STeLI is a 2010 BMJ award finalist

We’re proud to announce that London Deanery’s Simulation Training-enhanced Learning Initiative (STeLI) was a finalist at this year’s BMJ awards. STeLI was down to the last four in the Excellence in Healthcare Education category which recognises an individual or a team who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and/ or innovation in healthcare education and performance improvement.

STeLI is a flagship initiative of London Deanery and it helps to support NHS London’s ‘Excellence in Education’ strategy.  Launched in 2008, STeLI has promoted the use of powerful educational technologies such as e-learning and simulation to reinvigorate the delivery of healthcare professional workforce training to promote patient safety and maintain high quality service delivery.

London was well represented at this year’s BMJ awards, which took place at the London Hilton on Park Lane on 10 March.  As well as teams from primary and secondary care, four of London’s junior doctors were short-listed for awards.

Vivian Elwell, a neurosurgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Douglas Noble, a Public Health doctor with NHS Tower Hamlets, Philip Smith, an academic clinical fellow in gastroenterology based at University College London (UCL) and Oliver Warren, a surgical registrar from London all made it to the final few in the ‘Junior Doctor of the Year’ category, which rewards “the doctor in training who has done most to improve the world we live in.”