1. Welcome to medicine at leeds!
Richard Fuller
Director of Medical Education Programmes

2. ‘Medicine is the best and most rewarding career there is’
Why medicine?
Clinician
International career
Safe Practitioner
Manager
Entrepreneur
Innovator
Researcher
Educator
‘Medicine is the best and most rewarding career there is’
Academic
Scholar
Professional

3. Leeds School of Medicine
Award Winning MBChB Programme
What are we looking for?
Supporting student success = UK’s best new graduates

4. Top 100, World class, research intensive University
Top 10 in the UK for research power
Leader in education, scholarship, innovation and enterprise

5. >33 000 students from 151 countries
Undergraduate, Foundation, Masters and research students
4th in the UK Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey
Globally connected – alumni from 186 countries

6. Fantastic place to study and live:

7. Part of wider Faculty of Medicine & Health (Dentistry, Healthcare, Pharmacy, Psychology)
7 research active institutions – cancer medicine, translation and applied health, cardiovascular/metabolic, surgery, musculoskeletal, rehab and medical education
Cross cutting themes – precision medicine, big data, surgical technology, imaging and engineering that benefit medical student education

8. School with a long tradition, strong reputation and profile
One of the most competitive Schools in the UK with extremely high levels of student success
Continued top position in the National Student Survey – 5/21 in the Russell Group of top flight UK Universities
A partnership focused approach – between students, faculty and patients = compassionate, safe patient care.
Blended learning, integrated curriculum that is continually refreshed to stay relevant

9. Harnessing potential - Getting the best out of an outstanding, integrated education

10. Outstanding clinical placements from Year 1

11. INSPIRING ACHIEVEMENT
Encourage critical approaches to clinical and scientific practice from bench to bedside – improving health & the clinical workplace!
65% Intercalation (B, M and Doctoral levels)
Summer Schools and Scholarships - (Excellence in Scholarship, enterprise and leadership)
Active 5 year research strand culminating in major 14 month extended research project across years 4 and 5

12. Ensuring success
Strong emphasis on preparing students for the transition to a fantastic career
Enriching placement experience equips students for excellence in clinical practice
Innovation, Development, Enterprise, Leadership & Safety (IDEALS) strand across all 5 years, helping to prepare students for the many, and varied roles of a doctor in the NHS, University, or other career tracks
Strong emphasis on performance and practice in later clinical years to ensure early success in Postgraduate training and beyond

13. Excellence of our Assessment Breadth of Social Accountability
One of only two medical schools across the world to hold three ASPIRE to EXCELLENCE awards:
Excellence of our Assessment
Breadth of Social Accountability
Student engagement at the core of our philosophy

14. IMPACT – COMMUNITY
Bright Sparks –using drama and story telling to work with learning disabled people
Championing ‘Dementia Friends’
City of Sanctuary Award made by the Community to Medical School

15. Intelligent and academically orientated
Thoughtful
Caring
Insightful
Balanced
Resilient and Responsible
Harnessing potential, Inspiring Achievement, Ensuring Success

16. We know that Transition isn’t always easy…
World class innovation to support our students:
Assessment & Feedback – focusing on achievement and ability
Mobile technology enhanced learning & Care
Transitions team from ‘entry to graduation’
End Product – best new doctors (and still rounded and resilient!)

17. An increasing personalised programme of study
For individuals
Personalised Adaptive Learning using big data with our students to guide individual success
For placements and course components
Flexible study and personalised placement routes
Huge range of opportunities to deepen interests (including summer schools)
For the whole MBChB journey
‘Medicine Plus’ – innovative schemes under development to allow some students to focus on additional enterprise, education, leadership & management skills for career development

18. Our curriculum is underpinned by cutting edge technology, helping students learn and deliver great patient care:

19. TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED PATIENT CARE
Early teaching of practical interventional skills – multi-tasking with an Ultrasound
Integrated throughout the course:
- Anatomy
- Patient Assessment
- Clinical Procedures
Enhanced patient safety and engagement
Ensuring our graduates are fully equipped for changing clinical practice

20. Transitions team – with you all the way….
Research work has confirmed the importance of transitions as ‘Critically Intense Learning Periods’
To date, this work has been learner centred and based on transitions into, and during postgraduate training.
We have extended this work to inform innovative placement design in Year 5 MBChB with enhanced responsibility ‘Super-Assistantships’ that have demonstrated the importance of teaching staff and the environment in any transition
We plan to develop a specialist ‘Transitions Team’ that supports the entry onto MBChB/early years teaching as well as contributing to later years development.

21. Supporting learning, teaching and development
Active programme of educational research to ensure curriculum stays at forefront of practice
Innovation in Critical care, simulation, decision making
RRAPID
Recognising & Responding to Acute Patient Illness and Deterioration
Spiral course that combines critical illness science, patient assessment, decision making and practical procedures
Innovation in placement innovation
Strong focus on inter-professional learning, working & feedback – preparing for the world of work
Exciting new placements in radiology (part of anatomy & imaging theme)
‘Super assistants’ – senior students work at intern level with additional responsibilities

22. Assessment Knowledge Clinical Skills Behaviours and attitudes
Written tests – SBA
Projects and presentations
Case studies
Clinical Skills
Performance tests – workplace assessments and OSCEs
Behaviours and attitudes
Professional development portfolio – focused around safe clinical practice
Professionalism and conduct
Peer and team assessment

23. personalised ‘3C’ Assessment
Compassionate
Learning initiated assessment - A partnership between teachers and learners
Well designed tests in a programme of assessment that are sensitive to learner and teacher ‘load’ and the needs of patients and wider society
Customised
Wider scale adaptive test models that invest in supporting learners of different ability
Intelligent use of existing structured assessment – and research driven innovation
Consequential
Sensitive use of ‘big data’ (numbers and words) to generate individualised, meaningful feedback, actions and growth
Focus on personalization of achievement & consequences

24. Focus on Feedback
Ensuring staff make the most of every opportunity
Ensuring students evaluate, act and achieve as a result of it
Initiatives across campus and clinical practice to maximise impact

25. Coaching and mentoring
Commitment to ensuring all students have full opportunity to achieve – supporting those in difficulty & identifying & nurturing student success
Multiple mentors – staff, patients, near peers
Individualising approaches based on students – no ‘one size fits all’
Transitioning from school pupil (learner) to employee (learner)

26. Student & School Success = Student and School partnership:

27. What do our students think?
‘The course is excellent at preparing me for life as an FY1 next year - other courses seem to have too much focus on science and too little on clinical - ours is just right’
‘Really good breadth of teaching. The Medical School supports a wide range of non-academic pursuits and societies. Also, they have been careful to avoid an atmosphere of competition between the students, which makes for what I feel is the friendliest Medical School around.’
‘The Medicine course at Leeds is overall excellent. The atmosphere is constructive to both learning and personal development throughout, and I feel confident to enter the workplace after graduation knowing my education has been some of the best in the country’

28. ‘One strength Leeds really has is the connection that staff and students have. There is a good rapport, views are able to communicate both ways and because of this, improvements are able to be made. This is for all areas, on a professional and clinical level, with personal development and fine-tuning the curriculum. The atmosphere at Leeds is that of a family, it's supportive and encouraging, not point scoring between peers.’

29. Joining a lifelong community
The Leeds Professionalism Ceremony
Students, Patients, NHS and University staff and Leeds alumni
A celebration of our 3rd year students’ achievements
A reaffirmation of our students’ commitment and professionalism

30. The last word from one of our graduates …..
‘If I could go back - I would still pick Leeds.’

31. Finally
We look forward to seeing you at graduation in a few years time!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION