Friday Auditorium Keynote Speaker
If We Do What We Did, We Get What We've Got
Prof Reg Jordan, BSc, PhD, HonMRCP, ILTM Dean of Undergraduate Education, Faculty of
Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, UK and Director, National Learning
and Teaching Support Network Subject Centre for
Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (supported by the Higher Education
Funding Council for England), General Medical Council Associate for the Quality
of Basic Medical Education
ABSTRACT
While the
education of medical and healthcare practitioners to meet the changing need of
the population and of healthcare delivery services is of fundamental importance
within higher education, questions have been asked about the relevance and
future 'fitness for purpose' of current provision. In health services which in
the next decade will need to change even more rapidly than in the last to meet
public expectation and accommodate the demographic shifts in the available
workforce, responsive, creative and patient-centred
education provision will be essential. Most healthcare delivery services need
more people working differently; the challenge for education is to foster
curriculum development for employability in modernised
health and social care services. In this context, the term curriculum is used
in an holistic sense to encompass all those processes
that enable students to achieve defined programme
outcomes, while employability refers to the outcomes and programme
specifications themselves and ensuring that graduates in the healthcare
professions are properly prepared to fulfil the
future healthcare workforce needs. Deriving from the title of this presentation, is the question: Are we content with what
we've got? If the answer is no, then education must be considered one of the
main ways in which change can be developed. The partnership approach adopted to
manage change in the North East of England will be described, and the place of
technology, in providing the 'glue' that holds together the distributed
learning of large numbers of healthcare professional students explained.
Learning
and Teaching Support Network Medicine,
Dentistry
and Veterinary Medicine (LTSN-01)
Catherine Cookson Centre for Medical
Education & Health Informatics
Tel: 0191 222 5888