Upcoming Dates for the Diary

 

General Internal Medicine

A list of GIM training days can be found here:  https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/medicine/higher-specialty-programmes/general-internal-medicine

Other resources are available to help with your curriculum and portfolio needs.

The Royal College of Physicians hold regular events which may be of interest (https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events) and so does the Royal Society of Medicine (https://www.rsm.ac.uk/search-results/?PageTypes=Event). Both of these are very good for GIM teaching!

The British Medical Association has webinars and courses available for members, including on career development: http://https://www.bma.org.uk/learning-and-development.
 

 

Geriatric Medicine

The British Geriatric Society also hold regular local and national meetings.  Full details are available here (https://www.bgs.org.uk/events) and include meetings on specialist areas, regional meetings, and anciliary skills (e.g. research, leadership, teaching, QI)

For other key geriatric medicine topics, consider:
- The Bone Research Society
- Futurelearn has a 4 week course about peri-operative medicine (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/perioperative-medicine)
- BGS has e-learning resources on peri-operative care  Perioperative Care for Older People undergoing Surgery | British Geriatrics Society 
- The UCLH institute of Neurology does an annual movement disorders course in Queens' Square (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/)
- BGS has e-resources on frailty Frailty elearning course | British Geriatrics Society
- Parkinson's Academy has resources for Parkinson's (in person or e-learning) Parkinson's Academy | Neurology Academy

 

Palliative Care
The End-of-life Care for All (e-ELCA) programme is an e-learning library which provides over 180 different interactive e-learning modules.  It is run through E-Learning For Healthcare and links automatically to your e-portfolio. End-of-life Care For All (e-ELCA) - elearning for healthcare

Palliative Care Guidelines Plus - Palliative Care Matters

Research and Leadership Courses

Research Methodology Courses

The NIHR runs a "Good Clinical Practice" course aimed at proper recruitment and management of clinical trials - access here

The Cambridge Clinical Research Facility is a great place to do a research course, but tends to only have one per year so book early! Training - Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre

The University of Liverpool Research Methodology Course - check this link here regularly for details
Oxford Research Methods and Skills - access here

Leadership Courses 

Leadership course: the East of England now use The Leadership Ladder, an online course hosted on Bridge, as its a basic leadership course for ARCP requirements.  It is available here: https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training/leadership-hub/hee-eoe-leadership-ladder

The NHS leadership academy also does training courses - their most basic offering is the Edward Jenner programme which is free and entirely online, for those who want a bit more of an involved experience.  For more information see here

The Next Step Programme is a nine month course funded by HEE EOE aimed at registrars within 2 years of CCT who want to further build on their leadership experience. It is only open for applications once a year and is competitive (70 places for all of the East of England) so think about applying early! For more information, click here!

Medical Education Courses

LEAF and LEAF-BUD courses

HEE East of England has two simultaneous courses running called "Learning to be Educators And Facilitators" (LEAF) and LEAF-Basics-Underpinning-Delivery (LEAF BUD)

LEAF
LEAF-BUD

Otherwise do bear in mind that EOE does offer bursaries for Postgraduate Certificates/Diplomas/Masters. LOOK HERE

 

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