Principal Teaching Fellow in Undergraduate Primary Care Quality Improvement

Contract Type: Part time 0.6 FTE (21 hours per week) for a fixed term of 2 years.

Location: Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Hammersmith and White City Campus

Job Summary

This postholder will be based within the Undergraduate Primary Care Education Unit (UPCE). The Unit is part of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, which sits within the School of Public Health (SPH) in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. Academic General Practice is a major contributor to teaching within the Faculty of Medicine.

The Unit oversees undergraduate primary care placements across the six-year MBBS degree at Imperial College London, and team members undertake a diverse range of educational evaluation and research activities relating to the undergraduate primary care curriculum.

Duties and responsibilities

The postholder will work with members of the UPCE Unit to lead and/or contribute to medical education evaluation, research and teaching in relation to the undergraduate primary care curriculum and educational innovations as part of the Unit’s quality improvement approach. The postholder will support the professional development of team members in relation to evaluation, research and quality improvement more generally.

The postholder will contribute to the development, teaching delivery (including academic tutorials and lectures where appropriate), assessment (including providing constructive feedback for students) and evaluation of curricular materials in the undergraduate primary care teaching programme. This will include undertaking relevant administrative duties, including relating to the organisation of these activities and maintaining attendance records where required.

The postholder will also have the opportunity to supervise evaluation and research projects undertaken by students and team members, and to contribute to academic and personal tutoring programmes, supporting students with their academic, personal and professional development and with pastoral matters.

The postholder will apply qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation skills to ensure appropriate and robust evaluation and research relating to the curricular and faculty development initiatives of the UPCE Unit, with a view to maximising learning from these initiatives and enabling publication and sharing of best practice. There will be opportunities to develop collaborations for evaluation and/or research projects nationally and globally relating to undergraduate primary care education.

The postholder will also work on wider primary care-related quality improvement, evaluation and/or research projects within Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM).

Essential Criteria

• Masters or PhD in Education, Medical Education, Psychology, Public Health, Social Science or a closely related discipline
• Specialist knowledge in Medical Education and of teaching methods and techniques within Medical Education
• Experience of designing and leading quantitative and qualitative research in medical education, including experience of methodological and statistical approaches     
• Experience of supporting colleagues to design and conduct educational research
• Understanding of undergraduate medical education and the undergraduate curriculum
• Ability to use a range of educational research methodologies, and data analysis techniques
• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to write clearly and succinctly for publication

Further Information

This post is part time (21 h/w) and fixed term (24 months) based on Charing Cross and White City campus.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Dr Arti Maini – a.maini@imperial.ac.uk

Closing date: 17/07/2024 

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