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Clinical Skills Education Team

Welcome to the Leeds University Clinical Skills Education Team (CSE Team); a team consisting of clinical educators from a range of clinical backgrounds spanning medicine, nursing, midwifery and radiography, whose primary objective is to deliver high quality clinical skills and simulation based teaching to students across the Faculty of Medicine and Health at Leeds University.  Students from the undergraduate courses of MBCHB (Medicine), Dentistry, Radiography, Cardiac Physiology and postgraduate PA (Physician Associate) students all benefit from access to the diverse teaching curriculum tailored to support these respective courses. Teaching encompasses a wide range of formats and specialty specific content enhanced by the use of advanced simulation equipment and technologies enabling immersive teaching experiences.

The Clinical Skills Education Teaching Programmes

The CSE Team hosts a busy schedule of teaching activities throughout the entire academic year, including the delivery of mandatory core clinical skills such as yearly Basic Life Support (BLS) updates, specialty specific topics across individual year groups, revision and support sessions and a key role in assessment and OSCE examinations. All of the teaching that is carried out by the team has the significant benefit of being delivered in small groups, ensuring high quality provision and plenty of opportunities for students to learn, practise and develop their skills and knowledge.

Overview of the CSE Team Teaching Timetable

Year 1 MBCHB (Medicine)

Mandatory Skills (Infection Prevention Control, Moving and Handling, Basic Life Support)

Clinical Skills (Vital signs and Urinalysis)

Year 2 MBCHB (Medicine)

Pre-placement clinical skills (Venepuncture, Asepsis, Blood cultures, Cannulation, Injections)

Y2 Medicines Administration

Supplementary Clinical Examination Skills

Year 3 MBCHB (Medicine)

Clinical Skills – Catherisation, Arterial Blood Gas, ECG, Fundoscopy, Otoscopy, Intimate Examinations

Basic surgical skills

Y3 Medicines Administration

Year 4 MBCHB (Medicine)

Gynaecology, obstetric and Sexual Health – clinical skills

Nasogastric Tube Insertion

RRAPID 4 – Immersive simulation teaching

Primary Care/SECO – Simulated consultations relating to safe and effective outcomes

Year 5 MBCHB (Medicine)

Year 5 Surgical Skills

Y5 Medicines Administration

Primary Care Case-Based Tutorials

RRAPID 5 – Immersive simulation teaching

Dentistry

Dental Students at the University of Leeds are supported by the Clinical Skills Education team providing them with yearly Basic Life Support updates, 1st year mandatory skills, 4th year medical emergencies course, revision sessions, OSCE assessments and access to the Independent Learning Area (ILA).

Allied Health Care Professionals

Cardiac Physiologists and Radiographers are supported by the CSE Team in mandatory 1st year skills as well as yearly BLS updates.

Physician Associates

The postgraduate Physician Associate programme receives intensive teaching input from the CSE Team.  Students attend sessions 2-3 times per week for supervised examinations of simulated patients, clinical skills sessions, history taking sessions, RRAPID simulations and case based discussions.

Specialty Courses and Collaborative Working partners

The CSE Team works collaboratively with clinical partners across the Teaching Hospital Trusts to promote and support the delivery of highly specialised teaching and courses across a range of clinical specialities including Emergency Medicine, Palliative Care, Paediatrics and Primary Care designed and led by experienced Clinicians from the respective specialities.  MBCHB students benefit from the following courses:

  1. EMSIM – Emergency Medicine Simulation
  2. Palliative Care Course
  3. Paediatric BLS
  4. Primary Care and SECO (simulated consultations designed to promote safe and effective clinical outcomes)
  5. Ultrasound Teaching – introduction to the use of ultrasound including basic vascular access.

Additional educational activities

The CSE Team at Leeds promotes opportunities to students and clinicians alike who may wish to be involved in clinical skills and simulation teaching to become involved in voluntary and flexible adhoc roles. The team also support MBCHB students intercalating in Medical Education by providing teaching placement opportunities. A pastoral role of the team branches into providing personal tutoring support to both the MBCHB and PA programmes.

Community Outreach Programmes

The CSE Team are keenly involved in community outreach programmes that benefit members of the public by delivering large scale health training and health screening programmes as well as benefitting students by providing them with an opportunity to be involved with the implementation of these activities.  These have included the running of “Know Your Blood Pressure” (KYBP), a Stroke Prevention and screening programme and “Restart a Heart” (RSAH) a CPR training programme.