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

Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland

Rural placements for undergraduates

Ronald MacVicar

Why this workshop?

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?

WHO Global recommendations

• Evidence for four sets of recommendations on increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention

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

NES: Supporting Remote & Rural Healthcare

• NES Board Paper August 2013

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)

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)

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)

Improving recruitment and retention (NES Recommendations 3 – 9)

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)

Recruitment

• Start young (3)

Recruitment

• Start young (3)

Recruitment

• Start young (3)

Recruitment

• Start young (3)

Recruitment

• Start young (3)

Recruitment

• Start young (3)

Recruitment

• Start young (3)

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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

What have we done?

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

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

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