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Clinical Teaching Fellows advert | academic year 23-24

North Bristol Academy based at North Bristol Trust seeks applicants for the post of Clinical Teaching Fellow in Medical Education for the period2 August 2023 – 6August 2024. This post provides an ideal opportunity for the successful candidate to work in a dynamic undergraduate medical education environment based at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

The post is aimed at junior doctors with an interest in medical education.

The successful candidate will be part of the North Bristol Academy team and will be actively involved in organising and delivering undergraduate medical education for University of Bristol medical students.

Proposed Interview Date:
March 2023

For further details / informal visits please contact:
Suzan Fowweather -Undergraduate Medical Education Manager

[email protected]

and/or

Sally Murray, Deputy Undergraduate Medical Education Manager

0117 41 48084

[email protected]

• North Bristol Academy (NBA) is one of 7 Academies located at NHS Trusts throughout the Severn region. It provides clinical placements for University of Bristol medical students from all 5 years of the MB ChB programme.
• NBA is located in the Learning and Research Building of North Bristol Trust’s (NBT) Southmead Hospital.
• This post offers the opportunity to work in a busy, well-supported undergraduate medical education setting in combination with a service commitment in a specialty of the post holder’s choice.
• The post is a full time, one year fixed term post based on 10 sessions per week: 8 sessions within the NBA and 2 sessions undertaking clinical service.
• The post is educationally sound, well supported and supervised.
• The successful candidate will be actively involved in organising and delivering undergraduate medical teaching to all years of the MB ChB programme.
• The successful candidate will be encouraged to undertake a funded Certificate in Medical Education at the University of Bristol.
• The successful candidate will be expected to become involved with ongoing undergraduate medical education research projects, and will have the opportunity to submit abstracts and attend the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) conference, supported by the Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow.
• Full administrative support is available in the NBA office.
• North Bristol Academy (NBA) is one of 7 Academies located at NHS Trusts throughout the Severn region. It provides clinical placements for University of Bristol medical students from all 5 years of the MB ChB programme.
• NBA is located in the Learning and Research Building of North Bristol Trust’s (NBT) Southmead Hospital.
• The post holder will help facilitate the delivery of the University of Bristol undergraduate medical curriculum to Years 1 – 5 medical students on placement at North Bristol Trust (NBT).
• Clinical Teaching Fellows (CTFs) deliver core curriculum content, act as tutors and Case Based Learning (CBL) facilitators and are involved with the assessment of medical students (for example, in OSCEs).
• The post holder will be expected to act as a role model and mentor to the medical students.
• The post holder will develop teaching materials, and enhance learning within the NBT Clinical Skills Lab and Simulation Space.
• Clinical teaching fellows are expected to be able to deliver several types of teaching.

For example:
o Small group tutorials

o Large group course introductions

o Clinical-based history and examination sessions

o Facilitation of inter-Academy Microsoft Surface Hub sessions

o Bedside teaching on the wards

o Clinical skills-based practical teaching

o Simulation-based teaching

• A core component of the undergraduate curriculum is Case Based Learning (CBL), and the post holder will be expected to facilitate these sessions to small groups of students on a weekly basis.
• This is predominantly a term-time teaching post with an expectation that clinical teaching fellows are present and able to deliver teaching and related activity during this period.
• The postholder will be encouraged to undertake a Certificate in Medical Education through the University of Bristol’s Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals department.