to the programme for this event.

RCPE Symposium: Life As A Consultant: Potential Challenges and Practical
Solutions
Friday 13 March 2015
Venue: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, EH2 1JQ
09.00
Registration and Coffee
09.25
Welcome by Dr Alan Patrick, Vice President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Session 1:
Service development
Chair:
Dr Iain Matthews, Consultant Cardiologist, Northumbria Healthcare
09.30
Managing change: making your ideas matter
Dr Cathy Jack, Consultant Geriatrician and Medical Director, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Bringing about change. Improving standards. Use of quality indicators and clinical audit. Overcoming
barriers.
10.00
Working well with service managers
Ms Anne Kennedy, Deputy Director of Medicine and Emergency Care, Northumbria Healthcare
NHS Foundation Trust
How service managers can help and how to engage with them. Negotiating service development. Case
scenarios.
10.30
Breakout session 1 with tea and coffee
Choose two of the following for breakout sessions 1 and 2:
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A: SPA time – Dr Maeve McPhillips, Deputy Chair of BMA Scottish Consultant Committee &
Consultant Radiologist
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B: Human factors and critical incidents - Dr Michael Moneypenny, Centre Director, Scottish Centre
for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors
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C: Time management – Dr Alison Brown, Consultant Nephrologist and Clinical Lead, Newcastle
upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne
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D: Quality improvement – Professor Kevin Rooney, Professor of Care Improvement, Royal Alexandra
Hospital, Paisley
11.30
Breakout session 2
Session 2: Medico-legal aspects of consultant life
Chair:
Dr Anthony Lewis, Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology and Acute
Medicine, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
12.25
Summoned to court: how to deal with court appearances
Professor Jack Crane CBE, Professor of Forensic Medicine, Queen’s University, Belfast
Writing reports for the coroner and the courts. The role of the expert witness. What the GMC expects of a
medical witness. The presentation of expert evidence in courts.
12.55
Lunch
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RCPE Symposium: Life As A Consultant: Potential Challenges and Practical
Solutions
Friday 13 March 2015
Venue: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, EH2 1JQ
Session 3: Professional development
Chair:
Dr Johann Selvarajah, Consultant Neurologist, Institute of Neurological
Sciences, Glasgow
13.40
New mentoring opportunities update
Dr Jeena Ackroyd, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, West Yorkshire
RCPE mentoring scheme
14.00
Breakout session 3
Choose two of the following for breakout sessions 3 and 4:
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E: Listening and learning from feedback and complaints – Dr Dorothy Armstrong, Professional
Adviser to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman & Director, DAPROFESSIONAL
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F: Ten tips for pain free revalidation – Dr Alastair Todd, Consultant Radiologist, Raigmore Hospital
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G: Effective use of appraisal – Dr Alastair Cook, Director of Medical Education, NHS Lanarkshire
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H: Handling Poor Performance – Ms Fiona Anderson, Training and Education Development
Manager, Medical Directorate, NHS Education for Scotland
14:55
Coffee/tea
15:15
Breakout session 4
Choose another of the topics listed in session 3
16.10
Plenary feedback session
Dr Catherine Labinjoh, Consultant Cardiologist & Recently Appointed Consultant
Representative, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Reports from breakout group leaders
16:40
Close
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