Mid Essex Hospital
Come train as a IMT at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford Essex
Broomfield Hospital, Mid Essex Hospitals Trust is an acute trust with a full complement of medical specialties. It is in the top 10 of all East of England acute NHS trusts since 2011, and received a good rating from CQC in 2016. It serves a catchment population of 350,000.
The Broomfield CMT programme is established, well organised and structured. The medical take is busy but offers a good training opportunity with a wide variety of cases from the routine to the challenging ones. You will be supported on the acute take during the day by an acute physician, a frailty consultant and the physician of the day, which would allow ample opportunities for WBPAs. There is a weekly bleep free consultant led teaching session covering the length and breadth of the IMT curriculum. Additionally there are training sessions on potentially life threatening procedures such as pleural aspiration and cardioversion. Skills lab training on central venous cannulation and intercostal drain are held once year. There is also a dedicated clinic rota to bag your 40 clinic sessions before the end of your 2 year training. PACES teaching is coordinated and given by a team of consultants from various specialties. Broomfield has been running regular Mock PACES and PACES course. Traditionally Broomfield trainees have all sailed through their PACES!
As an IMT you will rotate through 6 of cardiology, intensive care medicine, respiratory, gastroenterology, stroke, care of elderly/frailty, endocrinology, renal, and oncology.
Chelmsford is the historic county town of Essex which was recently given City status. It has excellent transport links to London (35mins by train) and a short drive to the verdant rolling Essex countryside with its quaint little villages. There is a lovely park in the centre of Chelmsford hosting lots of activities such as fun runs every weekend, and summer festivals, not to mention The V Festival is at Hylands Park, Chelmsford.
Contacts
| College Tutor: | Dr Anthony Chan |
| Trust CMT Administrator: |
Giselle Cotton – Giselle.Cotton@meht.nhs.uk Tel. 01245 516903 |
