Educational Excellence Award Winners shine during ADEPT Showcase Event
A special afternoon of award presentations was held in NIMDTA on Wednesday 26th June 2024 as part of its annual Educational Excellence Award celebrations.
We were delighted to have in attendance Professor Lourda Geoghegan, Deputy Chief Medical Officer from the Department of Health Northern Ireland, and Professor Neil Kennedy, Director of the Centre for Medical Education, Queen’s University Belfast.
Postgraduate Medical Dean and Director of Medical Education, NIMDTA, Dr Camille Harron delivered the Welcome Address to all invited guests and a video showreel of ‘Educational Excellence Award’ Winners was displayed on a large screen. The video captured award recipients receiving their awards from their nominators in their place of work. It was wonderful to see the surprise and delight on the winners faces when presented with the awards! The room filled with applause when the showreel ended.
Dr Harron said, ““The purpose of the ‘Educational Excellence Awards’ is to officially recognise and celebrate the successes achieved during the academic year of Doctors and Dentists in training, Trainers and Educators across Northern Ireland. This forms part of NIMDTA’s VALUED strategy to ‘Applaud & acclaim success’.
It was wonderful to listen to the acceptance speeches from all the worthy winners! It is encouraging to see the support for ‘excellence’ from our partners and host organisations today, and I am delighted to see more and more Trainees and Trainers being nominated for their outstanding work.”
The Educational Excellence Award category winners were:
‘Innovation in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’
Dr Bernice Kai Yeng Ng
The award was chosen for outstanding work on a mixed methods project, conceived to inform an iterative curriculum design, culminating in the delivery of an enhanced clinical induction programme for International Medical Graduates.
‘Outstanding Success in National Examination’
Dr David Johnston
Nominated by Dr Jonathan McAleese for his outstanding achievement of being presented with the Gold Award for ‘exceptional performance’ at the National FRCR Examination for Clinical Oncology
‘Outstanding Success in National Examination’
Dr Emma Wilkinson!
Nominated by Dr Claire Barker for her outstanding achievement of being awarded the FRCA Final Examination Chair’s commendation in a 2023 sitting of Final FRCA Exam. Also scored within the top 5% of candidates for her final written examination.
Innovation in Training (Trainees)
Dr Patrick Hann
Nominated by Dr Dearbhail Lewis for his outstanding work on the development of an Inter-Professional Simulation Review Tribunal (MHRT). This is highly innovative work which has never previously been done in Northern Ireland.
Innovation in Training (Lead Education Providers)
Dr Paul Baylis
Nominated by Dr Athinyaa Thiraviaraj for his outstanding work on the delivery of quality Simulation Based Medical Education within the MedEdWest Team and the implementation of the Teach the Trainer Training Course.
Innovation in Training (Trainer/Educator)
Dr Jim McMullan, Dr Miriam Dolan, and Dr Louise Sands
Nominated as a group by Ms Anna Lyons from Versus Arthritis for their outstanding work on the Versus Arthritis UK-wide health service improvement 'Story of Change' that was completed on the basis of interviews and feedback.
‘Recognition of National Award’
Dr Alicja Jasinska-Piadlo
Nominated by Dr David McEneaney for her outstanding achievement of becoming a Winner of The Brian Maurer Young Investigator Award (BMYIA) awarded by Irish Cardiac Society during the Annual Meeting on 14th October 2023.
ADEPT Clinical Leadership Fellows 2023/2024 each presented an overview of project outcomes, innovations and experiences from their host organisation placements to date, and feedback on formal leadership training including mentoring and coaching they attended as future leaders in healthcare.
Professor Geoghegan presented each ADEPT Fellow with their awards!
The event concluded with a networking opportunity amongst the current ADEPT Fellow cohort and the incoming cohort for next year.
View the ADEPT Showcase Showreel below!
If you would like to know more about the Educational Excellence Awards or the ADEPT Clinical Leadership Programme, contact: ValuedTrainees@hscni.net
