Introduction
The ST7 as clinical supervisor programme offers an opportunity for higher trainees in their final year of training to develop and practice their supervision skills before CCT. Not only does this allow mentoring in the supervisory role it also enables doctors to move into an educational supervision role as soon as they take up their consultant post.
Higher trainees entering the programme will complete a full educational supervision course in their penultimate or final year and then, once they’ve entered their final year, will act as clinical supervisor to an FY2 in their own specialty for a 4-month placement.
This experiential learning provides excellent preparation for taking on a formal supervision role while being supported by their own supervisor and the foundation programme director.
The programme emerged from a body of work directed by the Medical Education Reform Programme in 2022 which sought to expand supervision capacity for doctors in training across England. The programme has been approved by the GMC and the UKFPO and is awaiting approval for national spread by the English postgraduate Deans in November 2024.
The next KSS cohort will start in December 2024 and if you are a higher trainee wishing to take part, please contact vikki.bates1@nhs.net, the KSS Foundation School the Education programme manager and the medical education manager at your trust.
If you are a higher trainee in another Deanery region, please contact your regional foundation school to enquire whether they are running the programme this year.