Annual Medical Education Conference 2024 Resources 

Professor Sujesh Bansal is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and MAHSC Honorary Clinical Professor at Manchester. He has a busy educational portfolio and is the Director of the Manchester International Fellowship Scheme, a multi-specialty scheme and is also Associate Director of Medical Education for the Trust with remit of about 1200 Locally Employed Doctors in the Trust. He has a specific interest in the induction, supervision, support, and career progression of overseas doctors and LEDs. He is a member of AoMRC's MTI Steering Group, NHSE_WTE IMG Wellbeing Steering Group, RCoA’s Portfolio/CESR Assessment Group and sits on the council of MedEdLeaders-UK.

Dr Alice Brooke is the Undergraduate Lead for the Year 3 Psychiatry Programme at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. They work clinically as a consultant in Early Intervention in Psychosis in East Sussex.

Emma Flint is a Core Psychiatry Trainee (CT2) with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, who has recently completed a one-year fellowship in Medical Education and Simulation within the same trust. During this time, her work focused on the use of 360-degree videos as a means to enable students to encounter otherwise inaccessible psychiatric environments. She hopes to continue exploring this, as well as her interest in the overlap of psychotherapeutic work and simulation facilitation, as part of her Masters over the coming two years.

Dr Sophie Butler is a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and is the Lead at GKT Medical School for Year 3 and Year 4 Mental Health.

Jesmine Dhooper has completed five years of medical education at Nottingham University, where they developed a strong foundation in clinical practice and medical research. Currently serving as a Foundation Year 1 (F1) doctor at Darent Valley Hospital, they are committed to providing high-quality patient care. Their research endeavours include multiple projects focused on international dementia care in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), highlighting their dedication to advancing global health initiatives. Additionally, Jesmine initiated and ran a psychiatry mentorship scheme at Nottingham University, aimed at guiding and supporting medical students in their psychiatric training. With a special interest in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) psychiatry, Jesmine is actively involved in creating a newsletter designed to make research articles accessible to individuals with intellectual disabilities, further demonstrating their commitment to inclusive healthcare education and advocacy.

Dr Anastasios Dimopoulos is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the NHS, and the current Chair of the Philosophy SIG of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has an MA in Philosophy and Mental Health from UCLan, and currently is in the final year of an MA in Medical Education in clinical contexts with QUMUL. He is also trained in Phenomenological Existential Analysis. His primary research interest regards the future of medical education in mental health, with a particular emphasis on the development of professional identity and expertise in an era of technological disruption.

Dr Mhairi Hepburn is a consultant in old-age psychiatry in Perth, an honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Dundee, and an Equity Champion for RCPsych in Scotland. Being diagnosed with bipolar disorder while training and later with ADHD after several years as a consultant has led to numerous adventures, including providing neurodiversity training to a diverse range of groups, singlehandedly setting up a pastoral support service for core trainees, participating in the RCPsych Disability Task and Finish Group, and co-founding a project called "Clinic Letter Fairy Godmother." She has gained a local reputation as "the colleague you speak to if you think you might be neurodivergent" and, most importantly, has completely reframed her view of herself with a neurodiversity-informed perspective. Her particular interest lies in improving inclusion and respect for diversity within psychiatry; everyone should be able to go to work with the same right to be there, to be themselves, to feel comfortable, and to have opportunities for success. Professional affiliations:  MBChB, MRCPsych, PGDip(MedEd), FHEA. Consultant in old age psychiatry (NHS Tayside), honorary clinical lecturer (University of Dundee), equity champion (RCPsych in Scotland).

Dr Declan Hyland, MBChB   BMedSci   MRCPsych   PGDip   PGCert is a Consultant in inpatient general adult psychiatry on a female ward at The Brooker Centre, Runcorn, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.  He has a longstanding interest in medical education and holds multiple undergraduate and postgraduate roles in this field.  Since December 2022, Dr Hyland has been appointed RCPsych Associate Dean for Choose Psychiatry / Recruitment.  One of his responsibilities in this role is in leading on the RCPsych’s Psych Star scheme.  He has been the lead clinician for the scheme since it started in 2019.

Dr Dominic Johnson I started my career in dentistry graduating from Newcastle University with BDS (Hons.) in 1996 and then FDSRCS(Ed) in 1999. I graduated in medicine at Newcastle with Distinction in 2002.  I did my higher training in Forensic Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. I worked as Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in London until I was appointed as a Clinical Senior Lecturer for NUMED Malaysia in June 2011. I was then appointed as Dean of Clinical Affairs there in October 2012.

I returned to the UK in August 2014 and was a Clinical Sub Dean, the MBBS Course Lead for professionalism and I led Fitness to Practise on behalf of Newcastle University.

I was awarded a PhD in July 2022 for my thesis looking at the experience of medical students resitting Final year.  In July 2022 I took the role as Vice Dean- Clinical at the School of Medicine at Liverpool University. I have a national profile on student Fitness to Practise and work for the GMC as a Health Assessor and Regional Liaison Associate. 

Dr Chris Kowalski is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust where he is also the Simulation Lead. His experience in mental health simulation has led to educational fellowships in Maudsley Simulation and at the University of Toronto. Dr Kowalski also holds a role as Deputy Undergraduate lead for the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Dr Joel Lawson, ST6 in Dual General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry in Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. Started new role as Kent & Medway Medical School Year 5 speciality lead in August 2024 alongside my training. Joel has recently completed a 1 year medical education fellowship, helping re-design the GKT school of medicine psychiatry curriculum in line with the incoming MLA.

Dr Shevonne Matheiken is currently an ST6 registrar in Old age psychiatry in East of England.  She has a keen interest in neurodiversity, inclusive leadership, digital innovation, doctors wellbeing and reducing inequalities in health care. During her role as psychiatric trainees committee (PTC) vice-chair, she was the project lead for the RCPsych podcast series on doctors well-being titled ‘You are not alone’. 

She won 1st prize at an international competition at World Congress of Psychiatry in 2022, talking about co-production as the bridge between medical and social models of ADHD. Her paper titled 'Adult ADHD: time for a re-think' published in BJPsych Advances was awarded Editors Choice 2024 at RCPsych awards.

Dr Edward Mellor is a psychiatrist working in a central Manchester homebased treatment team providing an intense community intervention to prevent acutely unwell patients with psychiatric difficulties being admitted to hospital. Dr Mellor has a number of educational roles as both the core psychiatry course organiser for Greater Manchester mental health trust and is he is also the north West deanery lead for psychopharmacology. Dr Mellor is a person with Tourettes syndrome but also a clinician with a special interest in treating Tic disorders using psychological and social interventions. He is passionate about improving outcomes for clinicians with neurodiversity and a frequent speaker on all things related to neurodiversity at regional and national conferences.

Dr Nathan Moore, PhD MEd(Adult) RN FAIDH CHIA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-moore-faidh/Co-Founder Frameless Interactive | General Manager – Learnsuite Health, and Senior Lecturer | University of Sydney – Faculty of Medicine and Healthhttps://www.framelessinteractive.com.au/

Iyinoluwa Popoola is a medical student at King's College London, currently pursuing an intercalating Master's degree in Mental Health: Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry at Queen Mary University of London. She is passionate about mental health and in particular its intersection with cultural factors.

Dr Jo Rodda is a consultant psychiatrist and has been involved in teaching and research throughout her career. She began work at KMMS in September 2020 and is currently divides her working week between the medical school and her role as a consultant psychiatrist and researcher in Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT).

Dr Abiram Selladurai is currently an ST7 working in CNWL. He is a Dual General and Older Adult Higher Trainee who is hoping to pursuit a career in Addictions. He was a RCPsych Leadership and Management Fellow in 2023/4 and is passionate about leadership and medical education.

Professor Rohit Shankar MBE, FRCPsych

https://researchportal.plymouth.ac.uk/en/persons/rohit-shankar

Rohit is a professor in Neuropsychiatry with University of Plymouth Peninsula School of Medicine and director of its Cornwall Intellectual Disability Equitable Research (CIDER) unit https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/cider-cornwall-intellectual-disability-equitable-research. He is the associate Dean for academic training for Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). He is a consultant in developmental neuropsychiatry and clinical director for the Cornwall adult intellectual disability services. Awarded an MBE (2018) for services to the learning disability community he has national/international awards including the RCPsych Digital Team of the Year (2023), RCPsych Intellectual disabilities team of the year (2021), British Medical Journal (BMJ) awards for mental health (2020), Education (2019) Neurology (2016), Innovation (highly commended-2017), ILAE Epileptic Disorders best paper (2017) and Epilepsy Foundation America SUDEP Challenge (2016). His interests are in co-producing with patients’ translational clinical research in neurodevelopmental/neuropsychiatric disorders, risk management, and health technology. He has over 300 index-linked publications/ book-chapters and led/contributed to various national reports with over 90% as first/last and/or corresponding author. Publications are on https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1183-6933 & https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/rohit-shankar

Dr Harkanwar Singh’s educational work focuses on finding novel ways to approach learning in psychiatry through foundational and accessible teaching. This has included an iterative approach for medical undergraduates to make decisions around prescribing in clinical scenarios. Dr Singh received the ‘Education Innovation Fund at King’s College’ in 2022 for a pilot project on clinical reasoning for medical students.

 Dr Yuki Takao, ST6 in Dual General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry in South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Currently in the role of SLaM Lead for Year 4 Mental Health Block at GKT. Yuki has recently completed a 1 year medical education fellowship, helping re-design the GKT school of medicine psychiatry curriculum in line with the incoming MLA.

 Dr Helen West is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and MBChB Theme Lead for ‘Psychology and Sociology as applied to Medicine’ at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on medical student mental health and wellbeing; trauma-informed clinical education; and neurodivergence in healthcare settings.

 Professor Charlotte Wilson Jones has been a psychiatrist at The Maudsley  Hospital for 30 years. She is the Director of Undergraduate Psychiatry for South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She is the Director of Mental Health Education MBBS at GKT School of Medical Education and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. She is Professor of Psychiatry Education & Innovation at King's College London and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Psychiatry at The Royal College of Psychiatrists.

 Hannah Yang has worked in Oxford over the last two years as an NHS England South-East Multi-professional Fellow in Simulation, researching the use of virtual reality simulation in teaching foundation doctors whilst completing her masters in Clinical Education. She has previously worked with the Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research (OxSTaR) Centre, supporting as faculty for their high-fidelity simulation teaching for medical students and foundation doctors. She also contributed to the design and delivery of the first OxSTaR Virtual Reality Train the Trainer course. Following this, she has worked as a simulation fellow at Oxford Health Foundation Trust, supporting the 360 video undergraduate teaching programme and designing, delivering and evaluating the use of virtual reality simulation for foundation doctor psychiatry teaching. She is currently working as clinical fellow in palliative care at St Christopher's Hospice and is supporting research into the therapeutic use of virtual reality for pain management alongside her clinical role.

 Dr Michael Zervos is a registrar on the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Run-Through programme in Northwest London. He completed the academic foundation programme in Medical Education at Torbay Hospital in Devon, and holds a Masters in Clinical Education. His area of academic interest is reflective practice and professional development, both of which have informed the presentation today. He is co-lead for Schwartz Rounds at Imperial College School of Medicine, and is currently on the Balint Society accreditation pathway. 

Dr Nathan Moore has recorded a fascinating presentation about Applying AI into medical education:

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Dr Nathan Moore,, PhD MEd(Adult) RN FAIDH CHIA

Co-Founder Frameless Interactive | General Manager – Learnsuite Health, Senior Lecturer | University of Sydney – Faculty of Medicine and Health

Frameless Interactive

• The RCPsych Psych Star scheme (PDF) - Dr Aryan Arora, Dr Jesmine Dhooper, Dr Iyinoluwa Popoola
• Charting new horizons: understanding the impact of the medical licensing assessment (PDF)- Dr Yuki Takao, Dr Sophie Butler, Professor Charlotte WIlson, Dr Joel Lawson
• Exploring how extended reality can be used to achieve learning outcomes relevant for psychiatric medical education (PDF) - Dr Susannah Whyte, Dr Emma Flint, Dr Hannah Yang, Dr Chris Kowalski
• Learning by concordance (PDF) - Dr Harkanwar Singh and Dr Sophie Butler
• North West London CT3 Development Programme (PDF) - Dr Abiram Selladurai, Dr Gabriella Bernstein, Dr Ellice Caldwell-Dunn, Dr Rajiv Joshi
• How to make psychiatric supervision the best hour of the working week (PDF)- Dr Michael Zervos, Dr Sukhdip Bahia, Dr Emma Stimson, Dr Zeenat Mahmood, Dr Dominic Aubrey-Jones

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• Read the paper on Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: time for a rethink?  (PDF)

Authors: Shevonne Matheiken, Meriç Erden,  Rajeev Krishnadas and Mariana Pinto da Costa

Summary

Recent years have seen a rise in media coverage as well as demand for specialist attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessments in adults and children. This article explores the challenges in the diagnostic process for adult ADHD, amidst much misinformation and controversy. In doing so, we look at the social model of ADHD; a glossary of terms to better understand lived experience; underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis; and the fallacy of the ‘high functioning’ label. We propose the use of co-production to bridge the gap between the medical and social models. We conclude with suggestions for future research. The article includes anonymous contributions from doctors with ADHD.

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