Sometimes you start something and it just keeps going. The PGVLE is just that for me In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare education, the Postgraduate Virtual Learning Environment (PGVLE) a Moodle based platform started in 2020 continues to grow and has managed to consolidate its foundations sufficiently and to the point that it is being…
After leading the way with Virtual Core Surgical Training in the West Midlands with consistently high feedback and trainee/trainer engagement the model has been adapted for the national stage. It’s a proud moment for the @PGVLE team to be supporting @CSTHubUK as virtual teaching/learning will be extended to over 1200 core surgical trainees through the…
As the PGVLE surpasses 7500 users, we continue to plan for the future and are proud to announce a collaboration with Primal Pictures to integrate Anatomy.TV into the PGVLE. Now we have, for all of our surgical trainees, access to the Anatomy.TV encyclopaedia which means that users with PGVLE access can get access to the…
As we close on 2021, the PGVLE continues to grow and now has nearly 7500 users registered on the platform with ongoing uptake. The recognition that remote and virtual teaching and learning is core part of educational strategy means that this form of delivery is here to stay. I’d love to go back to face…
So a proud collaboration with the Vascular Society to deliver the Aspire 7 (FRCS practice course for 40 trainees with 23 faculty over 2 days in March 2021) and Aspire 8 (Consultant preparation course for 16 trainees with multiple faculty from the worlds of management, law and medicine). Resounding success and the formats used are…
Virtual learning continues to establish itself and the infrastructure that we’ve built in the West Midlands is garnering interest everywhere! It was incredible to receive a request for an article by Dr Ed Briggs (Editor, NACT Newsletter) sharing our regional experience with a national audience. In the middle of the pandemic and the need for…
One of my overriding aims was to grow the PGVLE organically. Not just build it and put it out there but to nurture and invite groups into the fold. We started with surgery – Vascular and Ortho leading the way, but now all rotations in the West Midlands on board (with some logistical exceptions) Then…
This month my article on the ‘Virtual Learning – Moving Forward’ was published in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of Trauma & Orthopaedics In this article I highlight the way in which Virtual Learning has been a real opportunity for positive change in the way we learn, but it you can’t just do it!…
We’ve now launched the next phase of our Virtual Learning Environment and have rebranded from the SVLE to the Postgraduate VLE to acknowledge several non-surgical specialties joining the programme. The platform is built in this second phase for 3000 users (up from 500) and web conferencing facility up to 400 concurrent users (up from 100)….
Learning new skills. In just over 8 weeks I went from an idea to full implementation and expansion of the new West Midlands School of Surgery Surgical Virtual Learning Environment. I had the opportunity to share thought processes as part of a proactice panel of speakers who, like so many of us throughout the world,…