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11th ANNUAL SCSN CONFERENCE 15th-16th September 2011 St. Andrews University

The 11th Annual SCSN Conference "Clinical Skills in The 21st Century" took place on 15th & 16th September 2011 at the School of Medicine, University of St Andrews. The Conference was attended by 105 Delegates from Scotland and England.

This was a highly successful conference with a number of high profile speakers and delegates from Higher Education Institutes, health boards and education boards on a national and international level.  Within the strong field of abstracts submitted for presentation at the conference, there featured a number of staff and student presentations and workshops from the medical school.

There were four Keynote Speakers and 5 workshops each day which were very well received.

Next year the Conference will be held in Edinburgh and we look forward to seeing you all there.

PRESENTATION WINNERS

Vicky Tallentire
Fellow in Medical Education
Centre for Medical Education
University of Edinburgh
"Exploring the Errors Made by FY1s in Acute Care Contexts"
 
Kyaw Thant (Student)
5th year MBChB
University of Glasgow
"Peer-taught Clinical Skills Refresher Course"

POSTER WINNERS:
 
Anne Thomson
NHS Tayside
"Improving Practice in Observations"
 
Susan Sommerville
University of Dundee
"Evaluating Acute Care Teaching"
 
Anita Laidlaw
University of St Andrews
Paradoxical Culture Amongst Medical Students in Relation to Anxiety

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PRESENTATIONS:

• Mark L Graber: Decision Support - The 21st Century Skill
• Pat Croskerry: Clinical Decision Making in The 21st Century Challenges and Solutions

We would like to thank all Delegates who completed Feedback forms after the Conference.  The feedback and comments we receive are extremely useful and we appreciate you taking the time to complete these.

• Conference Feedback Summary Graphs
• Conference Feedback Summary Sheet