Trainee interview - Jenny Isherwood
- Alison Parr (Unlicensed)
23 January 2017 - Transform offices
Contact
Jenny Isherwood
07815 134411
- Surgical trainee - ST6 General surgery (3 years training remaining) - Registrar
- Thames Valley (Oxford)
- Currently on the National Medical Directors leadership and management fellowship working in external relations at Royal College of Physicians (OOPE)
- Very interested in process improvement and the way that technology can support this - self-taught basic coding to build the Oxford School of Surgery website and an app for one of the local trusts: "I am a huge ambassador for the use of technology to improve efficiency and simplify processes"
Notes from discussion
User needs | Who |
|---|---|
| Any interface between eportfolio and TIS should not duplicate trainee efforts already require on eportfolio | T-HST-Surg |
| Placements information - want to know where I am going next but also useful to know where others in my cohort will be placed | T-HST-Surg |
| Study leave/budget applications and expenses claims and way of tracking how much study budget used/remaining | T-HST-Surg |
| Sharing and publicising training opportunities (training days etc) - search by region or topic | T-HST-Surg |
| Register/request annual leave & record abscences - currently paper-based (not the same as required for Form-R which is non-study/annual leave) - outside scope as Trust process? | T-HST-Surg |
| ARCP notification - currently email with lots of attachments & link to Form R on Intrepid - opportunity to improve this (although Jenny doesn't find ARCP admin a problem) | T-HST-Surg |
| GMC Survey - would be great if a way that GMC website could alert system to fact that trainee has completed this. It's a requirement for ARCP and currently have to take a screenshot from the GMC website and send it in to HEE as evidence | T-HST-Surg |
| Design for mobile so that it is easy to complete Form-R and other tasks when you're busy (not have to wait until go home to do desktop version) | T-HST-Surg |
| Automatic alert to trigger support if trainee fails exams 2 or 3 times | T-HST-Surg |
| Better way for TPDs to manage training placements - do it manually on spreadsheets currently and suspect it's a real headache | T-HST-Surg |
| OOP application - online with workflows to enable relevant people (Head of School) to approve and (Programme Manager) manage (in the case OPPE) | T-HST-Surg |
Employment checks (passport/right to work, DBS, occupational health record) - way of these following you and not having to undertake them at each rotation (NB. HEE already working on this?? | T-HST-Surg |
ePortfolio
ISCP is Royal College of Surgeons ePortfolio. Example screens:
Oxford School of Surgery website
Trainee-developed site for trainees/applicants for Higher Specialty Training in surgery - filled a gap left by HEE website which has incomplete information e.g. only 3 surgery specialties lists (when there are more).
Not currently available due to lapsed licence. According to Jenny, no further funding available (was funded for 3 years).
Slack: https://hee-nhs-tis.slack.com/
Jira issues: https://hee-tis.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=14213