The Dame Parveen Kumar Award for Education and Training (previously BSG Gold Trainer Award) is awarded annually to recognise the work of excellent trainers in developing the future of the gastroenterology and hepatology specialty.

Excellent trainers are often under recognised members of our profession, not rewarded in the traditional ways through CEAs or grants or society recognition. They are the people who have the ability to turn things around for a trainee in difficulty and are the best advert of the society and profession to the next generation. Excellent trainers mean excellent training and safe patient care and an award will help raise the profile of training and education within the society and wider NHS.

Submissions will close on Monday 30th September 2024 at 5pm.

Eligibility

Any consultant, nurse, SAS or specialist doctor working within gastroenterology or hepatology in the UK four nations can be nominated for the award.

The Judging Process

Submission

The award begins with one, or a group of proposer(s), writing a reflective piece on a trainer they work with who is worthy of the Dame Parveen Kumar Award for Education and Training. The reflective piece template includes six headings; Leadership, Resourcefulness, Communication, Training and Development, Professionalism, Commitment to improving training at a local level and can be sent with any supporting evidence from other trainees, consultants, nurses and AHPs. Please use examples where possible to demonstrate relevant evidence against each of the six headings. The panel members will also be considering a discretionary mark to recognise an All Rounder with many different educational skills and abilities across different professional groups or career stages of gastroenterology and hepatology.

Your submission should be a maximum of 3 pages (2 pages for nomination and 1 page for testimonial(s) to support the nomination). Taking your completed nomination statement into consideration, we would be grateful if you could also provide a ‘summary’ about your nominee (a maximum of 4-5 lines). Please submit your nomination in a minimum 11 sized font in Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman, as well as standard margins (1 inch or 2.54cm across all four sides of A4).

Panel Review

The submission is then anonymised and independently scored by a panel using a weighted scoring system. They rate against seven stems and whether it is present or referenced to a high quality by the proposer.

The panel would comprise five people including the Training Committee Chair, a Trainee Committee representative, and members of the BSG Executive. Each panellist will score independently, and a review meeting will then take place to discuss and benchmark the top five candidates.

Those top candidates are presented to the BSG Executive Committee who vote and select the successful candidate.

Award Announcement

The finalists will all receive recognition on the BSG website and be invited to attend the President’s Dinner that takes place the evening before the BSG Annual Meeting.

The successful candidate will be awarded £1,000 to be used for a local education initiative of their choice. They will also be invited to accept an award at a BSG Annual Meeting, receiving free registration for the day. The successful candidate will be invited to join the BSG Training Committee for a year and invited to write an education article of their choice for BSG with the person who nominated them, although neither are a pre-requisite of accepting the award. Please be advised that your nomination will be shared with the nominee post the award announcements.

Last Year’s Winner and Highly Commendable Nominees

Winner: Dr Sarah Clark

Highly commended: Dr Louise China

Highly commended: Dr Phedra Dodds