The Clinical Teaching Fellow role: views of the Heads of Academy in the West Midlands.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasingly junior doctors are taking a year out of the traditional training pathway, and some opt to spend a year in a clinical teaching fellow (CTF) post. The CTF post mainly involves delivering hospital-based teaching to undergraduate medical students. In NHS hospital Trusts in the West Midlands, Heads of Academy (HoAs) have oversight of medical education at each Trust and therefore have responsibility for employing and directing the work of CTFs. Currently, only limited literature exists about the CTF role and exploring this from the point of view of different stakeholders in medical education is important in terms of contributing towards development of the role. This study aimed to explore the views of HoAs in the West Midlands region regarding CTFs employed at the

SUBMITTER: Harris IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10103451 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature