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pdf, 969.22 KB Improving consultant team dynamics course agenda
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5 CPD credits - awaiting accreditation
This is a full-day virtual course.
A strong consultant team is central to effective clinical leadership. When consultants work well together, they inspire and bring the best out of others, shape a positive culture, and create conditions for safe, high-quality patient care. Yet even experienced consultant teams can struggle to speak openly about sensitive and difficult issues. Operational bottlenecks, conflicting expectations and clinical disagreements can be hard to address and work through constructively. These dynamics can also affect relationships with the wider MDT and other services across the organisation.
This course is for consultants, specialists, and clinical leads who want to navigate team dynamics more effectively, and encourage more cohesion and collaboration.
It may be particularly valuable for those in teams that are:
The course focuses on helping you to:
Awaiting accreditation by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK for 5 category 1 (external) CPD credits.
Oscar Mathew MA(Hons), barrister (Middle Temple), accredited mediator
Director, mediator & trainer, the Medical Mediation Foundation (MMF)
Oscar is a qualified barrister, mediator and door tenant of Lamb Chambers in Middle Temple. He has a background in regulatory and public law, with a particular interest in medical law and ethics. Prior to his work with MMF, Oscar was a senior legal adviser to the GMC, overseeing judicial reviews and statutory appellate work in the High Court, and had conduct of the Supreme Court case of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, one of the most significant medical law cases in the last 25 years. His work for MMF includes teaching, mediating and team facilitation for healthcare teams experiencing conflict.
Dr Esse Menson
Trainer, the Medical Mediation Foundation (MMF)
Esse became a consultant paediatrician in 2006 and accredited mediator in 2014. She gained a PhD in vaccine development research in 1989 before qualifying as a doctor in 1994, then training in Infectious Diseases & Immunology. In 2012, she helped develop the Evelina Resolution Project with MMF while she was a consultant at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. She's one of the principal trainers working with MMF to deliver training in understanding and managing conflict to health and social care professionals. Esse has been a course director for the Guy's & St Thomas' MRCPCH Clinical Examination Course since 2012, and is certificated in compassion training and mindful self compassion training (Kristen Neff/Christopher Germer model).
Dr John Dale-Skinner
MDU medico-legal adviser
John has been with the MDU for the past 11 years, having previously worked as a GP. He has wide experience as a senior medical claims handler assisting MDU members defend clinical negligence claims.