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.
(Note - HEEOE provides free access to the BMJ Best Practice app, which is very useful on call, to all trainees whether or not they are BMA members. Details here: https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/library-knowledge-services/hee-bmj-best-practice-comms-resources)
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 perioperative medicine (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/perioperative-medicine)
- The UCLH institute of Neurology does an annual movement disorders course in Queens' Square (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/)
Palliative Care
The End-of-life Care for All (e-ELCA) programme is an elearning library which provides over 180 different interactive elearning modules. It is run through E-Learning For Healthcare and links automatically to your eportfolio. We wouldn't recommend setting out to do all 180 modules but it is definitely worth having a look at what they include. SEE HERE
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! https://cambridge.crf.nihr.ac.uk/education-and-training/courses/
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)
Otherwise do bear in mind that EOE does offer bursaries for Postgraduate Certificates/Diplomas/Masters. LOOK HERE
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Location: Broomfield
Topic: Stroke / neurology / movement disorders
Location: Cambridge
Topic: Palliative care and old age psychiatry
Location: Luton
Topic: Feeding, nutrition and tissue viability
Location: NNUH
Topic: Ethics, law, complaints and medical error
Location: Broomfield
Topic: Peri-operative care and frailty
Location: Basildon
Topic: “-Ologies”: cardio, resp, gastro for the geriatrician
Location: Watford
Topic: Orthogeriatrics, surgical liaison and continence
Location: Southend
Topic:Falls and syncope (with tilt table testing)
Location: Peterborough
Topic: Community / rehab / intermediate care
Location: James Paget
Topic: Leadership games on the beach