Foundation Programme August Update - Help to review sessions

Welcome to your August 2024 update from the Foundation eLearning programme.

Would you be interested in helping to review Foundation Programme sessions? Any Foundation Doctors that take part in reviewing our sessions can enter the review as a publication in their CV. For more information or to register your interest please email the team.

Failure to prescribe safely is one of the commonest causes of untoward patient incidents in medical practice.

There are sessions available in the eLearning for healthcare Foundation Programme (2021 curriculum) that cover prescribing. These sessions cover areas in your curriculum on; FPC 1: Clinical Assessment, FPC 2: Clinical Prioritisation, FPC3: Holistic Planning, FPC 4: Communication and Care and FPC 5: Continuity of Care Specific Areas of Core Learning High Risk Prescribing Patient Safety

• Prescription Writing https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700519
• BNF Usage and Other Prescribing Information Sources https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700523
• Safe Use of Injectable Medicines (Part 1) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700527
• Safe Use of Injectable Medicines (Part 2) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700531
• Safe Anticoagulation https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700535
• Safe Prescribing in Renal Impairment https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700539
• Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 1) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700543
• Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 2) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700547
• Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 3) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700551
• Safe Prescribing of Insulin https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700555
• Adverse Drug Effects https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700559
• Safer Medicine Use Through Concordance https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/700563

SLEs are also an essential part of your learning in your two foundation years. Do you know how to get the best out of them? Even if you think you do, you could still get more by doing the SLE sessions now at the start of the year.

Available in the eLearning for healthcare Foundation Programme (2021 curriculum) – these sessions cover areas in your curriculum on; FPC 10: Teaching the teacher and FPC 12: Continuing Professional Development:

• Principles of Assessment https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/706189
• Making the Best Use of Multi-Source Feedback: A Trainee Guide https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/706197
• Getting the Most from Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/706201
• Getting the Most from a Case Based Discussion (CBD) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/706205
• Getting the Most from a Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/706209
• Getting the Most Out of Supervised Learning Events: Feedback and Reflection https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/706213
• Getting the Most Out of Supervised Learning Events: Reflection After Feedback https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/706217

Check the programme to see other sessions that might help you.

You can sign on to the eLearning with your login supplied by eLearning for healthcare at any time during your foundation training: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/

HORUS and TURAS have deep links to eLearning for healthcare sessions from the Foundation Curriculum and therefore accessible to all trainees, making it quicker and easy to access the appropriate session linked to the curriculum.