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So, uh welcome to The Mind, The Bleak Medical Education Conference. Thank you all for joining today. Uh So, I'm a, actually, I'm founder of Find The Beep. Um I'm an ST seven Endocrinology registrar um And welcome to the educational conference. Um The idea of this conference is to innovate and elevate your medical education skills. Um There's our website and our social media if you want to reach out in any way. So, um a little bit about mind the leep um Mind Beep is a free medical education platform. Um At the moment, we've got a community of about 80,000 monthly users and over 220 team members. The idea is that basically a free um practical content um is made by us for us. Um And so it, all of you guys are our community, all of you guys are the people that contribute and that are our audience. Essentially. It's, it's a, the idea is it's a um organization of all of us. Um And the reason that we created this conference is to showcase some of the things that we've learned, um showcase some of the things that might help you hopefully um continue to create amazing content um and answer any questions. So please, if you've got any questions at any point, just put them in the chat, somebody will be moderating and having a look at those and will be aiming to answer any questions along the way. Um This is me. Um So I'm an ST seven ri registrar with London, just completed my master's in medical education, uh very, very arduous work. Um And I've been running mind the leep for about five years. I think one of the things that's really important to say is why I did all of this. Um The reason that I created mine, the beep is because when I started F one back in 2016, which feels like a lifetime ago. Now, I had a really tough time. It was really difficult to navigate all the processes to learn everything that you need. It was so much responsibility and I just kind of felt medical school hadn't prepared me for all the actual practical knowledge I needed. And I knew the mechanisms behind hypoglycemia. But what do I do when a patient's actually having a hypo or what volume of their bladder before I need to actually do something like a cat. It's that practical knowledge that I was hoping to uncover un and hopefully develop a free platform to deliver. The other aspect was career development. It was really tough to kind of work out how to get those Q I those leadership, those teaching experience points in all of those different aspects. And so what I wanted was to create a platform where everyone could join, get their portfolio points, create amazing content together, have some logistical set up which just works and makes it so easy for people to do what they want to do. And so that, that was the idea behind my debate. The plan for today is basically to use all of that over the last five years, my master's medical education, all the amazing experiences of all the people within that community of mind are leads who make amazing, amazing content every day. It's to showcase all of that to learn from them and have a moment to kind of reflect on how you might all improve your medical educational skills. This will count towards er around three hours of face to face medical education. If you complete your feedback, you'll get a certificate that says that uh which is great for portfolios. We will be delivering lots and lots of top tips um to develop your skills. Um We've got a whole range of audience members here from people who are very early in their medical education careers to many people who have been teaching for quite some time. Um And so what we'll do is we'll cater all of the kind of newest advancements, all the things that we've been doing on a daily basis that we've found amazingly helpful and what we'd love to do is answer all your questions. So please ask as many as you have, we'll showcase some opportunities to work with us or also design your own projects and this session will be recorded and uploaded to youtube. So if any of you wanna watch it back, um you can um because there's gonna be a lot of information in this and so it's probably gonna be necessary to watch it back to get everything. Again, these are the three aspects we're gonna be talking about. There's leadership. Um So a couple of my colleagues will be talking through how you might kind of develop leadership skills, um how you can lead a medical education team more on that in a moment, we're then gonna deep dive into projects and pitch. Um So in that aspect, we're going to learn about the individual projects themselves, how we can create a project, how we can launch that project, how we can deliver that project, get feedback and analyze it and basically make it successful and sustainable. And then finally, we're going to talk about plans. We're going to talk about where mind the bleep is going, but why your mind the bleep is going for you, why it's going to go in a way where I hope it's going to be useful for you. But in addition to that um a way where you can talk about how you might want to develop your portfolio and you can have a think about what you might want in terms of developing your own skills. And I can hopefully we can provide hopefully a few tips of how you might achieve that. So, to kick start the first session, um The reason that we have put leadership first is because leadership is an integral part of, of being a doctor of, of basically careers as, as we see them, whether it's points that you'll achieve directly because your portfolio or specialty application says you must have a six month leadership position or if it's a situation where you get indirect points, things that you will have to discuss at the interview. Um Things that you might get asked about when you're applying for your consultant job. Ultimately, every single or even if you're thinking alternative careers, most of the alternative careers will ask you for your leadership experience because they're expecting you to lead on projects as, as a doctor and medical professional in the room. So with that in mind, leadership is integral to anything and everything you do. And what we're going to talk about is how we kind of marry leadership and medical education because those are core parts of every portfolio, every specialty application you might do every career you might go through. And these are, I guess the easier points to grab and easier things that you can really excel at, really make a difference and actually feel really great that you're doing something that's going to be really helpful. Um So, what I'll do is I'll pass it on um to one of my colleagues, um Jan who introduce our speakers. Um and then I'll let them take it away. And so, hi, everyone. I'm Jan V. Um First of all, we're gonna start with James who's gonna talk about MLA Medics. So James is the co founder of MLA Medics and was previously the pediatric lead for mind the Bleed for about three years. He's currently a G PST two and has extensive experience in the special educational needs sector. So I'll pass it on to James now. Ok. Thank you very much. I'll just share my slides. Um So, yeah, so one of the projects that we wanted to tell you about this evening um is a sister website to mind the bleep that some of you may already be familiar with. But others, this may be the first time hearing about it and that's a site called MLA Medics. Um This site is aimed at final year medical students um preparing for the new UK MLA. Um And we were already aware that there are loads of educational sites out there aimed at medical students. Um You know, mind the being a fantastic example of this. Um but there's also geeky medics that do kind of really nice examination articles. Um zero to finals that kind of has nice illustrated videos and things like that. Um But what we wanted to do was try and find an untapped market um within this new examination, um the UK MLA which focused on history taking and communication stations. Um And while all of you at medical school will have learned some sort of structure um to kind of fall back on and to, to kind of go through when taking a history. Um What we want to do is create resources to allow medical students to see the differences in the way that you might take a history for a patient with chest pain or maybe how you might approach a, a child with a fever, how those things are very different from each other. Um And how you can actually show up a lot of your knowledge um and show the examiner how knowledgeable you are, but that will also translate hopefully into some good clinical practice um with any kind of project. Um and leadership positions, there are lots and lots of challenges. Um The biggest one that I've faced both through MLA Medics. Um But also when I was the pediatrics lead at mind, the bleep is getting people to follow through. Um We get loads of fantastic applications um where people have written paragraph, how to paragraph about how passionate they are about this, that and the other and what they, what they might want to do. Um I would say for pediatrics, maybe 80 to 90% of people never got all the way through to actually producing whatever they said that they wanted to, whether that's an article or webinar. Um, and we might, and, you know, and that, that can be actually really quite disheartening. Um, cos, you know, we're, we're all volunteers. We spend a lot of time going back and forth via email or we might do video calls, telephone calls. Um, and the biggest things that I've learned from the experience and I've got much better at is kind of early on setting those clear expectations. Um Actually enforcing deadlines, even if it is just that we have a conversation as colleagues and say, well, ok, what have you got on at the moment? When do you think you might be able to kind of come through on this or when do you think we could be scheduling that and then actually hold them accountable as a colleague like we do with all of our colleagues that we work with. Um And one of the perhaps slightly less orthodox techniques that I have adopted is just whenever I've got someone that's joining my team, I immediately set them a task, not a difficult task, but a task that just shows me that they're committed to actually doing what they say they're going to do and that they do have an interest that they are motivated. The other big thing that I really struggled with when I first started in the leadership role of mind, the bleep um was resisting the urge to just do everything myself. Um, I think as doctors, as medics, I think we do have a personality type. Um, where we, yeah, we're definitely go getters high achievers and we want everything to be really fantastic or perfect. And when you're in charge in, in charge of a project, it's really hard to not actually just say, ok, well, I need someone to do that. Well, no one really wants to do. I'll, I'll do that and all they actually, I'm not really sure about this thing that my colleagues produce. So I'm gonna do that as well and very quickly this snowballs and actually, you end up doing basically the work of an entire team on your own, um which isn't sustainable um at all. Um It's not particularly efficient as you can imagine. Um But also you, you're not taking advantage um of all the different skills and attributes that your, your colleagues and your teammates bring. Um because you're only getting your perspective and your way of working. Um So what I've kind of done to work on that is kind of actually thinking about what the different roles and responsibilities are at within my team. And right at the start, actually, sometimes even writing down or having a conversation and saying, well, this is what the job is, this is the description, this is what we expect from you, but this is what we're gonna give you in return. Um and just getting a little bit more comfortable with delegation. Although that's still something I'm, I think I'm still working on. Um and a big way that I think one of the things that you really need to consider when you're delegating or setting these kind of roles and responsibilities is understanding people's motivation. Um As Akash was saying, you know, we want to produce fantastic resources so that, you know, all of our, our colleagues, our future colleagues can benefit from them. Um And it's kind of paying all the good teaching, all the, all the help that we had when we were early on in our careers and kind of paying that forward to the next generation. But that might not necessarily be everyone's motivation coming in and helping on these projects. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with saying I want to put on a 12 week webinar series because I need it for my portfolio when I apply for surgical training, for example. Um But actually having that conversation with the the applicant coming in, making sure that we're both on the same page as you know, why is putting on a 12 week webinar series seen as desirable? What skills do you think it's gonna develop in you or what do you think you need to work on? And that I found can really help both as a leader to, to understand where, where your teammates kind of coming from, but also getting the person themselves to to properly understand what work is required to actually achieve the task, but to do it well and make it much more than just a tick box on a on an application. Um And then thinking about motivation as well as understanding kind of our colleagues and or future colleagues, what their motivation is maintaining your own motivation can be quite difficult when you, when you transition from perhaps being part of a team to that, that next step of being a leader. Um I found particularly being a section lead, it's really easy to become basically an administrator rather than a teacher. And most of my time is producing, you know, or providing itri t support, generating certificates, writing people, letters. And actually, that's, that doesn't necessarily align with why I first got into it and wanting to be a teacher. But is then looking for that next challenge of how can I go from being a teacher to a mentor or from a team member to a leader and looking for those new challenges and recognizing where we have had some success. So you'll, you'll hopefully um be able to see the front page of our MLA Medics website um in front of you. Um There is also a QR code that is linked to our contribution section. Um If you're interested in contributing to medical school resources, um we would, we would really love to hear from you. Um try to incorporate some of the things that I've spoken about into your application. So you know, why do you want to be involved? What are you hoping to achieve yourself or what you're hoping to develop skills wise and then kind of having a think about how we can support you to do that. Um And as well also obviously have a listen to all the the rest of the speakers this evening. Um Hopefully that will give you some insight to writing a really nice application, but also finding that role that hopefully develops you um as a professional and as a person. Thank you very much for listening. Perfect. Thank you very much James, really useful. Um I'm now gonna pass it on to our next speaker who's Ramer. So, um Raia is one of the three Cole for Fy One team at Minder. Um She's currently an fy two studying uh working in Newcastle, although relatively new to mind the lie, she and her fellow Fy one cos are passionate about supporting newly qualified doctors through developing high quality educational content. So I'll pass it on to rat now. Thanks so much Chan V. I'm just gonna get my slides up. There we go. Oh, we've gone to the end. Lovely. All right. Uh We'll get a sneak peek. What's to come fab. So I'm RAA, I'm one of the co leads, one of three co leads of the mind, the bleep Fy one team. And today I'm going to be speaking to you all about leadership practices that I've found effective so far in my experience of medical education. So a little bit about me, as John mentioned, I'm an F two currently working in Newcastle upon Tyne. Um I, I'm quite new to mind the bleep. So I joined back in May 2024 in this role. And before that, my previous leadership experience was very much limited to sort of university societies like meds. So, so not a great deal of experience before this, this is probably the biggest role that I've done in terms of leadership. So here's in our fy one team, there's three of us co-lead says, me, um there's Manish and there's viv as well and we all work together and collaborate together, but obviously, there's the wider mind, the bleep team behind that as well. Um Who we collaborate with all the time. So we've got Deanery Reps, webinar leads um the Fy One survival guide team led by Mabasa, who we're gonna hear from later. Um The final year team I and Kirsten specialty leads and Akash, of course as well. So it's a really quite a big team to be honest when you consider all those people um since May, um when the three of us took over this role in partnership, um We've done a few different things. Um We started off by learning some webinar and me skills from the final year team and collaborating with them and on the preparing for Fy one course that was fab that was aimed at sort of helping medical students in their final year transition into the F one role, which can be so daunting as I'm sure all of us know, um Viv has been highly involved in recruiting a new set of deanery leads um as well as less than full time and I MG reps as well. So that's been a really big task um in terms of expanding our own team. Um She's also been involved with collaborating with the prescribing team at mind the bleep um in doing a PSA for IM GS series. Um And we've also had Mossa um who has been developing the Fy One Survival Guide and we're gonna hear a little update from him shortly about this um in the background of all of that. Um We spend a lot of time sorting through our email inbox um and scouting out for potential new projects as well and a little sneak peek of what's to come. Um We've got our own little webinar series um coming up from October onwards, um which is sort of aimed at helping to support F ones through their um first set of on calls essentially. So, in terms of what we found challenging so far, um we're, as I've said before, we're a really large team. So we've got three of us cos but also a really large team behind that as well. And we do get a really high volume of queries to our email inbox. Um And as I'm sure you can appreciate and we've all got busy writers as doctors and also very busy lives. Um So juggling all of that can be quite tricky. So what I thought I would talk about today mainly is um how important teamwork is in leadership. And as I feel that it's something that's unique to the fy one team, there's three of us co leads. Um And so we do work very closely as a team and the way I see it, there's four of components to what's helped us be successful so far. And the first is communication. Something we found really helpful is scheduling meetings which have a purpose. So not just saying, we're gonna have a meeting every single week or every single month um without really having a purpose to those meetings, but saying, look, we're gonna have a webinar planning meeting. Um And along with that setting a really clear agenda in advance. And so actually writing that out and sending it out in advance, even if that's just a meeting between the three of us co leads, we just like to do that. So then we all come prepared, we can be efficient, get the meeting done in half an hour and eat all of our dinners to be quite honest. Um Alongside the sort of sort of face to face meetings um online, we also have a little whatsapp group. Um And that feeds into what I call the convenient side of communication. And so again, we're all busy and sometimes when things occur to you in the middle of the day, you just want to drop a message about it rather than saving that for a big meeting. The next side of things is organization. Um So with lots of projects on the go um and a high volume of queries to the email inbox, we have to keep on top of things. Um And so something that's worked well for us is taking really good minutes from our meetings. Again, even if that's just a meeting between three people, it's just useful to have some record of it. And then from the minutes generate a to do list for, for example, myself, Manish and V. And so we each come away from that meeting with a to do list that's for ourselves. Um Something that we're experimenting with um is using A II, don't think we've quite worked it out. Um How to use A I to generate those to do lists and minutes, but it's definitely a work in progress for us. Um We all find deadlines a little bit daunting, I think. And it can as a leader, I think, feel a bit scary and sometimes unsettling to be the person setting those deadlines. But it is useful sometimes to just say, can we sort this out by Tuesday next week? And it means that actually you just get things done sometimes. Um And it is needed. Um I think James touched on this quite a bit, but delegation is something that we all tend to struggle with. Um For us, there's more sort of large scale delegation. Um So for example, having someone in charge of the fy one survival guide. Um But there's also small scale delegations such as delegating tasks between the three of us co-lead in the team. So that could be saying they've to sort out advertising or Manni to sort out a feedback form for a talk. And then finally, there's cooperation. And so this feeds into the point about us all having busy lives. And I think taking on a role in leadership and medical education can feel like just another thing that you have to do on top of busy ros et cetera. And so it's all about cooperating with each other as leaders and saying that, ok, at a busy point in time in my life, for example, then someone would take charge of things at that point. So we've developed an email on call rota for the inbox. So that means that one person checks it for a couple of weeks and then hands over to the next person. And we're looking at using shared documents and drives to keep on top of all the emails and keep track of what we're getting into the inbox. So that can be very useful in terms of just having a break from, from checking the email inbox, um and also just being organized in terms of having one person in charge of doing that for two weeks. So there's my little tips and tricks in terms of leadership and I hope that was helpful. Um Thanks so much for listening and I'm very happy to take any questions in the chat. Thank you so much, Ramier, really love the presentation. So, um let's talk a little bit more about leadership. So thank you to our amazing speakers who've gone through loads of the aspects of leadership. And this is something that is actually really tough. The reason, it's tough, I would say and please correct me if you think I'm wrong is that we didn't really get much training on this. We go through medical school and then suddenly we're in F one where we're expected to when we're on call, lead an emergency from time to time, we're asked to lead the MDT. People are asking us questions all of the time and looking to us to be able to answer them and troubleshoot and all of these things. And it's, it's quite scary and, and that scare doesn't really change because then you're summary an sho and you've got somebody relying on you asking you questions and you're like, yesterday, I was an F one and then you're a registrar and you're like, oh my gosh, I used to look at the registrar and think, wow, they're doing such a cool job. And then you're the registrar and I think that kind of imposter syndrome plus minus the fact that we don't get much training and leadership makes doing all of this really, really tough. And this is actually what my masters in medical education um focused on. And so I'd like to touch on uh on it all a little bit more. There's lots of different ways that medical education can be provided. So we've obviously been to medical school. There's medical education organizations, there's courses like that, for example, the A s course, there's hospitals where they have their own individual teaching, there's loads of different types of organizations and within all of that, there's these medical education organizations like mindedly um that provide free open access medical education. Um and they're termed mes medical education initiatives and platforms and they're becoming increasingly popular because they kind of fit this niche. They fit this niche of aspects of things that you really want to know but can't find anywhere else. So it's where you get that kind of career series where you get that top tips to learn or do or manage. This examples include life in the fast lane, geeky medics and many, many others. And they are really challenging because the way the whole kind of system is set up is we've got to run these, we've got to run them for our careers because we've got to show evidence of running teaching programs collaborating with others. We've got to show evidence of running that teaching program often for three months, collecting feedback. So many aspects of leadership that we have to demonstrate, including if you've even got a part of your specialty application, saying six month leadership position and we don't get any training and we're suddenly dropped into that and expected to be able to run that. And that is really frightening and really challenging. And so I'm hoping that things that I've learned from doing this will really help because there's quite a lot of factors to consider. There's the support for leaders, which was all the things we've just discussed. But knowing how to provide that oversight, knowing how to have a structure that works for you, all of those things are key things to consider what my colleagues um have touched on. Are there are so many different aspects to consider so many aspects um that we're thinking, how, how do we do this, what do we do? Um And how will we go about this? And so one of the purposes of my masters in medical education was was to deal was to basically create a leadership framework, a leadership framework which is basically a set of principles which gives you like a checklist of things that you need to consider when you're a leader in medical education behind all of this is an appreciation of some of the theories. Now, um I appreciate medical education um theories can be quite boring. Um, I've focused on the ones that I think are helpful and interesting and readily practical because that is what all mind the bleep is all about. Um, but also I think these are really helpful because they're helpful for kind of publications because you always need to consider some of these medical education theories when you're writing something about medical education because it shows a kind of grounded and deeper understanding of what's going on and breaking it down. There's three aspects of kind of leadership in medical education um that you really have to think about. There's the team development that James mentioned, how can we recruit team members, how can we motivate our educators? Then there's the organizational change and the leadership. So the leadership um was what ran you touched on um which is how can we ensure that we're matching our leadership style with the preferences of the educators that we have and making sure that everything kind of goes smoothly and then there's running the organization. And when you're running an organization, you'll have so many ideas of what you might want to do, what you might wanna bring, what you might wanna change. And it's often quite slow to do that. And so it's helpful to think, where are we, what are we doing and how are we going to move through this? So in terms of team development, II, think of all the models, perhaps community of practice is is quite helpful model um to consider it in. So this is kind of a three component model. Um It, it talks about the kind of three components of a community of practice that makes a community practice work. So community of practice is basically a group of individuals who've got a shared goal, shared interests, shared thing they want to do. So, for example, the medical education project and the things to consider are who cares about it. You've gotta make sure that the people you pick um to join you on the team actually care about the thing you're doing. I know it sounds obvious. Um But that is a key aspect of the team that you make because they are going to be the people who are gonna help you break through those barriers. You gotta define what exactly you care about. What is it that you're exactly going to change? What is it exactly that you're going to make content for? And if you focus that down, know exactly the audience that you're going to pick? It just makes it a lot more helpful. Um And then um what we do um together about it um about it. Um So that, that last component is, is about um understanding the kind of step by step process that you're going to do um to make that change and then to, to consider those changes. How are you going to implement those changes? I read like the qas eight step model often, particularly in the NHS. Um We find ourselves um, in, in a place where we're thinking how, how are we going to make a difference? II feel like I'm stuck in the middle. I feel like I'm not really moving. I don't really know where I am. I really wanna do this, but II can't move any further forward. And this is, I guess where I kind of use the aspects of the Cota's eight step model to kind of work out where I am. And what I can do, it gives you an idea of how to exact that change from making people understand that that change is urgent to creating that vision to working out who you're going to work with. And it's about setting goals that are achievable, those deemed smart goals to make sure that you feel like you're moving in a positive direction. And then there's finally um some leadership theories that you need to consider, there's lots and lots and lots of different um leadership styles and, and you hear about them every time you ever attend to talk about leadership, why, I mean, I, I've listed what 10 here or so. Um But there's well over 50. And the, the reason it's important is because you need to know kind of how you work and how your audience works. Uh Sorry, your educators, your team works because that, that dynamic between you um is, is critical, you'll find that you change things. So often when we, for example, when I'm leading a cardic arrest, I will be very authoritative. I will say, no, this is going to happen, that's going to happen, this is going to happen. But typically on my day to day practice, I tend to be more a mixture of democratic and transformational in the sense that I like to speak to people and ask them what they want. And I like to say, well, I've got this idea, that idea, this idea, let's do all of these things. But when you're a kind of person who suggests lots of different ideas, you need a team member who's going to be able to synthesize that bit of information and pick and choose what they want to do. They're going to need to be somebody who's able to set their own deadlines, who's going to have to understand the best way to prioritize these things. And so that transformational leadership style doesn't work for everyone. And it's important to consider that. So what I did using kind of those theories as a basis is talked to a bunch of medical education initiative platform of leaders. And I talked to them for an hour, did a long interview covering all of those different aspects. And then I analyzed those interviews uh using kind of thematic analysis techniques. And with that, I created a set of top tips from everyone, things that you kind of have to do or have to at least consider um to be able to be successful. And these were leadership dynamics, ethical leadership, collaborative team empowerment, pioneering educational technological advancements and strategic evolution. And let's consider each of those in, in, in time. So leadership dynamics, this is all about um how you are going to be a leader to your team and how your team are gonna help support you that, that kind of relationship. So we talked a little bit about leadership style. We talked about how there might be lots of challenges that might happen. 11 of the common challenges that people found where they would recruit a lot of people and would suddenly be like, well, I'm not sure I've exactly defined roles for them. I'm not sure how to lead so many people and give them roles which are actually helpful and important and useful for them. And so it's helpful to have a think about what you might be, might be doing and how you might be interacting with your team. Um Before, before you recruit them, for example, similarly, you've got to adapt to your team's needs. Some teams um will say, um well, actually, um tell me what to do. Um Give me the ideas, give me a breakdown of how I'm going to achieve it and then I will go ahead and achieve it. II guess it all depends on who you are as a leader. Some people like to be really hands on some people like to be really hands off. But being, taking a moment just to reflect on your leadership style means you can recruit a team and set clear expectations of what you're expecting from them. Um So that it's a bit easier. So you're not in a process where you're like, well, I was expecting them to just get on with it and just do whatever project when they were thinking. Well, actually I thought they were going to tell me what to do and I was going to wait until they tell me what to do. And so it's all about giving clear instruction, giving clear support and having that dynamic where both of you kind of know what you want from each other and it's recruiting the right team um helps you do that, you need to recruit team members. A lot of people will describe feeling like, actually, it's probably better if I just do it all myself. It's kind of like group project theory, isn't it where when you were in school and you were given a group project? And you just said, well, actually, I'm just going to do the whole thing because that's just how I work. And I know it will get done. And I know it will be good. The benefit of having a team is it allows you to basically be able to grow, be able to do lots of new projects, lots of new ideas. And that's been really powerful at my, the debate and I had a lot of challenges actually with kind of working out how to recruit team members, working out what roles they can have, what roles are going to be helpful. Because now we've grown to what 220 odd people and it's been really important to be able to kind of sit roles for people where they feel. Well, yes, I'm doing something really interesting. I'm doing something that I really want to do and you gotta be there to kind of help them set up, help them understand their role, but more clear, very clearly explain what you're looking from, from them and ask them what they're looking from, from you finally. And this is one of the things that's really often neglected is that kind of aspect of future leaders. We will all do lots of educational projects. Q I projects, various other projects where we do them for the year that we're there. And then because of rotational training, the way it works, we move away and that project gets lost and then somebody often repeats the exact same project and the same is very true of medical education. We've got so many fantastic resources that people create and then they get lost because things don't move further forward. And so one of the most important things that you can do is consider succession planning. It's about training your educators so that they can become future leaders providing them some mentorship, providing them some support and providing them some training so that they can feel empowered to do things by themselves, feel empowered to recruit their own team and lead their own thing. And this is that kind of beauty of being able to provide leadership training and you can go to endless talks on leadership training that are often delivered by the delivered by the hospital. Er but it's, it's about actually practically imp um applying it, which, which makes all the difference. I think one of the really interesting things which I didn't think was going to come up so much was ethical leadership. It's not really something that we per se consider all the time, do we when we're thinking about leadership? But ethical leadership is all about considering all the things that make leadership good leadership beneficial, making it, making it a kind of useful endeavor. So one of the things is at the recruitment stage, ok, what, what I tended to do was recruit people who really have something different to offer. And I think that's been really powerful. So for example, recruiting IM GS recruiting less than full time reps, all of those people have allowed me to have allowed basically mind the bleep to get a whole set of new perspectives, a whole set of niche content and allowed us to grow into areas that we would not have even considered to deliver content on. But more importantly, are so necessary for people and nobody covers them because you really need to have that kind of niche person because they're the only one who can deliver it. It's also important when you're thinking about what you do to consider ethical leadership of when I discussed with all these organizations. And I asked them, look, you've met a lot of organizations, I mean, there's about 1000 mes a year, aren't there? Which of them have failed. One of the things that they mentioned time and time again was the partnerships and the content. It's important that you all agree on the right content that you want to make. Um And that you agree what is going to boost your platform, boost your reputation, boost your credibility. I've been approached by lots of organizations where you kind of feel well, actually, what they're doing is they're charging doctors through the roof, lots and lots and lots of money for something that's quite small but just critically necessary for one's portfolio. And that's why they're able to get away by charging so much money and that's a really uncomfortable partnership to have. Um because yes, whilst they could financially help mind the so that this free platform could grow further. It's about, it's, it's almost that if you partner with them, then you're kind of sending the wrong message minor. It's important to review these things on a regular basis. Um So what we have is we have a panel of kind of leaders where any kind of new things that we're thinking of, we run them past all of us and consider it and say, well, do we all agree that this is what we want to do and what's been really powerful about that is they've all then suggested top tips um for how we might be able to collaborate with them better, how we might be able to make that content even better for our audience. And so having that panel um can be really, really powerful, collaborative team empowerment. So James talked extensively about how difficult it is to find um building a team that works re I mean, it's, it's a really challenging thing, thing to achieve. And so there's lots of things that you need to think about. The first is um what we've discussed already, which is ensuring that the person fits. Think about how you like deadlines. You're the type of person who prefers somebody to say, look, here's a project. You get back to me when you get back to me, I appreciate your rota. It might take you a few months to do this. But when you've done it, let me know or are you the person who says, well, look, you joined the team, I'm gonna be supporting you, but I also want that back in return and I want you to do XY and Z by Z date. So that flexibility, that workload that you're giving them. Um You've gotta make sure that it fits for you. So, er, coming back again to James where he said that he gives them a small task to see where they are in their, in their place of their commitment and how successful they are going to be delivering things. That's his way of testing and you need to find your way of testing. The next thing is about motivation and what I did was I asked all of them, what do you think motivates uh the team members? And what's really interesting is it's all about skill and portfolio development. And II think that's not, not too surprising to be honest because that's what often drives a lot of us. But once we've joined and if I speak on behalf of a lot of my colleagues, actually, the reason that people often stay is the community, the fact is we all kind of help each other. Like when we've had a bad day, when we've need some help knowing the best resource to revise for an exam or, or when we've had a difficult situation at work and we just need some advice on how to navigate all of this. Ultimately, it's the community that makes us stay. But the thing that motivates us to kind of do what we do every day is about the fact that we feel like we are learning and developing often in F one or kind of in the NHS, you feel like you're doing a lot of administrative tasks and you don't feel like you're making sometimes the biggest differences, but it's about using your opportunities like this to make those differences. So finding the things you care about, finding the skills you want to develop, um finding that mentorship and so you can emulate the kind of person that you wanna be and what, what we've been using is actually a personalized development plan. I appreciate the um there's loads of these um hanging around and people often don't use them. I mean, certainly ACP every year, we need to make a PDP. But it's the PDP that we've got is about picking the things that you really actually want to develop uh in terms of your skills, your portfolio and committing down a plan for. How are you going to make that happen? And that really gives you the motivation to know that. Well, if I put this work in, I can achieve XY and Z. The other thing that's really important is delegating responsibility to people and involving them in the decision making by working together and working as a team. Everyone feels empowered to be able to contribute the amazing content that they can. And, and that's been really powerful because II don't think 95% of the content on my debate would have been made if, if it were just me thinking of the ideas. And so that comes on to the last bit, which is network and strategy it's really helpful to plan group projects because people can bring in all of their different niches and your responsibility as a leader can be to bring them together, to help them network, help them help make those strategy meetings occur so that people feel empowered to be able to do the random things that they wish to do and that they feel that they're supported in doing them. One of the things that I absolutely love are technological advancements. The reason I love technological advancements is because I'm a bit of a nerd. Let's be honest, I do all the kind of coding and programming for mindedly. Back in medical school, I was developing apps for Android and then I got into website development, graphic design and various other aspects. And so I'm always on the lookout for tools that can make things a bit more efficient because I'm used to something, you order 200 to 300 messages a day. I'm used to having meetings one after another after another and II need to make sure that I use my time efficiently because otherwise I won't be able to devote it to all the amazing things I want to try and do. Um And I really love picking up hobbies and so that's what makes it really tough. So this, there's three aspects I want to talk about the best is a adult. Um think about incorporating technologies because that is going to make your life. So much easier. You've gotta spend a little bit of time hearing about these technologies. So coming to this conference means you're already doing that and you've gotta spend some time just playing with them so that you feel comfortable that you can use them to give you some examples. Um So for project technologies, often people use things like Slack Monday, Google Docs, canda. So Slack and Monday allow you to kind of plan projects, allow you to kind of have a group board where you can put the different tasks that you're doing, assign them have updates on what's happening. It gives you the ability to kind of oversee what's going on and it gives all of the people within the team an ability to see how it all fits together and the bigger the projects that you do, the more that you do, you often find that you are just kind of lost in the um lost in the sea. And these kind of technologies really help you understand where you are, what your place is. And so as a as a leader, it gives you the oversight but also powers each individual team member. I also really like things like Google Docs and canvas. Google doc is one that I use quite a lot. Um So one of the probably the biggest things that I've used it for is the um fy one specialty guide. And so what I've done is I've created a document where I said, look, every F one can have access to this. I mean, we've got what, 70 to 80% of the F ones across the UK on our, on our kind of social media channels. So you all have access, you update this document with all your top tips for each specialty. And it's helpful for everyone. We've done a similar thing for the M SRA where we've um highlighted kind of exam scores and what um tools people used and how they succeeded the most. Having these kind of collaborative strategies means that you can really help people because you have an entire team to help each other. Another way we've done this, having these kind of collaborative technologies is simply using whatsapp by using whatsapp and having communities. We, we've built a set of communities for every single specialty for applying to Australia, all the things that people want, going to health tech. And we've found that we've managed to bring people together who can help each other navigate those different aspects and processes. I also like can, if you haven't come across Canda, it's really good because what it does is it gives you the ability to make graphics that really fancy. Like for example, these slides, even when you don't have um even when you don't have any design experience at all, um Someone's asking if there's a community for people applying to New Zealand. Uh Yes, there is. If you go to mind the bleep.com/whatsapp we'll put the link in the group in the chat, er, that has, um, the whatsapp groups, um, for everyone, then there's organization technologies. So the organization technologies, um, that I really like and these are all free are kindly fathom chat, GPT and chat PDF. So calendar, what I like about calendar is it's basically a meeting scheduler you put in the dates that you can do and what people can do is they can pick, um, the date that suits them and they can just book a meeting and that slots into your calendar. It's so much more efficient than what I used to do, which go back and forth, giving free dates and giving three times. And then three days later, I see that they've replied and that meeting that they've suggested has already passed and it's just awkward. Another thing that I really like are, um, like is fathom fathom, do video. I think it is. And what that does is that attends your meeting, transcribes your meeting records, your meeting and does a automatic A I notes and actions. So I use that for all of my meetings, um because it sends a copy to the person that I've met with all the things that we discussed and all the uh all the suggestions. And if I ever want to go back to a meeting and know what I got, I can do that within like five seconds, I don't have to be there taking lots of notes, doing lots of things I can focus on actually doing things and making content. The final thing that I've liked more and more is chat, GPT and chatter, PDF. Chat GPT. I'm sure most of you are familiar with it. This is a um, a place where you can basically just generate text on anything and everything that you might ask. And it's like a Google 2.0. If anything, the chat PDF is another cool tool, what you can do to do that is you can upload a PDF and ask questions about that PDF. So for example, from a medical education perspective, you could upload a chapter of a textbook, but more powerfully as a medical educator, you could upload a whole bunch of feedback on something and ask it to come up with a summary of action points that you could do to make some differences. Now, obviously, you want to recheck that and you want to make sure you're not taking its word for your word for it, but it's really powerful because it means that you can really powerfully get feedback um on something when there's volumes of feedback. So you can make rapid changes to things rapid improvement without that much difficulty. The next part is um strategic evolution. So strategic evolution is all about how you make the website work that that kind of cottage change model. And then after that, um how you can test whether it's working whatever medical education thing that you're doing. Um For me, obviously, it's the, uh it's mind league. There's the aspects that we've already talked about developing that clear vision, conveying it. But then there are also the barriers and there's a lot of barriers that are thrown, thrown your way. One of the big ones is getting people to engage with your idea and adopt your idea. So for example, um we have the F One course and as part of the F one course, so we wanted to launch it nationally. And so it was navigating those finding those venues and doing those things. The other thing was funding um reaching out to kind of sponsors so that we could pay for, for those things. The next part is goals. So you've got to make sure you always have a ready set of goals um that everyone's familiar with about what you plan to do next and having those goals means that you can align your team, align your organization and align your individual um to know that you're moving in a positive direction. And what you wanna do is you want to speak to your team members and ask them, what are they wanting to achieve? What then think to yourself, what are you wanting to achieve and then come up with a goal that matches both of those together. Finally, the last thing is all about performance analytics. It's about finding the right analytics um that are going to make are, are going to be useful. Most people will chase views or users, how many people are attending, how many people have seen the content. But that tells you a snapshot in a moment of time. What you're looking for really is engagement. You're looking for people using them, finding them useful, spreading them through word of mouth. And actually, um, it's that it's the power in that, that feedback and that survey information and that free text that's really powerful. And that's why I mentioned chat BDP is a good tool to use because that's the feedback that's going to tell you whether your content is useful, not because you can make something and it might be seen by a lot of people, but they might close it like five seconds later. That doesn't mean it's useful. So I hope understanding those kind of six categories, five categories actually has helped you think about where you might improve your leadership skills, where you might consider. And I think the key message here is for you to pick and choose which of those to reflect on for your next educational project so that you have more success so that you feel that you're running it more smoothly and keep revisiting them at every point that you can just so that you can use them to continue to grow and build new projects. Mhm Lovely. So, moving on to the next section um is gonna be all about projects and pitch. We talked about leadership. Now we're gonna go into actually, how do we build those successful projects? How do we make those um projects from, from the ground up? How do we do all of those aspects? So they work brilliantly and what we're going to do is have a whole set of speakers that are going to tell you all about their ideas and plans and suggestions for that. Ok. So first we're gonna hear from Addy. So, Ay is the webinar lead for Mind the Bleep. He's an I MT two in London. He's been involved with Mind the bleep for the last three years and he hopes to highlight the key tips and tricks on how to deliver a high quality webinar to a wide audience. So I'll pass it on to him. Thanks for and, and hi everybody. Um Hope you're all having a uh interesting conference so far and thanks a go for the really interesting previous presentation. So my name's Ay. Um I've been uh with my, the Bleak for the last coming up on three years I joined after I attended one of the fy one uh preparation series which will be telling us about later. Um And I've been with him ever since. Um It's as I was talking about, it's been a very nice community to be a part of, aside from the portfolio stuff. And my role has been very much focusing on facilitating webinars for all of our um wonderful uh co members who have been coming up with serious plans and so on just allowing that to, to take place essentially. Uh So I'm just gonna briefly be talking about how we run webinars. Um We've done about 600 webinars by now. So we've, we've learned quite a lot as to what works and what doesn't work. Um I wanna briefly touch on time scales for planning, how to organize a series, some tips for delivering effective and engaging webinars and how to use feedback to engage in continuous improvement, which is something that's really important. Very briefly, just wanted to talk about our timeline at minded leep in terms of what we've done with webinars. And so our very first webinar was back in April 21 which Akash was running a series at the time on er common scenarios faced by fy ones at work. So the very first webinar was on the topic of delirium, which I'm sure we've all seen plenty of on the wards and this was given via Zoom. We switched it a couple of months later to using Facebook live as a means of potentially getting this uh getting our content out to more people in the medical community. And that was through our finance series, which has run several times since then in various forms. We then expanded further in August. We started the radiology series, there was the ongoing Fy one series and the finance series and then later on in uh 2021 and 2022 there was further expansions with several concurrent series running pediatrics, which James was running, who you heard from earlier? Radiology F one in careers. One of the big changes for us, er, was moving from Facebook Live and Zoom, which was a effective but slightly technologically clunky way to deliver webinars, er to Medal Live, er, which is what we're using today. Of course, uh There are several benefits to this. Um and these are benefits that I think any webinar series could could have um namely integration of registration, attendance and feedback forms, things like automatic generation of certificates, uh less spam because Facebook is ultimately a public platform. So we were sometimes prone to having some spam which affected the quality of webinar delivery and the ability to run events concurrently. Of course, we all have really busy schedules with work and so sometimes there are clashes in terms of delivering webinars, but med all allows us to work around that by having multiple events running at the same time. And so to date, uh this was er so that that figure was from a couple of weeks ago. Um But yeah, we've had about 584 590 webinars thus far um across several series. So just to name a few, we've had medical series preparing for F one careers, finance radiology, several series under the surgical umbrella including ent uh plastics, TN O and Max FX final year series and also a wellbeing series. Uh This conference this evening is our second conference. We had one back in July focused on research which went extremely well. And as of the last check that I had, we had 2354 registered members with over 4000 distinct webinar attendees. So we've been doing quite well um over the last few years and we've expanded a lot largely in part, thanks to everyone who's come up with um such a variety of series. So, what's gone? Well, I think one of the things that we've done well as an organization, um and this comes, I guess from the top uh is the variety of series and series leads that we've had. Um So we've broadly delved into lots of different areas of medicine, including general sort of internal medicine, surgery careers, as well as things like wellbeing, alternative careers and a lot of more niche topics which have been really useful to hear from people involved in those areas. Our content is pictured at the level that I think is accessible to most people. Um So looking at the analytics from our webinars and, and who attends them, uh We've seen that there's people both in the UK and also abroad um all all over the world actually. And uh people who attend uh medical students, doctors, allied health professionals to really get a a good range of people who come in. And I, and I do think that's because of the, the kind of equal level of which the content is pitched where there's something in it for everybody looking through some of the feedback that we've got. Um some of the things that, that we've been given positive feedback on include interactivity. So there's particularly strong feedback from webinars where there's AQ and A or interactive polls during the webinars themselves. Um One of the other things when it goes well is um if our speakers are familiar with Medal, um this allows increased clarity of slides and presentations and also streaming quality. Sometimes we have some issues regarding screen sharing and so on which I'm sure you're all familiar with and then also the availability of catch up content and this is both on meal. Um and also on youtube, I was having a look earlier, we've had 21,000 views on Medal and then around in the last month alone, 15,000 views of our um webinars on youtube. So it is a really valuable um resource to have. Um And we are, and, and we do prioritize getting our webinars uploaded to the on demand sections here as quickly as possible. Anecdotally, something I've noticed is that having a consistent day and time scheduling er, for a particular series of webinars er, is often beneficial for series engagement as it allows people to plan er, their schedules around your, your series uh during the time that it's running some examples of positive feedback we've had taken from recent surveys, er, things like true to life examples and well, rationalized explanations having case based teaching, which helps people understand better about kind of. Uh uh for example, I think this was from one of the fy one series. It was uh it was useful for people to be able to learn how to prioritize and delegate tasks, engagement and, and and asking questions and also responding to questions in the chat is something that's normally um proceeded quite well. And someone very helpfully said everything which is always nice to hear as well. So, insights from uh being involved with webinars with the organization for the last few years, I think it's a good idea to give yourself at least 2 to 3 months to plan a series out because this allows for enough time to plan and structure your content, gives you enough time to recruit speakers who often will be extremely busy and it gives you enough time to publicize effectively. This could include both medical students and junior doctors and the platforms we use are Instagram, Facebook are email bulletins actually med all as well. And also word of mouth. I think webs generally function best when they're space at least a week apart or even two. And there's a couple of reasons for this. Um Firstly, it allows you to reflect on the feedback that you receive and to see if there's any key learnings from these that you can apply to your next webinar. The other benefit is that um in terms of applying for core or specialty training, er generally, they, they look for series to run or teaching series to run for at least 2 to 3 months. And so, by spacing these apart in this way, uh you can strike a nice balance between frequency and quality. And as mentioned before, it's often beneficial to find a regular time slot to maximize engagement and to ensure that catch up content is available promptly after the webinars. In terms of what I think we could do better. We're still working on uploading the catch up content to youtube. We've got a bit of a backlog that we're working through at the moment which can be a bit of a time consuming process. Um Advertising is often uh variable depending on which series is, is being pushed. Um But frequent advertising across our various platforms often does maximize engagement and something that does happen from time to time. Of course, are some technical streaming issues relating to sound quality or poor connections or so on. Uh So that concludes just a brief um update on webinars and some key lessons. I think we've all learned how to stay for any questions. Uh Otherwise. Thanks very much. OK, perfect. Thank you very much. Ay. Um Yeah, if you guys have any questions along the way for anyone who's spoken then just pop it in the messages and we can go through them whenever is a good time. Um So I'm gonna be speaking next on the preparing for fy one course. So my name is Jan V. Um I'm a max specialty doctor in F two in London. Um I've been with mind the bleep for about five years. So gonna be talking about the annual preparing for Fy one course that we've been doing for actually the last seven years. So this is really where mind the bleep all started and then we became this online platform. So this is as if people don't know an in person course that we run um every year just about June, July time just before the new F ones are about to start. So the courses run in person for seven years from 2017 to 2024. We just had one year where we didn't do it, which was the COVID year in 2020. Um primarily because of, you know, social distancing, but also because it was the year that they had the F IY one thing. So when people started work a bit early, so the reason the course was really developed was to help new Fy ones with burnout and anxiety. And I think if most people who are doctors now appreciate that, that transition from final year medical student to the first day on the wards is one of the scariest things that we've ever done. And it causes a lot of anxiety. And then throughout the year because of that anxiety, there are very high rates of burnout. And if you guys are interested, you can look at the GMC survey data that they collect at the end of the year and you can see that every year, especially after COVID burnout has gone up higher and higher. And we want to try and reduce this anxiety. And currently, even though there is a shadowing period, um it's not very long, it's only a week and there are no national requirements for it. So the purpose of this course was basically to try to kind of put everything together, everything everyone's scared of when starting F one and try to come up with a more cohesive way of doing a kind of a shadowing type period. Um And I think the important thing to think about from here is that this was all really developed from our own experiences of starting F one and the anxiety that we felt and using that as this is something that's a gap in the market, no one has done this before. So let's try that. Um And then it's developed year on year and I'll talk a bit about that next. So this is a summary of all of our courses by year. So as you can see what we did was it started very small. Um We ran it over two days and we only had one location. Then we use this to kind of every year. We've done feedback and a continuous loop to see how we can improve it. So as the years have gone on, we've increased the number of participants and to do this, we've increased the number of days and we've increased the number of locations. So originally the course started only in London and now for the last three years, we've run it in three different big cities using feedback. We've also tried to kind of get the right amount of time per station. So the way the course works is that we have small group teaching about 7 to 10 people per group and we rotate around and we do a few stations at the beginning, we did 60 minutes, which then we figured out was way too long feedback show people were getting bored, they were getting tired, it wasn't working. So then we tried to cut it down all the way to 30 minutes, but then that was too short. So we had to go back up to 45 minutes and that's how we kind of developed it. We also looked at the number of tutors per station. So at the beginning, we only started with one tutor per station. But what we felt that and this is kind of applicable to any sort of online medical education or in person, medical education things is that there was kind of if there's only one person teaching, it's very difficult to ensure that there, there's kind of clarity in what's happening, making sure it's as effective as possible and making sure that the actual content is appropriate for the people that they're teaching. If there's two of you, you can kind of regulate each other and it works really well. So, yeah, that's what's happened in the last seven years. So the way we've kind of done this and changed all the content and the number of participants and things like that is using something called an action research model, which I think we've all probably used to some extent, but it's just a way of kind of summarizing it. So an action research model is um kind of a continuous cycle that you do and it's using continuous feedback to kind of make changes as you go along. So when you realize that there's a problem in the feedback, you change it and then you re check the feedback and so on. So it involves planning first, you plan what you're gonna do, you then action it, you observe that action. So you observe the courses, observe the feedback, reflect on it and then replan and then keep going. And what that meant is that every year we've changed kind of certain things about the course to try and make it flow a little bit easier, make it better for both the participants and the teachers and try to get it working as smoothly as possible, this can be kind of applied to any sort of medical education and it's just a way of thinking about it. So for example, Ay was talking about the webinars, you would do one webinar, you then look at the feedback and then obviously in the next webinar, you're gonna change what you do depending on that feedback. So how did we collect the feedback? So we did a pre and post course survey and we looked at quantitative and qualitative data. So the quantitative data we mainly looked at is we measured the confidence of the um final year medical student and starting fy one and we did this before the course and after the course, um that was just to check that they, the course was working and doing what we wanted it to do. But then to get more in depth feedback, we could ask for written feedback on different aspects of the course. So this included both the content, the delivery, the teachers and just the overall layout and how it was kind of run as a day. So this allowed us to ensure that the teaching was at the same level across all the days and locations. The important thing as things get bigger is that to make sure that everything is being run the same, whether you're doing it in London or you're having it done in Manchester, we want the um the participants to have the same level of teaching throughout the whole time. So sorry for this busy slide, but it was just to show you the results of what we've had. So as you can see, overall confidence in starting F one has increased post course and that's what we wanted to look at. But this is useful, but obviously, it's only a scale out of five and it's not go, it shows that the course is effective, but it doesn't give us enough in depth feedback on how to change things. And that brings me onto a slide that we'll talk about later. Um How about how we changed it using that? So another thing we found is just collecting the demographic data is that the number of international medical graduates also increased quite drastically through our time of running this course. And this was just kind of a side point to show that any data you collect can be useful. And what this meant is that we've tried to tailor the courses a little bit more towards these IM GS and just make sure that we're covering what they wanted. But then also focusing on the UK graduates as well. So it's important to collect as much data as you can on different people. So this is the feedback that we collected again, sorry for the very busy slide, but just to summarize it in 2017, basically, what we found was that a lot of the stuff was more real life scenarios people wanted teaching on. We realized that lecture based teaching and kind of talking about different medical emergencies that's been done in medical school. The difficulty is actually how do we kind of implement that to everyday life? And if we move along, what we found is that every year as we change things, um this feedback changed to less content based and more kind of practical based. Um We found that the biggest change happened between 2019 to 2021. And during that time, we changed from a very lecture based approach, looking at different topics in medicine to a more uh overall case based learning. So we go through a case and look at different aspects of it instead. So how did we change the teaching style? So more case based and simulation based training. So we have kind of like a virtual patient that we make up and then you talk about different aspects of that patient and that's what really happens in real life. We don't have a patient who comes in with chest pain and that's the only issue that you're dealing with, there's loads of other things going on. And this made it more useful overall. Um We also had this small group session that we changed by adding another tutor, we covered multiple areas of teaching in each station. So we had a combination in each station of clinical administrative and managerial and leadership skills. And this was really good because I think, looking at the feedback and stopped people from kind of getting bored. If you're jumping from topic to topic, it's a little bit more interesting for keeping the same thread of the same patient. And then we changed the ratio of teaching as well to allow for more interaction. So if you can look at this, it's all of our stations per year. Um If you just focus on the first line, uh, first row, for example, we started with a very medical topic which was acute kidney injury and prescribing fluids, we then changed this progressively and then this became towards the end, looking at overall sepsis and DNA CPR. So it was just incorporating more things with the same uh station, so same patient kind of thing, but just adding more information and kind of collecting everything together instead of just focusing on the medicine. And I think that's why this course has been really successful is because we found a niche in the market that other people don't look at. So using the feedback, what we did to try to regulate teaching across all the courses is we came up with a crib sheet for all the tutors, um which is summarized here for one of them. And what that meant was that it doesn't matter who was teaching, there was still the same basis that they were using to teach, which meant that you couldn't go too often. And it meant that all the students had a very similar experience and that meant our feedback was more continuous instead of very different according to teacher location and day. So to conclude what we've learned from doing this is that it's really important to find a gap in the market. And I think the best way to do this is to use your own experiences. The thing to remember is that multiple trial and errors are needed. Obviously, this has been done over a long period of time, even in a few weeks. If you start doing a a teaching course, the one you do at the beginning is going to be very different to the one that you do at the end, an action research model for continuous feedback and improvement is really important, really useful as well to make sure that you're making it easy for both the teachers and the students and keeping everyone kind of engaged in it. So they want to keep coming back and finally, the benefits of case based learning and simulation based teaching. So I think this is the way that a lot of medical schools are changing to this way of learning and especially the more um the later we get in our careers, this is a more realistic way of learning and easier. Um So that's it. If anyone has any questions, obviously, message, we're always looking for participants every year to teach on these courses and when it comes to like May June time you'll get a massive whatsapp or email. Um And if you're relatively new to teaching, this is a great way of doing it. You're really well supported. Um And will really help you to develop your skills and then grow on to bigger things. Um So next, I'm going to pass it on to um MSA who's gonna talk about the uh F one survival guide. So MSA is an F two in Sheffield, currently working as the project team lead with the Fy One group. Um He helps oversee and collaborating with others and new initiatives. This year we created the whole new survival guide and it was released a few months ago. Um So he's gonna be talking about this. Er Thank you Jam V. Hi guys. I'm with us, sir. I'm an sho working in Sheffield. I've been working with Minder Bleep now for just over six months, we've come up with a few different projects, but the one that I wanted to speak about today was the Fy one survival guide. So this was released in July this year. And the first thing we wanted to address was why we chose this project. So as Akash mentioned earlier, there's a lot of challenges fy ones face. Er one of them being information overload. E one when they start the bombarded with a lot of information, there's clinical guidelines, there's protocols knowing which investigations to request, which medications to give all of this can be quite overwhelming. The next one was a lack of practical guidance. What I mean by this is despite years of medical school, a lot of f ones feel underprepared for the day to day practicalities of the job such as um mi tasks on the ward, handling paperwork and communicating with senior colleagues. And thirdly, it's quite a bit of a steep learning curve. The transition from medical school to being a practice in doctor is quite abrupt. Um You are expected to quickly adapt to your role, learn to make clinical decisions, managing a lot of responsibilities in the first few months, this can be quite difficult. So we wanted to make a resource that would help, help ease this transition. Ok. So we started off by having some research um to make sure we uh what we produced was what we needed. We asked um er a lot of F one doctors. So we spoke to 30 existing fy ones and 30 of the upcoming F ones. So the benefit of this was that we'd avoid our own assumptions as to what they needed and to avoid personal biases, we created two questionnaires. One was given to the existing group and one was given to the up and coming group, the existing group, what we asked was, what were the biggest challenges you faced during your first few months as an F one? Which scenario or tasks did you feel least prepared for? Um If there was any pre reading that benefited you. And what resource did you think the upcoming cohort will benefit from? We asked to upcoming F one. So what they were most nervous about? Are there any specific clinical and nonclinical tasks that they feel underprepared for? Um what kind of support or resources do you think would be beneficial? And what format would you like this to be? This is so it can be accessible and useful for the ones. So we got a lot of data from this uh to summarize our data. There was a lot of worry about organization knowing how to be effective with uh time, which task to do based on which uh based on prioritization, uh managing common conditions, which investigations to request how to document allegedly and legally uh prescribing errors and how to avoid them, how to make sure you've got good quality portfolio, how to make sure you've got uh th CBD S and mini texts and how to effectively communicate with patients and members of the MDT. So now we've got an idea of what content was needed. We had to recruit a team, we wanted an experienced team that have completed the foundation program. So we got three juniors as well as three experienced regs. The benefit of the registers were not only they produce good quality content, they could actually check through the content that we were making to make sure it's thorough, accurate and precise. So we started off with a plan. We had an initial plan to make sure we had clear goals on what we wanted to achieve, which we're gonna go through. We had regular team meetings on a week by week basis, we set targets. Um This is what we wanted to achieve by the state dedicated question page. This is something that I wanted to touch on. This was probably the most useful part of our meeting. We had one, a four Google sheet which we shared, everyone added their own questions. And then every couple of days we address these questions and having a good team allowed us to balance work and to uh balancing our time and workload. So this is what we produced. This is freely available on the mind, the bleep website. So prepare for fy one. This is the contents page. As you can see, we went through a lot of uh different topics based on the questionnaire and these are the resources that we produced. One was a ho portfolio tracker which is basically a diary that helps you complete your portfolio. And the second were your ward round sheets and handover sheets. You can access these by clicking on this link or this kind in the QR code. So as I mentioned earlier, the goals that we wanted to achieve were we wanted to create an accessible resource that was freely available to anyone? It was based on user feedback to make sure it was what we produced was engaging. We wanted to plan a regular updates. The next update is coming out in December and then in August and we wanted to create a concise handbook that you could read before you entered the Fy one. OK. So post release was just as important as prerelease. We created a questionnaire. So this would allow us to get feedback uh from users to make sure we could continuously improve the resource and then to allow us to gauge for a long term plan of what we wanted to produce, which was the textbook. Now, this textbook will be expanded on the fr 15 guide by making a more comprehensive resource is going to be focused on common conditions and consider a wide range of uh clinical scenarios. It is going to be using evidence based medicine to smooth the transition and bridge the gap between medical school and F one practice. So we're currently in the process of recruiting people to help with this, you can email, I believe that email is wrong. It's just F one survival guide at mind the bleed.com. So if you drop me an email with the paragraph of what you want to help with, I'm sure there'll be a role available for you. So just to summarize, I think the main key learning points from the survival guide were knowing the audience, knowing what you know, the F ones wanted, really helped with creating an in depth resource that was useful being practical. Making sure what you pro what you're providing to the people is based on solving problems and making actionable resources open to feedback is feedback is what took it from A to B. We made sure that all the feedback was listened to, to make an engaging um piece of content and collaboration. I think working in the team was probably the most uh the second most important thing of the uh project. It allowed us to not only work, listen to others and make sure we were able to balance uh uh our work schedule as well as this resource I plan for the long term. I think we just creating one target isn't the way it should be. We, whilst we were making the survival guide, we came up with the idea of let's actually take it to the next level and make a textbook which will be more thorough and useful for people that's going to take a couple of years to make. But as we said, we're recruiting for that now. So if you guys are interested, drop me an email and if there's any questions, you can post them down below. Thank you. Amazing. Thank you so much. Um So next, we're gonna move on to kind of new and upcoming projects that we're running with mind the bleed. So first we're gonna have SID talking about the core surgical training interviews. So SID is a core surgical trainee in London has been surgical lead for mind, the bleed for the past three years. Um He's seen loads of projects with the surgical team, including the what he's gonna talk about, which is the introduction of the new CSD interview series. He's also taken on the role as the project development lead, working with the kind of new um mind the believe award in medical education. Um and he'll be talking about that later, but I'll pass it on to c now. Ok. Can everyone see my slides? Ok. Yep. Ok. So hello everyone. My name is Sid. I'm a course surgical trainee in London and I'm also the surgical lead for mind the bleep. And more recently, I'm as well the project development lead for mind the bleep. And I'm gonna be giving two talks today and the focus of my talks are on projects that we run in mind the bleep. So we sort of educational ventures that we do and across both talks. My aims are very similar. I want to discuss the talking points to try and answer the questions of how can we plan the right project? How can we ensure that we have a high quality project? How can we ensure that the content of the project is useful and how can we ensure that it's beneficial, not only to the audience but to yourself, the person who's actually planning it and doing the work? Two. So for this first talk, I'm going to be discussing those points. But I'm going to use the example of the core surgical training interview series. Now, this is a project we've been doing for about two years and we've, you know, got the plans to make it bigger and better this year. But it's one I'm particularly proud of. And the reasons for that I will explain throughout this talk and these are the objectives of the session. It's basically what I just said and these are the points we're going to consider and we're going to use the example of the core surgical training series. So the question one really is, how can you, how do you know you're planning the right project? What makes, what makes the project or the idea you're thinking about the right one to do and let's talk about the core surgical training interview series. So we had the idea for doing this a couple of years ago and when you look at core surgical training interviews and you could, you, you could take out core surgical training and basically put in any specialty. What you'll find is that the number of posts are staying the same or going down and the competition is getting worse and worse and getting a job just across the UK. Now for training, as you all probably know, we are in the crowd here is getting tougher and tougher. So going back to our project when we were thinking about doing this, we thought, well, there's definitely going to be an audience for this. You know, look at the, look at the competition ratios 4.17 2539 people are applying for co core surgical training. I'm not saying all of them are gonna er watch our videos but it means that there's a lot of people out there who I think this would be beneficial for. Ok. The next thing we thought was alright, we know we have an audience for it, but actually what resources are already out there. So that's the second thing we had not mind when we were planning this project because if we'd looked this up and we found out that actually there's some really high quality resources that are free. That's the point here. Uh Then I'm not sure how much we'd actually have to add. So to illustrate this point, I've actually looked at how much it cost me when I did my course surgical training interview. And this was not, you didn't have to, you didn't have to spend this money. I spent it cos I thought every little would help and all these things would be of value. But as you can see, it cost me 489 lbs textbooks, question banks and courses overall. So let's use that to and go back to how can we plan the right project? We know we have a, we know we have a target audience and also what I realized when I was looking at, looking at this is there is some good stuff and call surgical training interviews. But at all costs there nothing really free. There's, there was nothing that I would say is high quality free, open access resources for co surgical training interviews. If you wanted that you had to pay for it. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. If you're, if you're running a good series and you want to make a business out of it fine. But with mind, the bleep in our ethos, the idea is that we provide high quality free educational resources to allied health professionals, medical students, junior doctors who need it really. And again, going back to this, there's definitely a gap in the market for it. So the next thing we thought was alright. So now we, we need a team. We know we, we've got target audience, there's a gap in the market, there's not a lot of resources out there. So we have a, we need to have a team for it and we had three of us, we had myself and we had Freya and Milly. Now, er all three of us had done some work in mindedly before. Er, we were all actually when we first set up the series, applying for core surgical training, which I initially, I remember thinking during that time, oh, I, this could be a detriment, you know, because I'm spending time uh working on this mind the bleep project, which we wanted, you know, we wanted it to be good and that takes work. And I thought, OK, that's fine, but I don't want it to be a detriment to my own interview practice and it wasn't actually at all. And again, I'll explain that further later on in the talk. So we had all three of us, we were all applying for CST. And between us, we worked on this project. And the next thing we need to consider was OK, how are we gonna produce useful content? So we had to come up with an aim. And I think this is a, this is a learning point here for anyone who's, who wants to do a project mindedly or who wants to do some sort of educational venture or teaching or anything, you know, for their portfolio or for or for their personal interest. There's so many avenues you can take things down. But when you're starting, just keep it, keep it simple, have a clear aim and a clear strategy, you know, for the CST interviews we thought, OK, we're just, this is the first year we're running it. Let's just aim to produce a few really top quality webinars on the interview that people could watch and rewatch and it would actually give them pertinent learning points that they could take forward when they actually did their interview. So that was their ra very clear. Next, we actually needed a strategy and a plan of action. So at the bottom of the slide, I've got this thing that says management station in clinical station and I've taken that directly er, from my slide from one of my talks on the series. So as you can see if you're doing a call, surgical training interview, you have, it's really formal, you've got these like extremely structured things you're gonna go through, you know, you're going to do a three minute management talk, you know, you're going to do some sort of ethical scenario and then, you know, you're gonna have two clinical stations, one on trauma and one on a POSTOP patient. So we thought, ok, well, it's obvious how what our strategy is going to be. We're just going to do webinars on each element of that. That's all we had to do. So we thought, ok, so how are we gonna make sure what we produce is, is top quality? And IO and I really have to thank Freya and money for this because, er, they were instrumental in recruiting a number of speakers for us. So we had two speakers who were plastic themed core trainees in London that year. And both of them had come in the top one or 2% in their CST interview and they did talks for us and those talks were incredible. I mean, like I, like I showed you at the earlier on, in this presentation, you can see I spent 489 lbs in my interview, those two free webinars that they did, I used as one of my most used resources when I was actually revising for the CST interview. So that goes back to the point of me saying actually doing this project was not detrimental to my own interview practice and it shows actually how high quality it was. I had all those resources and I was still using these two mind the bleep talks over and over just rewatching it and practicing with the people doing the, er, with the people doing the sessions. So here's the result of what we did. These are, this is a table with the webinars, the speakers, the dates and the attendance and this doesn't take into account, er, people who've rewatched it on youtube or looked at the follow up content. This is just the live uh individuals who've watched it. So across two years. So we ran it in initially 2022 to 23 and then we did the 23 to 24 cohort. We've had seven webinars. So not particularly loads honestly, but we had a good attendance and really what I, what I liked about it is we had webinars that covered each specific segment of the interview. So what we needed to know we covered in our webinars. So that was it. And what was the result? So overall, we had really positive feedback. I was actually initially gonna put that in my talk, but I thought it would be too long if I went through all the feedback. So you'll have to trust me on that. And we had a really high demand across mind the bleep for catch up content. We were getting lots of emails from people who were really keen on the series. What was quite funny for me is I have since, since CO URG training met quite a few people who use the mind bleep webinars. I actually met one person who recognized my voice from when I did the introduction to one of the speakers, you know, so it's a small world and the nice thing is all three of us myself, Fred and Milly all got jobs that year. So II kind of, I've used that example and I hope, I hope it's clear in this talk, I wanted to use that example to illustrate some of the some of the sort of learning points. So things you can think about when you're designing your own teaching series project, educational venture, whatever it is that you're thinking about. Um I hope you can use some of the thoughts and things I was saying during that talk to guide you. So if I could sum it up, I'd say having a clear aim and strategy, you know, like there are so many potential things you could do, but keep it clear, keep it simple, have a good aim, a good plan. It should have a target audience as well. You know, you should have an audience in mind who you think are going to benefit from your uh project. And it doesn't, it doesn't have to be something that is going to attract so many people. You know, course surgical training interviews should attract a lot of people. There's a lot of people want to do it. You can do something more niche, but you should have a clear audience for who it's going to be beneficial. For. The next thing. I think this is really key, be realistic of what you can achieve. You know, we're now with our course, surgical training, interview stuff, we're planning a mentorship program, er maybe doing in person interview, practice lots of other things. But you notice at the start when we start set it up two years ago, we just ran four webinars. That was it. We kept it simple. And I think you have to remember that whenever you're planning projects of trying to do things outside of work, just know that you, you're doing this and you're doing a full time job and you're doing your portfolio and you're doing whatever you need to do in your personal life. So really be realistic about what you can achieve. You don't have to take on loads and loads. You can try and keep it simple and clear and elegant and you can build up from that. Next thing is consider your own personal career goals with your project, right? This is really important. So uh because I'm project development lead, because I work in the surgical team, I get a lot, you know, we get a lot of emails from people who want to do stuff through mind. The bleep. And one of the first questions I ask them is what, how is this going to benefit your portfolio? What do you need on this portfolio? And how can we target this project to make sure you get it? Because if you're doing all this work, yes, it's, it's a great experience and it's good to be able to do something like this. And there's a personal sense of achievement and you join a great community. Fantastic. But you also need to get something for your time. And unfortunately, when you're doing this, it's not financial reward, but it should be reward towards your career. That's what you should be thinking about. OK. And my last learning point and I hope, I hope this makes you think about emailing mind the bleep putting in an application. I started in mind the bleep in 2021 I think, or 2020 as an F one. I'm now CT one and had a year out and I started initially doing a teaching series, the Vascular teaching series. And since then, not only have I gained a lot of things in terms of my career from minded bleep, but I've also made a lot of friends and connections. And you realize this medical world is very small and being part of this extended network in mind. The bleep has been so nice and helpful and it's, it's, it's one of the advantages of joining mind. The bleep that I wouldn't have really thought about when I first joined it. But if anyone want asked me about it now, that would be the thing I'd say first. So, yeah, I hope that makes you, I hope that one is useful and I hope that makes you think about sending us an application, sending us an email and wanting to work with us. So, yeah, thank you for your time. I'll be back in a little bit with a second talk. Amazing. Thank you so much sid. Um We're gonna move on now to was uh who's the careers lead for Minder and is currently at F two in London. So he's been involved with the careers team for the last two years and has helped set up loads of projects with webinars and other things. Um He's going to talk about key takeaways and lessons that we learn um when it comes to managing a team and trying to build a successful project. So I'll pass. Hello, everyone and thanks so much for the introduction. Jam Me. So my name is Vim and I'm an F two in London. I'm the careers lead for mind the bleep and like Jambi mentioned, this presentation will just give you an overview of what we do our current projects, well, future cut projects and what we've learned about creating successful projects and, and making a pitch. So our content er this talk will be divided into four sections. I'll briefly talk about us as a team and what the career section of mind the bleeps aims are. I'll give a quick overview of our current and upcoming projects for feedback and potentially help inspire new or complementary ideas. And then for sections three and four, I'll talk about what I found from experience, helps to keep a project running and successful and what to think about when crafting a proposal or coming up with a new idea. So, so the careers team are a growing group of just over 20 individuals with a passion in medical education. We create high quality and useful resources to help current and future generations of doctors and range all the way from fy ones to consultant level doctors. And I myself joined the team when I was a medical student. So we aim to widen the resources available to medical students and doctors navigating their careers. So medicine as a career, as I kind of like to think about, it has two main aspects. So the medical knowledge and the career. So the first being your direct clinical medicine and and for example, how to manage a deteriorating patient or hyperkalaemia. And the second being the careers aspect of medicine. So the first aspect, you kind of get exposed to all the way through medical school. But the latter, not so much, we thought it was quite underserved. And so we began publishing content as webinars articles and creating e learning courses. And more. So we have three established projects currently. So the specialty careers team focuses on the traditional an HS specialties and training pathways. So this the, the the series covers things along the lines of a day in the life of a particular specialty or interview or prep or po potential portfolio um development opportunities. Then we have the F three and time out of training team. So with increasing numbers of doctors taking time out of their career, we created a team to try and cater for them. So for example, last week we delivered a talk on moving to Australia covering the logistics and the different areas from a first time experience. And then finally, with even more increasing numbers of doctors considering alternative careers and taking less than full time jobs. So we created an alternative careers project for doctors looking to explore careers outside of er medicine or alongside medicine. So for example, er II think a couple of weeks ago, a talk was delivered from a former doctor and current chief medical officer at a health tech company who provided quite valuable insight into their career. So these are our upcoming projects. So our upcoming upcoming projects include a mentorship and interview scheme for training pathways that matches current trainees with doctors looking to enter further training. We also have an Ireland project on the way where we're creating a handbook for do doctors. Moving to Ireland from all across the world as a guide to help answer questions and make the transition smooth. We also have a Taste a week project which is gonna be coming out hopefully in around 6 to 6 to 9 months ish, which is going to be an E learning course on how to set up and make the most out of the underutilized er taste a week opportunity afforded by medical schools. So each of these projects initially started off as just proposals submitted by doctors external to mindedly looking for su for support in fulfilling their ideas. So I'm going to talk now a little bit about what makes a project successful. So this is by no means a comprehensive list of everything it takes for a successful project. But I do think that these are some of the th the key elements that I've noticed that successful projects have had in common. So firstly, there's been a well defined objective that sets out the target audience and the purpose of the project. So this gives you an aim towards one other very important aspect. A aspect of this clear objectives is to establish at the start what your own personal goals are in, in delivering this and will this project help to actually fulfill this? So we all have only a limited amount of time. And although I'm sure many of us may be passionate about medical education. We also have our careers to think about things like portfolio points, things like leadership experience or anything else. So, having this established at the start and making sure that the project you're trying to create is able to fulfill. It is really, really important. It helps you keep it, it, it helps to actually keep yourself motivated as well. And at the end of the day, what we produce will probably be useful to someone, but it's about making what we produce useful to ourselves as well. So moving on effective teamer teamwork allows the workload to be shared with no one person actually carrying the too much of a burden. So creating a comprehensive role description for each person that you will recruit to join the team, really helped us to delegate tasks fairly thirdly collecting data. I think as some of the other speakers have touched on is one of the most important parts of a successful project and an easy way to fulfill personal goals. So pre and post surveys are easily made and they easily gather data. Um and multiple individuals that mind the bleep have won prizes from taking this data, collating it into a into a poster or a presentation and delivering it at conferences. So any feedback can also be used quite easily to engineer a quality improvement project cos F that's all quality improvement is you find data, you find a gap, you take on feedback and then make change to er to reflect this and then collect new data and finally sustainability. So with our current projects, we essentially upload all of our videos to youtube, we upload them to medal and all of our articles are hosted online on mind the bleep with free access. So the content has some longevity and purpose into the future as well. And finally, I think my last section of my slides. So what is the perfect pitch? Well, uh my screen's just frozen. Sorry. One second. Oh, we're back. So moving on to the last lecture, I talk of the perfect pitch. So I will discuss some of the pictures we've had and what's made them strong. So firstly, the pitch should identify a gap that it aims to b it aims to fill. So for example, doctors Chin and B who proposed the Taste a Week project, they recognize that there's a gap in educational materials for taste, a weeks that are available for junior doctors and they discovered this when they were trying to arrange one themselves. So after identifying the lack of the structure guidance, they devised the project to help fill the void. So once you've identified a gap, the pitch needs to clearly present how the project actually offers a solution. So, Doctor Emma Carroll who proposed the Ireland project used her own expertise as a liaison officer to international doctors, to give a clear and validated solution to to provide a solution to the gap in support for doctors transitioning to Ireland. She had a clear vision in each section of her handbook and why each section was necessary. Each pitch also needs a way to measure its impact. So this could be as simple as a survey as what I talked about earlier or for mentorship schemes, we will aim to collect data on how many people actually successfully entered further training and how useful they found the mentorship alongside this. And finally, each great pitch has had thought put into the implementation beforehand. So the easiest way to do this is usually and it is something that usually will happen right at the very start anyways is to kind of draft up a copy, a copy of the different roles that need to be fulfilled to bring the project to fruition. So for example, when to launching the specialty time out of training and alternative careers, webinar and article series, we drafted up up a team structure with a webinar lead, an article lead and a team lead to help coordinate. So WW we were also adjustable. So the specialty care uh team would need more in for example, the article side of the team. So we recruited multiple article leads to help fulfill this. So thanks for listening. And if there are any questions, I'm happy to take them actually great, great presentation. I see. Thank you. Um We're gonna go back to sed now to talk about and it's this, this talk is going to be a bit similar actually because it's gonna, I mean, again, going to use a project to answer those questions of how do we make, you know, what makes a successful project, what makes a high quality project? Uh How do we ensure it's useful to you and to your audience? Um uh but this time I'm taking the example from a project that was submitted to us recently through the award in medical education. So if you haven't seen mind, the bleep runs this award in medical education semi regularly and you can submit a project proposal or actually something you've already been working on, er, to mind the bleep. Now it's a really good opportunity because, er, there's prizes for the winner and the runner up. All the mind the bleep leads, sit and vote and that's how it's decided. And then even if you, if you don't win or you're on to runner up, there's an opportunity if you're interested to collaborate with mind the bleep on your project, if that, if you feel that would be of use to you. So if you know, if some of you out there in, in the audience or have a educational project that you are already working on or an idea you have and you want to work with a larger team, this is, this is a great opportunity to do that. So session objectives, I'm new. I'm going to talk about one specific project. But again, from now, I'm going to highlight good things in it. Things that you should think about if you are going to be submitting a project to the award and medical education, but things that you think you should think about more generally if you're planning an educational project. So the project I'm talking about came to us not that long ago and it was, it was from a group of three F ones and they were all Kings graduates, but they'd, they'd been dispersed to various parts of the country for their f one now that you have no say in it. And they'd come up with the idea of doing an online basic surgical skills session or tutorials and they wanted to do short sort of 10 minute videos on the key topics you would cover if you did a basic surgical skills. So, examples are knot tying, tissue handling, dissection drains, er, how to hold a scalpel, that sort of stuff. Um And they wanted to make sure that it was going to be in line with what is taught at a basic surgical skills course. So now if you, if you submit your project to the Mind The Bleed Award in Medical Education, there are some prompts that you have to fill out and I was going through their application for this talk and I was just thinking about some of the stuff in their application that they've written from the prompts that I really liked that I looked at and thought, oh, this is, this is a good project or I like how they've thought about this. This is definitely something we could do. So I've gone through the prompts and I put the things I liked in it. So the first prompt is how would you develop it? And what they've written is they wanted to make a series of short video video tutorials covering skills, taught at a BSS course, basic surgical skills course. And the thing I liked about that is they'd specified basic surgical skills course because what they're telling me then is we know exactly what we're going to cover in these video tutorials. We're not, it's not, you know, it's not broad surgical skills could mean so many things. But they've said no, we're covering exactly what is gonna be taught at a basic surgical skills course, but we're gonna do it online for free. Uh And the nice thing as well when I asked this question, how would you develop it? That they'd already started to develop videos and they recruited video editors. So they had a few medical students, they got involved in the project who were also, you know, interested in video editing and they'd started making these videos. So for me reading this from mind, the bleeps, I'm thinking about collaboration, these guys have the idea of what they want to do. A good plan for it and they've already started, which is the hardest part, the bit that's the most ambitious. They've already got people editing the video. So that's fantastic. So how would you assess the benefit? So they had ideas of doing pre and post video surveys, assessing participant confidence. I thought this was a good idea. The other thing I liked about this is that this, they could turn that into, they could turn that feedback into data. They could then write up, you know, the three F ones all keen on surgery. They, they need to make, you know, they need to turn their projects into abstracts or posters or papers. This is a way they can do that. And finally, the idea of getting feedback from participants and continually improving the video. So not just making a few videos and then being done, actually looking at what the feedback is and making more. And then the last question, what support would you need from mind? The bleep? So the thing I really liked about this was they actually had a clear idea on what they wanted from mind. The bleep. So it makes my life easier when I'm actually meeting them because they know exactly what they want from us and we can work together to try and get that started. So they said support and advertising the project. That's something we can do very well. Because at mind the bleep, we're fortunate enough to have quite a large reach mentorship and mind that we've been running a national education venture. That's something we can do and finally help securing sponsorship for suture materials and practice kits again, something we can do. So, going from here, I thought, II wanted to think about what drew me to this project. What did I like that about this project after I've met them and gone through their application that II thought, wow, this, this could be really good. Er The first point I've already mentioned, they'd already started recording and editing the videos. I think that's, you know, it's fantastic because I think II said this in my previous talk. So sorry if I'm rehashing. But my point is that you can, it's kind of endless what you could do when it comes to sort of online educational projects, right? You know, you could make websites, games, er simulation all of this. But if you have these ideas and you don't really have a, a way to execute it then. And so that's helpful. Whereas these guys had this quite ambitious idea of recording these videos, but they already had a plan in place and were doing it. They had a way of executing that, which I thought was absolutely brilliant. The next thing I really liked about it was that it was free and accessible. So that's the ethos of mind the bleep. So II really like that, this is what they wanted to do. You know, if you want to do a basic surgical skills course, it's gonna cost you 800 lbs. Er, if you're an F one or F two, you might get that funded if you're a medical student and you wanna, you know, you're keen on surgery and you wanna know you want to look like, you know what you're doing, when you go to an operating theater, you're gonna have to fund that yourself. So the idea of having online tutorials for free that anyone could watch, er, really appealed to me. And the other, I thought thing is it would reach a wide audience. And the, and the reference I've put in here is actually the one that they had sent me and I was, I read it and it's this reviewer, it's this sort of systematic review looking at 19 studies on the UK undergraduate curriculum and focus on surgical skills. And the punch line is there's not really a focus on surgical skills. Um, so there's, you know, we're not meeting the guideline or the GMT requirement of what we should be in terms of teaching practical surgical skills at an undergraduate level. Next thing is OK, how will the project be useful to an audience? So we've identified already that top point we've identified that there's insufficient surgical skills teaching in the UK undergraduate curriculum. The other thing I thought was if you're an actual surgical trainee you know, one of the biggest concerns now and you, you can, if you put this in, if you put, put into PUBMED UK surgical training experience, you'll see lots of articles talking about this is that there's a reduction in operating time and clinical experience. And that's, you know, that's a big issue. And as a result of that focus of teaching has gone from hours in an operating room, which you might not get as much of to simulation focused, teaching cadaveric skills, practical skills day. So this is, you know, this is, this is how it's evolving. And this project I think fits in with that, we've got this free accessible online resource that people can practice in their own time. And there are actually a number of these ventures already uh which are really good and I put a couple of my favorites in there. So again, this is, this is why I thought this would be useful to the audience. So the next thing I II want to think about is how will the project be useful to the actual team? So I said this before, it's all well and good having projects that's useful to your audience. But if you're doing the hard work, you need to have a plan of what you're going to get out of it. So there's, there were three F ones and I thought, OK, what, what, what can they actually conceivably get out with this project? And there's quite a few things so they can get their teaching points sorted. They'll have a national teaching program opportunity to work in mind. The bleep develop themselves and also eventually go into a leadership role, an opportunity to write up and publish this project, uh an opportunity opportunity to practice their surgical skills. Similar how for me running the CST interview skills as er, webinars actually helped my CST interview running a project about surgical skills is naturally going to help your own surgical skills. So that's a great thing for an F one who's keen on surgery, who might go into theater a few times as an F one and F two to be able to have, you know, have ran this, have an understanding of the skills and have, have practiced it themselves. And the other thing is this idea of mentorship, you know, mind the bleep is such a, a large wide network. If you join, there's always someone you can seek advice to someone more senior than you that you can get help from. You know, for me when I was applying for CST and when I started CST, we have a few surgical registrars in mind, the bleep who I've been able to go to for advice, you know, I've gone to Akash a number of times as well. Uh Just to add to this point, own personal anecdote, we have a project about ultrasound cannulation and we have an anesthetics registrar who is leading that project. And when I was revising for my exam, one of the things that comes up on the exam is different fluids and how they relate to body fluid compartments. I hadn't looked at that since I was a year one medical student. And for the life of me, I couldn't understand it. So I actually ended up speaking to this anesthetics registrar Sean and he sent me a few videos of him, of his hand drawn diagrams explaining that to me and I got it and you know, this is from joining this network of mind, the bleep that I have access to someone who I can ask this question to. Er So this is where that sort of wider me mentorship and joining this network comes into it. And I think that is such an important consideration or such an advantage of putting an application in and getting involved with mindedly. I'm not trying to sell it too much. But II do think that's an important thing to um to bring up really? OK. So we've talked about why I like the project, why I think it would be useful and the reasons that I think it's a winner really. I actually just wanted to include a slide about what my suggestions were for this project. And the reason I'm putting in this in there is just to put it out to the audience. If you guys are thinking of running similar projects or you ha you this might have stoked your own imagination of things to do. These were my suggestions. So if anyone's interested in joining this or wants to run a similar project and has their own thoughts, I would welcome an email about it. So my ideas for this were that whatever we teach in our videos needs to be exactly the same technique as they teach in basic surgical skills because that's a technique tested on when you do your part B OS examination, right? So we need to make sure that what we're teaching is right is the wrong word. But the textbook technique, then I then another suggestion I II gave to them was that why don't we now focus on the videos? But let's keep in the back of our heads a next step, which could be the introduction of an in person basic surgical skills course. I also thought we've got, you know, this is a good, this project has, you know, again, focus on the videos for now, but consider future collaborations. So, you know, getting sponsorship from surgical instrument companies who give people practice kits, collaborating with different surgical societies, for example, aci and then finally, one idea I had was doing an online surgical skills competition. So for those people who watch the videos sending in videos back to us of them practicing the actual maneuvers and we have some sort of online surgical skills competition. They have one at the Royal College of Surgeons where we have to go there. I just thought it would be really fun if we had mind the bleeps own version of that. And again, it's an opportunity for anyone who submits to win a prize and then take away points. So again, takeaway points are really similar hit to my previous one. But if you're thinking of putting in an award uh uh an application for a award, medical education, I urge you to think about these things because it would be really helpful to your project. So again, specific aim target audience realistic project, have a plan with a timeline and finally, really key know what you need to get out of it as well as know what your audience needs to get out of it, right? And I think that that's me, that's my talk. All right. Thank you very much for your time. I hope that was useful. Lovely. Thank you so much sid really appreciated that and also appreciated all the compliments to me, just put it out a joke. So next slide to, to summarize um what basically everyone's been saying is, is all it's all about matching what you are interested in and what's gonna help with your portfolio and the skills that you want to develop. So for example, so the skills that you want to develop and the portfolio are going to be the things that are on your specialty, application, skills, commitment to specialty teaching Q I presentations, prizes. And the way that you can do this is through any of the modalities that people have discussed. There's been online videos, there's been webinars, there's been in person courses, there's been guides, but what you can do is you can create a regular teaching opportunity. However, whatever modality you want to do to be able to get those teaching points, use those action research models or use those Q I models to basically do that plan, do study act process to get those qi projects. You're then um going to submit that project for a presentation to many medical education conferences and various other conferences that are out there and hopefully win a prize. And then finally, um you're gonna write up that project and hopefully get a publication out of it. And that's what so many people of the mind bleep have done. But the key aspect of all of that is you can do one really large project and because of you can quite easily when you're doing something like medical education, have that global reach. You can cover all these aspects of teaching of qi of presentations of prizes. And more importantly, if you understand a little bit about the medical education theory, a little bit about practice. And now you've gotten to this point of the webinar, you're already there. It's a very easy space to publish it because there's so much you can publish on. There's so many things that can be interesting and also, it can be literally about any passion or anything that you particularly enjoy from wellbeing to finance, to all the other hobbies that you have and you can marry that up with your project when you're submitting it. So, with that in mind, um now you're thinking, how can I come up with the right project, how can I come up with the right plan and what opportunities are there or to allow me to do this? And so this is the next part we've already touched on this. Um Mind the bleeps growing audience. We're up to about 80,000, um 82,000 on my last check, um monthly users just on the website. And but more importantly, it's about this community that we're building. The team is well over 220 people. Now we've got new projects starting all the time. But more importantly, we bounce ideas off each other, we get each other's support. We're always building new teams, new aspects so that we always have somebody to turn to who have that kind of niche interest of things that we might want to consider. Like Sid mentioned about that ultrasound conation, that fluid compartments aspect, the content. Well, we've got well over 1000 articles, webinars, e-learning courses and our monthly users including our youtube views and various other well exceed over 90,000. But having that community is key building, that community is key because it means that any project that you make is quite powerful and quite impactful in terms of what we are thinking of doing next at mind, the beep and this might be some of the projects that you fancy doing. We're trying to get more into exam content because of what SID mentioned, there's so many courses and exam focused content that charge so so much what we'd like to do is deliver that free. This also includes more procedure based things like the basic surgical skills, but also all the other procedures from lumbar puncture to cannulation, to ultrasound, cannulation and other ultrasound like bio iliac block, et cetera. We're also trying to get more into mentorship. So that's perhaps something that you could do to build careers, to build wellbeing for all that increasing burnout, help support medical education projects and also a vulnerable group. We're also building specialty content in primary care, emergency care, more niche specialties like sports and exercise medicine, histopathology. And we're also trialing new content methods. So we've got a new podcast that's been launching two episodes are out. Moda sa is doing an amazing thing with Tik Tok and that's all planned and we really would love people to join if they're interested in Tik Tok because let's be honest, I have no idea how to run a Tik Tok channel. It I now feel very far away from F one. Um And then um e-learning courses. So we're looking for an e-learning course lead so we can plan kind of quizzes and other cool things in a journal club so that people can practice their kind of analytical skills when they're applying for their AF PSF P or the ACF and all those other academic posts. So how can you get involved if you wish to get involved? So going from the bottom because um sids already touched on that is the award of medical education. Every, every few months we open that up for people to submit their best educational project proposal, what they're going to do and sids talked about that in detail, please go to that and submit if you've got an educational proposal that you wish to submit because we would love to support you in building and developing that there's mindedly.com/lead. So if you want to lead a specific section, be it the final year team, the medicine team, the research team, the M SRA team, various mentorship schemes and so many other things have a look at that link and apply to one of those leadership roles. We're looking for people with leadership experience. We're looking for people with some teaching experience and we're looking to support and help you grow, help you build and help you develop so that you are able to do all of those skills better and better as you go along. These are for when you're applying for specialty training, when you're applying for your consultant job as I am all of those things. And yes, they do count as a national leadership role. If anything, they count as an international leadership role on the basis that our audience is international. And then finally mind thele.com/contribute, this is where you can present any single project you want however big, however small, whether it's a single article you want to begin with, whether it's a single webinar or whether you want to do something massive, that's where you have an opportunity to tell us what you want to do and we will guide you, we will support you and we'll work with you to pick the role that suits you. Now, it doesn't mean that we will only support you if you want to join us. And this is not some sort of kind of organization where we only kind of help our own. I've had so many, so many other people reach out being like I want to set up my own website. I want to set up my own educational series. I want to set up my own educational thing. And I'm like, yes, that sounds amazing. At the end of the day, we are here to create free educational content. It's not about how it's branded. It's not about where it comes from. The fact is the most important thing is we need more and more high quality education out there because the people who are going to create the right content for us is us. And so if you want to reach out and say, ah we need some help with this project. We want to do it on our own, but we just want some advice and just some support. That's ok. Just submit it. We're more than happy to help because ultimately, the key thing is getting really, really helpful and good content out there. Um In terms of finding the links, actually, if you um just go to the top um right hand corner of the website, um all the links links are there. So thank you so, so much for attending. This is a feedback link. Um Don't worry, it's on every subsequent slide. Um You can also reach out to me by email if you want on info at mind the bleep.com. Um There's also er various social media channels that you can reach out to me on. Um But the next part is all about Q and A. Now you can stay, if you have any questions, you can stay if you want to listen to the questions. Um But I also appreciate it is quarter past nine and many of you may wish to sleep because you've got work and various other things tomorrow. Um But this is your opportunity to ask every single question however big or small about anything that you would like to ask. And I'll be here for the next 1520 minutes or however long it takes to answer them. So please throw your questions into the chat now. So you asked um whether you can be um involved in the research team as a medical student. Yeah. Um just submit that. Um And we'll let you know um could you pop the QR code in the chat? Um What I'll do is I will um send a link um to everyone. I've just done that. So all of you who have registered should get a link to the feedback. We'll also put the link in the chat as well. If you haven't received that email, so you can complete the feedback, completing the feedback will get you that certificate. So you can um get your certificate confirming that you've um that you've attended these hours. Um How could this help me? I'm already done with MRC S two years, post graduation, working as an sho surgery. It all depends on what you want it to help you with. Um If you want to build your portfolio um for kind of more special specialty applications, it could be that it all depends on what you need from um prizes presentations. Q I teaching, it all depends on what you want. And if you reach out and tell us what you want, what you're interested in and what you need, then we can work with you to work out the right project to help you any good resources on planning a teaching course. I mean, you definitely need to drop me an email. This is exactly what I'm trying to do at the moment this conference is actually the first attempt at trying to make better educational resources out there. Because at the moment in terms of building a teaching course and actually medical education, teaching the content out there isn't so great unless it's very, very expensive. And so my hope is if we can run these conferences frequently, we can provide content where people can learn how to teach and it doesn't have and they don't have to pay money. Basically. Um That if, if you reach out to me by email, what we can do is we can kind of brainstorm together some various educational resources that can help people to teach because what I'd like to do in the next uh perhaps a year is designed to teach the teachers school. So that's free. Is there any support to learn regarding research? Certainly. Um If you have a look at our research section and we'll post the link mind.com/research. There is a whole host of articles that's been um and websites and other things that's been made by our amazing research team. Do use or plan or use anything with simulation teaching. So our f one course is based on simulation teaching. We're hoping to do an I MG course with simulation as well and we're hoping to get into medical schools and do some simulation teaching. So at the moment, those are where we're using simulation teaching as we grow. We're open to anything else that you might consider, I mean, I would have wished I had a medical registrar day where I learned how to be a med reg before I had to do it. Um, I'm sure every other specialty feels the same. There's so many other things that we could do with simulation teaching from advanced communication skills to many other things. So, yes, we want to use it if you've got ideas to do it, tell us and we're happy to work with you. Does your target audience just reach final year medical students or is there a scope to broaden to earlier years with preclinical students too? So with the UK MLA website um that James talked about MLA medics.com, it now covers all clinical students in um in med school in terms of preclinical, we haven't done that yet. That doesn't mean that we won't. And so M and A if you're very excited to do um to run a website and run content like that and you have a specific niche that you think hasn't been met by all the resources out there, just reach out to us and we're more than happy to work with you in creating your own website, all platform so that you can target yourself to those resources again. Just drop me an email or, or actually probably better will be mind the bleed.com/contribute and fill in all the details there. So I've got all the information too. Any other questions I'll stick around for another couple of minutes um just in case there's any more questions. Um but otherwise, um if, if you guys don't have any questions, feel free to sign off cos I appreciate it is late in the night and I don't wanna keep you too long. But please, please, please do complete the feedback. Please answer honestly. Tell us what you want us to improve. Tell us what you want to do. Yes, we want to do more conferences like this. We'd also love the opportunity to give you guys the ability to present your own proposals, get some feedback on them or for you to have the opportunity to present some of the work that you've done and for us to discuss how it went and get some teaching out of it. Um So yes, pop that in the feedback, tell us how often you want this. Um And we will respond accordingly. SARS Thank you so much. I'm so appreciative that you love the content. The whole team is and honestly, we give up so much of our free time to run it because frankly, we're all the ones who need it. And thanks Ronan for saying that it's, I mean, it's absolutely critical that we do more teaching resources like this. Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you. I honestly, I'm so glad that you guys are all enjoying this content. Yes, all of this entire series of talks will be uploaded to youtube and to med So every single one of you can rewatch it just in case there's any aspects that you missed. But otherwise I will wish you a good night and thank you so so much all for sticking around. And in telling the whole way through New Fy one here, any recommendations on how to pursue research quips in department, it's not necessarily part of your rotation. Is there any guidance on this? So in most hospitals, there will be AQ I lead who you can reach out to, who will have an idea of the current projects that are there all the projects that I need doing? And and so you can, you can use them if you just reach out to the consultants. Honestly, they will tell you the Q I projects and they will tell you what projects are out there that you can jump into, just speak to people at your local hospital and they will guide and support you the whole way through uh harsh. Um Yeah, you can scan the QR code um and get your er and complete the feedback that way I've also emailed you the feedback form. Um So you can just click the link in your email inbox. However, you would like Brilliant grace. I hope that means that there's an application coming through. We'll give it another minute and if there's no more questions, then we'll call it a night. You guys are too kind. Thank you so much. I'm so glad that you enjoyed. So I'll just be here in the background for the next two minutes, please post if you have any questions. But otherwise for now I'll turn my video and microphone.