Summer schools and recruitment strategies

RCPsych International Congress 2014

Jayne Greening

DME BSMHFT

Recruitment strategy 2011 - 2016

• aim of the Recruitment Strategy is to increase recruitment to the CT1 grade of Core Psychiatry Training, achieving a 50% increase in applications and a 95% fill rate by the end of the 5 year campaign.

• Lead is Registrar for recruitment; Tom Brown

• Promoting recruitment into psychiatry; PRiP committee

What is happening (or not) in West Mids?

• Summer School ( Bham uni only)

• Psychsoc Bham Uni

• FY

• Recruitment committee

• Balint groups

• BMedSci

• Work experience

Recruitment stats West Mids vs National ‘09 – ‘13

Fill rate Competition ratio

2009 West Mids 95.3 6.0

National av. 86.8 4.9

2010 West Mids 86.0 3.5

Nat. Av 87.7 3.4

2011 West Mids 64.44 1.9

Nat Av 84.12 1.9

2012 West Mids 83.7 1.7

Nat Av 85.3 1.9

2013 West Mids 78.05 2.39

Nat Av 97.1 1.93

Recruitment stats West Mids vs National ‘09 – ‘13

Fill rate Competition ratio

2009 West Mids 95.3 6.0

National av. 86.8 4.9

2010 West Mids 86.0 3.5

Nat. Av 87.7 3.4

2011 West Mids 64.44 1.9

Nat Av 84.12 1.9

2012 West Mids 83.7 1.7

Nat Av 85.3 1.9

2013 West Mids 78.05 2.39

Nat Av 97.1 1.9

Recruitment stats West Mids vs National ‘09 – ‘13

Fill rate Competition ratio

2009 West Mids 95.3 6.0

National av. 86.8 4.9

2010 West Mids 86.0 3.5

Nat. Av 87.7 3.4

2011 West Mids 64.44 1.9

Nat Av 84.12 1.9

2012 West Mids 83.7 1.7

Nat Av 85.3 1.9

2013 West Mids 78.05 2.4

Nat Av 97.1 1.93

Summer school 2011 - 13

• Take up to 15 Birmingham university students only

• Focus on clinical placements and seeing patients, meeting psychiatrists, getting to know about variety of sub-specialisation

• Competitive application

• We want those who are genuinely unsure

Clear idea of what specialty before med school?

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Attitude to psychiatry among peers

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mostly posoitive

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neutral some negative

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Other career options being considered

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GP Neuro Paeds O&G cardiology acute medicine

surgery Gastro

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Other career options being considered

• Orthopaedics

• Ophthalmology

• Rheumatology

• ENT

• Urology

• Genetics

• Renal medicine

• Endocrinology

• Respiratory medicine

• anaesthetics

• Public health

• Pathology

• Academic

• Breast surgery

• Oncology

• Elderly medicine

• Gastroenterology

• Addictions

• Child and ad mental health

What attracts you to psychiatry?

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What puts you off psychiatry?

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What puts you off psychiatry?

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Thinking of psychiatry as career?

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not really possibly probably almost definite

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SS made me more likely to choose psychiatry

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SS made me less likely to choose psychiatry

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Psychsoc

• Great success at University of Birmingham

• Very active and dedicated new chair 4 years ago

• Membership increased by 400%!

• Active programme of talks

• Host revision psych OSCE’s before finals for all

• Have excellent links with faculty to organise taster sessions/ electives

FY’s

• FY 1 day taster event ; has psychiatry got the X-factor?

• Very encouraging feedback

• FY1 – 2 Seems to be good opportunity to “convert” (NB must be by Dec of FY2; applications)

• Anecdotal and some small survey evidence of good conversion rate

Recruitment committee

• Needs someone with time

• Links with all divisional medical schools; West Mids has 3; Birmingham, Warwick, Keele. (4 by 2016;Aston)

• Smaller medical school may struggle to get active psychsoc

Balint groups ?

• For med students

• Trying for FY’s (psychotherapists already stretched)

Intercalated BMedSci

• Any evidence these students more likely to do psychiatry?

• Not at present

Work experience students

• No one to administer

• No trust policy on how to deal with school pupils in patient areas

• All work experience students for any specialty taken over by learning and development department

• After 3 years and several conversations with CEO I now have an agreement of sorts….

Intake to medical school?

• Are we interviewing and selecting the right people to become psychiatrists??