4E CETL for Clinical and Communication Skills
Lead Institution: Queen Mary, University of London, Collaborative Partners: City University, London, Director: Maggie Nicol
Contact: Olga Leonova, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7601 7696, Email: o...@qmul.ac.uk
Robin Brook Centre
2nd Floor
Boyle Room
St Bartholomew’s Hospital
West Smithfield
London EC1A 7BE
Website: www.cetl.org.uk
Our CETL will develop and disseminate good practice and innovation in clinic clinical al and communication skills that shifts emphasis from teaching to learning and from te teachers to students. achers The CETL will build on existing excellence to:
- enhance the student experience through support for student-centred skills learning
- build an expert interprofessional faculty for clinical skills, rewarding and recognising teaching excellence
- pilot and evaluate new methodologies and technologies and disseminate best practice
- engage with the NHS to ensure that students enter employment with the professional skills and competencies they need to practice safely in a transforming health care system system.
The funding will enable the strategic alliance to extend and develop learning facilities in a clinical skills centre. Healthcare students from nursing, speech and language, and radiography at City and Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry will benefit from:
- a mobile ‘skills bus’ equipped to provide training for students from all disciplines in hospital and primary care placements
- learning about patient care in enhanced simulated settings
- access to computer based technologies with extended opening times,providing opportunities to progress at their own pace
- greater relevance to practice by bringing more NHS based teachers into close contact with the CETL.
Plans are underway to build a large and growing interprofessional group of professional teachers who can support and share good practice with one another, test and evaluate new methods and technologies and then pass on these skills to their colleagues in their own and other institutions.
