BSACI Allergy Education Network

Dr Erika Harnik Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Imperial College Healthcare

The British Allergy Education Network continue with their tireless efforts to improve the allergy education and allergy competencies of all healthcare professionals in the UK. We have three core subgroups focusing on competencies, curriculum and education resources. Current projects which are underway include mapping existing educational resources to key learning outcomes in allergy, and reviewing educational curricula in specific healthcare professional groups such as Foundation medical doctors.

As some of you will have seen, detailed surveys have been sent out to the membership, specifically dietitians and nurses working in allergy across the country, and we are really grateful for all your responses – with your help we have been able to gather valuable information, which will help inform our educational strategy.

We are keen to continue the focus on quality education and there was a BSACI Paediatric Allergy Grand Round on the 17th May run by the

University of Southampton MSc Allergy team. They demonstrated a teaching model they have developed, which could be helpful in teaching patients, families, students and other healthcare professionals. For those of you who were not able to join the meeting, the recording is available here https://www.bsaci.org/education-and-events/ paediatric-grand-round/2023-grand-rounds/

We are also delighted to have our second dedicated session to showcase allergy education at the BSACI 2023 Conference – join us on Saturday 7th October in Harrogate.

We are indebted to our network who have been working on this huge project whilst juggling their clinical and non-clinical commitments. In order to help keep up this momentum, the BSACI are funding a part-time Allergy Education Fellow post.

We would warmly welcome any other members who would be interested in joining our Education Network – please contact Vivine Smith at vivine@ bsaci.org https://www.bsaci.org/education-andevents/bsaci-national-allergy-educationstrategy/