Mr Valmir Selimi
Valmir Selimi graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2016 with a medical degree and an intercalation, achieving an MA(Cantab), in Immunology & Microbiology/Parasitology. He subsequently completed his Foundation and Core Surgical Training in London. Whilst furthering his clinical skills and knowledge, he engaged in the development of local services through education and quality improvement projects.
Appreciating the growing importance of simulation in medical training, he contributed to its deployment at various sites. This included establishing an evening on-call simulation teaching programme, for which he was awarded an Associate Fellowship to the Higher Education Academy. This further ranged to working alongside colleagues to develop a novel, low-cost simulator for students to practice, and develop skills in, the use of a diagnostic surgical tool. This project was then published to inform trainees of this alternative and financially more accessible simulation model.
Moreover, Valmir has been involved in various service improvement projects from reviewing the use of ventilator settings in intensive care to assessing medical clerking documentation and devising mechanisms to improve this. He has presented such projects at local and national level. Recently, during the coronavirus pandemic, Valmir led the review of a COVID-19 emergency-established, novel fracture management pathway, assessing its efficacy and sustainability for possible ongoing implementation.
Throughout his career, Valmir has enjoyed identifying areas for improvement and using creativity and ingenuity to develop ways of bettering services. During the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellowship, Valmir hopes to utilize and further develop these skills that he has employed to work on and lead projects in the past. In addition to this, he looks forward to gaining exposure to leadership on a larger scale, working with organisations playing a critical role in how healthcare is practiced. Valmir envisages this fellowship being a key step forward in his career, helping him to gain experience of how healthcare bodies will be addressing uncertain terrains during and after this pandemic.
