PGMDE E-Learning Unit | About E-Learning Unit, Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education Wales-PGMDE E-Learning Unit

About Us

The ELU is a new initiative set up by the Wales Deanery in response to two areas of change. The first is the fundamental change in Medical education and the second area is the growing body of evidence that technology can be used to enhance education and create new opportunities for training in medical education.

With this in mind, a team of medical and e-learning professionals was formed to adddress the opportunities these changes have created.

What We Do

As part of its remit at the Wales Postgraduate Deanery, the ELU works with partner organisations in Wales – NHS Trusts, Welsh Assembly Government, NLIAH, Informing Healthcare, and Health Solutions Wales – to contribute to strategy. We ensure ‘joined up thinking’ which streamlines the provision of resources and the delivery of e-learning related services to Postgraduate Medical trainees and their educational supervisors. On a UK level, we work with NES and the DoH ensuring the e-portfolio and specialty based electronic resources meet the needs of trainees in Wales.

Developing Learning Programmes

ELU provides electronic learning programmes using existing electronic resources from a variety of external providers. Where there are gaps in provision, ELU forms steering and operational groups which inform, manage, and develop interactive e-learning packages. You can see some examples of this activity in our showcase pages.

Providing infrastructure

The ELU is a Deanery-wide service providing the necessary infrastructure to deliver and maintain the single e-learning portal for medical education in Wales. ELU works with educational supervisors throughout Wales to provide an integrated model of training which incorporates technology-enhanced learning with work-based learning.

Providing integrated learning

As part of it’s engagement strategy ELU works with all stakeholders in medical education and training to provide advice, expertise, and a development resource for the provision of technology enhanced learning.