Changing academic practice: implications for future academics in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine

Date: 1 day event - 24 Feb 2010

Aims

To explore the option of an academic career in medicine and to outline, discuss and evaluate principles, approaches and strategies for advising and supporting doctors in training and final year undergraduates, aiming to follow such a career.

Activities

The event will involve three keynote speakers who will address plenary sessions on the overall themes, and break-out groups which will promote discussion on relevant topics. The discussions in the break-out groups will be informed by participants with a variety of perspectives. Notes from the group discussions will be copied and shared, and thoughts will be collected and presented as part of a final plenary.

The draft programme is as follows:

10.30 Arrival, coffee and welcome
11.00 Key note ? Lynn McAlpine ? What is an Academic?
11.30 Group work and plenary feedback to discuss issues arising from keynote
12.15 Keynote 2 - Dr Stuart Carney ? The UK academic foundation programme
12.45 Group work to discuss issues arising from keynote
13.15 Lunch
13.45 Plenary feedback
14.00 Keynote 3 ? Joan Reid + AN other ? Careers advice u/g + post grad - systems and processes
14.40 Group work and plenary feedback to discuss issues arising from keynote (tea/coffee will be available during this session)
15.40 Closing plenary

Please note that this programme may be modified

Proposed outcomes

Participants attending the event will have the opportunity to:
? Explore in depth the opportunities available through the Academic Foundation programme
? Obtain broader perspectives of what academic careers in medicine now involve, and how preparatory activities for such careers might best be undertaken.
? Examine options and approaches to continuing an academic career beyond the Foundation programme
? Share and compare good practice principles, approaches and strategies for advising and guiding:
o undergraduates and doctors in training considering an academic career in medicine
o mid career doctors currently involved in or considering an academic career in medicine
? Gain a wider understanding of the challenges facing academics in medicine
Copies of the speakers' presentations, and of the notes of the discussions, will be made available to participants and to other people who are interested but unable to attend the actual session.

Facilitators & Speakers

Stuart Carney - Co-facilitator

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Facilitator background

Lynn McAlpine - Director of the Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, Director of the Learning Institute Research Group; and Professor of Higher Education Development
Lynn is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She was formerly Director of the Centre for University Teaching and Learning at McGill University. She is currently undertaking research in the UK and Canada documenting the experiences of doctoral students, research staff and new academics - focusing in particular on their changing perceptions of academic identity and academic practice.

Dr Stuart Carney ? Deputy Director of the UK Foundation Programme
Stuart has been involved in the development of the Foundation Programme since its piloting states in 2004. Between 2005 and 2009 he was the Director of the LNR Foundation School, part of the East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery. He is currently leading on the review of the Operational Framework, as well as academic foundation programmes and the FP learning portfolio. A graduate of Edinburgh University and the Harvard University School of Public Health, Stuart subsequently trained as a Catholic priest. Nine months later, recognising that he wasn?t suited to Holy Orders, he left the Jesuits to train in Psychiatry at Oxford. As a trainee, he became interested in education and is a Senior Clinical Advisor with Modernising Medical Careers (Department of Health, England) and also serves as the Registrar of the Academy of Medical Educators.

Joan Reid - Head of Careers at the Postgraduate Deanery for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Joan is a qualified careers practitioner and has over 500 hours of coaching experience. She provides a career support service for doctors? in training, manages the medical careers website (www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk) and is course leader for the Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Medical Careers. Joan is in the second year of a three year part-time Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring Programme at Oxford Brookes University. Her research question is 'How can coaching support doctors in training with their career decision making'.

Target audience

The event will be of interest to you if you are:
? Involved in the design and delivery of the careers guidance and advice provision for medical students and/or doctors in training. For example, if you are:
o A teacher and/or curriculum manager on an undergraduate medical education programmes with an interest and/or involvement in the provision of information, advice and guidance
o An institutional and other careers advisors for medical students
o A member of Deanery staff involved in providing information, advice and guidance for Foundation and Post- Foundation doctors
? Considering or are currently engaged in an Academic Foundation Programme
? A doctor currently working as an Academic or are considering doing so

Book a place

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Venue & Location

Lincoln EPA Science Centre

Museum Road
Oxford

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* This workshop is co-hosted, co-hosted events are facilitated and delivered jointly by MEDEV and another institution(s).