Electronic Education

Richard Griffiths(soon to be ex Education Chair)

Electronic Education

Fast Moving Landscape

AAGB&I is a major provider of education to the anaesthesia and wider community

There is a need to reach all the membership;

Printed

Meetings

Electronic

Electronic Education

Educational material;

Career grades revalidation, personal development

Training grades examination preparation

• Tutorials, to include downloadable PowerPoint presentation offered on a monthly basis to build up a library

• Top tips videos for the Primary and Final FRCA exams• Recorded material relating to Objective Structured Oral

Examinations (OSCEs) and Structured Oral Examinations (SOEs).

• Live webinars on educational topics with opportunity to interact with the presenter by email or telephone

• Practical procedures series – a comprehensive video library of practical procedures in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine.

What is possible? Trainees

Dominated by CEPD Matrix

• Weekly, fortnightly or monthly ‘Matrix Tutorials’ – aimed at a Matrix cell, with a programme structure that will allow completion of the relevant number of cells within each Revalidation cycle

• Practical procedures series – a comprehensive video library of practical procedures in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine

What is possible? Career Grades

What is possible? Career Grades

• Live evening webinars covering ‘membership’ topics such as overseas activities, welfare, financial planning, contractual issues and independent practice. These could include:

• Podcasts of facilitated interviews with experts recorded at events/seminars, or at 21PP

• Live ‘phone-ins’

Improving Access

Seminars and meetings are popular

What percentage of the membership has been to 21 Portland Place or a congress or WSM?

Electronic Education

WSM 2011

Sir Brain Jarman

(1I05)

Electronic Education

• http://videoplatform.aagbi.org/

Difficult Areas

Logbooks

Portfolios

No duplication

Easy transfer of credits from AAGB&I to portfolio

Smart Phones

Events app to launch at WSM 2012

• New ideas that might be delivered as apps

• Convert some glossies to app format for easy reference

• Induction checklist

• Safety checklists

Next steps

Trial period for members to view online lectures

Small steering group at AAGB&I

Possible link up with other organisations

The FutureWider audience for material

Engagement with trainees

Strengthening membership benefits