Nadine joined our team in January as our new Faculty Development Manager. Her role involves recruiting new teachers, keeping records of existing teachers and arranging teacher training and the Annual Teachers' Conference.
We had a quick chat with Nadine to find out more about her.
I have been here for 2 months now, my job title is Primary
Care Faculty Development Manager and my role is to aid the Faculty Development
lead to recruit and retain more GPs to teach medical students out in GP
Practices across north west London.
We had a quick chat with Nadine to find out more about her.
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What is your role within the department and how
long have you been here?
I have been here for 2 months now, my job title is Primary
Care Faculty Development Manager and my role is to aid the Faculty Development
lead to recruit and retain more GPs to teach medical students out in GP
Practices across north west London.
• What does your role involve?
I organise the Imperial GP teacher training course, designed
for GPs that are new to teaching for us, or as a refresher for more experienced
teachers. I also organise the Imperial ASTIC course, which supports GPs
teachers to update their skills over a variety of topics such as
coaching/mentoring and feedback skills. In some cases I target GPs and
Practices directly to assess the teaching capacity within the Practice and
whether there are a number of GPs within a Practice that may want to develop
their teaching skills.
In addition, working with our Faculty Development lead I
help to monitor the quality of student teaching provided within Practices, and
go out to visit Practices if they are new to teaching and to Imperial.
• What do you enjoy most about your role?
Working with the GP education team and seeing a new teacher
through to taking students for the first time.
• Tell us about
your outside interests
I'm a keen gardener and have an allotment at the back of my
garden where I grow much of my own veg. Most summer weekends are spent in the
garden or in our two greenhouses nurturing tomatoes and cucumbers!
• Tell us
something groovy/interesting about yourself
I'm a Londoner and grew up in south west London. I'm a bit
of racial mix, my father is Indian and my mother is Italian, but this means you
get to know about the best of both these worlds and have relatives dotted about
across the globe that you can visit!
• What were you
doing prior to this/what’s your background?
I did my degree in Archaeology, however I then ended up in
the management of postgraduate junior doctor training for over 10 years until
recently moving to Imperial. Two very different fields of work!
• You’re
marooned on a desert island – which 3 people (real or fictional, dead or alive)
would you choose to be marooned with?
If I was marooned on a desert island, the 3 people I would
choose to be with are Barack and Michelle Obama, and Monty Don.
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