|
Name |
Scheme Profile |
Further information |
| Hereford |
Welcome to the beautiful
county of Hereford. The county of cider, hops, cattle, a
"giant-killing" football team and an excellent Vocational Training
Scheme for General Practice. We have enjoyable, interesting, and
innovative schemes, with enthusiastic Course Organisers and Trainers
and good hospital jobs. Our Scheme offers the opportunity to undertake
hospital jobs which include Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Accident and
Emergency, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology with Dermatology and some
innovative Women's Health posts. Jobs are approved for MRCGP, DCH and
DRCOG and have the requisite educational and staffing approval of the
Postgraduate Dean. There is a regular half-day release programme
throughout the year. |
Dr P Clayton
01989 563646
email
Dr Saadi Hasan
01432 265717
email
website |
|
Bromsgrove/Redditch |
A very friendly, popular
and flexible scheme offering a comprehensive and stimulating three
year learning experience. Educational experiences within each post
include protected learning time within hospital specialties and the
option of joining the half-day release in general practice or a
half-day release related to some specialties. The rotations include a
choice of General/Geriatric Medicine, Paediatrics, Psychiatry,
Accident & Emergency and innovative posts including GP Registrar in
Community Women's Health and a project-based post in Public Health.
Please contact current GP Registrar and GP SHO's for personal
recommendations. |
Dr S Walter
01527 853671
email
website
|
| Wyre
Forest |
This continues to be a
very popular scheme. SHO posts are at Worcester Royal Infirmary and
rotate through Accident & Emergency, Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
Medicine and Paediatrics. Each post has excellent educational
opportunities geared to your future needs as a General Practitioner
including sessions at out-patient clinics in minor specialties and
community attachments. There is a wealth of high quality training
practices within the Wyre Forest area amongst some of the most
beautiful countryside in the region. Throughout the three years you
are encouraged to attend the half-day release course which has an
enviable reputation in itself. There are an increasing number of
opportunities for innovative posts involving General Practice and
hospital specialities to meet individual needs.
|
Dr C D Wilkinson
01562 745715
email
website
|
|
Worcester |
Worcester is
a great place to live and work - a lovely location, with good quality
of life for doctors. It is a young city with good social and sporting
facilities. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly. There is a good
social life with others on VTS and they are a great bunch of people.
There are 3 different Vocational Training Schemes based at the new
Worcestershire Royal Hospital, with good teaching and support for GP
training from the hospital consultants. There are also opportunities
to do 2 hospital jobs in the Blue Mountains, Australia. The scheme
remains innovative and we are currently setting up innovative
paediatric and Rheumatology jobs. |
Dr Alison
Findlay
01684 561333
email
Dr F Kameen
01905 773535
email
Dr M Deighan
01905 681764
email
website
|
| East
Birmingham/Solihull |
East
Birmingham consists of sprawling housing estates, private and council.
There are pockets of extreme poverty, high ethnicity plus private
housing and the odd stately home. North Solihull covers Chelmsley
Wood, a 1960s large housing estate. South Solihull is the home of Land
Rover with leafy suburbs, modern and expensive housing estates
bordering the Warwickshire countryside. There is easy access to
Birmingham centre, and the M42 / NEC / airport are all on the patch |
Dr I Stuart
01564 779280
emailDr M
Wilkinson
0121 747 8291
email
website
|
| Sandwell
& City |
This is a new
scheme based round the Sandwell and West Birmingham area. There are a
wide variety of hospital jobs offered at City and Sandwell, including
specialties such as ENT, dermatology and ophthalmology, as well as
medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry,
accident and emergency and geriatrics. We offer a wide variety of
teaching combining half day release with some modular courses
throughout the three years. The emphasis is on learning through
enjoyment and active participation. There is a good system of pastoral
care and there are also regular social events
|
Dr P Houlston
0121 446 2000
emailDr Janey Merron
01384 321096
email
Dr Charanpal Sikka
0121 556 2114
email
Dr M Nye
0121 359 3611x4506
email
website
|
| South
Birmingham |
The South
Birmingham Scheme evolved over many years and has been a 'mixed'
scheme for a decade, introducing SHOs to the concepts of general
practice, while providing support and an educational base for SHOs and
registrars together. We are a "learner-led"; organised into five
groups, each facilitated by one of the course organisers. We also meet
as the larger group to make use of visiting experts. We meet at the
Selly Oak Postgraduate Centre for at least 30 Thursday afternoons a
year. We also go on a two day residential in September, and an 'away
day' in the spring.
All participants are encouraged to attend courses (family planning,
minor surgery, child health surveillance etc) during the scheme.
|
Dr David
Taylor
email
Dr Andy Ross
email
Dr Anne Gillies
email
Dr Malcolm Laird
email
Dr Will Murdoch
email
website
|
| Dudley |
Dudley VTS in one of the longest
established schemes in the Region. It has always been very successful
in recruiting doctors to a very mixed area in the Black Country, and
have consistently innovated in the last few years, developing online
feedback and job assessment tools that have been presented at national
conferences. We have already completed of full cycle of the new
curriculum, and have placed great emphasis on "learner centered"
education. Our success at MRCGP has been consistent. We meet every
Thursday at the Clinical Education Centre at Russells Hall Hospital,
Dudley and have a two day residential and away day. |
Dr D Faux
01384 321096
email
Dr Ian Reed
01384 321096
email
Dr James Bullock
01384 321096
email
VTS Administrator
Mrs Lisa Bate
01384 321096
email
website
|
|
Wolverhampton & Walsall |
Wolverhampton
and Walsall scheme have been established for many years and have
provided some superb training opportunities for Vocational Training
for General Practice.
We have been the first scheme to embrace the new RCGP Curriculum as
the foundation of the Course.
The Course is integrated with the Masters Degree in Primary Care at
Stafford University and you will be expected to enroll and to work to
Diploma/Certificate or even possibly Masters level.
Most schemes will involve a four monthly attachment to General
Practice in the first year in addition to the twelve months GP
Registrar post in the third year.
The Wolverhampton and Walsall scheme provide an excellent range of
posts in all relevant specialties and every effort is made to tailor
these to your individual need. Each doctor on the scheme has their own
Primary Care Educational Supervisor who supervises the whole training
and is able to change rotations around and give pastoral and career
support.
Wolverhampton and Walsall have excellent housing, good schools both
state run and private. There are superb leisure facilities locally and
several notable and not so notable football teams. For the energetic,
there are the Shropshire Hills on the doorstep – shops for you to drop
in and the night life in the re-energised University City of
Wolverhampton is cool. The Wolverhampton Medical Institute where much
of the teaching occurs is state of the art with great libraries and IT
resources. |
VTS
Administrator
Cynthia Stanton
01902 695321
email
First point of contact please.
WEBSITE
Primary Care Medical Educators
Dr Peter Maidment
01902 847313
email
Dr S Ruffles
01922 450 950
email
Dr A Khan
01902 458 193
email
Dr R Grinsted
01902 454 242
email
Dr Jag Dhaliwal
email
Dr Daryl Goodwin
email
|
|
Shropshire |
Shropshire
has a reputation as being one of the most successful and popular
training schemes in the West Midlands. This is a truly trainee-centred
experience where our doctors have an enormous influence on the Course
and its success. Shropshire is a beautiful county with vibrant towns
like Shrewsbury and Telford and superb country practices spreading
into The Marches and mid Wales. Half-day release is provided
throughout the three year programme and SHO and registrar groups enjoy
regular residential courses in exciting locations. The course is
organised and run by the SHOs and registrars, backed up by five
enthusiastic course organisers who are committed to innovative and
stimulating education. The course prides itself on creating a
supportive, positive and friendly atmosphere. |
Dr M Dawson
01952 660444
email
Jim Bartlett
01939 233476
email
Bill Gowans
01743 362223
email
Charlotte Hart
07889 898492
email
Maurice Price
07812 115729
email
website
|
| Stafford
& Cannock |
Stafford
& Cannock Vocational Training Scheme offers a three year rotation centred around
the hospitals and general practices in the County Town of Stafford,
Cannock and surrounding villages.
The Vocational Training Scheme is based at the modern purpose built
Postgraduate Centre adjacent to the Staffordshire General Hospital,
Weston Road, Stafford. This has full library and information
technology services and offers outstanding facilities.
The scheme is based around 4 month attachments in hospital and in
primary care, prior to the Registrar Year. The VTS release has a
supportive atmosphere and involves consultants and primary care
specialists in delivering relevant and patient centred information
enabling GP registrars to gain a good grounding in general practice. |
Dr D J Palmer
01785 258249/0
emailwebsite
|
| North
Staffs |
The North
Staffordshire Vocational Training Scheme is long established and well
known for providing a high quality hospital experience, followed by
teaching in enthusiastic local Practices, both urban and rural. Many
ex-registrars have entered practices within the district, building
strong forward thinking partnerships and keeping in contact with each
other, for education and support in the early years of their GP
careers.
The Course Organisers and the Programme Directors have worked hard
together to change the scheme to its present form. SHO’s undertake a
modular training instead of the traditional Thursday half-day release.
The scheme modules are based on the MMedSci course at Keele
University. SHO’s can obtain enough credits from the modules of
teaching to be awarded a Certificate or Diploma in Primary Care.
An academic pathway has been established to enable participants to
gain a Certificate, Diploma or Masters degree in Medical Science
whilst participating in the scheme. SHOs are mentored and supported
throughout their course. |
Dr H Morrison
01782 281806
emailDr A Ralphs
01782 627488
email
Dr. M. Sanzeri
01782 545444
email
Keele University Academic Supervisor
Dr Vincent Cooper
01782 554996
email
website |
| Burton
on Trent |
Burton upon
Trent? Where? Situated between Derby and Lichfield, within reach of
Birmingham, Stratford upon Avon, Leicester, the Peak District and
Welsh borders, it is a market town - famed for its breweries. The
posts are based at Queen's Hospital - which boasts Charter Marks and
probably the best computer system in Britain!
We aim to provide choice - hospital jobs are from - ENT/Ophthalmology,
Paediatrics, Care of the Elderly, Medicine, Obsterics & Gynaecology,
Public Health and A&E.
Both consultants and GPs are committed to working together, and see a
strong scheme as essential for the future health scene in our area -
so you will find good teaching, relevant posts and listening senior
staff - who do change posts for the benefit of juniors! So why this
choice and commitment? Because we believe in the individual as person
with skills and strengths, who needs the responsibility and scope to
further their own career. |
Dr Jeremy
Lockwood
Dr E Gunstone
01283 563175
email
Dr Shake Seigel
01283 790316
email
Dr Elizabeth (Bitty) Muller
01283 790316
email
website |
| Coventry
& Warwickshire |
Be inspired by the city of three spires;
peep into the ivory towers of Warwick, one of the country’s leading
universities; act it out in the playground of the bard; relax in the
endlessly variable Warwickshire countryside AND complete your
professional training in Coventry & Warwickshire.
The VTS has evolved over the years to offer interesting and
challenging rotations in a variety of hospitals. Our training
practices vary from inner city to the leafiest of shires, with all
personality types catered for. This is underpinned by the weekly
meetings, specialist presentations and study groups. The experienced
educators offer a wide and evolving programme to develop and enhance
your knowledge, skills, and attitudes, offer peer support, pastoral
care and career guidance enabling you to fulfil the requirements of
assessment and certification.
This is the beginning of a process to equip you for lifelong
learning and practice for the rest of your career. |
SHO
Dr K Bridgeman
02476 542525
email
Dr T D Dickson
01676 542436
email
GP Registrar
Dr D Rapley
01926 857331
email
Dr R Lal Sarin
02476 612929
email
Dr K King
01926 269386
email
website
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