Email: bhavini.smith@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
I manage GP and community placements for medical students on the new MBBS course. This includes managing the process of registering and approving educators, developing processes for monitoring the quality of placements through student attendance, student/educator concerns raised as well as escalating any fitness to practice issues to the appropriate sub committees/persons.
I will be managing the placements officer, who will be responsible for the logistics of student allocations of placements.
Background
I have worked as an undergraduate teaching coordinator for eight years at West Middlesex University Hospital where I was responsible for 600 Imperial medical students on various clinical attachments at the hospital as well as GP placements and international electives from Maastricht University.
My role included creating personalised timetables for each year and specialities, and providing welfare support to students and welcoming every student with a face to face induction.
My big achievements were digitalising student timetables, creating a student webpage, organising local Mock OSCEs for the Year 3 students, developing digital feedback forms for students post placements and organising the annual Governance visits with Imperial College, Trust Board and teaching consultants.
Other interests
I am also a registered nutritional therapist and my last role was a clinical one as a bionutrient practitioner specialising in brain health.
I continue to see clients in my spare time and to keep up with my CPD.
I am also a 300-hour trained yoga teacher and teach two or three times a week in the evenings.
Qualifications and accreditations
- BA(Hons)Business Studies
- Diploma in Nutritional Therapy
- Postgraduate Certificate in Personalised Nutrition.
Membership of professional bodies
- British Association for Nutritional Therapy (BANT).