Health Education England COVID-19 bulletin, 14th May 2020
This update covers education and training actions.
Category: Education & Training
COVID-19 Resources
Health Education England COVID-19 bulletin, 7th May 2020
This update covers education and training actions.
Health Literacy E-Learning
Health Education England and NHS Education for Scotland have produced joint e-learning on Health Literacy
This Health Literacy e-learning takes approximately 35 minutes to complete. It introduces the importance of health literacy and covers teach back, chunk and check, using simple language, using pictures and routinely offering help. The content relates to both clinical and non-clinical settings and may be used as a refresher for team members or as an introduction for colleagues who are interested in health literacy.
Register for the e-learning here
Clinical, mental health, and nursing e-book collections
Around 5,000 titles have been made available from EBSCO via OpenAthens until the end of May 2020 and include titles from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, McGraw-Hill Education, Springer Publishing, Wolters Kluwer Health, Taylor & Francis and Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
The clinical collection is available here and topic areas include dermatology, gynaecology and obstetrics, internal medicine, medicine (general), nursing, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, paediatrics, pharmacology and surgery.
The nursing collection is available here and topic areas include nursing research and theory, pharmacology, nursing management, evidence-based nursing, home care nursing and leadership.
The psychology collection is available here and topic areas include psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology and more.
For support contact EBSCO
NHS Providers
Learning from the vanguards
NHS Providers, the NHS Confederation, the Local Government Association and NHS Clinical Commissioners have led a programme of work to help share learning from the vanguards with the rest of the health and care system. This is a compilation of a series of briefings, reports, case studies, podcasts and blogs which consider the key achievements and legacy of the vanguards.
Read more here
Royal College of Nursing
COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Guidance on how to protect yourself, what you should expect from your employer and what to do if you have concerns.
For up to date advice visit the website here
BMC Medical Education
Medical assessment in the age of digitalisation
Digital assessment is becoming more and more popular within medical education. To analyse the dimensions of this digital trend, this research investigated how exam questions (items) are created and designed for use in digital medical assessments in Germany.
Read the research here
COVID-19
E-Learning for healthcare: Coronavirus programme available
Free e-learning from Health Education England on Coronavirus. Courses include Guidance from the NHS and Government and Infection Prevention and Control.
Read more here
Medical Education
Development in Danish medical students’ empathy: study protocol of a cross-sectional and longitudinal mixed-methods study
Clinical empathy has been associated with positive outcomes for both physicians and patients such as: more accurate diagnosis and treatment, increased patient satisfaction and compliance, and lower levels of burnout and stress among physicians. International studies show mixed results regarding the development of empathy among future physicians associating medical education with decline, stability or increase in empathy levels. These mixed results are due to several study limitations. In Denmark, no investigation of Danish medical students’ empathy trajectory has yet been conducted wherefore such a study is needed that optimizes the study design of earlier studies.
Read more here
Introduction of nursing associates – year 2: evaluation report
Health Education England, November 2019
The Nursing Associate role is a new support role that sits alongside existing healthcare support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care for patients. This report provides an evaluation of the Nursing Associate test site programme of Nursing Associates which began in January 2017.
Click here to view the full report.