
Resources
Standard 15 Resources and infrastructure will be available to support trainee learning and assessment at all levels (national, KSS and LEP).
Mandatory requirements: 15.1 Resources will be made available for the proper training of assessors,
trainers and examiners.
LFG GEAR
S2 (LAB) S7 (LFG).
15.2 The facilities and resources needed to ensure the welfare and well‐being S2(LAB) S7 (LFG)
of trainees must be both adequate and accessible, and must support the required learning and teaching activities of the curriculum and assessments.
15.3 Resources and expertise will be made available to develop and
implement appropriate assessment methods.
S2(LAB) S7 (LFG)
15.4 Resources will support the assessment of trainees at national and local
levels.
S2(LAB) S7 (LFG)
15.5 Appropriate infrastructure at national, KSS and LEP levels will support
the assessment process.
ALL GEAR
Lay and patient involvement
Standard 16 There will be lay and patient input in the development and implementation of assessments.
Mandatory requirements: 16.1 Lay and patient/carer opinion will be sought in relation
to appropriate aspects of the development, implementation and use of assessments for the classification of candidates.
LFG GEAR
Royal College
16.2 Lay people may act as assessors/examiners for areas
of competence they are capable of assessing for which they will be given
Royal College
Mandatory requirements:
appropriate training.
LFG GEAR
Equality and diversity
Standard 17 The curriculum should state its compliance with equal opportunities and anti‐discriminatory practice.
Mandatory requirements: 17.1 LEPs, Deaneries and Colleges/Faculties must have equal opportunities
and anti‐discriminatory policies in place in relation to trainees and trainers, together with an indication of how these will be implemented and monitored.
LFG GEAR
2.11(LFG) xxii(LAB)
17.2 LEPs, Deaneries and Colleges/Faculties must ensure necessary 2.11(LFG) xxii(LAB)
information is publicly available for all stakeholders.
17.3 A range of learning and teaching methods that enables the rights and
needs of patients and colleagues to be respected.
PG Handbook template section 7.4,13
Appendix 6
GUIDANCE FOR DOCUMENTATION: Local Faculty Groups (Post Foundation) (Re. Handling of Trainees in Difficulty) Record Keeping
Introduction
The following is guidance on recording information relating to handling of trainees in difficulty by Local Faculty Groups (LFGs) based upon good practice. This must be used in conjunction with Trainees in Difficulty Guide published by KSS Deanery and Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations (GEAR). Documentation of meetings of the Faculty Groups must be in line with guidance provided by the Data Protection Act in relation to processing, retention and security of records. The possibility is that recording of processes relating to handling of a trainee in difficulty may subsequently form part of regulatory proceedings. Therefore recording of information must be of a standard and character where undue legal challenges could be avoided. The Freedom of Information Act (2005) allows the right of access to information held about practitioners/trainees (subject to exemptions where appropriate) and any documentation by faculties could be assessed through this.
Principles
1. 2. 3. 4. The LFGs may discuss the matter in detail but the minutes should only contain a factual summary. (The individual supervisor concerned should hold detailed notes of training etc but this must not form part of the minutes). Confidentiality of the trainee concerned must be protected. Also confidentiality of others involved e.g. patients and work colleagues must be preserved. Details of documentation may depend on the stage the problem has reached but there must be consistency. Principles of equality and diversity must be observed. Do not record third party statements in the minutes. Exclude information about aspects of the trainee’s life not directly related to his or her work even if discussed during the course of the meeting for other reasons. Information being presented to the Faculty Groups regarding a trainee should be recorded in a ‘standard concern form’, completed by the Educational Supervisor and the chair of the Faculty Groups. Record place of meeting/time/length/names of those present Record notes promptly after any meetings/event and agree it with those present as soon as possible (within two weeks).
5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10. Record discussions in a balanced way. The minutes should be objective and unbiased, written in an accurate and concise style. Once written, they should be checked for accuracy and distributed to the members as soon as possible. The minutes of trainee in difficulty should be recorded in bullet points as follows: a. Issues raised b. Conclusions c. Action points and time lines d. Review date 11. At the end of formal the LFG meetings confidential information sheets should be returned the responsible officer to be shredded in line with local Trust policy. 12. In recording, keep to facts only not suppositions/hypotheses discussed during meetings. 13. Minutes of notes will need to be retained for 7 years. At the end of a case file being closed, agree final notes with trainee/trainees representative if available. 14. The sharing of information recorded must be with permission of the LFG Chair and is in keeping with other guidance regarding this. E‐mailing notes to a third party by members for any other purpose should be avoided.
A practical approach to record keeping
• The Chair of the LFG/DME may choose to refer to the individual trainee in the minute through a coding process and they will be responsible to keep the key to coding confidential. The trainee in the note might be referred to as follows: Trust code/numerical number/the year. For example John Smith is the first trainee who has been discussed in the faculty that year. The minutes will show the Trust code/1/08. • The minutes will refer to all factual issues raised. For example, not taking part in DoP’s assessments. • The conclusion of the LFG. For example, a formal letter to trainee giving them reasonable times scale to complete the assessment. Or refer to the school board. • The review period to indicate when and what the LFG will review in the case of the 3456/1/08.
List of Abbreviations and References
AAR – Annual Audit and Review APEL – Accreditation of Prior Experience and Learning ARCP – Annual Review of Competence Progression CCT – Certificate of Completion of Training CEO – Chief Executive Officer CQC – Care Quality Commission STEAG – Core Specialty Schools Advisory Group DH – Department of Health DME – Director of Medical Education DPA – Data Protection Act EWTR – European Working Time Regulations FACD – Foundation Achievement of Competency Document FTPD – Foundation Training Programme Director GEAR – Graduate Education Assessment Regulations (GEAR) GMC – General Medical Council GP – General Practice HR – Human Resources ISO – International Organisation for Standardization IT – Information Technology KSS – Kent, Surrey and Sussex LAB – Local Academic Board LEP – Local Education Provider
GEAR: Graduate Education and Assessment Regulations ‐ Gearing up for Patient Safety
LFG – Local Faculty Group LSC – Learning and Skills Council LTFT – Less Than Full Time MEM – Medical Education Manager MMC – Modernising Medical Careers NHS – National Health Service NHSLA – NHS Litigation Authority OPD – Out Patients Department PA – Professional Activities PGME – Postgraduate Medical Education and Training PMETB – Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board QAA – Quality Assurance Agency QESP – Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme QMS – Quality Management System RITA – Record of In‐Training Assessment SEC – South East Coast SFT – Standards for Trainers SHA – Strategic Health Authority SPA – Supporting Professional Activities STC – Specialty Training Committee STFS – South Thames Foundation School TiD – Trainees in Difficulty WBLA – Workplace Based Learning Assessments
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