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January 2024
BOSTU Training 2024 – Member Representation (Various Locations) 9.30am – 1pm
TU reps ONLY. This training will give you the basic information on how to represent a member through a grievance or disciplinary process. Northern - 26th January 2024 Warrington Hospital Lovely Lane Warrington WA5 1QG Southern - 8th February 2024 Seminar Room 2, Education Academy The Royal London Dental Hospital (Basement, Alex Wing) Turner Street Whitechapel London E1 1FR Scotland - 1st March 2024 Seminar Room - Level 7 Queen Elizabeth University Hospital 1345 Govan Road Govan Glasgow G51 4TF Wales - Date to be confirmed Midlands - Date to be confirmed
Find out more »April 2024
Clinical tutors forum: “Tackling unconscious bias on placement”
Online forum for Orthoptic clinical tutors. Aim is to provide opportunity to discuss topics relevant to the provision of clinical placements for undergraduate and postgraduate orthoptic students. This forum will focus on: What is unconscious bias? How students may encounter this on placement and how tutors can better support. This time we welcome Marian Owoniyi (BIOS Equality, Diversity & Inclusion lead) who will be out special guest speaker. Agenda: · 12:30-12:35- Introduction: Michael Harmsworth · 12:35-12:12:45: Talk on unconscious Bias (Marian Owoniyi EDI Lead) · 12:45-13:25 Open discussion amongst clinical tutors with opportunity to ask questions to EDI lead [...]
Find out more »May 2024
BIOS Clinical Tutors Course (Spring 2024)
Thursday 9th May 2024 9.15am – 5pm Friday 10th May 2024 9.00am – 1pm Are you keen to develop your clinic teaching skills? There are limited places available for the BIOS clinical tutor course. The course fulfils the requirements for Lead Clinical Tutor. The course will cover; the expectations of students at each stage in the course, how to adapt your teaching to suit your learners, how to adapt your work environment to maximise learning, balancing clinical pressures whilst providing a productive learning experience, giving constructive feedback writing assessments. Course fee includes refreshments on both days, and lunch on Day [...]
Find out more »BIOS National Clinical Tutors Day 2024 – Glasgow – Face to Face
Programme to be confirmed but will include an update from all 4 Universities. Michael Harmsworth- “Best Bits” from the Clinical Tutors Forums HCPC – Scottish HCPC Rep Simulation Hub Update – Amrit Sehmi NES Simulation Project- Sarah Brown Support for Tutors as we increase capacity EDI etc….all TBC
Find out more »LOOP Meeting (Face to Face)
Confirmed speakers so far: Helen Rogers: Band 5/ 6 run through Andrew Fox: Workforce survey: Connor Beddow: Service development Sonia Macdiarmid: Audit calendar Asha Sharma: Modern health care crisis: a unique solution Tomos Harding-Neale: Orthoptic Stroke service Joe Smith: Orthoptic Tumor monitoring service Judith Gray: Failsafe in paediatric ophthalmology Helen Haggerty: Surgical squint pathway
Find out more »June 2024
BOSTU Rep training – Member representation (Online)
TU reps ONLY. This training will give you the basic information on how to represent a member through a grievance or disciplinary process.
Find out more »July 2024
BIOS Annual Conference & AGM – Thursday 11th & Friday 12th July 2024
The BIOS conference, to be held at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester on the 11th and 12th July 2024, promises to be a fantastic couple of days in this exciting and vibrant city. The conference will cover a range of topics, including, but not limited to, core Orthoptics, research, support staff, stroke, and career development. On both days there will be multiple opportunities to interact with fellow orthoptists, through case discussion presentations, panel discussions and social activities, giving delegates the opportunity to share knowledge, learning and experience. We are delighted to say this year’s Gail Stephenson lecture will be presented by Fiona Rowe, Professor in Orthoptics [...]
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