03 November 2015
Doctor nominated for ‘excellence in teaching’ award
A junior doctor at University Hospitals Bristol has been praised
by his peers for providing outstanding teaching.
Dr Mark Devine, a registrar on the older person's assessment
unit in the new Bristol Royal Infirmary ward block, has been
nominated by doctors three times this year for the 'excellence in
teaching' award.
The medical education department, based at the Education and
Research Centre, invites medics every month to nominate a doctor
they've undergone training with for the accolade.
Dr Rebecca Aspinall, director of medical education at UH Bristol
and consultant in anaesthesia, said:
"Hundreds of doctors provide high quality teaching across the
Trust so to have one doctor being nominated for the excellence in
teaching award on multiple occasions is truly outstanding. This has
never happened before. High quality education is the backbone of
patients being safe in the NHS and at UH Bristol we celebrate the
efforts made by all our training specialists and consultants in
educating our current and future doctors.
"One of Mark's talents is explaining complex topics clearly. He
is a great credit to the hospital because his engaging and
informative teaching has enhanced the knowledge of junior
doctors."
Dr Devine provides formal teaching through lectures on
conditions and treatments, along with on the ward training for
junior doctors. He also provides ward-based teaching for medical
students from the University of Bristol when he takes them on tours
of the ward, explains resources and oversees discussions with
patients about their illness and experience in hospital.
In one lecture he gave recently on hyponatraemia, a condition
that occurs when the level of sodium in your blood is abnormally
low, all the doctors attending gave him five out of five on all
aspects of the talk they were asked about. These included high
quality teaching, good knowledge of the subject and an approachable
manner.
Dr Devine said: "My style of teaching is to help trainees
understand the physiology behind a condition so that they can
manage it better. I encourage them to ask questions and come to
their own conclusion about a case. This is the best way to
learn.
"I enjoy teaching. It's immensely rewarding to help people
improve their understanding. It's great to be in a situation where
you have bright people asking questions that you have not thought
about before. This also helps you improve your own grasp of a topic
and thus your clinical practice."
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