Director of Medical Education - Job Despription
JOB DESCRIPTION
Director of Medical Education (DME)
The Director of Medical Education is responsible for maintaining and developing the profile of education within the organisation and promoting high quality education. They should develop a local strategy for medical and dental education, be responsible for the Business of Medical Education and Training and for ensuring the delivery of the Deanery Educational Contract. They will have a close professional relationship with the Dean/Deanery to ensure quality control of programmes, develop and deliver the wider multi-professional educational agenda and for supporting and developing tutors as educators.
The DME should be a Senior Officer in the Health Organisation, with a seat on or access to the senior decision making structures within the organisation ensuring that medical education is fully integrated with the delivery and future requirements of the service both operationally and strategically. Recent changes to the way junior doctors are trained, as part of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), and restrictions imposed by the Working Time Directive pose challenges to both the educational and service environments. The explicit specialty curricula and assessments of competence detailed in MMC have changed the type of educational provision required within Trusts. Increasingly knowledge and skills training are being dealt with in the work-place. This requires a co-ordinated, cross-specialty approach with educational support readily available for those charged with implementing the curricula and carrying out assessments. “Transition” from the current postgraduate medical training arrangements to those envisaged under MMC will take a minimum of 5 years and will require careful management to ensure that neither education and training nor service suffers.
Education as a core NHS responsibility, is on a par with clinical activity, and as such requires robust governance policies and procedures. PMETB has the
Director of Medical Education (DME)
The Director of Medical Education is responsible for maintaining and developing the profile of education within the organisation and promoting high quality education. They should develop a local strategy for medical and dental education, be responsible for the Business of Medical Education and Training and for ensuring the delivery of the Deanery Educational Contract. They will have a close professional relationship with the Dean/Deanery to ensure quality control of programmes, develop and deliver the wider multi-professional educational agenda and for supporting and developing tutors as educators.
The DME should be a Senior Officer in the Health Organisation, with a seat on or access to the senior decision making structures within the organisation ensuring that medical education is fully integrated with the delivery and future requirements of the service both operationally and strategically. Recent changes to the way junior doctors are trained, as part of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), and restrictions imposed by the Working Time Directive pose challenges to both the educational and service environments. The explicit specialty curricula and assessments of competence detailed in MMC have changed the type of educational provision required within Trusts. Increasingly knowledge and skills training are being dealt with in the work-place. This requires a co-ordinated, cross-specialty approach with educational support readily available for those charged with implementing the curricula and carrying out assessments. “Transition” from the current postgraduate medical training arrangements to those envisaged under MMC will take a minimum of 5 years and will require careful management to ensure that neither education and training nor service suffers.
Education as a core NHS responsibility, is on a par with clinical activity, and as such requires robust governance policies and procedures. PMETB has the