Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London

Location: Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Hammersmith and White City Campus

Job Summary

You will sit within the Undergraduate Primary Care Education Unit in the School of Public Health. The Unit oversees undergraduate primary care placements across the six-year MBBS degree at Imperial College London and team members undertake a diverse range of educational evaluation and research activities relating to the undergraduate primary care curriculum.

Duties and responsibilities

You will work with other members of the Undergraduate Primary Care Education team to lead and/or contribute to quality improvement related work, including teaching, evaluation and research, relating to Imperial’s undergraduate primary care curriculum, including primary care learning and assessment activities and innovations. Examples include digital health and education in primary care, coaching skills, diversity and inclusion, faculty development, assessment approaches and promotion of GP careers amongst undergraduate medical students. The postholder will support the professional development of team members in their quality improvement related work.

You will contribute to the development, teaching delivery (including academic tutorials and lectures where appropriate), assessment (including providing constructive feedback for students) and evaluation of curricular materials relating to quality improvement in the undergraduate primary care teaching programme. This will include undertaking relevant administrative duties, including relating to the organisation of these activities and maintaining attendance records where required.

You will also have the opportunity to supervise quality improvement projects undertaken by students and team members, and to contribute to academic and personal tutoring programmes, supporting students with their academic, personal and professional development and with pastoral matters.

You will apply qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation skills to ensure appropriate and robust evaluation and research relating to the curricular and faculty development initiatives of the Undergraduate Primary Care Education Unit, with a view to maximising learning from these initiatives and enabling publication and sharing of best practice. There will be opportunities to develop collaborations for evaluation and/or research projects nationally and globally relating to undergraduate primary care education.

You will also work on wider primary care-related quality improvement, evaluation and/or research projects within Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM).

You will have the opportunity to collaborate where appropriate with the Medical Education Innovation and Research Centre (MEdIC) and Medical Education Research Unit (MERU) on evaluation and/or research relating to the undergraduate primary care curriculum at Imperial.

Essential Criteria

• Masters or PhD in Education, Medical Education, Psychology, Public Health, Social Science or a closely related discipline, or equivalent research experience.
• Experience of designing and carrying out quantitative and qualitative research in education.      
• Experience of supporting colleagues to design and conduct educational research.
• Experience of teaching delivery.       
• Understanding of undergraduate medical education and the undergraduate curriculum.     
• Ability to use a range of educational research methodologies, and data analysis techniques.
• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to write clearly and succinctly for publication.

Further Information

This post is full time, fixed term for 2 years and you will be based at Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, and White City Campuses.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Dr Arti Maini – a.maini@imperial.ac.uk