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Read this newsletter to find out how to win some recognition for the DPET and junior doctor who have done most for prevocational education in the past year. IMET is calling for nominations for the 2009 CPMEC National Junior Doctor Award and for the Geoff Marel Award.
Also in this newsletter are pointers to some great online resources and some feedback from orientation week.
For further information or to submit items for discussion, please contact Craig Bingham, Prevocational Program Coordinator at IMET, cbingham@imet.health.nsw.gov.au (9844 6511).
— Dr Roslyn Crampton, Chair, Prevocational Training Council
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IMET’s Prevocational Forum
Friday 21 August 2009, 8.30am to 5pm
Vibe Hotel North Sydney
88 Alfred Street, Milson's Point
At a time of great change and development in prevocational training, this forum for DPETs and JMO Managers will present practical initiatives in education and discuss problem issues.
On the agenda:
- In the Moodle: internetworking the prevocational training curriculum.
- Practical supervision of trainees: what makes a difference?
- Approaches to teaching the management of the deteriorating patient.
- Teaching safe prescribing
- The good, the bad and the ugly: DPETs share their frustrations and their successful innovations
- Short updates: trainee assessment, hospital accreditation, the JMO Forum, progress to national registration
- Managing increasing numbers without increasing costs.
A dinner will be held on Thursday 20 August for all those available to attend and all flights and accommodation will be booked for those travelling from outside Sydney.
Full details of the venues, timings and a complete agenda will be sent out to you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please put the dates in your diary.
To register for the Forum, please contact Shelly Llewellyn-Palmer (sllewellyn-palmer@imet.health.nsw.gov.au , 02 9844 6515 ).
Places are available for Education Support Officers and for Term Supervisors who have a broad interest in prevocational training. Please promote the event in your hospital and contact Shelly if you wish to register extra participants.
2009 CPMEC National Junior Doctor Award
Which junior doctor has made the greatest contribution to medical education?
CPMEC’s Inaugural National Junior Doctor of the Year Award was presented to Dr Stephanie Arnold of NSW for her outstanding contributions to the welfare and education of junior doctors during her time as Chair of the NSW JMO Forum. CPMEC hopes that this award provides a spur for junior doctors to contribute to education and training. In 2009 the award will be even more competitive with New Zealand and the Northern Territory also participating.
The selection procedure is that each State or Territory selects its Junior Doctor of the Year and offers this person as a candidate for the National Award. Nominations are now open for the NSW Junior Doctor 2009. Nominations should include at least 100 words as supporting evidence. Articles, reports, rosters, letters of recommendation, and the like may be submitted as supporting documentation.
Nominations close on Friday 4 September 2009. To submit a nomination or for more information, contact Ms Shelly Llewellyn-Palmer, Prevocational Support Officer, (02) 9844 6515, sllewellyn-palmer@imet.health.nsw.gov.au (or by mail to NSW IMET Locked Bag 5022 Gladesville NSW 1675).
NSW Geoff Marel Award 2009
Who deserves to be recognised for their support of junior doctors?
The Geoff Marel Award honours an individual who has made a substantial contribution to the education and welfare of prevocational trainees. 
The Geoff Marel Award is presented in memory of the late Associate Professor Geoff Marel, a committed contributor to prevocational training and an advocate for trainee welfare. A/Prof Marel was well known for his vision, creativity, insight and humanity.
The Geoff Marel Award is awarded for:
- enhancing the clinical performance of prevocational trainees
- helping trainees in difficulty
- improving the working conditions of prevocational trainees
- improving the performance assessment of prevocational trainees
- going beyond expectations to support prevocational trainees
- working to develop a culture that supports prevocational work and education.
The 2008 winner of the Geoff Marel Award was Dr Scott Fortey, DPET at Gosford Hospital. The Award is open to DPETs, Medical Administrators, Term Supervisors, JMO Managers and other individuals involved in prevocational training in NSW or the ACT. Nominations should include at least 100 words as supporting evidence. Articles, reports, rosters, letters of recommendation, and the like may be submitted as supporting documentation.
Nominations close on Friday 6 November 2009. To submit a nomination or for more information, contact Ms Shelly Llewellyn-Palmer, Prevocational Support Officer, (02) 9844 6515, sllewellyn-palmer@imet.health.nsw.gov.au(or by mail to NSW IMET Locked Bag 5022 Gladesville NSW 1675).
Making a great orientation week
At the JMO Forum meeting in April, Dr Greg Davis, DPET at St George Hospital gave a presentation on how Orientation Week works in his network. St George, like Hornsby and some other hospitals, has been doing its best to move away from orientation as a series of lectures.
His talk inspired a round table discussion among the JMO representatives from all 15 prevocational training networks. Here is their list of suggestions for making a great orientation week:
Good points of orientation week
- The opportunity to meet RMOs
- Talking to current trainees and hearing about their experiences
- Having a whole day of clinical skills
- Team building (eg, yoga, drum classes)
- USB sticks containing essential documents and manuals
- Interactive sessions
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- Pharmacy talk
- Briefing on procedures and protocols
- Good map
- MET calls, BLS
- Code Blue – competitive team-based orientation can be fun.
Bad points
- Not receiving a manual
- Lectures (boring)
- Having to do a personality test (Myer-Briggs)
- Handover team day was not well structured
- Lack of orientation for overtime or when you come off secondment
- Lack of orientation for hospitals other than your home hospital in the network
- E-learning: you are given five to ten hours to do this in your own time and then it is repeated at orientation.
Suggestions for improvement
- Manuals – a manual with details of who you contact for what should be distributed at orientation week. Most information is available on the intranet but nothing is easy to find.
- Card-based information (eg, for meds)
- Some things could be done online beforehand (but not repeated in the orientation week)
- Radiology orientation would be good
- More on handover planning
- A session on common scenarios and what to do, presented by an RMO or registrar
- More time with RMOs and registrars
- More involvement of nurses and NUMs
- More on discharge planning with nurses and allied health
- Practical buddying up with registrar of your new term
- An introductory buddy shift is a good way to start a new term
- Make the IMET talk at orientation week a JMO Compass talk.
| Orientation in the literature:
Mulroy S, Rogers IR, Janakiramanan N, Rodrigues M. What do junior doctors want in start-of-term orientation? Med J Aust 2007; 186 (7 Suppl): S37-S39. www.mja.com.au/public/issues/186_07_020407/mul11298_fm.html
Abstract
- A comprehensive but succinct orientation is vital for junior doctors as they rotate through jobs during the early postgraduate years.
- The orientation process will become increasingly relevant in Australia with the change of work patterns to shorter hours and rotating shift rosters.
- Although orientation is often thought to be suboptimal, there is limited research published on this important process.
- Feedback from junior doctors suggests that formalised orientation programs at the start of term are highly valued.
- Junior doctors themselves should be involved in the development and delivery of the orientation program.
- Junior doctors appreciate the participation of senior staff in the orientation program, but much of it can be overseen by registrars, nursing staff and allied health staff.
- Use of a standardised proforma with peer-to-peer delivery can facilitate a smooth orientation.
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Paediatric guidelines e-learning resource 
NSW Health has improved access to the Paediatric Clinical Practice Guideline E-Learning Package by providing this resource on the internet as well as the NSW Health intranet.
The package is now readily accessible at: http://doh.edmore.com.au/login.php
The Statewide Services Development Branch is encouraging all hospitals to uninstall any local copies of this e-learning package and to promote the centralised site.
NSW Health will provide an EZ-IO teaching kit (for teaching how to insert intraosseous access) for the Area Health Service with the most staff registered by 31 July 2009. A resuscitation baby mannequin will be awarded to the AHS which has the most staff completing the e-learning package by 31 October 2009.
For enquiries regarding the Paediatric Clinical Practice Guideline E-Learning Package, please contact Ms Trish Boss (9424 5706, pboss@doh.health.nsw.gov.au).
Also available from Edmore
Staff who register for the Paediatric Clinical Practice Guideline E-Learning Package will also have access to other e-learning resources:
- Incident Information Management System Training.
- Open disclosure: an e-learning module specifically for interns, residents, nurses, and allied health workers. Powerpoint presentations and a facilitator’s manual for teaching open disclosure at available at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/quality/opendisc/training.html.
Sneak preview
Safe prescribing e-learning resources
The National Prescribing Curriculum is a series of e-learning modules to support the development of rational prescribing skills. The Curriculum has been developed by the National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS, www.nps.org.au), an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to providing accurate, balanced, evidence-based information about medicines. The Curriculum provides modules for medical students and for junior doctors.
This e-learning resource has been in use and development since 2000, making it a very well-organised and well-supported tool for learning prescribing.
Junior medical officers and other new practitioners should obtain a course key from the medical education office at their allocated hospital and then sign on at <http://npsprescribe.lamsinternational.com/lams/>.
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