The London Healthcare Science Trainee Network (HCSTN) held their PTP Winter Event on Wednesday 13th December 2017.
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STP Winter Event 2017 Summary
On 14th December, the London Healthcare Science Trainee Network held our annual STP Winter Event. This training day was extremely popular with 65 STP trainees from across the region taking part.
Registration for our STP Winter Event is Now Open!!
Calling all current STPs in London and the South East region! Come and join us for our winter event on Thursday 14th December at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden. This year we have a variety of exciting things happening including professional practice workshops (useful for competencies and OSFAs) and reflective writing training as well as some interesting multidisciplinary cases to present and discuss. See the attached flyer for all the details!
Registration and attendance is free! Please register for the event using the Eventbrite following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-event-2017-tickets-39474898484
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Don’t forget: STP and PTP Welcome Event
A quick reminder that our STP and PTP Welcome Event is THIS FRIDAY.
We’ve reserved an area in Student Central for drinks and will be easy to find – look out for our logo or Board members!
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STP Induction Day 2017
It’s STP Induction Day!
Today, this year’s new intake of STP trainees are in Birmingham to get a big welcome to the training programme from the National School of Healthcare Science, and an insight into what the next 3 years of training will look like. It’s a chance for them to meet other new STPs in their specialist areas, and hear from current STPs about different aspects of the programme.
On behalf of the London Network, we have Board members Haroon Chughtai and Louisa Ive attending the event to say hello to all new STPs in London and surrounding areas. They will be more than happy to answer any of your questions throughout the day, so make sure you go say hi to them.
This is also a good time to advertise our upcoming informal Welcome Social which will be taking place Friday 22nd September 18:00 at Student Central, Malet Street, London. This will be a great time to meet some of your fellow trainees (whether you’re a 1st 2nd or 3rd year) and to get the year started. Find more details on our flyer and let us know if you have any questions.
Please also join our mailing list for regular updates from us, as well as follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
We hope you all have a brilliant day today and congratulations on your STP place! We look forward to seeing you all in London soon.
Hannah
Co-Chair LondonHCSTN Board
Welcome to the 2017 London Trainees!
Congratulations on making it through the Practitioner Training Programme (PTP) or Scientist Training Programme (STP) application process. Welcome to the world of Healthcare Science and to London!
We’re the London Healthcare Science Trainee Network, and as a trainee in London you’re automatically part of us. To ensure that you receive communications from us, including ways to get involved, sign-up to our mailing list or contact us.
You can find out more about-us, look through some useful resources, or better still join us at our Welcome Event for new (and existing) trainees:
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ReachOut for Healthcare Science
The 19-23rd June saw the now well established ReachOut for Healthcare Science event come to London. I helped out at the event at Kings College London, where over 100 year 10 school children passionate about science spent a week at the University and local hospitals. The aim of the week, similar to those held at Imperial and UCL, is to provide the eager budding healthcare scientists with the chance to:
- Experience life in busy London hospitals
- Meet scientists working in Healthcare
- Take part in a wide range of practical activities in different areas of healthcare science
- Gain confidence in their ability to enter a career in healthcare science
- Experience life and study in a university environment
- Find out what is required to follow a career in healthcare science
Over 70 Healthcare Scientists across King’s Health Partners alone delivered hands on sessions including controlling robots via Xbox, extracting DNA from tomatoes, learning CPR and defibrillation skills and using virtual reality and MRI scanning as tools in assessing mental health. The event culminated in a poster competition at the end of the week, where in groups the pupils created and presented a poster from their chosen favourite specialism.
The events across London were all a great success, so thank you to any of you trainees out there involved in planning or delivering sessions! It is a great event, so look out for next year’s and mention it to your supervisors if you’d like to get involved!
OSFA Training Day
We had an oversubscribed and great OSFA event with over 50 STP trainees attending. The day started with an introduction to the OSFA process by Kimberly Gilmour, Consultant Clinical Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (and OSFA extraordinaire!) Kimberly was then joined by colleague Elizabeth Ralph and provided some entertaining demonstrations of OSFA scenarios. Trainees then took a turn at writing their own generic OSFA stations, a useful exercise to understand what assessors are looking for during the OSFA marking process.
After a light lunch, there was a Q&A session with OSFA assessors and training officers Sarah Peel, Jeffery Davison, Karen Marks and Paul Ganney answering trainee questions covering the OSFA process, common mistakes and tips for preparation. Trainees were then split into groups of three and worked through the stations they had written in the morning session. This was an invaluable opportunity to practice ahead of the upcoming OSFAs in July.
Thanks again to all who attended and especially those who helped out!
Chief Scientific Officer Conference
The Chief Scientific Officer Conference 2017 showcased how scientific advances ensure high quality care for all, and prepare the health service for future generations.
Day one kicked off with a welcome from Prof. Sue Hill OBE (Chief Scientific Officer, NHS England), followed by a session exploring recent advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment with talks from Cally Palmer CBE (NHS National Cancer Director) and Prof Charles Swanton (Translocation Cancer Therapeutics Lead, The Francis Crick Institute). After lunch there were two parallel sessions exploring how science is delivering national priorities, antimicrobial resistance and the physical health of people with mental health illness. The day concluded with a session exploring personalised medicine and keynotes from Simon Stevens (Chief Executive, NHS England) and Prof Sue Hill OBE.
The second day focused on how the scientific workforce is contributing to helping the NHS cope with a healthcare system that is becoming increasingly data intensive. Prof Andrew Morris from the Farr Institute Scotland discussed how electronic health records can be prepared for the genomics era. In the afternoon there were parallel sessions exploring leadership and quality improvement. The conference concluded with a presentation from Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and head of applied AI at Google DeepMind. He discussed the clinician-lead DeepMind Health project, which aims to support the NHS by providing the technical expertise needed to build and scale technologies that help provide patient-centred care. The project recently announced a five year partnership with Imperial NHS Trust to develop mobile clinical applications, which represent the next logical step in moving from paper to electronic health records. Overall the conference was a great success and it was inspiring to see how healthcare scientists are working with external partners such as Google DeepMind to ensure the NHS continues to provide exceptional patient care.
Lou Ive
Winter Training Event 2016
On 14th December, we held our 2016 STP Winter Event. It was a great event with STPs across all year groups and spanning a wide range of specialisms.
In the morning we practiced communication skills, explaining to our groups how our specialism contributes to the diagnosis and monitoring of clinical cases. Then Dr Fiona Lethbridge (Senior Press Officer, Science Media Centre) and Katrina Nevin-Ridley (Director of Communications, Genomics England) gave fantastic communication skills and media engagement talks!
Next we had a themed session: the role of healthcare science in trauma pathways. Exciting talks summarised the work of specialisms, many thanks to Lisa Garrison (Senior Clinical Scientist, St George’s Hospital) and current STP trainees, Louisa Ive (Genetics, St George’s Hospital), Amy Bolsworth (Vascular Sciences, Barts Health) and Sarah Blow (Histopathology & Immunology , Hammersmith Hospital).
In the afternoon, trainees took part in a intense ethics training workshop from Dr Kimberly Gilmour (Clinical Lead for Immunology, Great Ormond Street Hospital). This interactive session covered topics such as consent, confidentiality, respect and the guidelines we must all adhere to as healthcare scientists. Finally, we heard from the London and South East Professional Development Team about the support that is available for STP trainees during their training. Once again, thank you to all of our speakers and attendees that made the day a great success.
The London HCSTN 