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e-Learning for Healthcare sessions in Foundation e-Learning Project: Professional Capability: 7 Works effectively as a team member

Posted on: May 16th, 2018 by Ed Neville No Comments

The Foundation specific elearning programme has been developed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (elfh) and is approved by UKFPO.

The elearning sessions cover working in, and with, teams in different healthcare settings. You will discover how effective teamwork is as a determining factor in patient safety and the value of good handover practice and referral. You will think about your role within a multidisciplinary team (MDT).

Finally, you will consider team dynamics and how working within and across MDTs can deliver and improve patient services.

Sessions:

  • Team Working and Patient Safety
  • Good Handover Practice
  • Effective Referrals to Other Clinical Teams
  • Primary, Secondary Care Interface
  • Ward and Therapy Services
  • Ward and Social Services
  • Team Dynamics
  • Effective Team Working.

Do you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice? Try some of our free elearning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.

You can sign in to the elearning with your login supplied by elfh at the beginning of your foundation training.

For more information about the Foundation programme and for access details visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/

Foundation e-learning programme: Professional Capability: 4 Keeps practice up to date through learning and teaching

Posted on: March 9th, 2018 by Ed Neville No Comments

Free Foundation-specific elearning has been developed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) and is approved by UKFPO.

These elearning sessions introduce the different types of supervised learning events in the Foundation Programme and how to get the most from them. There is also a focus on how important feedback, reflection and action planning is to learning and development. A group of three sessions aim to describe the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to undertake a teaching role.

Sessions:

  • Supervised Learning Events in the Foundation Programme: An Introduction
  • Principles of Assessment
  • Making the Best Use of Multi-Source Feedback: A Trainee Guide
  • Getting the Most from Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS)
  • Getting the Most from a Case Based Discussion (CBD)
  • Getting the Most from a Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX)
  • Getting the Most Out of Supervised Learning Events: A Trainee’s Guide (Part 1)
  • Getting the Most Out of Supervised Learning Events: A Trainee’s Guide (Part 2)
  • How do Adults Learn?
  • Teaching – Delivering a Formal Teaching Session
  • Teaching – Clinical Practice: Bedside or Opportunistic Moment
  • Obtaining Feedback for Personal Development.

To access the elearning programme sign into the elearning for healthcare Hub with the login supplied by HEE elfh at the beginning of foundation training:

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/.

Foundation e-learning programme - February update

Posted on: February 12th, 2018 by Ed Neville No Comments

Foundation elearning programme: Professional Capability: 3 Behaves in accordance with ethical and legal requirements.

Foundation specific elearning – The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges worked in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (elfh) to develop a Foundation Programme specific elearning programme which is approved by UKFPO.

The Mental Health Act protects the rights of vulnerable adults and children; a group of the elearning sessions outline the responsibilities of the people who care for them.

The elearning programme explores how the General Medical Council (GMC) supports career development, looking at the topics of registration, the Foundation Programme and career development.

There are sessions which focus on the safeguarding of adults and children in primary and secondary care.

The importance of protecting data is also explored in sessions about information security and the Data Protection Act.

Sessions include:

  • Confidentiality and Privacy
  • Mental Health Act
  • Mental Capacity
  • Mental Capacity Assessment
  • Capacity and Difficult Consent
  • Use of Restraint
  • HIV Testing
  • DVLA
  • How to avoid the GMC Disciplinary Committee
  • Infection Control: Diarrhoea in an Inpatient
  • Completion of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Part 3
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • GMC Registration and Post Graduate Observation
  • Safeguarding Adults: Level 2
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 1 Safeguarding for All Staff Working in a Healthcare Setting
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part A – Recognition
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part B – Response in Secondary Care
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part C – Record in Secondary Care
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part B – Response in Primary Care
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part C – Record in Primary Care
  • Information Security
  • An Introduction to the Data Protection Act

If you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice, try some of the free elearning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.

Sign in to the elearning with the login supplied by elfh at the beginning of your foundation training: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/.

Foundation e-learning - Delivering patient centred care and maintaining trust

Posted on: January 5th, 2018 by Ed Neville No Comments

elearning for healthcare sessions in Foundation elearning Project: Professional Capability: 1 Acts professionally and Professional Capability: 2 Delivers patient centred care and maintains trust

The elearning sessions in these Professional Capabilities explore the relationship between doctors and their patients and how to deliver effective patient centered care.

‘Handling Complaints’ provides essential information about common factors leading to complaints, how to minimise these, the procedures involved and what your responsibilities are as a foundation doctor.

The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) protects the right of vulnerable people and this group of sessions cover topics such as assessing capacity, consent, patient autonomy and safeguarding. You will also consider the multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach to healthcare in the hospital and patient support after discharge.

Sessions:

  • Handling Complaints
  • Mental Capacity
  • Mental Capacity Assessment
  • Use of Restraint
  • Capacity and Difficult Consent
  • Patient Autonomy and Related Ethics
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • Confidentiality and Privacy
  • Keeping the Patient at the Centre of Care
  • Seeing the Whole Picture
  • Family Dynamics Affecting Discharge.

 

For more information about the elearning programme please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/

Achieving professional capabilities in Foundation curriculum

Posted on: December 5th, 2017 by Ed Neville No Comments

If you are you busy trying to achieve your Professional Capabilities on your Foundation curriculum, how about doing some free elearning sessions for Professional Capability 20: Contributes to quality improvement. The sessions are as follows:

  • Audit
  • Evidence Based Medicine in Clinical Practice
  • Common Study Designs in Clinical Research
  • Explaining Evidence/Guidelines/Protocols to Patients
  • Guidelines in Clinical Practice
  • Searching the Literature and Locating Papers
  • How to Review a Paper

They have already been mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum and can be directly recorded in your e-portfolio.

The elearning sessions in Professional Capability: 20 Contributes to quality improvement, look at audit and evidence based practice. It outlines the study designs used in medical practice. You are provided with a guide to developing a structured research strategy which will help you find journal articles relevant to your clinical questions. How to evaluate a journal article is discussed using a linked example paper from the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

For more information about the Foundation elearning programme and to access the learning visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/

Ed Neville
Foundation elearning programme
Clinical Lead

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