{"id":3965,"date":"2017-12-13T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:35:38","slug":"imperial-medical-students-recognised-in-gmc-professionalism-teaching-resource-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2017\/12\/13\/imperial-medical-students-recognised-in-gmc-professionalism-teaching-resource-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial medical students recognised in GMC professionalism teaching resource competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two final-year Imperial medical students have been acknowledged jointly by the General Medical Council and the Medical Schools Council for their design of a teaching session on professionalism.<\/p>\n

Sixth-year MBBS<\/a> students, Luke Reader and Sam Easdon, created a lesson plan which aims to \u2018introduce students to a discussion on honesty and integrity in interactions with peers, colleagues and patients\u2019.<\/p>\n

Initially shortlisted, the two were then awarded a runner-up position, claiming one of the top spots from the 97 overall entries to this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n

The lesson suggests beginning by asking students, \u2018What is honesty and integrity<\/em> to you?\u2019, and facilitating a discussion encouraging students to reflect on their personal definitions of these themes.<\/p>\n

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To support this dialogue, the students created a \u2018live simulation\u2019 of text message conversations between hypothetical students in a medical community, discussing a recent incident.<\/p>\n

Highlighting the importance of professional behaviour, the conversation draws attention to the detrimental effect of \u2018gossip\u2019 and the subtle differences between a lack of honesty and a lack of integrity.\u00a0The students are asked to consider those themes, as well as to examine the possible impact of personal values on patient care.<\/p>\n

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The lesson plan then expands to include discussion of \u2018uncertainty\u2019, and asks the students to consider and recognise how acting with honesty and integrity can help when approaching difficult situations.<\/p>\n

Presented with four complex scenarios, the class is asked to decide where on a scale of \u2018acting with honesty and integrity\u2019 to \u2018not acting with honesty and integrity\u2019 the character in each scenario belongs – illustrating the \u2018thin red line\u2019 between the two ends of the scale – deciding whether there can be a \u2018correct\u2019 response to the situation.<\/p>\n

Entrants for the 2016 teaching resource competition were able to choose from any aspect of the GMC\u2019s \u2018Achieving Good Medical Practice<\/a>\u2019 <\/em>guidance, but this year the judges requested submissions based specifically on the themes of honesty and integrity, and examination of why these qualities are important for future doctors.<\/p>\n

The competition is run by the General Medical Council<\/a> in conjunction with the Medical Schools Council<\/a>, and has now completed its second year.<\/p>\n

Sam, who has just completed a primary care placement, and Luke, currently on an endocrinology placement at Northwick Park Hospital, recommend taking part in this\u00a0<\/span>competition to any student, as professionalism is a key part of practising medicine, and describe the experience a \u2018valuable way to learn both about professionalism and about teaching\u2019.<\/p>\n

You can see the other shortlisted entries for the competition, and download Luke and Sam\u2019s lesson plan, on the GMC website<\/a>, or watch the text conversation video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two final-year Imperial medical students have been acknowledged jointly by the General Medical Council and the Medical Schools Council for their design of a teaching session on professionalism. Sixth-year MBBS students, Luke Reader and Sam Easdon, created a lesson plan which aims to \u2018introduce students to a discussion on honesty and integrity in interactions with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}