Medical Education Celebration & Awards Event 2026

Published: 06 July 2026

A collection of images showing attendees at the Humber Trust Medical Education Event 2026

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust's Medical Education team bring together doctors every year to celebrate their progress and provide an opportunity to share learnings. Dr Soraya Mayet, Director of Medical Education at the Trust, opened the day welcoming all attendees to the annual celebration event with a reminder to look out for each other and take care of themselves.

The initial section of the event saw a selection of quick-fire presentations which not only shared best practice and innovations, but also gave attendees an opportunity to expand their learning and ask questions.

The first presentation came from Dr Chinelo Hilda Elosiuba and Dr Thomas Kirton. They shared the Quality Improvement (QI) project they implemented on Westlands inpatient unit. The project aimed to make the ward reviews on Westlands more structured, reduce uncertainty about review times for patients and ultimately improve satisfaction of patients. They explained the work they put into the improvements which gave patients more consistency. The changes they found were increased staff satisfaction with ward review arrangements and they saw a major improvement on perceived efficiencies.

The next presentation came from Dr Wei En Neo working on Avondale. Her work recognised the links between anti-psychotic medications and increased physical health risks. She shared that challenges remain in navigating the guidelines and there are secondary to primary care communication barriers. However she identified recommendations which focussed on providing further guidelines and implementing reminders for checks to be made.

Dr Raheel Mushtaq then presented to attendees about improving the recognition and management of delirium on the wards. This common presentation is often under recognised and can caused longer hospital stays with worse outcomes if not identified. By identifying its risk factors through a peer-teaching approach, staff confidence in both recognising it and the associated risk factors could be improved. All participants who received this training reported increased confidence with the majority subsequently feeling ‘very confident’ and 100% saying they found the training useful.

The final presentation came from Dr Vieri Thonet-Clarke who shared his own creation of ‘CascAId’ - a trainee-led digital platform for MRCPsych CASC Preparation. The CASC exam only has a 50% pass rate so its high stakes and doctors can only take it twice a year. Dr Thonet-Clarke created an app based on his own experience of sitting the exam. The app is called CascAId and is now available for download to support the preparation and training. The intention is for the app to evolve to meet the needs of future doctors and it is now available in 5 countries.

The presentations sparked lively conversation and further questions about topics that were relevant to many of the doctors in attendance.

Guest speaker Dr Indira Vinjamuri, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) Associate Dean for Curriculum, then spoke on changes to the Formative Assessment from RCPsych. She covered the changes taking place including those relating to Entrustability Scales, the introduction of patient and carer feedback for resident doctors and the introduction of caseload-based discussions. She also shared the e-Portfolio data is now moving over from Portfolio Online to 14 Fish by August 2026. The presentation generated a lively debate over the changes to assessments being implemented.

Following this, the outgoing Resident Doctor Representative, Dr Jemima Cohen, announced that the incoming Resident Doctor Representative elected by their fellow colleagues would be Dr James Donnelly.

The last part of the conference saw individual’s being recognised for their achievements over the past year. The team received record numbers of nominations this year so in some cases more than one person was selected to receive the awards. Congratulations to the following winners within each category:

Hull & York Medical School (HYMS) Educator of the Year

Dr Sathya Vishwanath

Hull & York Medical School (HYMS) Medical Student of the Year

Nikolett Palotas

Ming Yee Chong

Trainer of the Year

Dr Amy Gledhill

Dr Syed M H Naqvi

Trainer of the Year (Outstanding Recognition)

Dr Sarah Bradbury

Resident Doctor of the Year

Dr Swarnava Gupta