KSS Deanery SAS Doctors Newsletter -August
Umesh Dashora, SAS Project Lead, KSS deanery (dashora@hotmail.com)
KSS deanery will be publishing a quarterly newsletter for SAS doctors. This is the first issue with information and links which the SAS doctors might find useful. You may have to copy and paste the links to access the sites mentioned in the newsletter
Development funding for SAS doctors: BMA paper
£12 million recurrent funding has been made available by the Department of Health under Modernising Medical Careers and in line with Choice and Opportunity Recommendations 5 and 6 to support the development of SAS doctors working in Trusts in England. SAS grade doctors in general should be considered to be “developing” doctors and adequate resource and planning should be made to effect the development of the grade and individual doctors within the grade.
Read more in
http://www.bma.org.uk/careers/developing_your_career/sasdevfund.jsp
Courses available for SAS doctors
A list of available courses for SAS doctors has been compiled by Oxford deanery
http://www.oxforddeanery.nhs.uk/about_oxford_deanery/sas_doctors__dentists.aspx
SAS doctors’ needs and aspirations – BMA survey
SAS doctors have differing needs. The BMA survey tried to identify the needs in this survey –
http://www.bma.org.uk/careers/developing_your_career/sasdevfund.jsp?page=7
Appraisal for SAS doctors
With revalidation regular appraisal will become very important. Here is the form you would need for appraisal
Career Planning for SAS doctors
Very useful career related information for SAS doctors can be found on this link
Article 14 related information can also be accessed using this link
SAS Leads/ Tutors meetings at KSS deanery
SAS tutors meet at KSS deanery to share best practice and exchange ideas to improve SAS development activities. SAS tutors list can be accessed at the KSS deanery website.
http://kssdeanery.org/specialty/sas-doctors
http://kssdeanery.org/specialty/sas-doctors/trusts-leads
Meeting dates are: 19/08, 14/10, 9/12; usually 3-5 PM at the KSS deanery.
Links to Other Sites which SAS doctors might find useful
Here are some of the links you might find useful sometime. You might like to put them on your computer in a separate folder
NAMEM www.namem.org.uk
COPMED www.copmed.org.uk
Academy of Royal Colleges www.aomrc.org.uk
Modernising Medical Careers www.mmc.nhs.uk
General Medical Council www.gmc-uk.org
Higher Education Academy www.heacademy.ac.uk
Department of Health http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en
British Medical Association www.bma.org.uk
British Medical Journal www.bmj.com
PMETB www.pmetb.org.uk
NHS Careers www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
HospitalDr.co.uk http://www.hospitaldr.co.uk
Education Programmes
RCP Generic Education Programme www.rcplondon.ac.uk
Teaching & Learning in Clinical context www.clinicalteaching.nhs.uk
Generic Skills – an interactive programme www.healthcareskills.nhs.uk
BMJ Learning www.bmjlearning.com/planrecord/index.jsp
On-line courses for junior doctors www.123doc.com
Digital library of radiology education resources www.radiologyeducation.com
Pain management www.pain-talk.co.uk
Common paediatric health problems www.generalpediatrics.com
Doctors net online learning www.doctors.net.uk
E-portfolio http://www.kch.nhs.uk/careers/medical-training/foundation-e-portfolio/
Educational Supervision http://www.medicaleducators.org/aome/index.cfm/profession/edsupervisors/
Faculty Development
Appraisal Skills – an interactive programme www.appraisal-skills.nhs.uk
Consultancy providing training for trainers / managers etc www.miaduk.com
International Association for Medical Education www.amee.org
Association for the Study of Medical Education www.asme.org.uk
Supporting Doctors
Career Guidance www.medicalforum.com
Career Support www.windmillsonline.co.uk/index.html
Virtual Career Coach www.windmillsprogramme.com/frames.asp
Doctors’ supportline website www.doctorssupport.org
Getting the work / life balance right www.support4doctors.org
Learning Materials for Junior Doctors
NPSA Safe Foundations http://www.npsa.nhs.uk
Others
Centre for Health Informatics and multiprofessional education www.chime.ucl.ac.uk
National Research Register www.update-software.com
Foundation of Nursing Studies www.fons.org
Basic IT skills www.ecdl.nhs.uk
Policy Studies Institute www.psi.org.uk
Multiprofessional Working
Curriculum for medical care practitioner http://www.dh.gov.uk
Agenda For change http://www.dh.gov.uk
Creating an interprofessional workforce http://www.dh.gov.uk
Workforce Improvement www.wise.nhs.uk/cmsWISE/Workforce+Themes/Into.htm
Documents
Standards for Better Health http://www.dh.gov.uk
CNST standards http://www.nhsla.com/RiskManagement/CnstStandards/
SAS Leads/ Tutors’ educational appraisal
I would encourage all SAS tutors and leads to organize their educational appraisal with their Director of Medical Education
Linked-in site for SAS doctors
I have developed a linked-in site for SAS tutors which I am trying to expand and involve all SAS doctors. The hope is that all SAS doctors would be able to network through this site and share best practice and resolve issues which have been resolved elsewhere already. If you want to be a member of this group please e mail me on dashora@hotmail.com
LFG for SAS doctors
I would encourage all SAS tutors to form a local faculty group in their trust. I suggest the membership to include SAS tutor, Director of Medical Education, Representative of Medical Education Manager and Representative of SAS doctors. I suggest Clinical supervisors of SAS doctors can be invited if they have any concerns or suggestions about their SAS doctors.
KSS deanery website for SAS doctors
KSS deanery website has been enhanced to include useful information about SAS doctors. Look in Speciality section or search using term ‘SAS doctors’. There would be regular update as news items on the website for new regional courses under the section of News.
http://kssdeanery.org/specialty/sas-doctors
Watch the space
More generic regional courses are going to be organized from November onwards at the Royal College of Physicians of London. Look out for dates on the deanery website, linked-in site or RCP site.