Fitness for Practice: How can health care staff ensure they keep up to date? KIRSTY KNIGHT FINAL YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

“Students must be aware of their responsibility to maintain their knowledge and skills throughout their careers”. Tomorrow’s Doctors, 2009

How can we achieve this? If the old adage in medicine is true that "everything we teach you today will be obsolete tomorrow," then above all "we need to teach people how to learn to think for themselves”. Professor Alberto Puig, 2013

Our presentation at Leicester 1 hour session 3 student champions 45 students 1.Presentation 2.Practical session 3.Quiz

Data collection Pre-session questionnaire NICE evidence search session Questionnaire 3 months later

Pre-session Post- session

Presented as E-poster International surgical conference Harrogate April-May 2014 Accepted as poster presentation ASME Annual Scientific Meeting Brighton July 2014 Oral presentation East Midlands Student research conference Nottingham October 2014

Scenario: Cardiology rotation. Myocardial infarction. Fibrinolysis or Percutaneous coronary intervention?

Scenario: paediatric emergency department. Child with a rash on hands and around mouth.

Conclusion Students now accessing, and will continue to access, more up-to- date information Personal advantages also include the opportunity to present at international, national and regional conferences which distributes knowledge further Knowledge is up to date and in accordance with guidelines and accredited sources

1. Good Medical Practice. Available at: Accessed 20th September Tomorrows Doctors. Available at: Accessed 20th September NICE. Available at: Accessed 20th September References