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January 2024

BOSTU Training 2024 – Member Representation (Various Locations) 9.30am – 1pm

January 26 @ 12:00 am - May 5 @ 1:30 pm

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

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April 2024

Clinical tutors forum: “Tackling unconscious bias on placement”

April 19 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Microsoft Teams,

  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 [...]

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May 2024

BIOS Clinical Tutors Course (Spring 2024)

May 9 - May 11
Thackray Medical Museum, Beckett Street
Leeds, LS9 7LN United Kingdom
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  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 [...]

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BIOS National Clinical Tutors Day 2024 – Glasgow – Face to Face

May 17 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Glasgow Caledonian University, Deeprose Theatre, Govan Mbeki Building, Cowcaddens, Glasgow, G4 0BA,

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

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LOOP Meeting (Face to Face)

May 22 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Moorfields Education Hub, 15 Ebenezer st
London, N1 7NG
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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

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BIOS Stroke and Neuro-rehab CAG study day 2024 – Face to Face

May 23 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Conference Aston – Conference Centre and Hotel, Aston Street, Aston University Campus
Birmingham, West Midlands B4 7ET United Kingdom
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The morning session will include presentations from speakers on up-to-date research, national and international guidelines, and invited topics. The morning will also include brag and steal short presentations from submitted abstracts. The afternoon will be a participatory workshop to develop resources. Programme to be added closer to the date

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June 2024

BOSTU Rep training – Member representation (Online)

June 6 @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Microsoft Teams
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TU reps ONLY. This training will give you the basic information on how to represent a member through a grievance or disciplinary process.

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July 2024

BIOS Annual Conference & AGM – Thursday 11th & Friday 12th July 2024

July 11 - July 13
Pendulum Hotel & Conference, Pendulum Hotel & Conference
Manchester, M1 3BB United Kingdom
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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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