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The ‘Training for Peer Observation of Teaching‘ Workshop took place on the 8th December 2015 with practitioners from a variety of backgrounds attending.

Those attending provided qualitative and quantitative feedback; a selection of the former are shown below.

“Good opportunity to reflect on a personal level re what/why we do POT”

“The chosen videos were excellent – good opportunities to look at skills/barriers to peer review”

“Enjoyed this, though I’m not normally fond of role play. I gained a lot from discussion within our small group”

“Will be taking this back to our education team to freshen up our debriefing in simulation training”

Also shown below is a figure with the collated quantitative feedback scores, rated on a Likert Scale, for the sessions delivered during the day.

The Principles and Practice of Simulation module was successfully delivered for the second time from 16th – 20th November.

Quantitative and qualitative feedback from the students was extremely positive, and represented a small improvement from the first delivery of the module in 2014. A figure showing the responses (scored on a Likert scale) is shown below, along with a quote from one of the students.

“Thank you [Wes] (and Jo) very much for the simulation course last week; it was great to meet such enthusiastic teachers and challenge my brain again. We also had a lovely group on the course which was very fortunate.”

Following the successful delivery of our previous workshops at the Sussex Simulation Hub, we’re now taking bookings for a third workshop on December 8th at Mayfield House, UoB, focusing on Peer Observation of Teaching in healthcare and healthcare education.

Spaces are filling up fast, so if interested, please contact Andrew Collins.

Limited funded spaces are currently available (usual price £130).

To view the 3rd edition of ‘Sim News‘, a Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (BSUH) publication relating to all Simulation based activities at BSUH and in the local area, please follow the link below.

Sim News October 2015

The next delivery of MDM148; Principles & Practice of Simulation, is due to take palce between 16th – 20th November 2015. If interested in attending this or subsequent modules at the Sussex Simulation Hub, there are still spaces available for the modules developed for the PG Cert in Simulation in Clinical Practice.

Principles & Practice of Simulation:
16th – 20th November 2015 OR 25th – 29th April 2016
Feedback & Debriefing in Simulation:
11th – 13th Jan & 5th Apr 2016 OR 23rd – 25th May & 12th July 2016

Prospective students may be eligible for a HE-KSS grant to cover the cost of the modules. For more information regarding grants, please contact Rebecca Burden, Programme Manager for TEL at HE-KSS.

For more information regarding the PG Cert and modules, visit the PG Cert webpage here, or contact Andrew Collins.

A new MSc is currently being validated within the Division of Medical Education which will include optional modules involving SBME (which are part of the PG Cert in Simulation in Clinical Practice).

Further updates will be posted as they are announced. For more information on the course, please contact Zoë Gallagher, Programme Administrator.