Emergency Medicine Section

Aims

To promote high standards of all aspects of accident and emergency practice.

Members include

A&E doctors

RSM Emergency Medicine Section President comes top of the class for teaching

One of our consultants, Dr Zul Mirza, has won a sought after Teaching Excellence for NHS Teachers (2009/10) Award by Imperial College London. He was presented with his award in a formal ceremony last November for the first-rate teaching he has offered to Imperial College London medical students during this academic year.

Imperial College began these awards in 2003 to recognise the efforts of over 800 NHS staff in West London, who deliver the undergraduate course to medical students (some 70-80% of their curriculum). These teachers are valued immensely by Imperial, who recognise that teaching is a shared activity, delivered by the medical and nursing staff, pharmacists, therapists and many others employed in both hospitals and general practice.

Zul has been teaching for a number of years at West Mid and most recently has been involved in teaching third year medical students, as well as final year medical students who speak highly of his ‘power tutorials!’

Zul was very happy with his award: “Prizes such as these spur you on to do even better. You’ve definitely got to have an enthusiasm for the subject to keep people motivated, although my students also motivate me. “Teaching helps to keep me up to date and the little mementoes and thank yous from my students always help!”