Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland Rural placements for undergraduates Ronald MacVicar.

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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

Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland

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)

Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland

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

Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland

What have we done?

Emergent issues• Definitions• Capacity• Implementation• Learning environment & faculty• Funding• Breadth• Collaboration