This is12 month poststarting August 2025 is for a doctorwith MRCP(or equivalent)seeking to establish a career in neurologywho is either between core medical and higher training and wants a break, or a higher specialist trainee as an Out of Programme for Experience who has an passion and interest in Medical Education.
NEUROLOGY - 2.5 days
You will spend two and a half days a week working with the department of neurology at Nottingham University Hospitals. This is a great opportunity to balance your teaching responsibilities with a well-supported clinical role. Your role will include outpatient clinics including general a first seizure clinic and a number of ½ day sessions of day-time on-call.
UNDERGRADUTE MEDICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (UMED) – 2.5 days:
The teaching is focused at undergraduate level. The post involves many teaching opportunities and the chance to build your CV when applying for a training number. It offers the chance to undertake a higher qualification, via the Diploma, Certificate or Masters in Medical Education. You can present at local, regional, national conferences and research innovative ideas in medical education.
NEUROLOGY
Queen’s Medical Centre is the regional neuroscience centre. The department of neurology has 17 Consultant neurologists and 6 Neurology registrars. We have inpatient wards and neurology outpatient clinics in general neurology and all the major subspecialties within neurology, with international level expertise in neuro-inflammatory conditions and regional centres of expertise in complex epilepsy, movement disorders and neuromuscular disorders.
UNDERGRADUTE MEDICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (UMED)
The Department fully supports all Teaching Fellows in developing the course and also UMED also has its own annual Undergraduate Medical Education Conference, where best and innovative practice can be shared. There is a highly experienced teaching department who have the ability to support with IT and advice to develop you as an educator. The undergraduate course is well established with highly-developed online and bedside teaching program, which annually updated. The teaching is shared with consultants who have years of experience in delivering the curriculum. The general medicine teaching fellows at NUH form a cohesive group who support each other in delivering the best possible medical education to University of Nottingham undergraduates.
Listed below are some of the areas that we expect the Post Holder to be involved with:
To work with the neurology education leads (Dr O’Donoghue and Dr Sellars) to deliver engaging, high quality, neurology education tomedical studentsbased at NUH
To deliver Clinical Years 1 (Foundations for Practice) and Clinical year 3 –AP2_ Neurology teaching to medicine students based at QMC and City Campus (mostly face-to-face).
To lead on the FFP assessments at NUH
To lead case based discussions and end-of-week clinical reasoning tutorials in line with the online course content
To deliver teaching and support sessions in other areas as appropriate across both sites
To provide teaching on the Early Clinical Experience course at NUH and take a lead on the Neurology sessions.
To contribute to Face-to-Face Patient workshops (if they restart COVID allowing) and the Simulated ward rounds at NUH as required.
Contribute to the one week CP3 Revision course including taking a lead on Neurology
To become a trained examiner for the Undergraduate Medical Exams, this includes examining, standard setting and contributing to the written paper.
To further develop online resources at NUH a Neurology curriculum from learning objectives set out by the Medical School.
Working with consultants to take a strategic overview of the Neurology objectives within the curriculum
Working with the Undergraduate Medical Education and Neurology team, to develop innovative teaching methods across the clinical course at NUH, including the use of new technologies within this field.
To contribute and support the Neurology element of the NUH patient database for medical education.
To support and play an active role where appropriate in other teaching courses within the Trust – such as the TIP’s course and Peer Review of junior doctors teaching.
To work with the team to take a strategic overview of Neurology within the clinical course
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025