Clinical Teaching Fellow in Health Care of Later Life

Job overview

This post is ideal for a doctor with MRCP, with a special interest in Health Care of Later Life who is either between core medical and higher training and wants a break, or at FY3 stage having satisfactorily completed their FY2 training in the UK.

It is primarily envisaged that this Clinical Teaching Fellow would provide Health Care of Later Life teaching to undergraduate medical students on the QMC & City campus.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver ward based teaching and support to the AP1 HCOLL students
• Contribute to the AP1 HCOLL Case Based and Clinical Reasoning Teaching Session.
• To contribute to the ward base assessments of DOPS and mini-CEX for the AP1 HCOLL students
• To support the running of AP1 HCOLL simulated or patient workshops.
• To teach clinical skills within the AP1 HCOLL course.
• To support teaching in other areas of the curriculum as required.  This will include Year 1 and Year 2 Early Clinical Hospital Visits and patient workshops.
• Contribute to Induction of AP1 HCOLL students to the wards and also to the Foundation for Practice Induction.
• To provide teaching on the Early Clinical Experience Course (14 x Year 1/2 hospital visits).
• Contribute to AP2 Medicine, Critical Illness and Surgery teaching as required.
• Contribute to the formal examination of these students including OSCE examinations and exam question writing. Take part in one-to-one tutoring of students re-sitting their exams and provide one-two-one teaching support for struggling students.

• Contribute in a strategic sense to the evolution of teaching for all the above groups.
• Support teaching across the clinical course as required.
• Working with the Undergraduate Manager and other Teaching Fellows to develop innovative teaching methods across the clinical course.
• Undertake appropriate projects to support your own learning and improve the experience of the Department.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To deliver ward based teaching and support to the AP1 HCOLL students
• Contribute to the AP1 HCOLL Case Based and Clinical Reasoning Teaching Session.
• To contribute to the ward base assessments of DOPS and mini-CEX for the AP1 HCOLL students
• To support the running of AP1 HCOLL simulated or patient workshops.
• To teach clinical skills within the AP1 HCOLL course.
• To support teaching in other areas of the curriculum as required.  This will include Year 1 and Year 2 Early Clinical Hospital Visits and patient workshops.
• Contribute to Induction of AP1 HCOLL students to the wards and also to the Foundation for Practice Induction.
• To provide teaching on the Early Clinical Experience Course (14 x Year 1/2 hospital visits).
• Contribute to AP2 Medicine, Critical Illness and Surgery teaching as required.
• Contribute to the formal examination of these students including OSCE examinations and exam question writing. Take part in one-to-one tutoring of students re-sitting their exams and provide one-two-one teaching support for struggling students.

• Contribute in a strategic sense to the evolution of teaching for all the above groups.
• Support teaching across the clinical course as required.
• Working with the Undergraduate Manager and other Teaching Fellows to develop innovative teaching methods across the clinical course.
• Undertake appropriate projects to support your own learning and improve the experience of the Department.