Introduction to Professional Development Sessions (PDS) (formerly Special Interest Sessions)
(excerpt - Silver Guide June 22)
Choosing your PDS
We work closely with Clinicians from across the regions NHS trusts to maintain an up to date list of the excellent opportunities across the East of England. These range across a wide range of clinical specialities and also include many others as shown on the table below. There will also be other opportunities not listed that you are able to arrange yourself. If you do find opportunities which others might benefit from in future please ‘pay it forward’ by completing with your supervisor a PDS registration template via the resources tab below.
Clinical Speciality | 56 |
Management Leadership | 2 |
Quality Improvement/Audit | 7 |
Medical Education | 4 |
Psychotherapy | 5 |
Research | 2 |
Total | 79 |
Hear from two of our Trainees, Dr Jamie Wright and Dr Felix Clay about their Professional Development Sessions experiences.
PDS Approval and Sign off
Professional Development Sessions are a unique feature of Higher Specialist Training - what will you choose?
Resources
Click to explore the map of Professional Development Sessions in our region provided by the following Trusts access the SEARCHABLE LIST for the full range of opportunities open to you as well as further details and expectations. We have set up the file so that it is searchable by different fields (county, trust, location and speciality headline)
CPFT ELFT
Essex
NSFT
HPFT