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

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

3. 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

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

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

9. Pre-session Post- session

12. 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

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

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

17. 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

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