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The professional excellence of medical students, junior doctors and consultants at Kettering General Hospital has been celebrated with an annual award.

On June 13, 2019, the hospital held its fourth Trainee & Trainer Professional Excellence Awards at the Kettering Park Hotel in Kettering.

The awards are a way for the hospital to say a ‘big thank you’ for the contributions made by medical staff towards patient care, education and training – and this year an amazing 650 nominations were received.

KGH’s Director of Medical Education, Dr Syed Fayyaz Hussain, said: “KGH Trainees and Trainers Professional Excellence Award has become an annual event that recognizes the exceptional performance of the medical staff in promoting high quality patient care.

“The awards celebrate success in promoting a positive culture of team work, supporting each other and ensuring best utilisation of available resources.

“The large number of nominations show appreciation of staff towards their colleagues who have worked over and above that is expected in their roles and of the positive steps they have taken in delivering high quality patient care, education and training.  

“The award ceremony is an opportunity to thank our outstanding members of staff for demonstrating personal excellence and making KGH a great organisation to deliver compassionate patient care.”

Kettering General Hospital’s Medical Director, Prof Andrew Chilton, said: “The awards are an opportunity for us to celebrate the quality of the medical education that we deliver at KGH and acknowledge the achievements of our medical students and junior doctors. They also recognise the tremendous support our consultants give to our trainees.” 

KGH’s Chief Executive, Simon Weldon, said: ‘These awards recognise the outstanding and inspiring efforts made by our medical students, junior doctors and our clinical supervisors and their teams over the last year.  My congratulations go to all of our award winners and to all who were nominated.”

Senior executives from Kettering General Hospital, Leicester Medical School and Health Education England working across East Midlands congratulated the winners and awarded the certificates.

The list of 2019 award winners is below:

Best Medical Education/Clinical Skills Facilitator

Shelley Gardiner

Best Core Trainee

Sadiq Shanaz – “Passionate about delivering good patient care.”

Best Trust Grade Senior House Officer

Joseph Abuazza – “Offers advice and help with difficult patients or heavy workloads.”

Best Specialty Trainee

Rahul Patel – “Brilliant bedside manner with patients and I aspire to be as good a registrar as they are in the future.”

Best Trust Grade Registrar

Tin Sanda Lwin – “Approachable, clear and friendly. Great with patients.”

Best Foundation Year 1 Doctor

Emily Sanders – “Pleasure to work with. Reliable and hardworking junior doctor.”

Best Foundation Year 2 Doctor

Jennie Wood – “Gives excellent summaries of cases when presenting to a more senior colleagues.”

Best Medical Student

Samuel Little – “Hardworking individual. Willing to help out.”

Best Undergraduate Tutor (Junior Doctor)

Gianluca Tosney – “Informally taught us on the wards when we came across each other.”

Best Undergraduate Tutor (Consultant)

Syed Fayyaz Hussain – “Doesn’t make us feel like we know any less just because we get an answer wrong.”

Best Specialty Associate Specialist/ Specialty Associate

Advitya Singh – “Makes me think about the underlying evidence for each clinical decision.”

Best Clinical Supervisor

Syed Jafri – “Always creates learning and teaching opportunities even during busy times.”

Best Educational Supervisor

Hamdi Ebdewi – “Excellent teacher. Knowledgeable. Creative, always there for you to teach with pleasure.”

Best Team

Clinical Simulation Team. “Shown great leadership and commitment to deliver simulation based training at KGH.”

Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education

Syed Fayyaz Hussain