Post on 23-Dec-2015
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Rural placements for undergraduates
Ronald MacVicar
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Why this workshop?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Why this workshop?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
A comment on Twitter April 2014
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
A comment on Twitter April 2014
“Wow! View from Glencoe village tonight as drove home to Skye from GB mountain running camp in L'boro”
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
A comment on Twitter April 2014
“Wow! View from Glencoe village tonight as drove home to Skye from GB mountain running camp in L'boro”
“Odd thing here is there is a multi-consultant hospital 10 miles away and many rural GP practices -yet recruitment remains challenging. Mad!”
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
A comment on Twitter April 2014
“Wow! View from Glencoe village tonight as drove home to Skye from GB mountain running camp in L'boro”
“Odd thing here is there is a multi-consultant hospital 10 miles away and many rural GP practices -yet recruitment remains challenging. Mad!”
WHY SO?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
WHO Global recommendations
• Evidence for four sets of recommendations on increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
WHO Global recommendations
• Evidence for four sets of recommendations on increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention• Educational recommendations• Regulatory recommendations• Financial incentives recommendations• Personal and professional support
recommendations
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NES: Supporting Remote & Rural Healthcare
• NES Board Paper August 2013
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
NES: Supporting Remote & Rural Healthcare
19 recommendations grouped in:• Promoting awareness and understanding (1 & 2)• Improving recruitment and retention (3 – 9)• Aligning education with workforce plans (10 – 14)• Educational leadership to support service redesign
and improvement (16 & 17)• Leadership of a national Technology Enabled
Learning programme for Scotland (18 & 19)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
NES: Supporting Remote & Rural Healthcare
19 recommendations grouped in:• Promoting awareness and understanding (1 & 2)• Improving recruitment and retention (3 – 9)• Aligning education with workforce plans (10 – 14)• Educational leadership to support service redesign
and improvement (16 & 17)• Leadership of a national Technology Enabled
Learning programme for Scotland (18 & 19)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recommendations:WHO & NES
• NES’s 19 recommendations cross referenced to these• Educational recommendations (3,4, 5, 8, 14)• Regulatory recommendations (7, 10, 11, 12, 13)• Financial incentives recommendations (6)• Personal and professional support recommendations (1, 2,
9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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Improving recruitment and retention (NES Recommendations 3 – 9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3)
• Increase access (4)
• Increase UG exposure (5)
• Remove disincentives (6)
• Targeted recruitment (7)
• Market rural-track training (8)
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3) How?
• Increase access (4) How?
• Increase UG exposure (5) How?
• Remove disincentives (6) How?
• Targeted recruitment (7) How?
• Market rural-track training (8) How?
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9) How?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recruitment
• Start young (3) How?
• Increase access (4) How?
• Increase UG exposure (5) How?
• Remove disincentives (6) How?
• Targeted recruitment (7) How?
• Market rural-track training (8) How?
• Quality at distance mentoring & supervision (9) How?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recommendation 5
Recommendation 5:Work with the Scottish Deans Medical Education Group and related groups to improve exposure of medical and healthcare undergraduates to remote and rural working
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recommendation 5
Recommendation 5:Work with the self-selected interested, highly talented workshop participants at the 2015 NADEGS conference to improve exposure of medical and healthcare undergraduates to remote and rural working
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
Recommendation 5
Recommendation 5:Work with the self-selected interested, highly talented workshop participants at the 2015 NADEGS conference to improve exposure of medical and healthcare undergraduates to remote and rural working
What would you do?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
What have we done?
• We have met twice!• We now have an engaged dynamic group– 5 medical schools– Senior faculty– Students– Graduates
• Stock-take: Current state, aspirations & barriers/ challenges
• Emergent issues
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What have we done?
Emergent issues• Definitions• Capacity• Implementation• Learning environment & faculty• Funding• Breadth• Collaboration