Dr Emily Audet
Emily is a West Midlands Internal Medicine Trainee working at The Royal Wolverhampton Trust (RWT). She graduated from Birmingham Medical School in 2017, having achieved a 1st Class Honours BSc in Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Newcastle University, 2012. She completed Foundation training with Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SATH).
Seeking to improve healthcare team-working, Emily founded a university interprofessional education (IPE) society: Knowledge and Skills Exchange (KASE). As KASE president 2015-17, she led a multi-professional student committee to successfully deliver educational, volunteering and team-building events to healthcare students. Emily represented students on the university’s IPE steering group, working to embed IPE into healthcare curricula. Her experience of student-led IPE has been shared through international presentations, workshops and publication. Currently, Emily mentors KASE committee and is part of a collaborative research group exploring the impact of undergraduate IPE on clinical practice.
Emily’s interest in the power of storytelling and experience-sharing within healthcare improvement subsequently led to multiple collaborations with Patient Voices. She chaired the organisation’s International Advisory Board 2017-18.
Emily’s passion for quality improvement (QI) was inspired by SATH’s partnership with Virginia Mason Institute. Subsequently, she has led interprofessional teams through the QI process to tackle clinical inefficiencies. At RWT, Emily has co-produced an educational resource to disseminate learning from an award-winning QI project focused on improving work efficiency and patient flow, this resource is now also being used to teach QI methodology. She presented the work at the International Forum of Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Gothenburg 2022.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Emily believes that medical leadership is essential to ensuring a culture within healthcare that embraces innovation, diversity and resourcefulness whilst retaining focus on the delivery of safe, efficient and compassionate patient care. Building on her experience from working within the NHS front-line, Emily looks forward to developing her understanding of the challenges faced, and processes of making change, at a wider organisational level. Through this unique opportunity to experience an alternative perspective, Emily believes that she will develop a diverse repertoire of skills to help her tackle systemic issues as she progresses through her career.
Emily’s key area of interest focuses upon enhancing quality and safety of patient care through improving healthcare team-dynamics. She aspires to develop her leadership and management capability so that in future roles she can facilitate the improvement of dysfunctional healthcare teams. The FMLM Clinical Fellowship position with the CQC will expose Emily to a range of experiences and experts, evolving her knowledge and competency towards achieving these goals. She hopes that the fellowship will contribute towards shaping her into a compassionate leader who will be exceptionally skilled to be able to support teams, and contribute towards change, at all levels of the NHS.
