Explore highlights from our previous symposiums: November 2024 Sharing Good Practice in Clinical EducationProgramme of eventsTimeEvent and Link to videos0900 - 1000Keynote Presentation - "Generative Artificial Intelligence" by Associate Professor Tim Fawns1000 - 1030Poster "Datablitz"1030 - 1100Poster Viewing1100 - 1130Short Oral Presentations on Emerging Practices in Medical Education1200 - 1230CEP Awards - including Undergraduate Educator of the Year, Postgraduate Teacher of the Year and The Alistair Dewar Award forOutstanding contribution to Medical EducationKeynote overview and profileOverviewMedical education faces evolving challenges, including over-assessment, increasing workloads, financial pressures, and the balancing act between inclusive approaches and expanding student numbers. Widely-available Generative Artificial Inteligence technologies (GenAI) are bringing new possibilities, challenges and distractions, all at the same time. Do we need to change everything or can we keep our current medical education systems and approaches with some more modest modifications? In this talk, I will reflect on the past 2 years and extract lessons from the responses of educators and the broader medical education community. I will then draw on research into students’ perspectives on GenAI in Higher Education, and take an “entangled pedagogy” perspective, where technology is just one of many interconnected elements that create change. I will discuss the balance of change and continuity, and what this might mean for the role of medical education going forward.ProfileTim Fawns is Associate Professor (Education Focused) at the Monash Education Academy, Monash University, Australia. Tim’s research interests are at the intersection of digital, professional (particularly medical and healthcare) and higher education, with a focus on relations between technology and education. Tim’s research covers a broad range of practices (including curriculum design, assessment, teaching practice, evaluation and more), emphasising complexity within online, blended and hybrid education. He has recently contributed to TEQSA’s Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence guidance document and played a leading role in a range of sector-wide events to help institutions respond to the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence. AwardsAl Dewar Award for outstanding contribution to medical education. Awarded in memory of Dr Alistair Dewar (MBChB, FRCEM, PhD)Throughout his personal and professional life, Dr Alistair Dewar, known as Al, had a flair and enthusiasm for helping others to achieve their best. He believed that everyone should have the chance to be the best they could in their role, regardless of their level, career stage or background, and he believed that support from peers and more experienced colleagues and educators was the key to this. During his years in postgraduate training, as well as during his time working as an Emergency Medicine Consultant in NHS Fife, Al was actively involved in a host of educational roles and activities. He enjoyed the challenges of designing and facilitating engaging, relevant and high-quality teaching and he made it practical and relevant. He understood the value of connecting with what someone needed to know and how they were best able to learn - especially if this brought people together to build networks that would outlast the teaching itself.While he loved his clinical work in Emergency Medicine, both in acute settings and in his roles in professional rugby and sports eventing, Al viewed his teaching responsibilities as a vital part of all of these roles, volunteering to the be the 'go-to' for the new doctors on rotation each August and February and offering to upskill new members into professional medical support spaces.More specifically, Al was a strong advocate of CEP, earning the playful moniker of 'CEP Wizard' and keeping a regular involvement in a range of CEP activities such as designing and co-facilitating educational courses and workshops, marking portfolios and conducting teaching observations, all key components of the CEP. Al’s work consistently received positive acknowledgment from faculty and learners alike and received glowing feedback for his warm and inclusive attitude to everything that he did.Sadly, Al died in August 2021 after a short illness, leaving behind a loving wife and two wonderful sons. Such was his influence and engagement in a range of activities through church, music and rugby connections, Al is missed hugely and he is fondly remembered far beyond the reaches of healthcare and medical education.We aspire to keep his memory alive by naming one of the CEP awards in his name. The Al Dewar Award for outstanding contribution to medical education is open to nominations to recognise individuals and/or teams who are exceptional in how they support medical students or doctors in training in the same warm and inclusive way that would be in keeping with the values upheld and role modelled by Al. Al’s values were focused on learner-centered teaching that prioritised the ability of learners to understand and connect with the subject matter in a way that enabled them to practise medicine in a professional, personal and confident manner, which was well beyond simply being competent. Al taught his learners how to care for people in a way that attended to their medical needs whilst making them feel truly valued, seen and safe.We welcome nominations from teams or individuals who would like to help us keep Al’s values alive in clinical education.On behalf of the University of Edinburgh CEP team and myself, thank youSaraSara DewarLeadership Development Consultant, Leading to Change, NHS Education for Scotland and Al's wife. November 2023 The venue was The University of Edinburgh's Chancellor's Building, at Little France and it was an in-person event. The symposium had a “Sharing Good Practice in Clinical Education” theme.The CEP Annual Symposium is an opportunity to:Update the clinical educator community in Southeast Scotland on recent or current activity related to learning and teachingIdentify and develop collaborations within the communityRaise the profile of clinical education within Southeast ScotlandThis year, the CEP Annual Symposium took the form of short talks and posters. Short talks took the form of a 10-15 minute oral presentation followed by 5 minutes for questions. Poster presentations were presented by the authors using a “datablitz” format, where presenters had the opportunity to give a 1-minute summary of the key points of their work, using 1 slide. Please see the recording of the event below. Please note the captions were created automatically and might not be completely accurate. Below you can find the programme. Sharing Good Practice in Medical Education (Chaired by Prof Gill Aitken and Dr Janet Skinner)8.30am Registration (Foyer, Chancellor’s Building) 9.00am Welcome and introduction Prof Gill Aitken9.05am Session 1 1starts at 03.10 on the recordingFostering Interprofessional education through a Tactical decision game: Lessons learned and a blueprint for clinical educators (Dr David McLennan)2starts at 26.10 on the recordingSupport for paediatric trainees returning from time out of programme (Dr Kathleen Duffin)3starts at 45.40 on the recordingDeveloping a feedback process for prescribing errors: exploring the views of doctors in training to mitigate negative consequences (Dr Madeleine Greaves and Dr Sophie Horrocks)4starts at 1.05.30 on the recordingUtilising video capture for practical skills assessment (Caroline Mosley)5starts at 1.24.00 on the recordingDesign and implementation of two medical escape rooms: An educational case study (Dr Katie Percival)6starts at 1.42.00 on the recordingDatablitz11.15am Break for Refreshments11.45am Session 27starts at 2.09.40 on the recordingBridging the Gap: Addressing Incivility in Healthcare Teams through Immersive Simulation (Dr Katharine Ralston)8starts at 2.26.00 on the recording‘The FY1 Toolkit’: an innovative and collaborative teaching programme designed to aid the transition between medical school and foundation training (Dr Georgia Gilbert)9starts at 2.45.00 on the recordingAge simulation on a budget (Dr Sheila Coutts)10starts at 3.00.00 on the recordingCulturing continuum medical education in infection: from undergraduate to postgraduate training (Dr Olga Moncayo)11starts at 3.14.30 on the recordingMaking clinical education more accessible - ideas that worked for us (Dr Kate Mitchell)12starts at 3.30.45 on the recordingBecoming "more part of the team": exploring medical students' sense of belonging through co-creation in clinical learning (Dr Valerie Rae)1.15pm Presentation of CEP Teaching Awards1.25pm Closing Remarks Dr Janet Skinner1.30pm Close Watch Symposium 2023 video This article was published on 2024-09-09