Education
When you start working in ED at the LRI, we hope that you will be able to take advantage of some of the fantastic educational opportunities that we have om offer here.
The ED has (and is very proud of!) its own dedicated education team, who help to run a very busy and varied education programme, which utilises a wide range of different teaching tools and techniques.
The Education Team have also created the website EM3, on which these Induction pages are hosted. This site contains a wide variety of different educational resources for you to access.
Wednesday is known as ‘Education Wednesday’. Every week we run 3 separate simulations (paediatric, trauma and medical), each lasting an hour. In these sessions, you will have the opportunity to be involved in challenging (but hopefully enjoyable!) clinical scenarios, which are tailor-made to match the learning needs of those attending. These scenarios are also often purposefully designed to cover presentations that we may see less frequently in ED, giving those attending the chance to gain in experience away from the ‘shop floor’.
Having attended a simulation session, you will be able to get some form of assessment (usually a CEX) completed by the Consultant/Registrar who ran the session.
As well as Education Wednesday, we run CBD ‘clinics’ which are designed to allow you to present a case of your choosing, giving the opportunity for a more detailed discussion with a registrar or consultant, allowing a subsequent CBD assessment to be completed.
We also run focused shop-floor teaching, skills and drills sessions (where more senior doctors can practice things such as High Acuity Low Occurrence (HALO) procedures/scenarios, paediatric lumbar punctures, accessing Hickman lines etc), and ultrasound teaching.
All of these sessions can be booked via EM3 here.
We really do encourage you to make the most of all of these educational opportunities, but please do also be aware of the ‘Time Away From the Shop Floor’ policy (click to access) and make sure that when clinical, you are only leaving the shop floor for the appropriate reasons.