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:  A: SPA time – Dr Maeve McPhillips, Deputy Chair of BMA Scottish Consultant Committee & Consultant Radiologist  B: Human factors and critical incidents - Dr Michael Moneypenny, Centre Director, Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors  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  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 For further details and to book online: http://events.rcpe.ac.uk #rcpeSolutions 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:  E: Listening and learning from feedback and complaints – Dr Dorothy Armstrong, Professional Adviser to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman & Director, DAPROFESSIONAL  F: Ten tips for pain free revalidation – Dr Alastair Todd, Consultant Radiologist, Raigmore Hospital  G: Effective use of appraisal – Dr Alastair Cook, Director of Medical Education, NHS Lanarkshire  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 For further details and to book online: http://events.rcpe.ac.uk #rcpeSolutions