Education conference, July 2023: Care in precarious times

Our education conference, ‘Care in precarious times: how patient stories foster motivation and meaning in our teaching’ went down an absolute storm-right from the powerful and beautifully delivered opening by Theresa Martin, Clinical Programme Developer, Faculty of Science &Health, University of Portsmouth to the ‘Next steps’ segment at the conference close delivered by our James Munro, CEO,  Care Opinion.

Thank you for waiting so patiently for these recordings, but the 8 sessions are now here for you to watch and share (widely) at your leisure. 

We know you will enjoy the video recordings below, but we hope you are able to learn and take away something valuable from the speakers, their expertise and the knowledge that they generously shared in  their brilliant presentations.

Care in precarious times

Theresa Martin, Clinical Programme Developer, Faculty of Science & Health, University of Portsmouth

Theresa opened our conference with a poignant and beautifully delivered overview of Care in precarious times. 

Introducing Care Opinion: not just data, but solidarity

James Munro, CEO, Care Opinion

Care Opinion is a non-profit and citizen centred feedback platform. In this session, James explored how the stories people share are a form of solidarity with the NHS, its staff and the students. 

The use of Care Opinion in simulated placement

Lucy Mottram, Principal Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University

Student nurses and other healthcare professions now use simulated placement as part if their pre-registration teaching and assessment. In this session, Lucy explored how Care Opinion helps to share the voices of patients, service users and carers in a simulation context. 

Care Opinion as the data source for student projects

Trish Harris, Director of Education, School of Medicine, Ulster University

Trish delivered a lively and engaging presentation where she discussed, as a new medical school, the importance of establishing 'partnerships with patients' as a core tenet within their curriculum.

Exploring patient safety issues with Care Opinion 

Kate Owen, Director of Medical Studies, Warwick Medical School

Patient safety is embedded throughout all healthcare curricula. In this session, Kate delivered an interesting presentation about getting students to see the bigger picture when it comes to patient safety. 

Keynote 1: Care Opinion for Context 

Giskin Day, Principal Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College

In this session, Giskin delivered a very engaging presentation on how stories told on Care Opinion are very useful sources of information for the content they provide and how they provide learning opportunities for 'bigger picture' thinking. 

What is the student experience of learning with Care Opinion? 

For the past 3 years, Care Opinion has provided placements for students of the ScotGEM course-a 4 year graduate medical programme taught through a partnership of the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee, in collaboration with NHS Fife, Tayside, Highland and Dumfries and Galloway. 

In this session we hear from Dan Newton, final year ScotGEM student (who passed his final exams this term-huge congratulations from all the Care Opinion team), about what he learnt from his experience of using stories from Care Opinion to inform his research project. 

Care Opinion in interprofessional education 

Lucy Mottram, Principal Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University

Interprofessional education is an integral part of pre-registration learning for health and social care professionals. In this session, Lucy discussed and showcased practical examples of how Care Opinion has been embedded in the integrated curriculum of a large health and social care education provider. 

Keynote 2: Putting patient stories at the heart of medical education 

Kate Owen, Director of Medical Studies, Warwick Medical School

Why are patient stories so important? Kate shared a personal story of becoming a patient, what she learnt and how she has tried to bring this experience into an established medical curriculum. 

Finally 

From all at Care Opinion, we would like to thank our speakers for their tremendously insightful, thoughtful and passionate contributions to our education conference this summer. It was a morning to be remembered!