Teaching Fellows in Surgery
Job Description
Job summary
2 Posts - Teaching Fellows in Surgery
Northwick Park Hospital
Suitable for doctors who have completed their foundation training F2 and are interested surgery.
There is a fantastic job opportunity coming up at Northwick Park Hospital, 1 post starting in August 2025 and 1 post starting in October 2025 for an initial period of 1-2 years (negotiable and extendable subject to performance). Post with responsibility of teaching undergraduate medical students and clinical opportunities if wanted. The job offers the candidate the opportunity to obtain a certificate in medical education. (Requires separate application)
In addition, the successful candidate will get an opportunity to take part in part-time based research and to teach on medical simulation training sessions for Foundation doctors.
Opportunities
Free medical education workshops at Imperial College
Pursue higher degree in medical education
Participate in medical education or medical research projects
To teach on postgraduate courses run on-site
Main duties of the job
The individual work plan will be decided between the DCS, the relevant Consultant Surgeons & the successful appointee. Although "out of hours" clinical work is encouraged where possible the teaching duties must take priority, it is not acceptable to work a night on call and take the next day off. They will be expected to attend regular Faculty Meetings.
About us
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job responsibilities
A) THE TEACHING COMMITMENT
The teaching will involve a range of activities such as tutorials, skills laboratory, bedside teaching, and dedicated teaching clinics on an out-patient basis. To teach on medical simulation training sessions for Foundation doctors.
Time is allocated for preparation of tutorials, lectures & teaching materials such as handouts. The teaching fellow will be also encouraged to show initiative & develop other teaching ideas such as student case presentations and student grand rounds and role playing. All teaching should be patient-centred approach.
A major emphasis of the teaching will be focused on the core curriculum and clinical skills required for the year 3 students during their main 8-week medical/surgical attachment to the campus. There will also be basic clinical teaching of a very general clinical nature to the two-week introductory course in year 2 in December & March and year 1 in May (with the emphasis on history taking) and a subsequent 8-week secondment at the start of year 3 (with the emphasis on system clinical examination).
Post holder will supervise and co-ordinate acute takes and major surgery lists provide small teaching and surgical skills teaching at Northwick Park and to help with Thursday afternoon surgical lecture programme.
Although the focus is mainly on Year 3 students the TF will have commitment as a Tutor for the Final Year 6 Students from August to December. This will take form of a lecture-based course and small group bedside teaching. The TF will be expected to play an integral role in the organisation and delivery of this course e.g., PACES and OSCE stations.
In addition to teaching undergraduates the post-holder may be asked to teach on one of the many postgraduate courses run on the site, where relevant to their chosen discipline, and to the in-house junior staff both medical and non-medical
Organisational Responsibilities
There will be a strong organisational role. This will involve helping the Undergraduate Co-ordinators and DCS on the campus to draw up the medical teaching timetables for year one, year two-and year three. There may also be involvement in helping to establish a patient data base for use in dedicated teaching clinics. The teaching fellow will also be expected to co-ordinate the end of attachment Mock OSCE, mark the Extended Case Assessments & prepare and mark other small tests. They will help organise the clinical component of the final MBBS if held on the site. He/she will become an OSCE examiner after suitable training and may be involved with simulation equipment teaching after suitable training. Once a year to teach on SIM session at Chelsea in Westminster Hospital.
Example of Teaching Commitments per week
(When full complement of students is on site)
- bedside & topic teaching
- specialist teaching clinic
- teaching clinics in main surgical outpatients
- final year teaching
- history taking &/or demonstration of system examination.
- clinical skills lab
- preparation of teaching materials (handouts & tutorials etc)
- organisational activities
SECONDMENT DATES FOR THE FOLLOWING ACADEMIC YEAR & LIKELY DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES FOR EACH STUDENT YEAR GROUP
(All students are allocated to specific Surgical Firms)
- Year 1 (attachment for 2 weeks mid-May)
- Introduction day
- 1 Skills Session
- Debrief Session
- Year 2 (attachment for 2 weeks from mid-December and 2 weeks in March)
o Mainly history taking,
o Contribute to introduction day.
o Debrief session.
o 1 Skills session & Simulation Session
Year 3 attachment for:
a) 8 weeks from mid- October to December
b) 2nd 8 week from 1st week January to March
c) 3rd 8 from middle March to June
o Examination of the systems
o Contribute to introduction day
o Surgical tutorials
o Teaching clinics
o Teaching ward rounds
o Bedside teaching; weekly in wards hearing student case presentation & demonstrating relevant clinical signs.
o Liaising with firms SpRs & SHOs/F1,2
o Skills Teaching
o Monitoring student portfolios
o Marking extended Case Studies
o OSCE Instructor for the Formative Revision Session & examiner for the Year 3 OSCE (after training)
o Other teaching initiatives
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Year 6
- Tutor for a group of final year students.
- Teaching on final year revision course
- Co-ordinate Year 6 PACEs at Northwick Park and recruit patients for the exams
- Blood cultures Plus IV access skills training
- NG Tube and Revision session in skills lab
- Orthopaedic teaching Year 5
Post Graduate Degree/Education
Successful applicants will be encouraged to avail themselves of some of the modular courses leading to certificates in medical education. Some previous post holders have embarked on masters degrees in Med Ed, on a part time modular basis.
Weekly teaching timetable
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Skills lab (when surgical topic)
Teaching Final years
Education
Sim teaching PG
Education
Bedside teaching -Year 6
Skills lab
CMS 2 firms
Teaching year 3 Bedside teaching CMS 2 firms
Skills lab during surgical topics
Education
Surgical Topic teaching to all year 3 surgical students
Year 6 NG Tube skills lab
Skills lab
Office Accommodation
The teaching fellows share an office and have access to computing facilities as well as administrative secretarial help via each campus Undergraduate office. Regular meetings and reviews are held with the DCS.
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