Box 3.

Examples of East Midlands' flexible portfolio training educational projects

Creation of online open access educational resources including reading lists, and curriculum-mapped lecturer guides for regional teaching programmes.

‘MEMcast’: a rolling educational podcast series including interviews with regional expert physicians.

Assisting the regional training programme director in implementing the new national internal medicine training stage 1 curriculum, replacing core medical training.

Working with local college tutors to develop a new simulation programme for general medicine procedural skills.

Engaging with the national director of IMPACT and assisting with a UK-wide curriculum redesign.14

COVID-19 educational and wellbeing support programmes for redeployed workforce during the pandemic.