Dr Simon Butler (ACP-Paramedicine/Neuroscientist)
@SJB293
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Faculty of Education/Psychology, University of Cambridge/Wolfson College. Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Science Teacher and grumpy old pensioner.
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My doctoral degree has finally been conferred by the Cambridge University Board of Graduate Studies.
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Well, I passed! In a court marshall, if you go back into the room and your sword is pointing away from you, you’ve been found not guilty. In a Fac Ed viva, if you go back into the room and there’s champagne on the table, you’ve passed. Very civilised!
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Lots of work and lots of hoops, but finally, I’m a prescriber!
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As we can't say goodbye in person to our gorgeous third years, we've all been asked to give our top tips for newly qualified paramedics in a short video. What could possible go wrong? Tim Hayes, I managed to get by without mentioning penises.
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The long doctoral journey is nearly at an end. My thesis was submitted at 10:17 this morning and my status has been changed from 'student' to 'under examination.' The viva voce (verbal examination) is 18th February. I can now have a break over Christmas.
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Good luck to our tACPs beginning their prescribing course this week and the 30 who start their PHEM and MSc top up programmes. Your enhanced contribution to patient care will help so many people
@EastEnglandAmb
@EEAST_UrgCare
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Morphine- 10mg doses regularly and safely given to thousands of research participants. Listen to me on dosing, not hysterically risk adverse colleagues!
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Congratulations to my friend Andy Benstead who’s completed 35 years in the ambulance service today!
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Does anyone recognise this eccentrically dressed man raiding a drugs cupboard? In all seriousness, primary care is an excellent, rewarding career choice for paramedic graduates to aspire to. Work hard in your studies, get PG experience and you too can wear red trousers to work.
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Exactly 36 years ago, I walked on to Cambridge Ambulance Station for the first time as a trainee ambulanceman. The picture is me getting my Millar Certificate a year later. I only work as a bank paramedic now and hope to continue until August 2023 (40 years)!
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My consulting room for next 11 hours. Nurse in Charge. “Pleased to see you Simon. We’ve got a huge number of paeds waiting.” Oh joy!
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Congratulations to our Cambridge B.Sc students on completion of their three years. Excellent black tie dinner!
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@EEAST_UrgCare
@antkitchener
@EastEnglandAmb
@MelissaD_85
I wonder if there’s ever been an ambulance service course at a Cambridge college before? Lunches have been a bit more special than we’re used to!
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Our first ever Cambridge Journal Club meeting. Well done to Joss and Ash for presenting the first two papers.
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@loddyy24
Maybe place students in ED, UTCs, minor injury units over the winter. I learned more working a few months in ED than I did several years 'on the road' if you shadow doctors and advanced practitioners. This also teaches how to avoid admissions, ED queues and managing risk.
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I've already had a lovely communication from a parent thanking me for the contribution I made to their son's education. He got 1 x c, 3 x b, 1 x A and 1A*. This is a boy who I successfuly diagnosed as having ADHD, got him support and helped him avoid exclusion!
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It has been formally announced that I have been appointed Director of Studies for Faculty of Medical Science at Anglia Riskin University.
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Planning a session for the next generation of paramedics. It's causing me to reminisce about the days when the former East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust led the way nationally on clinical standards and education :-(
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I just love the argument I started using a profile I didn't know I had! Some medics (only some) don't think proper doctors have the right to use the title and are good at handing out abuse from anonymous profiles!
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Welcome to all of our new
@AngliaRuskinFMS
students starting in Chelmsford today on our
@ARUParamedics
, Surgical Care Practice & MBA courses.
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A dozen ARU undergraduates turn up to your Cambridge College and want a drink! What a liberty! :-)
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After 3 yrs, thrilled to be in a science lab again for 2nd year pharmacology. Why do boys always pose for photos?
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I can’t express what a relief this is. First draft of my doctoral thesis completed just now!
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Pharmacology mock exam and quiz at our Chelmsford Campus yesterday. I hope is guides your revision second years. Remember: Rang & Dale rules!
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Preparing to teach the next generation of paramedics to the standards of the former East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust! Neil Spike, I remember you getting this typed: 1995 wasn't it?
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@sheffcath
Why not wipe out over 500 years of English tradition with a pen stroke? “Choral music is one of the great cultural legacies of the Church of England.”
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A splendid afternoon on the river with our first year BSc students and their second and third year buddies
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I never been in a classroom with a view like this before!
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In response to EEAST's new leave at home protocol. I have no idea why were are going back to the practices of the pre-1990s!
@DavidMonk999
@GrahamClark24
@JordanNicholls
@ReevePara
No it is NOT. This undoes all of the good work done over the past 20 years to turn paramedicine into an autonomous profession of educated people rather than a group of trained, protocol-driven robots!
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Eighteen hours planning two x three hour sessions. I'm very glad to be research active in this field.
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Many paramedics give homeopathic (excuse my sarcasm) doses of morphine (5-10 mg initial dose) recent evidence suggests.
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Another new place of work my paramedic registration has provided for me. A long time since I wore green.
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Excellent quote by student paramedic, "The concept of learning styles is the educational equivalent of homeopathy: a concept for which no evidence exists, yet in which belief and use persists (Newton 2015)"
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@DavidMonk999
@GrahamClark24
@JordanNicholls
@ReevePara
No it is NOT. This undoes all of the good work done over the past 20 years to turn paramedicine into an autonomous profession of educated people rather than a group of trained, protocol-driven robots!
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Doctoral Writing retreat at the beautiful Caius College, Cambridge. A very productive day spend writing up my data analysis.
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A lovely autumn morning at our beautiful Anglia Ruskin University Chelmsford Campus.
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I just completed suicide awareness training and I'm ready to have a potentially life-saving conversation. You can too.
#seesaysignpost
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More nice pictures taken at dinner at Christ's College Cambridge.
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The median male BMI in 1994 was 22 (normal). In 2014 it was 27 (overweight)!
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I finally get to ride it home, so no more two hour bus journeys to travel the 8 miles to work unless the weather is really bad.
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Would strongly recommend this course to any ACPs working in urgent/primary care. Very comprehensive for £495 taught by experts in the field. I have removed my title from Zoom so I don't upset any honorary doctors.
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Educator colleagues, there is overwhelming evidence that learning styles is "neurobollocks". There is some evidence that kinaesthetic learning is helpful, but this is probably due to the reinforcement of learning by doing and repetition rather than a learning style.
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@hazzajg
Funnily enough, I've just had a chat with a senior manager in the ambulance service about this. 10 patients outside ED in ambulances at a local hospital 2/52 ago. The consultant went out and discharged 8 of them. Paramedics are paid B6 to make clinical decisions not to admit all!
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I've
#justsponsored
Cameron Allen-Ross, who's fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support on
@JustGiving
. Donate now
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My first publication for a while.
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I really do miss EAAST, the camaraderie, sense of humour and the fun we had with this...
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A fascinating public lecture in our brand new Anglia Ruskin University Science Building, East Rd, Cambridge. What a fantastic place!
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At Hughes Hall for a day long Pedagogic Research Writing Retreat kindly organised and paid for by the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University. A splendid view of Fenner's Cricket Ground.
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@bren_sja
@EEAST_UrgCare
@antkitchener
@EastEnglandAmb
@MelissaD_85
Put simply, no! The vast majority of 999 calls don’t need an ambulance or hospitalisation. We are qualifying our next generation of advanced practitioners to provide prompt, appropriate and safe care to meet patient’s needs.
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Formal Hall at Wolfson College with Josh and my two Anglia Ruskin research interns, Joss and Zoe.
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Anyone who knows me professionally knows that I regard a vast majority meetings with disdain. In the NHS and academic, we have meetings about meetings, most unproductive and that take people away from actually doing work that would make a difference...
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Medical cover at the Aha concert. Promises to be fun!
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@tracyniks
@ParamedicsUK
@Ldn_Ambulance
@consultantpara
@AACE_org
@OcoRory
@Amb_Jon
@danielelkeles
Many congratulations John
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@Matthew0sb0rne
Pharmacy have stolen our colours! What about B6 paramedics working in ED and FCPs in UTC? Are we the forgotten profession again of do they assume we'll all wear our outdoor uniforms in hospitals?
@DavidMonk999
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Many congratulations to our lovely student Molly Smith who's been awarded National Paramedic of the Year by the College of Paramedics.
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At Wolfson College Garden Party. watching our brilliant Ruskin student Oli playing trombone for Cambridge Uni Brass
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Well done to Dip.HE Cohort 5 for your excellent Quality Improvement Projects. Your marks have been moderated and will be released early (just waiting for extensions to come in).
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Excellent talks by John Martin (LAS) and
@AndySwinburnQAM
(WAST) about the issues facing ambulance services in our two countries. Essentially, advanced training and better supervision to reduce admissions and on-scene times!
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Richard, Danny and Gabby, well done on your excellent performance today and for representing ARU so well. We're very proud of you!
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A warm welcome to all of our Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford Medical Science first years and post-graduate students. First talk by Kieran from SU
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British Neuroscience Symposium at King’s College London. It will hopefully reduce any neuromyths creeping into me research & teaching.
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Welcome Day repeat at Cambridge. Excited to meet our new FMS students this morning.
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Well done Team ARU. Time for a few drinks and a posh dinner.
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The Biology and Benefits of Cannabis (a lecture with live plants). The Association for Science Education, College Lane, Hatfield, Friday 22 February 2019, 19:00 to 20:30 the Royal Society of Biology. Promises to be a fascinating talk for anyone interested in pharmacology.
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So starts a statistics day using R on Linux with Ubuntu GUI. Fast and reliable so thinking of building my own machine.
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On behalf of our lovely lab technician Lorraine, please support her charity.
Happy Christmas to all our dear thyroid friends! Thanks for all the support in 2019. Here's to all of us. We're not alone with thyroid disease. (ecard design donated by Loz)
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Hilarious! The dogs are now getting their own emails directed to my account!
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@antkitchener
@blacksladder
@ParamedicsUK
The book of numb and advanced book of numb. Banned from my Training Centres in 2001 as they encouraged a “need to know” mentality! Old training officers will understand
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Big lecture theatre for 80 students! I hope they enjoyed my biomechanics of trauma lecture
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@ThomasTea2
"CABG is too complicated for me to understand" what a cheek! The arrogance of some medics is beyond belief.
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@angcroucher
Congratulations Angela! Well deserved and don't forget to get your project published in a 'proper' journal.
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@thomasdolphin
It pains me to have to agree with a medic on this one. Why not use their name and PhD post-nominals? Medical Act, 1983?
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Excellent! I would strongly advise students who are new to higher education to work their way through this. As Director of Studies, I was involved in a number of expulsions due to plagiarism and many more where the penalty was less.
#AMOW
#AllMyOwnWork
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Our Old Combination Room has been beautifully refurbished with Arts and Crafts era antiques. A lovely, relaxing space for Wolfson students.
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Getting ready for the last scenario which is mass casualty
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Another string to my bow to keep me occupied when I retire: marking the next generation of biology & chemistry GCSE qualifications. Lovely surroundings too next to Westminster Bridge in the buildings Thatcher shut down!
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@AllisonPearson
Apparently, the same national newspaper thought it alright to pay sixteen-year-old children to show their boobs on page 3. Although it pre-dated the Sexual Offences Act (2003) it still didn’t make it right, dud it?
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Another disconcertingly realistic mannequin
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The Nazi scorched Earth policy in 1943 and the Conservative Government's behaviour in 2023. Both groups losing, leaving destruction and disablement for the Government that follows!
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@ANethsingha
a wonderful service today thank you Andrew. I wanted to thank you personally, but the congregation were ushered out!
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@DavidMonk999
@POTUS
If it is true. He lies like a cheap watch and it may be "fake news" to avoid debate or to get sympathy!
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@antkitchener
@EEAST_Education
@EastEnglandAmb
Are we sure this is wise and that we're not taking a retrograde step going back to a training model (one of the providers)? Will this provide an easy option for those who couldn't gain entry to, or pass the HE model?
#concernedfuturepatient
!
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@antkitchener
@dmuhls
Well done Ant. I know we can rely on you to maintain the clinical standards of graduates to our profession.
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1. Why on earth would there be a shortage of 35,000 nurses. They are so valued by their employer as demonstrated by the recent 1% pay rise.
2. In some cases the RCN is being a little precious in that some roles traditionally held by nurses can be filled by other HCPs, but even so
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Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). Feeling honoured and proud of the Society and its work.
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Thank you Jane Shelley, our FMS Chelmsford Librarian. Our Libraries offer an impressive range of services.
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Our lovely student's making friends with Turkish paramediks
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