Medical Education Co-ordinators Virtual Event: Creating a unique Professional Development Experience and a Community of Practice at the heart of the UK’s Medical Education Teams
This month Miad’s Events Team hosted a packed-out professional development festival for 70 Medical Education Co-ordinators from NHS Trusts and private healthcare organisations from across the UK.
A packed virtual event facilitated by Miad’s very own industry experts centred on pivotal topics of Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships.
Miad’s Head of Learning and Development Elizabth Brewer launched the day and set the tone for the immersive session exploring a variety of challenges faced by Medical Education Teams.
The first part of the agenda leveraged evidence-based psychology to help learners understand different personalities, ways of working and values through analysing their own ‘social styles’.
Next up, learners were presented with advanced communication skills aimed at helping them work more effectively with stakeholders through assertiveness, persuasion and influencing skills. Learners had the opportunity to implement their learning and network with peers in small, facilitated breakout groups.
Later in the session, attention turned to the career path of doctors and how medical education professionals could grapple and solve issues related to career growth and retention.
To help bring the issues to life, real case-studies were shared, diagnosed and discussed to ensure practical lessons and best practices were highlighted, with one learner commenting, “I found the training session very interesting and I will now take the time to put some strategies together to help me improve as a team member and also to enable me to share information with others.”
Finally, the group’s attention was turned to maintaining the positive and high-performing culture within medical education.
The facilitation team have been overwhelmed by the engagement of learners and their feedback; “Excellent course, slides in Med structure were so useful! I would pay to do this course from my own pocket! Thank you so much!”
We would like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful facilitation team and our Medical Education Coordinator community for their passion and involvement.
We are setting plans in place for our next event, so if you would like to find out more about what was discussed and how you could get involved next time, then please reach out to a member of our team today at 01182 287695 or via email at info@miadhealthcare.com.