Medical Educators Involved in Student Support (MEDISS)

Overview

Name of this SIG?

Medical Educators Involved in Student Support (MEDISS).

What is its purpose?

To develop a national community of practice to ensure all our medical students are effectively supported during their training.

    Objectives:

• To determine areas of best practice of effective medical student support
• To develop, share and disseminate new initiatives and information
• To encourage publication of support initiatives e.g. by publishing articles in ASME's journals, Medical Education and The Clinical Teacher
• To establish a national network of medical educators involved in student support
• To collect and articulate group views to appropriate consultations processes

What events and activities does it organise?

• A day conference/ meeting 
• Pop-up events where relevant
• Meeting at the ASME Annual Scholarship Meeting each year

How many members does it have?

Constitution

Who Leads the SIG?

How is the Lead decided?

The two leads set the SIG up in 2018 however once it is established, we will ask membership to nominate future leads. It is envisaged that a new lead will be appointed every 3 years.

How long do they hold this position?

3 Years.

How is the SIG organised?

How do I join this SIG?

Log into your individual membership account and update your interest group preferences, and email the SIG lead on mediss@asme.org.uk.

Is there a cap on how many people can join?

Currently there is not a cap.

Being a member of this SIG

What can I expect from the SIG if I join?

• Access to a community of practice
• Regular updates and relevant information dissemination via website information and Twitter
• Space to advertise your student support events to an interested audience

What will the SIG expect from me if I join?

Attendance and participation in least one event per year.

Will it cost anything to join this SIG?

What do I do if I no longer wish to be a member of this SIG?

Log into your individual membership account and update your interest group preferences, and email the SIG lead on mediss@asme.org.uk.

 Click here to view or download our MEDISS flyer

PAST CONFERENCES

A Virtual Conference Session

Wednesday 9th December 2020

The ASME MEDISS Special Interest Group jointly ran this virtual conference session with the University of Leeds School of Medicine.

The session was suitable for all staff involved in student support for medicine and the health professions including physician associates, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.

The conference included interactive and interesting sessions with an inspirational line up of speakers Dr Caroline Elton (author of Also Human: the inner lives of doctors), Dr Bridgette Bewick (University of Leeds) and Dr Pip Fisher (University of Manchester). The aim of the programme was to help us all think about how we can do things differently (and better) in student support. 

Please click on the links below to access speaker videos 

Almost (or Also) Human - Dr Caroline Elton

Placing wellbeing at the heart of curriculum - Dr Bridgette Bewick

Student support and wellbeing - learning from Covid - Dr Pip Fisher 

Programme

Speakers

Dr Caroline Elton is an occupational psychologist who specialises in career counselling. After completing her first degree at Oxford University she obtained a fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania where she completed a masters in Educational Research. She then returned to the UK and did a Ph.D at the Department of Academic Psychiatry, University College London Medical School. Since 1998 Caroline has worked in medical education including setting up and running an NHS funded careers support service across 70 hospitals in London. In 2014 she left the NHS and set up a specialist career consultancy for the medical profession. In 2018 her book ‘Also Human: the inner lives of doctors’ was published by Penguin/Random House in the UK and by Basic Books in the US.

Dr Bridgette Bewick is Associate Professor in Psychological Health at Wellbeing at the University of Leeds (UK) School of Medicine. Her portfolio of research advances our understanding of monitoring, managing, and modifying mental health and wellbeing. Bridgette is a Fellow of the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence, her LITE Fellowship investigates how to embody Pedagogical Wellbeing into the university curriculum. Bridgette will consider how we can place wellbeing at the heart of university curriculum. She’ll share student experiences of university  before and during Covid-19, and what this means for student support. 

Dr Pip Fisher is Associate Programme Director for Student Wellbeing, and GP and Senior Clinical Lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Manchester. Pip will talk about the positives we can take away from how our student support services have adapted to, and helped our students through, the first ten months of the Covid19 pandemic.