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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Supporting the Quality of the Training Programme

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. References 2010 Gold Guide FPH 2010 Curriculum
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