Army Reserve – Adventure! Opportunities to travel and train around your job! Gain skills and qualifications!

• We have established a process to help GP trainees in the Army Reserve fulfil the majority of their mandatory training days without having to arrange rota swaps or ask for special leave

• The Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals are keen to support up to 6 GP trainees as part of this programme and Kings Lynn Hospital are keen to support up to 4 GP trainees. All the organisations involved with this initiative either have, or are working towards, silver sabre status

• The training programmes will include hospital posts that will give you experience relevant to your army work as well. Typically this would include Acute Medicine, A&E and Psychiatry/Obstetrics & Gynaecology/Paediatrics

• These hospitals (or general practices) will guarantee your release to attend the annual 2 week camp as part of your annual study leave allowance

• HEE, working across the East of England, have agreed to allow an exceptional further 5 working days of study leave so that you can attend a relevant army course. And the hospitals/general practices will again guarantee your release to attend this course

• The Defence Deanery have agreed to reserve up to 4 places for Army reserve GP trainees on the annual Highlands and Islands courses which are geared towards the needs of GP trainees with a differing emphasis in each training year

• During your general practice placements, the work you do delivering health care in army settings can count towards 20% of the overall hours you need to complete in out of hours work

• We will look favourably on OOPE requests to accommodate deployments or other extended time periods spent on army work

• We hope to develop this offer further in future years by setting up a Military Fellow year and looking at the posts offered in the programme