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 UK offers free training worth 4 CPD points 

https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/professionals/foundation-programme
- 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 PGVLE, as its a basic leadership course for ARCP requirements.  It is available here: https://pgvle.co.uk/course/view.php?id=1299

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

HEE East of England offers 2 teaching courses currently, available as a Core Module and Advanced Module.

Core Module (Fundamental of Learning)

Advanced Module

EOE also offers bursaries for Postgraduate Certificates/Diplomas/Masters. LOOK HERE

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