DR Jane Roome
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About
Jane works clinically as a GP in Kent. After completed her medical training at St George’s Hospital Medical School (now City St Georges) she joined the Tunbridge Wells GP Training Scheme and has worked in the local area ever since. She has been involved in medical education since 2000, initially facilitating local learning sets. She became a GP Tutor for postgraduate learners in 2017. Since then she has expanded her educational portfolio and is the Associate Dean and Locality Training Hub Lead for West Kent, working with Kent and Medway Primary Care Training Hub and Kent Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Primary Care School. Over the last seven years she has developed an interest and expertise in simulation based practice and how this might be utilized to support the development of primary care staff. She created and leads the KSS Primary Care Simulation Faculty, consisting of over 40 educators from eight different healthcare roles within primary care in the KSS region. She is the first GP to be appointed as an Executive Committee member of the Association of Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPIH) and chairs the oversight committee for the 20 Special Interest Groups.
Research interests
Jane is interested in research which focuses on simulation in primary care and community settings, with particular interest in how high environmental, physical, and psychological fidelity can be achieved using low-cost, low-technology approaches. She was part of the 2024 Association of Simulated Patient Educators Research Award–winning team for the project “Ensuring simulation faculty don’t leave patients behind. A study exploring a route map for training faculty to co-create authentic simulation stories with patients,” led by Dr Jacqueline Driscoll at City St George’s, which explored co-creating authentic simulation narratives with people with lived experience, simulated patients, simulation faculty members and learners.
Teaching
Jane is a core member of the teaching team for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex GP Clinical Supervisor and Educational Supervisor programmes, which lead to the Postgraduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership and Multiprofessional Education in Healthcare. She designs and delivers a wide range of simulation-based educational activities with the KSS Primary Care Simulation Faculty. Her work includes an in-situ anaphylaxis programme for COVID vaccination hubs, shortlisted for Primary Care Initiative of the Year at the 2021 Health Service Journal Patient Safety Awards. In 2025, the in-situ medical emergencies programme received a high commendation in the Urgent and Emergency Care category and was shortlisted for the Patient Safety Education and Training award. Jane has a strong interest in faculty development and supporting others to deliver high-quality simulation. She has facilitated NHS England Becoming Simulation Faculty workshops and co-authored the e-Learning for Healthcare module on working with simulated participants. At a national level she curated the Medical Emergencies in General Practice module for Structured Learning Placements for GP Registrars and contributed to a Dynamic Learning Environment pilot. Jane regularly presents and facilitates workshops at regional and national simulation events and was a faculty member at the inaugural ASPiH India conference in 2025.
Professional
1. Byars R., Roome J., Banot K., Thompson-Poole C., Perez., F, Bartlett D., Knight J., ‘Embedding Virtual Clinical Experience in Undergraduate Pharmacy Education: An Observed Simulation-Based Model to Enhance Primary Care Exposure’ Journal of Healthcare Simulation, 5, Supplement 1, (2025). 10.54531/VNJC3829. 2. Roome J., ‘Terrifying but invaluable: use of mixed method simulation based education and transformative simulation to enable expansion of in situ emergencies in primary care simulation training’. Journal of Healthcare simulation Volume: 4, Issue: Supplement 1 (2024), Pages: A20-A20 3. Roome J., ‘Sequential simulation around oncological emergences and compassionate conversations in cancer care for primary care healthcare staff’. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation. Volume: 2, Issue: Supplement 1 (2022), Pages: A79-A79