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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
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Clinical tutors forum: “Enhancing the placement experience”
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 the work being done to expand the placement capacity through the simulation placement hub project. Members of the team will be present to giving updates and on hand to ask advice and any questions you may have Agenda: 12:30-12:35 - Introduction: Michael Harmsworth 12:35-12:45 - Update from Simulation placement hub team 12:45-13:25 - Open discussion amongst clinical tutors with opportunity to ask questions to Hub team & university representatives [...]
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Medical Retina Winter Webinar 2024 – Virtual
Medical Retina Winter Webinar: The Medical Retina CAG Steering Group committee would like to invite its members and those interested to attend our Winter Webinar 2024. Talks include: - ‘Past, present and future’ - An overview of Anti-VEGF treatment by Mrs Zoya Hameed, King’s College Hospitals, London - Overview of Professional Certificate of Medical Retina by Miss Michelle Blythe, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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BIOS SEN CAG Annual Meeting- Virtual
The SEN CAG Steering Group would like to invite it’s members and those interested to attend the annual meeting. Presentations will include: -CAG update -Special School EyeCare Service -Liverpool SEN module -Setting up a CVI clinic -Feedback for the 2025 F2F meeting.
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Northern Heads of Service Meeting (Virtual)
Update from services. Plans for future clinical meetings
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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