Meetings and highlights
Meetings and Highlights of 2017-2018
Annual National Appraisal Conference
(Incorporated as part of the Scottish Medical Education Conference)
The annual Scottish Medical Appraisers conference was once again held in parallel with the Scottish Medical Education Conference at the EICC on 26 and 27 of April 2018. As in previous years we aimed to provide a mixture of workshops designed to inform and cascade information relating to issues and challenging scenarios appraisers can encounter, and also to allow discussion on various issues with both the GMC and various Royal College personnel with an active interest and role in the appraisal process.
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Next year’s Conference will be held on 9 and 10 May 2019 at the EICC, Edinburgh – make sure you pop these dates in your diary!
Support for Appraisal Leads and RO's
In a change to previous years we elected to move the six monthly meetings with Appraisal Leads and Appraisal Administration Leads that were traditionally held on the morning ahead of the start of the Annual Conference to separate dates. The rationale for this was based on availability of meeting attendees and that the topics for discussion would not necessarily be able to be fully discussed in the short time slots available.
As a result we held an Appraisal Leads Day at Murrayfield Stadium on Wednesday 30th May, and an Appraisal Administration Leads Day at Stirling on Wednesday 6 June.
The Appraisal Leads day was well attended with 17 Leads from Primary and Secondary Care in attendance.
In addition and with the support of Scottish Government the meeting with Responsible Officers is now an annual event, with the most recent event being held at Murrayfield Stadium on 5 December 2017.
Responsible Officers Seminar Day
The team facilitated a Responsible Officers Seminar Day on behalf of Scottish Government Health and Social Care Department on 5 December 2017. This was hosted at Murrayfield Stadium Edinburgh and attracted an extended audience of approximately 40 medical professionals with vested interests in appraisal and revalidation, including the Chief Medical Officer, 4 RO’s and several Medical Directors.
The Event was introduced by Dr Catherine Calderwood, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), and included appraisal and revalidation presentations by Professor Kieran Walshe (Manchester Business School) Dr Don Liu (Royal College of Physicians), and Ms Victoria Carson, Scottish Lead (GMC).
National Appraisal Administrators Meeting
Medical Appraisal also met with Primary and Secondary Care Appraisal Administrators out with the Annual Conference, meeting in Stirling on 6 June 2018. The meeting was attended by a limited number of Local Administration team members and 3 NES staff. Work pressures and location were factors in restricting attendance at this meeting and are factors that we will take on board when planning future meetings.
The next meeting will be on 9 November and will be hosted by Forth Valley who are able to offer VC facilities for those who are seeking not to have to travel to the event.
The meetings with these three separate stakeholder groups are valuable interactions to allow the dissemination of information and to allow the Medical Appraisal team to be kept informed of developments and emergent items that could influence future training delivery.
Tutor Development
Last November we held the second annual 1 day Conference for the Medical Appraisal Tutor cohort at Stirling Court Hotel.
This was well attended and the day was structured to be an interactive and informative process for the tutors with updates on developments, skills training, and active discussion around a series of topics and experiences. Feedback from those who attended was very positive.
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