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Simulation Fellow Roles
The West Midlands has a strong background in simulation-based education, and Paediatric trainees have an opportunity to apply for an OOP(E) to spend a year working as a Simulation Fellow. There are two main Simulation Fellow roles in the West Midlands, supervised by the Training Programme Directors for Simulation.
You’ll gain experience of delivering in situ and high fidelity sim to trainees and medical students, whilst boosting your CV and working 40% clinically. Previous simulation fellows have been able to study for PGCert from University of Birmingham and have developed their own regional courses that are delivered regularly
General Paediatrics Sim Fellow at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton
Neonatal Sim Fellow at Birmingham Women's Hospital
If you are interested in finding out more about these opportunities, contact us.
Reflections from a previous Simulation Fellow
I spent a year as a Simulation Fellow in Paediatrics to learn more about a different technique of teaching that I had found useful as a student but had little exposure to as a teacher. The year included involvement in in-situ teaching on the wards, regional simulation courses and the opportunity to participate in other specialities' simulation sessions.
I developed my own skills in delivering education to a range of trainees, from medical students to senior registrars and consultants, which also developed my own non-technical skills; I found that these elements of my clinical practice improved throughout the year. I also got to appreciate the roles of the simulation faculty involved in bringing scenarios to fruition and gain some experience with each of these.
As an out-of-programme experience from full-time Paediatric run-through training, there was more flexibility to work around my family life and explore Paediatric sub-specialities and further develop my long-term career goals. I met with other individuals around the region involved in simulation-based education to exchange ideas and learn from each other, and got the opportunity to present work at national and international simulation conferences.
I got the opportunity to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Simulation which taught me some of the relevant adult learning theories and solidified my experiential learning from the simulation fellow year.
I gained managerial skills in organising, advertising and co-ordinating various simulation teaching sessions and courses. I also had the opportunity to continually develop some of the regional simulation with new scenarios as well as put together a new simulation-based educational course and come away with skills helping me to deliver simulation teaching in my paediatric training and career in the future.
I would definitely recommend the year to anyone interested in teaching or wanting to learn more about simulation-based education!
AH - Simulation Fellow 2017-2018