PART- TIME CLINICAL SKILLS TUTORS

maribek — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:42:23 +0000

PART- TIME CLINICAL SKILLS TUTORS maribek Thu, 27/02/2020 - 16:42

Department/Faculty

Medical Education

Closing Date

Fri, 13 Mar. 2020

FACULTY OF MEDICINE

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION

VACANCY NO: FM/MED 1/2020

PART – TIME CLINICAL SKILLS TUTORS (3 POSITIONS)

Duties: The successful applicants should be able to; (i) demonstrate basic clinical skills (communication and hand skills) to undergraduate medical students; (ii) examine the same skills as examiners in OSCEs (objective structured clinical exams). The part-time work will take up no less than 1½ hours and no more than 6 hours per week, for a maximum of 32 weeks per year.

Requirements: The applicants should: (i) Have at least an undergraduate medical degree (MBChB or MBBS); (ii) Provide evidence of at least 3 years’ postgraduate medical practice; (iii) Experience in teaching clinical skills will be an advantage.

Remuneration: The University offers competitive salaries and benefits commensurate with experience and qualification

How to apply: Applicants are to address the stated qualification and provide other information to assist the university determine their suitability for the position. They should provide current CV’s (including telephone and e-mail), certified copies of educational certificates and transcripts, and THREE (3) reference letters. Applicants should inform their referees to: (i) Quote the position applied for and (ii) submit their references directly to the address below;

The Human Resources Manager, Faculty of Medicine, Corner of Notwane and Mabuto Road, 4844��Ѹ��, Private Bag 00713 Gaborone, Botswana; or Email to nkangana@mopipi.ub.bw

Hand delivered applications should be sent to Faculty of Medicine, UB Teaching Hospital, 3rd Floor, Office F 4003

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Medical Education

webadmin — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:11:14 +0000

Medical Education webadmin Thu, 06/10/2016 - 16:11

The Department of Medical Education was founded in 2015 and serves the Faculty in all matters educational – through teaching, mentoring and research. Three of us are experienced medical doctors and four are trained educationalists at Masters and PhD level. We are partners with all Faculty colleagues, as well as those in the wider University, who are committed to educational excellence and innovation. Our aim is to achieve a world-class standard of medical education in the Faculty.

Teaching

The Department is responsible for the clinical skills training of first and second year medical students, as well as their weekly placements in Primary Care clinics. We are pioneering innovative programmes for medical students, e.g. a ‘Learning Success Programme’ and a longitudinal information literacy course. We conduct regular short courses in Medical Education: a yearly five day course for medical residents as well as shorter courses on demand, e.g. in assessment. We are about to launch a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Professions Education and have begun work on an electronic exam question bank for the Faculty.

Mentoring and support

We serve as a resource for the Faculty and University on educational matters by serving on a number of relevant committees, as well as supporting and leading task teams and working groups – for example in the areas of eLearning, student support and programme evaluation. We carry out regular internal moderation of the Faculty’s exam papers and OSCEs. We were instrumental in the establishment of the Faculty’s Student Support Office and also oversee it. Outside the University we contribute to the national Medical Internship Training programme, supervise clinical audits done by second year medical students in Primary Care clinics, and provide training for clinic nurses.

Research

Since its establishment the Department has been active in research with increasing numbers of publications and conference presentations to our credit. We are currently aiming to publish in high end medical education journals (e.g. Medical Teacher and Academic Medicine). The Department recently completed an in-depth review of the undergraduate MBBS programme and is beginning to publish from that research. We are about to start on a similar review of the six Masters of Medicine (MMed) programmes. We regularly serve on review panels of international journals.

Partnerships

We have working relationships with universities outside the country, e.g. the University of Stellenbosch and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, the University of Zimbabwe and Maastricht University in the Netherlands. We are in regular contact with the Botswana Health Professions Council and the Ministry of Health and Wellness on educational matters.