Supporting the quality of Public Health Specialty Training Mrs Beth Carpenter, Training Programme Coordinator Dr Chris Hine, Head of School and TPD

Context The Bedrock: excellent supervision and training locations Local support: the Training Programme and Regional Training Committee National standards and support: GMC, FPH Quality management: role and requirements of the Deanery, GMC, FPH, our programme, you and your department

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Recruitment National recruitment organised by FPH Local recruitment for Academic Clinical Fellows National recruitment Critical process for having the best quality registrars. FPH recruitment exec worked with Work Psychology to produce process: assessment centre for psychometric numerical critical thinking, verbal reasoning and situational judgement test selection centre – series of panels covering different aspects of public health person specification – SW involvement - selectors from south west on selection centre panels. Admin running or 1 assessment centre and 2 selection centres Local recruitment to appoint locally managed Academic Clinical Fellows following national guidelines

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Supervisors Accreditation of all educational supervisors Part accreditation now Full accreditation by July 2012 7 core competencies logged on Intrepid Public Health Training the Training programme Severn Deanery and SW Peninsula Training Supervisors moving from clinical to educational supervisor – process worked out to formalise. See next slide for view of fully accredited supervisor on Intrepid Log-ins from Severn Deanery, not programme team. Training at Severn Deanery - may be forced to introduce charging for courses due to high number of non-attenders.

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Academic Support 2011 guidance for academic supervisors Part A revision course Discussion group ‘How can you ensure you work effectively with your academic supervisor?’ Support from world class academics. Need to ensure all academics are accredited supervisors.

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Educational Programme Tutorial programme Mock OSPHE exams Learning sets (StR organised) Journal club (StR organised) Regional induction Training conference Scientific conference – 01 February 2012 Residential school …………evaluations Registrar led tutorial programme. Registrars devise programme and find speakers. Quality of tutorials high. Each registrar has the opportunity to attend a mock OSPHE. Recommend supervisors to volunteer to take part so we have large pool who have first hand knowledge of the exam and can support registrars (not just their own) when they are preparing. Five examiners in the region. We need feedback from events.

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Training Locations Specialty tutors – an enthusiast from each location who will encourage high standards and governance of training in-house; share ideas and information, including annual quality report; link to the RTC through zone leads; consider developing their regional and national training role.

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Training Locations Quality Panels - a Deanery method for assessing locations against GMC standards Review several locations at one Panel meeting, using ‘evidence’ from a range of sources. Aims to inform judgement of an overall quality rating for each location. End of placement questionnaires

Annual Review of Competence Progression Regional StR Committee Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Regional training programme leadership Annual Review of Competence Progression Regional StR Committee Specialty training leader within universities and HPA Our training programme team Regional Training Committee and the Severn Deanery

Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme Annual Reports Faculty of Public Health: regional registrar report; Head of School report and external Training Programme Director review. Severn Deanery Annual Programme Report, informed by specialty tutors Both of the above report to GMC

References 2010 Gold Guide FPH 2010 Curriculum Please see our website for links and further information: http://www.swph-education.org.uk/