Dr Kathryn Margaret Muldoon MBBchBao(Hons) MRCP PgCert

Education:

I have a strong interest in medical education and have been actively involved in teaching and supporting undergraduate medical students I hold an honorary Clinical Tutor position with Queen’s University Belfast, where I contribute to preparing final-year medical students for their final MB examinations

To further develop my educational practice, I undertook a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education at Queen’s University Belfast Through this programme I gained theoretical and practical knowledge of educational methodologies and developed transferable skills including:

• Communicating effectively with learners using a range of teaching strategies
• Participating collaboratively in group work
• Utilising information technology to access and share knowledge
• Pursuing continuous improvement through reflection, peer feedback and facilitated discussion

During my rotation at Craigavon Area Hospital, I worked as a Clinical Education Fellow where I helped organise a structured teaching timetable for medical students and junior doctors I was also involved in bedside teaching sessions, particularly in stroke medicine, and worked to identify and respond to the evolving learning needs of students during their clinical placements

Quality improvement and patient safety form an important part of my clinical practice

I was a faculty member on the REACT (Rapid Emergency Assessment, Communication and Treatment) programme within the Health and Social Care Northern Ireland system This initiative aimed to improve how lessons from serious adverse incidents are disseminated to frontline staff The programme utilised simulation to translate findings from incident reviews into practical clinical training

The initial focus was the management of major obstetric haemorrhage, a leading cause of maternal mortality in the UK Working within a multidisciplinary team, I helped deliver simulation scenarios for doctor–midwife teams to improve recognition and management of postpartum haemorrhage The programme demonstrated measurable improvements in clinical management and was recognised with the Innovation in Training Award at the HSCNI Educational Excellence Awards

In addition, as a foundation doctor I completed a two-stage Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) quality improvement project aimed at improving the safety and accuracy of gentamicin prescribing Baseline data demonstrated that only 583% of gentamicin doses were prescribed correctly To address this, we introduced a user-friendly dosing chart with prescribing prompts alongside targeted education for medical and nursing staff Following implementation, the median rate of correct prescribing increased to 875%, with multiple data points demonstrating sustained improvement and several weeks achieving 100% correct dosing

This project was presented as a poster at the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency Research for Clinical Excellence event, where it received second prize, and was also presented nationally at the Foundation Doctors Poster Day