The GKT School of Medical Education aims to educate our students to be compassionate, critical thinkers who endeavour to make a positive difference across society.

The role of the clinical skills fellows is to meet the evolving needs of the medical curriculum, using evidence based pedagogical approaches to deliver a range of teaching from clinical skills, full patient simulation and seminar-based workshops mapped to the GMC MLA graduate outcomes.

 

The role of the Clinical Skills Teaching Fellow is to meet the evolving needs of clinical skills and simulation based teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education at Kings. The post holder will be involved in the delivery of a range of clinical practice teaching and simulation, with opportunities to support the design and development of teaching, simulation and e-learning resources.

 

The role is designed to provide continuity of educational and operational support to the Head of Clinical Skills.

 

This will require the post holder to take a scholarly approach to the design, delivery & evaluation of simulation-based education, online and face to face teaching. You will be part of a dynamic team who work creatively and proactively to improve the student learning experience on campus and across the clinical sites.

 

There are range of expected roles, primarily focusing on teaching foundation clinical skills in a first-year module in year 1, small group teaching in years 2 and 3 (seminars and clinical skills), facilitating medium and high fidelity simulation and teaching on the Interprofessional Education (IPE) programme.

 

The strand of IPE teaching provides a range of learning focusing on team-based practice with seminars on (1) Promoting Patient Safety, (2) Pain Assessment and Management, (3) Prevention of Medication Errors. The IPE programme includes Full Patient Simulation (FPS), which focuses on human factors skills. Another role is the support of the evolving curriculum in developing e-learning content, as well as writing for assessment (SBA’s, OSCE stations) and marking student submissions in the year 1 module.

 

The post holder will also provide support in the design and delivery of campus based teaching for Wednesday Small Group and Case Based Learning, that is mapped to the MLA and the GKT graduate outcomes. This teaching is to Stage 2 (years 2 & 3) students at the Guys and Kings campuses, with possible support to the KCL educational teaching partner sites in Stage 3 (years 4 & 5) with content creation and online teaching.

 

The postholder will be expected to contribute to the assessment of students with marking and osce examining, as well provide teaching related to the academic support programme (osce’s).

There are 3 posts available as part time one year contracts:

(1) – 3.5 working days, days to be negotiated.

(2). – 3 days (Monday – Wednesday,

(3). 3 days (Wednesday – Friday)