PG100 The North East simulation trainee and teaching fellow interest group website launch review

Abstract

The North East Simulation Trainee and Teaching Fellow Interest Group was established in 2018 to address the needs of all healthcare professionals in the North East of England, both undergraduate, and postgraduate, who are interested in simulation, medical education, human factors and patient safety. Simulation, as an educational and patient safety tool, is continuing to grow in popularity locally, and nationally. The pace of change is fast, and the ever-increasing landscape of simulation is becomingly more complex every year. Despite this, few are trained early in their careers in how to best deliver simulation activities, leading to large numbers of projects being replicated locally, and nationally. The goals of NESTFIG are to facilitate high quality simulation training across the region, in an effective and efficient format, focusing on trainees and teaching fellows, as the key players in upskilling the workforce, to better support local HCP development and transformation, and ultimately develop high quality, and safer, patient care. The website was launched on the 20th August 2020 to support trainees and teaching fellows starting their new roles. The rationale for an online pool of resources was in part due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic limiting face-to-face training sessions, the geographic distance between centres in the North East, and to provide a central point to access resources at any time and facilitate continuous development over a one-off training intervention. The NESTFIG website provides learners with access to continuous professional development resources to structure their time during the year and within a lifelong career in simulation. It also hosts resources summarising several common topics in simulation, medical education and non-technical skills titled ‘As-sim-il-ate’ bite-size learning content, as well as an array of free to use resources developed with a user-experience focus. Despite promotion at a regional training session, and intermittent social-media promotional messages, uptake has remained low. This poster will present the website metrics up to the conference with user visits, most commonly accessed resources, and geographic distribution. This work may prove beneficial to provide an example for anyone wishing to create a similar web-based resource.