ID Medical Group opens training school in response to NHS staffing pressures
ID Medical Group has launched an educational and medical training facility in response to staffing pressures in the NHS.
The ID Medical School will provide training for the recruitment firm’s registered doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, while also providing support to medical students.
The venture comes at a time when fears have been raised that an EU directive (which limits the number of hours doctors are allowed to work) will put more pressure on wards to use temporary workers and cut into valuable time needed to train young medics.
As part of efforts to tackle a shortage of trained professionals in the UK, the school will offer free medical English courses for international candidates so they have the language standards required to work in the NHS. As a result of a partnership with the Royal Society of Medicine, candidates will be able to take advantage of a one-month free trial membership and ongoing joining offer.
The school has also partnered with WatMed educational and Prepare4FY1, founded by Dr Kishan Rees - clinical teaching fellow and locum doctor, to provide clinical skills workshops for medical students and foundation year doctors.
In a statement, Dr Rees said: “It is often publicised that newly qualified healthcare professionals can sometimes lack the necessary skills and ‘real-life’ experience to deal with complex circumstances. The series of workshops delivered in collaboration with ID Medical will ensure junior staff are readily equipped to practise safely and to make crucial decisions within a rapidly-changing NHS workforce, for continued high quality patient care and safety.
"Having experienced it first-hand, I know junior doctors are under enormous pressure through the transition from student to professional, and they need the support to adapt to the working NHS environment. After all, this is not the traditional university to working life shift; doctors have the lives of patients in their hands.”
In a statement Caryn Cooper, ID Medical’s head of marketing, who established ID Medical School, told Recruiter: “It has always been ID Medical’s mission to deliver cost efficiencies to the NHS through identifying tailored workforce solutions for its NHS clients, and the innovation that ID Medical School brings adds a further dimension.
"We identified the need to help nurture more junior talent and take them through their journey from medical school into the world of work on NHS placements and I will be working closely with medical students to extend the ID Medical School’s portfolio of training and educational resources with the outcome of excellent patient care always top of mind.
"With the NHS ever-changing in nature, making time for refresher training and upskilling has never been so important. Plus, with more foreign healthcare professionals joining the NHS, a high standard of English language communication is required, hence ID Medical School’s medical English course offering which delivers 48 lessons that can be scheduled around the individual’s working patterns.
"We are honoured to be working with Dr Kishan Rees, a clinical teaching fellow, to deliver ‘real-life’ training while instilling the core NHS values of compassionate patient-focused care.”
