Undergraduate in psychiatry
With a strong history of working with King’s College London and Kent and Medway medical School (KMMS). Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) is an excellent choice for undergraduate medical students on their Mental Health placements.
KMPT also look forward to welcoming students from the newly established Kent and Medway Medical School.
Medical Education Team
- Angela Pendleton – Medical Education Manager- angelapendleton@nhs.net
- Shannon Thackaberry – West Kent King’s College London Undergraduate Administrator - shannon.thackaberry@nhs.net
- Debbie Monticolombi – East Kent King’s College London Undergraduate Administrator - debbie.monticolombi@nhs.net
- Lydia Fry - Kent and Medway medical School Year 3 Undergraduate Administrator - lydia.fry@nhs.net
- Louise Giles - Kent and Medway medical School Year 3 Undergraduate Administrator - louise.giles8@nhs.net
- Melanie Simpson - Medical Education Administrator Kent and Medway medical School Year 5 -melanie.simpson6@nhs.net
Your Placement
KMPT have placements available in general adult, older adult, child & adolescent, intellectual learning disability, forensic or perinatal services.
KMPT also take pride in being able to provide experiences with drug and alcohol dependency services, S136 place of safety, on-call and ECT teams.
Clinical placements will either be with community teams or wards in East Kent (Ashford, Canterbury and Margate) or West Kent (Dartford, Maidstone and Medway).
Accommodation
Note: accommodation only applicable to King’s College London Students only.
Accommodation is provided by our partner acute trusts at the following hospitals:
East Kent
William Harvey Hospital, Ashford
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate
Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury
https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/work-here/living-in-east-kent/accommodation/
West Kent
Dartford accommodation for the mental health blocks for undergraduates will be organised privately by our KMPT Medical Education team.
Maidstone Hospital, Maidstone
https://me.mtw.nhs.uk/facilities/accommodation/
Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham
https://www.medway.nhs.uk/services/medical-education.htm
Experience
A typical medical student’s experience will include:
- Full trust and local inductions
- Electronic patient systems training
- Personal safety breakaway training
- Regular supervision with clinical supervisor
- Access to weekly journal clubs
- Access to doctors’ resource rooms and resource materials
- Access to libraries via our partner acute trusts where students are accommodated
- The chance to observe ECT and join the doctor on-call (sign-up service)
- A Trust issued laptop to ensure access to IT and electronic patient notes whilst on clinical placement
- The opportunity to see your undergraduate administrator at least weekly
- Access to the trust intranet and online resources
- The opportunity to become involved in research if available
On each main hub site there are the following facilities:
- Doctors resource room with:
- Tea and coffee making facilities
- Rest area
- Dining area
- IT access
- Microwave
- AV facilities
- Reading and research materials
- Main restaurant with dine-in and takeaway options for hot and cold food:
- Maidstone – KMPT Riverside Café, Hot food machines in Priority House plus access to Maidstone Hospital Trust canteen and many takeaway restaurants on site
- Medway – access to Medway Maritime Hospital Trust canteen and many takeaway food shops on site
- Dartford – KMPT Trust canteen/Takeaways plus Hot food machine and many takeaway food shops on site
- Canterbury – KMPT Trust canteen ECAO /Takeaways plus Hot food machine
Thanet – KMPT Hot food machines at TMH plus access to QEQM Hospital Trust canteen and many takeaway food shops on site plus
Ashford – access to William Harvey Hospital Trust canteen and many takeaway food shops on site
King College London Teaching
In each block, a full day of teaching will run on Thursdays. Teaching is aimed at being an interactive group activity rather than didactic lectures.
Topics are typically timetabled by week. An example of the teaching timetable is as follows:
- Week 1: Induction
- Week 2: Student on placement
- Week 3: Every Day/Every Night Psychiatry On-Call
- Week 4: Risk/Risk to Others
- Week 5: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Week 6: Older Adult Mental Health
- Week 7 : Student on placement
Teaching is delivered in the main by consultant psychiatrists who are passionate about education and strive to prepare and empower the next generation of medics. Every teaching day is also attended by the Business Manager who offers full support to both the faculty and the students.
A timetable is sent to students prior to Induction and an agenda for each teaching session prior to the event.
Kent and Medway Medical School
Currently we receive medical students from the Kent & Medway Medical School who are in Year 3 and Year 5 of their training programme. Year 3 students are divided into three rotations and Year 5 students are divided into six rotations.
YEAR 3:
KMPT provides the Core Teaching for the Psychiatry Module of the KMMS Year 3 curriculum which runs one day a week from October to June on Thursdays. A flipped classroom model is used with materials provided for self-directed learning in the mornings and then everyone attends face to face teaching in the afternoon to consolidate their morning studies. There are Eleven Psychiatry Core Teaching days during which a wide range of Psychiatry topics are covered. Teaching is supported by Higher Trainees (Education Fellows), Core Trainees and Consultant Psychiatrist Subject Experts.
Psychiatry Placement days are provided every Monday and Tuesday. During each rotation students will spend half of their placements in one location and then swap to a different location for the second half of the rotation. Every student will receive an inpatient placement and a placement in a community setting.
YEAR 5:
KMPT provides a clinical placement for KMMS students in the final year of their medical degree. Each student has a 3-week rotation with KMPT during which they will spend 8 days on placement under the clinical supervision of a Consultant Psychiatrist. Students are also required to undertake an out of hours shift shadowing a resident Doctor in a psychiatric inpatient setting. Additionally, students are required to attend psychiatric teaching on Wednesday mornings which includes simulation scenarios. Students are required to complete workplace-based assessments as well as a written clinical communication assessment during their 3-week rotation at KMPT.
Reasonable pre-approved travel expenses incurred from accommodation to clinical work placement and teaching will be reimbursed by KMPT.
Your undergraduate administrator (UA) will give you a form to complete and monies will be paid directly into your bank account.
Students who drive and bring a car to their mental health placement should inform their UA and discuss travel arrangements prior to seeking reimbursement.
For King’s College London students only - Your one return journey at the end of your mental health block will be reimbursed by KCL and as such, the KCL travel policy should be followed for reimbursement.
“During my placement I could not have been happier or more comfortable. I had all of my activities scheduled and it provided me with a range of experiences each week to allow me as much exposure as I could have in my 6 weeks. I was happy to be included in the other school’s teaching sessions, as well. Additionally, coming from Margate, transport was arranged to and from my placements, which definitely was a great help. I had an excellent time throughout”.
Library and knowledge services are made available to our staff through libraries at acute trusts linked to Kent and Medway.
By joining a NHS library most convenient to you, you can gain access to the latest health-related books and journals. We also provide our own resource rooms at Maidstone, Medway, Canterbury and Dartford.
Did you know that the NHS Knowledge and Library hub link can be accessed through both the KMPT i-connect intranet (Library Services page) and through iLearn?
The iconnect page includes a link to the NHS Knowledge and Library hub, user guide, account set up details plus contact details to all your local libraries.
You can also access Library Reports for KMPT on Padlet https://padlet.com/quietformunited/kmpt-lfg-q5t8wq9hnkr5x1kk.
Padlet is a ‘living’ document so will automatically update when new reports are added and the link remains the same.
Our KMPT Dedicated Librarians are Maria Hughes maria.hughes8@nhs.net and Mary Skingley mary.skingley@nhs.net.
