The main discussion topics focused on appraisal of Locum doctors, Job planning for Secondary Care Appraisers, and various discussions regarding SOAR functionality and documentation. Medical Appraisal Team Members update Following internal re-alignment, William Liu, Alistair Bryan and Kris Wright have moved out of the Medical Appraisal Team to become part of the NES Digital Directorate. William will continue to lead on SOAR Development and Alistair and Kris will also continue in their IT related roles, with all three progressing their careers as IT Developers. We wish them well with this change and recognise the valuable support and contributions that they have made over the years as the Medical Appraisal training model in Scotland has evolved. Plans for 2017/2018 Course Delivery and promotion At time of writing it is now approximately 17 months since I took up the post of Training Manager for Medical Appraisal and it has been an eventful period. I joined in the early stages of an existing schedule of training course delivery that was based on the established model of courses being delivered on a rotational basis across the territorial Health Boards. Under this arrangement it was the Health Board’s responsibility to provide the training venue and this was not always easy to do, or for the Board to provide all the room and facility requirements that we would normally seek. Following on from an opportunity to bring an NHS Lothian course in-house to our Westport Offices, it indicated that there could be scope to use the NES estate across the country to host training courses, thus reducing the cost and administrative burdens to Boards, as well as savings around travel and accommodation, whilst also enabling more productive use of staff time during course delivery. This concept was expanded and tested with courses in Glasgow and Inverness and the experiences and feedback have been positive. Building on this, the latest training delivery schedule (currently known as Phase 6) will run from August 2016 to March 2017 and will aim to use the NES offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, and Aberdeen. The latter two venues are smaller, so course sizes will reflect that. Our Dundee offices don’t readily lend themselves to hosting the courses that we deliver, so to be able to accommodate a central Scotland location we have sourced Stirling Court Hotel (formerly Stirling Management Centre) and having already conducted training events there we are happy that it suits our requirements. The current schedule of courses is advertised on the Medical Appraisal Scotland website under Events:
The main discussion topics focused on appraisal of Locum doctors, Job planning for Secondary Care Appraisers, and various discussions regarding SOAR functionality and documentation. Medical Appraisal Team Members update Following internal re-alignment, William Liu, Alistair Bryan and Kris Wright have moved out of the Medical Appraisal Team to become part of the NES Digital Directorate. William will continue to lead on SOAR Development and Alistair and Kris will also continue in their IT related roles, with all three progressing their careers as IT Developers. We wish them well with this change and recognise the valuable support and contributions that they have made over the years as the Medical Appraisal training model in Scotland has evolved. Plans for 2017/2018 Course Delivery and promotion At time of writing it is now approximately 17 months since I took up the post of Training Manager for Medical Appraisal and it has been an eventful period. I joined in the early stages of an existing schedule of training course delivery that was based on the established model of courses being delivered on a rotational basis across the territorial Health Boards. Under this arrangement it was the Health Board’s responsibility to provide the training venue and this was not always easy to do, or for the Board to provide all the room and facility requirements that we would normally seek. Following on from an opportunity to bring an NHS Lothian course in-house to our Westport Offices, it indicated that there could be scope to use the NES estate across the country to host training courses, thus reducing the cost and administrative burdens to Boards, as well as savings around travel and accommodation, whilst also enabling more productive use of staff time during course delivery. This concept was expanded and tested with courses in Glasgow and Inverness and the experiences and feedback have been positive. Building on this, the latest training delivery schedule (currently known as Phase 6) will run from August 2016 to March 2017 and will aim to use the NES offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, and Aberdeen. The latter two venues are smaller, so course sizes will reflect that. Our Dundee offices don’t readily lend themselves to hosting the courses that we deliver, so to be able to accommodate a central Scotland location we have sourced Stirling Court Hotel (formerly Stirling Management Centre) and having already conducted training events there we are happy that it suits our requirements. The current schedule of courses is advertised on the Medical Appraisal Scotland website under Events:
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