Clinical Interactions Course (CLIC) Lead, ScotGEM - UOD1875

The School of Medicine wishes to appoint a Clinical Interactions Course Lead to develop this key role within the ScotGEM MBChB programme. The Clinical Interactions Course Lead will be employed by the University of Dundee. The successful candidate will be expected to work at both the School of Medicine in St Andrews and School of Medicine in Dundee, and collaborate with colleagues in University of the Highlands and Islands, and across all partner Health Boards (NHS Tayside, NHS Fife, NHS Dumfries and Galloway and NHS Highland) so travel is expected.

This post is funded by NHS Additional Costs of Teaching (ACT) and offers an excellent opportunity for career development to a senior educator with academic career intentions.

Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) is an innovative 4-year graduate entry medical programme, designed to train doctors as generalists and in rural practice. Our first cohort graduated in 2022.

ScotGEM offers case-based learning in the early years supported by the new Generalist Clinical Mentor (GCM) role designed to form the backbone of clinical training and offer a positive generalist role model. In year 3 ScotGEM employs a General Practice (GP) based Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) which is supplemented by both structured and student led secondary care experience.

Another novel aspect of the programme is a focus on developing our students as ‘Agents of Change’, future healthcare leaders, with additional skills in healthcare improvement, prescribing and therapeutics, public health, service learning and informatics.

You will join an experienced, enthusiastic team and lead the delivery, and future development, of the ScotGEM Course, in close collaboration with the academic leadership team. This will involve working effectively with an extensive range of colleagues from the universities of Dundee and St Andrews, with both enjoying international reputations for excellence, as well as those in our partner health boards of NHS Dumfries & Galloway, Fife, Highland and Tayside.

Your priorities will include:

• Leadership of the Clinical Interactions Course across all 4 years of the programme
• Academic support, assessment and related scholarly activities.
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships within the partnership.
• Sourcing clinical placement  capacity  as required.
• University, NHS and GMC quality assurance processes.

Who we’re looking for:

• An experienced clinical medical educator to be based at the University of Dundee and able to travel across Scotland.
• An enthusiastic advocate for the ScotGEM rural generalist mission.
• A highly  effective, collaborative  worker with excellent communication skills
• Ongoing clinical commitment (contracted separately, support available to arrange if required).

The University of Dundee is a signatory of the Researcher Development Concordat and is committed to enhancing the research environment and culture. Engagement and support of activities which assist the researcher development agenda at the University is therefore essential.

For further information about this position please contact the deputy programme directors, Dr Lloyd Thompson (l.thompson@dundee.ac.uk , 01382 386678) or Dr Andrew O’Malley (aso2@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Programme Director, Dr Fiona Graham (fgraham001@dundee.ac.uk).  To find out more please visit the ScotGEMWebsite.

The salary offered will reflect your current level within the NHS and your experience within education. We are keen to protect colleagues' work/life balance by ensuring this workload does not result in more than 12 programmed activities per week