Transitioning of the Northwest Learning Disability (NWLD) Academic Regional Teaching Forum (HEE-NW) to a Virtual Programme With Enhancement of Medical Education for Trainees, Trainers and MDT Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic- a Quality Improvement Project - QIP Project Lead & Organiser -NWLD - Dr Syeda Hasan- Northwest HEE

[摘要] Aims. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, severalresourceful initiatives were implemented, across the educationallandscape. As the lead organiser of the academic forum theexpectation was to develop a format for on-line monthly academicteachings with streamlining further innovative ideas of change tobest effect. The key objective of this QIP,is to use virtual platformto establish an educational forum that is efficient, safe, reliable,easy to use and replicableMethods.• A zoom based online forum was convened using QI framework toidentify gaps in the programme along with new ideas of change.• The attendees experience new innovative practices within theprogramme format, in line with the original NWLD forumprogramme.• A ‘think-group’ consisting of the previous NWLD forum lead,ID training programme director and higher trainee facilitatorsproposed ideas towards a varied educational topic bank, inline with the ID curriculum• Qualitative feedback from the forum members collected at baseline and regular intervals.• As part of the implementation of these actions, conductedworkshops evaluating the impact of COVID-19 onEducational, Psychological and Clinical landscapeResults.• There were 18 virtual sessions,5 CPD hours per session, conducted monthly.• 9 sessions in the first PDSA cycle from June 2020 - Feb 2021,and 9 sessions in the second PDSA from March 2021-November 2021.• Impact of COVID-19 workshops & Complex case managementworkshops conducted in the first and second PDSA cycle aspart of the monthly academic programme.

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）