Providing students with the resources to ensure the safety of their patients and educating them to become effective risk managers is vital to their future careers, indeed this is one of the key requirements of the 2009 edition of Tomorrow’s Doctors.

Medical Schools across the UK have adopted a number of different approaches to this goal, inspired in part by the publication of the "WHO Patient Safety: Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools".

Amongst others, The Centre of Risk at Barts and The London has successfully created an innovative teaching programme which students complete during their MBBS Degree.

We invite you to attend our conference to discuss issues related to the teaching of patient safety and risk management in the undergraduate curriculum.

The goal of the meeting is to provide a forum to share ideas with view to developing a national undergraduate teaching curriculum which equips students to recognise risk and manage it sensibly, responsibly and proportionately, abilities which they will carry through to their foundation years training and beyond.

The one day conference will comprise key note lectures from specialists in the field including Charles Vincent, Martin Bromily, Stephen Carver and Della Freeth there will be an open forum to discuss thoughts and ideas as well as a poster and demonstration session highlighting good practice in this important area.

This meeting is free and sponsored by an academic award from HEFCE.

Bruce Kidd is professor of Clinical Rheumatology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, and Consultant Rheumatologist at the Royal London Hospital. He serves as co-director of the Academic Pain Group and is also the programme director for undergraduate medical education. His basic science research has focused on mechanisms underlying pain in osteoarthritis, as well as exploring neuroimmune interactions in chronic arthritis.

Charles Vincent trained and worked as an NHS clinical psychologist before beginning a research career. In 1995 he established the Clinical Risk Unit at University College where he was Professor of Psychology before moving to Imperial College in 2002. He is now Director of the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ) and the Clinical Safety Research Unit, which is based in the Department of Surgery and Cancer. He is the editor of Clinical Risk Management (BMJ Publications, 2nd edition, 2001) and author of Patient Safety (2nd edition 2010). From 1999 to 2003 he was a Commissioner on the UK Commission for Health Improvement. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

Martin Bromiley lost his wife Elaine due to serious errors in routine surgery in 2005. Using his experience as an airline pilot, and as a ‘human factors” trainer, Martin has sought to introduce a human factors approach in healthcare. He has established the Clinical Human Factors Group to help the NHS use this perspective to reduce harm. Martin has shared his experience at conferences, engaging clinicians, managers and patients alike.

An Honours Graduate in Risk, a registered Risk Practitioner and a Member of the Institute of Risk Management, Richard’s background is within Public Sector Risk and Insurance. He has ten years experience in the field including working on 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

Richard is responsible for developing and promoting the Centre of Risk at Saint Bartholomew’s and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. In addition, his innovative teaching packages created for medical students have proved successful and popular. His work was recognised in 2010 when he and his team were awarded “Risk Management Team of the Year 2010 by RM Professional publication.

A consultant anaesthetist at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre, Andy Norris is currently a lead Regional Adviser UK, an examiner ,and a member of Training Committee for College of Anaesthetists. Formerly, Andy was Training Programme Director of Anaesthesia Mid-Trent.

Andy's areas of interest include medical education, airway management, clinical reasoning and behaviour.

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As a registered nurse with an acute care background Jane has held a number of leadership roles in the NHS and Higher Education. Jane is the former President of the Association for Perioperative Practice and was appointed in 2009 as President of the International Federation of Perioperative Nurses (IFPN), a speciality affiliate of the International Council of Nurses (ICN).

Jane contributes to a number of national and international working groups concerned with improving the safety and reliability of patient care. Current activity includes Nurse Advisor to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Fellow of the NHS III Safer Care and Improvement Faculty and Advocates Lead, for the Clinical Human Factors Group. In December 2009 because of her former roles, as Nurse Advisor to the WHO 2nd Global Challenge Safe Surgery Saves Lives (Geneva); and Intervention Lead (Perioperative Care) for Patient Safety First, Jane was invited by Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE, to join the Advisory Board to the National Evaluation of implementation of the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist. In May 2010 Jane was invited to attend the Global Nursing Leadership Institute based in Geneva.

During her career Jane has been involved in developing standards for practice, workforce solutions via new roles/ways of working and educational frameworks,that facilitate service improvements and better care for patients.

As an experienced nurse academic with Bournemouth University (UK), Jane has published widely within the UK and is a respected national and international conference speaker. Jane’s subject and professional interests include healthcare ethics and law, patient safety, human factors and healthcare improvement.

John qualified as a dentist from Trinity College, Dublin in 1980 and worked in general practice before joining MPS in 1994. John worked as Head of Practitioner Services and subsequently Assistant Dental Director before being appointed as Director of Educational Services for MPS in 2007.

Within MPS John is responsible for delivering an integrated strategy for the delivery of education to members worldwide. John is currently a member of the MPS Senior Management Group and Executive Committee.

Previously John has been a member of the General Dental Council between 1991 and 2001 including membership of its Education Committee, Postgraduate Education Committee and the Specialist Training Advisory Committee.

Stephen is rated as one of the top three lecturers by Cranfield – Europe’s leading MBA Business School. He has the reputation of taking complex management concepts such as Project, Programme and Crisis Management and being able to distil them down, into highly informative and fun lectures. Although a respected academic, he has spent most of his working life in the business world, and his individualistic attitude is “if you haven’t done it- you shouldn’t be lecturing it!” He started his career project managing oil platforms but now concentrates mostly on the service sector helping these new organisations to enhance their project management capabilities.

At Cranfield, Stephen works with leading researchers in the new and strategically vital area of programme management. The ability not only to deliver individual projects but at the same time co-ordinate and integrate them to achieve complex strategic agendas.

Stephen has lectured and consulted in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Far East and has appeared regularly in the media and on TV.

Della Freeth is Professor of professional education in the Centre for Medical Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She works alongside a wide range of health professionals to research and develop education relating to patient safety and evidence based practice. At the moment Della is working on a NHIHR-MRC methodology project focussed on evaluating safety cultures; and leading a project for the London Deanery STeLI(Supporting Technology enhanced learning initiative) to support accomplished facilitation in clinical simulation centres and enhance transfer of learning between simulations and daily practice.