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In This Issue
General updates and en-
gagement activities
Progress with student inter-
views
Progress with staff recruit-
ment
Our work on widening partici-
pation
Clinical curriculum refresh
Welcome from Danny McLaughlin, Associate Dean of Medicine at Lincoln History makers!
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that we have been making history at Lincoln Medical School over the last few
weeks. As September approaches, bringing with it the first intakes to our programmes, we have been busy with what I have
been calling ‘Recruitment2’ – the recruitment of students and staff.
Our first multiple mini-interview (MMI) events took place on 9th, 16th and 17th January and 6th February. These have been a
roaring success and thanks goes to everyone who has helped in any way. You can read more about the MMIs on page
3. Offers to study on the Lincoln Medical School programmes will be going out shortly and we will then meet our offer-
holders back at the University of Lincoln on 9th and 16th March.
We have also been busy recruiting staff to all types of posts: non-clinical and clinical academic, technical and professional
services. Some of these new staff are featured in this newsletter but watch this space for details of future appointments in
Anatomy, Behavioural Science, Biochemistry/Molecular Medicine, Clinical Skills, Early Clinical Professional Development,
Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Physiology, and Public Health & Social Determinants of Health.
Issue 2 February 2019
Where are we now? Alistair Warren, Vice Dean for Ear-ly Years and BMedSci talks about our progress so far... There is a lot going on to make 2019 a very exciting year for Lincoln, for Nottingham and for medical education across
the country. But what does this mean to you, to staff at the University of Lincoln, to students already here, to local
Health Centres and Hospitals and, most importantly, to the people and potential patients in the Lincolnshire region? It
means change. Change to improve health care and training of health professionals and to give our rural comm-
unities a better quality of life. The new Medical School will bring in investment into the
city and outlying areas, it will bring in new staff and students and will build on an already
highly successful university to take it to the next level nationally
There is a great deal of interest in the Lincoln Medical School (LMS) and its partnership
with the established and highly regarded Medical School in Nottingham. This puts us in
a strong position within the sector. We can build into the medical course our own
Lincolnshire ‘flavour’. We want to involve staff, students and the wider community
in contributing to help identify and incorporate that flavour into the LMS.
Students will have a significant part in our success. They are at the heart of what we
do and are key players in the development of the new Medical School. They will form
a driving force for new ideas and developments helping to link together the new
network of medical and health professionals across the region.
If you would like to be part of this exciting project. You can get in touch by emailing
We have a number of up and coming events which we would like to highlight , particularly for our clinical community: 2nd Clinical Engagement Event We are very pleased to announce that after the success of our clinical engagement event on 5th September 2018, attended by over 100 clinicians from across Lincolnshire, we will be holding another similar event on Wednesday, 24th April 2019. This will be an evening event that will take place at the University of Lincoln campus – please save the date in your diaries! We will release further details and booking arrangements in the coming weeks. General Practice Placements We have a series of events coming up for GP’s interested in providing placements to our medical students both in the Early Years and Clinical Phase of the programme. Full details are still being finalised but a number of dates and venues have been secured which are below—all events will take place over lunch time periods (13:00—14:30):
Monday 4th March Grantham Urban Hotel
Tuesday 5th March Lincoln White Hart Hotel
Monday 11th March Bourne William Cecil Hotel
Monday 18th March Boston Supreme Hotel
Monday 25th March Louth Brackenborough Hotel
Tuesday 26th March Skegness Venue to be confirmed
For further information please contact Dr Runa Saha—[email protected]
Gill Pinner, Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs updates on the clinical curriculum refresh...
The Clinical Curriculum Refresh project is well underway. The project as a whole is being led by Dr Lucy Ambrose, Director
of the Clinical Course working alongside Project Manager Louise Savage. The new structure of the course has now been
agreed following a series of student consultation events and the team is currently working on setting learning outcomes for
each attachment guided by the new GMC curriculum “Outcomes for Graduates 2018 “. There is a greater emphasis on
learning in primary care and developing clinical and non-clinical skills such as Leadership and Management amongst other
changes. The teaching and assessments in the new course are being designed to support students who will have to sit the
new national GMC requirement called the UKMLA (Medical Licencing Assessment) due to be introduced in 2022.
There will be a series of workshops taking place in March 2019, for each new clinical attachment. Clinicians from across the
region have been invited to represent their Trust for their area of expertise including Lincolnshire colleagues. These groups
once established will determine the ways in which the new curriculum can be delivered in each locality.
If you would like any further information please contact Prof Gill Pinner, Vice Dean Clinical Affairs for Lincoln
SAVE THE DATES
CLINICAL CURRICULUM REFRESH
Dr Peter Speight, Director of Admissions (Lincoln) talks about our progress with recruiting our first cohort of
Medical students.
“Following our successful bid to open the new medical school in Lincoln, we had the somewhat daunting task
of arranging and then conducting interviews for the candidates who have applied to the new School. This
initially involved many meetings to determine how we would replicate the Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI’s)
utilised by the University of Nottingham at the Lincoln campus.
As part of the interview, each candidate has to progress through 8 different stations, each lasting 5
minutes. It is important to stress that these do not test academic ability or medical knowledge, as the for-
mer is tested through GCSEs and (predicted) A level results, and the latter will be taught over the next 5
years! Instead we test softer personal characteristics, which I often refer to as the ‘bedside manner’; quali-
ties like empathy and communication skills but also working under pressure.
After running a mock MMI in December 2018 to test the process and all of our preparations, we commenced live interviews in January
and early February 2019. We completed 4 days of interviews which have all gone really well, and I think it is fair to say that all the inter-
viewers and role players have enjoyed the experience.
We were reflecting on the MMIs after the first day of interviewing, and I realised that, in a decade or so, the doctors of the future will be
saying to each other ‘Do you remember that day in Lincoln when we were interviewed for the new medical school? Do you realise we
were the first ever interviewees, and look at us now’. Some applicants will become surgeons, some GPs, some psychiatrists, some pae-
diatricians. In fact, they will slot into all of the medical specialisms. By opening the new Lincoln
Medical School we will attract new teachers and trainers for the medical students, and new aca-
demic staff. We also hope to retain a substantial number in Lincolnshire.
I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all the interviewers, role players, on
the day staff and student ambassadors. Interviewers have all given a large amount of time com-
mitment by completing at least 2 full days of interviews, not to mention the training. It is only with
your help that we have been able to successfully interview so many candidates, without which we
would not be opening a new medical school.
I would particularly like to thank the ‘reserves’ (people who came to each day but were not actively
involved); reserves are crucial to each day, in case anyone falls ill or is otherwise unable to complete
the day, yet reserves don’t share in the ‘fun’ of the
day, so once again, thank you.
We are now analysing the results from the MMIs
before then starting to send formal offers of a place
to successful applicants”
Academics, educators and clinical staff who would
like to participate in future student recruitment activi-
ties can register their interest by emailing
STUDENT RECRUITMENT UPDATE
We are pleased to be able to announce a number of new appointments to the Lincoln Medical School who we can introduce you to below:
Dr David O’Brien—Widening Participation and Outreach Champion (commencing 4th February 2019)
David graduated MBChB from The University of Dundee in 1995, and worked as a junior doctor in Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee before moving south of the border to join the Clinical Research Unit in Leicester. His MD was subsequently awarded by the University of Leicester (2005) for work on the non-invasive assessment of vascular function in healthy ageing and disease. In 2001, Da-vid began training formally in Cardiology at Nottingham, ultimately sub-specialising in Interventional Car-diology. In 2006 he moved with his family to Canada and gained a Clinical fellowship in Interventional cardiology from the University of Alberta (2007) before returning to Lincolnshire to take up the position of Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at ULHT.
David is a keen teacher and teaches a wide variety of students, not just under graduate and post gradu-ate medical, but also nursing staff (mentoring several nurses for their independent prescribing practice) and paramedics, in addition to delivering regular GP teaching sessions in Cardiology. He is a clinical
and educational supervisor to a number of Higher Specialist Trainees and a member of both the cardiology Annual Review of Com-petence Progression (ARCP) panel and the regional Cardiology Specialty Education committee (SEC). He is also a trainer and supervisor for the post-CCT Interventional cardiology Fellowship post at Lincoln. He has taught on the Resuscitation Councils Ad-vance Life Support courses for over 15 years and has frequently been ALS course Medical Director.
Dr Ahmet Durgungoz is a Digital Education Developer (commenced 14th January 2019)
Ahmet completed his Master’s degree in the department of Learning, Technology and Education at the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2013 and obtained his PhD in Learning Science Research Institute at the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2018 with a thesis on the teachers’ use of social media. Ahmet is excited to be joining the new Medical School having always had an interest in medicine.
Asa Digital Education Developer, Ahmet is interested in how people learn and the ways in which digital technologies might enhance learning and teaching experiences, both technical and pedagogical for medi-cine to support training “the doctors of future”.
Helen Porter, Senior Technician/Prosector (commenced 28th January 2019)
Helen previously worked in the medical school at Durham University, assisting with delivering the last two years of the medical programme before moving onto Newcastle University.
Helen was drawn to Lincoln for the exciting opportunity of helping to set up a new medical school, coming full circle from having just helped to close one down. Helen holds a BSc in Anatomy from The University of Liverpool and an MSc in Human Evolutionary Anatomy at Hull York Medical School.
Helen will be spending a good proportion of her time at the Queens Medical Centre helping prepare pro-sections for our anatomy teaching at the Lincoln Medical School and is looking forward to meeting col-leagues in the Nottingham team.
Rachael King, Senior Administrator (commenced 7th January 2019)
Rachael has been on secondment with the Lincoln Medical School since September 2018 and has been success-ful in obtaining one of the permanent Senior Administrator roles. Rachael brings a significant amount of school and registry based experience to the medical school, joining from a previous role in central Student Administration at the University of Lincoln.
Previous to this Rachael helped set up the school of Maths and Physics at the University of Lincoln so already understands what is involved in setting up a new school and is excited to be learning about all the requirements associated with delivering medical education. Rachael has been an instrumental member of the small support team that has been co-ordinating all of the student recruitment activity for Lincoln applicants to date.
We are also pleased to confirm that Dr Gill Garden has taken up the permanent position of Director of Clinical Skills and Dr Runa Saha has taken up the permanent position of Director of ECPD. Profiles for both Dr Garden and Dr Saha are available on the Uni-versity of Lincoln website at https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/medicalschool/academicstaff/
STAFF RECRUITMENT UPDATE
WIDENING PARTICIPATION UPDATE
Dr David Boldy, Acting Widening Participation and Outreach Champion talks about our work to widen participation into medicine.
“The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission noted in 2012 that “medicine lags behind other professions both in the focus and in
the priority it accords” to widening access and social mobility. At that time, 80% of medical students came from 20% of schools, and
50% of secondary schools did not have any students applying for medicine.
To widen participation (WP), there has been a substantial increase in the number of gateway or foundation year programmes available
at medical schools from 2 in 2002 to 20 in 2019. Lincoln Medical School has 80 places a year, of which 15 are reserved for young peo-
ple who enter through a foundation year. There are a number of different criteria that can be used to determine WP offers, and we will
be following the University of Nottingham method which uses postcode data.
Simply put, if you are applying to LMS, you put your postcode into the University of Nottingham checker and will get an immediate re-
sponse as to whether you qualify for the foundation year. The advantage for students from less privileged backgrounds is that the entry
requirement for medicine is BBC at GCE/A level, rather than AAA or above. Conversely, the disadvantage is that these students will be
at university for an extra year.
The University of Lincoln is supporting these students with a bursary scheme, and efforts are being made to look at other sources of
financial support, to make this less of a burden. Another advantage of the extra year is that these students will have a year to ensure
that, when they start the BMBS programme, they will be familiar with their surroundings and have acclimatised to life at university.
And finally, like all the University of Nottingham students, they will get a BMedSci as well as BMBS over 6 years, which is the length of
study in most UK medical schools for the extra degree”.
We would like to extend our tremendous gratitude to Dr Boldy for supporting the set up of the medical school and starting
some of the ground work for widening participation in medicine for Lincolnshire. Dr Boldy leaves his acting role at the end of
January 2019 but we hope to continue to work with him, drawing on his extensive experience and expertise as the Medical
School continues to develop and grow.
NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDING
Detailed plans have been submitted for our state-of-the-art new medical school building at the University of Lincoln, in another significant step forward for medical education in our region. Documents and updated drawings which bring to life the vision for a purpose-built teaching facili-ty for future generations of medical students have been submitted in a planning application to City of Lincoln Council.
If approved, the £21 million building would be created next to existing science laboratories, the Janet Lane-Claypon Building, and opposite the University’s iconic Isaac Newton Building on the southern edge of the main Brayford Pool Campus.
The five-storey building will comprise lecture theatres, labor-
atories, clinical and prosection anatomy suites equipped with
cutting-edge diagnostic tools, and a dedicated science li-
brary. Facilities will include a clinical skills suite with mock
consultation rooms (simulating hospital wards or a GP sur-
gery) with the latest technologies to provide high quality
teaching. These will enable medical students to explore the
latest technology developments in healthcare. The building
is scheduled for completion in Spring 2021.
CONTACT US
If you wish to contact a member of the Lincoln Medical School you can reach us at:
Lincoln Medical School
University of Lincoln, Brayford Wharf Campus
Charlotte Scott Building (1st Floor)
Poplar Ave, Lincoln LN6 7DH
Email:
Telephone:
01522 837070