LNRMed

Specialty Training in Medicine

in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland

Specialty School of Medicine

East Midlands Deanery (South)

This site now acts only as a legacy repository for all the detailed programme information for posts in the Specialty School of Medicine in East Midlands Deanery (South).

For the benefit of search engines this is relevant to Speciality or Specialty Training in Medicine and Medical Specialties in Leicester, Northampton and Kettering in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland in East Midlands Deanery (South) – previously LNR Deanery.

Training programme descriptions on this site were accurate for training rounds until the end of 2010 and are retained here for information for trainees and potential trainees. All the programmes have been reviewed by Human Resources for accuracy.

Site Contents:

Training Programmes in Medicine: 1

News and Updates: 2

Core Medical Training: Educational Programmes, Curriculum and Assessment 2

Specialty Training (ST3+ trainees) 3

ACCS: Curriculum and Assessment for Anaesthetic and EM Trainees 3

Frequently Asked Questions. 4

Sub-Speciality Sites: 4

Links: 4

Training Programmes in Medicine:

Description of all the Training Programmes in the Speciality School of Medicine at CT1, CT2 and ST3+:

Specialty Training Programmes in Medicine in East Midlands Deanery (South)

Documents have been updated for the 2011 application round for Core Medical Training – some ST3+ sub-specialty programme descriptions have not yet been updated (see dates in individual documents).

Individual documents published here are Microsoft Word Documents saved as HTML – if you open them using MS Word (paste the URL from your browser into the Word File Open dialog box) then you should find that the original formatting is maintained and you can save a copy if you wish. This does not work for this index.html page but should work for the detailed programme documents.

News and Updates:

News: August 2011: This site is no longer updated regularly and will cease to function later in 2011

List of News and Updates on LNRMed site

Core Medical Training: Educational Programmes, Curriculum and Assessment

What educational opportunities are available … ?

Induction to Core Medical Training Document – 2009

· Details of monthly CMT Education sessions 2010/12

· Recent example programme (Nephrology session)

Details of educational opportunities for CMT on all sites will be posted here as soon as possible
In the meantime the RCP Tutors should outline opportunities on your site at the induction meeting

What competencies do I need to achieve … ?

Curricula have been developed by the College and approved by PMETB.

· CMT Trainees appointed from August 2009 onwards follow the CMT section of the 2009 GIM curriculum:

2009 GIM Curriculum

· CMT Trainees appointed in 2007 and 2008 follow the 2007 Generic and Acute Medicine Level 1 Curriculum

· Generic Curriculum

· Acute Medicine Level 1 Curriculum

· The ACCS Curriculum 2010 applies to trainees appointed from August 2010 and the 2007 curriculum applies to previous trainees:

· 2010 ACCS Curriculum

· 2007 ACCS Curriculum

RCP have provided the following grid to assess satisfactory progress in achieving competencies …

· 2009 Curriculum ARCP Decision Aid

· 2007 Curriculum ARCP Decision Aid

How will I record evidence for my competencies and record details of my appraisals and assessments … ?

Assessments and Appraisals will all be recorded in the “e-Portfolio”
This is a really useful web-based application which actually works!
It includes context-related links to relevant sections of the Curricula which are much more readable and digestible than the entire curriculum documents above
All East Midlands (South) CT and ST trainees in Medicine now have an e-Portfolio account and we rely almost entirely on the data stored in the e-Portfolio when deciding on ARCP outcomes
Guidance of e-Portfolio content for ARCP (not yet updated for ePortfolio v2 – but principles remain the same)
Minimum data requirements for ARCP (not yet updated for ePortfolio v2 – but principles remain the same)

A link to the e-Portfolio website:

http://www.nhseportfolios.org/

Other useful information relating to use of e-Portfolio:

· Link to RCP e-Portfolio user guides for Trainee and Educational Supervisor

Specialty Training (ST3+ trainees)

· Specialty Trainees at ST3+ should all now have access to the ePortfolio. If you do not have an account please contact the School’s coordinator.

· ePortfolio minimum standards for ST3+ trainees

· ST3+ trainees appointed after August 2007 should have had an ARCP for each year of training (or have one planned in the near future). They should therefore have an “ARCP Outcome Form” (see Gold Guide Appendix 5). If you have not had an ARCP or not received a copy of this form (which is equivalent to, but different from, the old RITA form) then please discuss with your TPD and inform the School’s Coordinator

Specialist Registrar Training

· Specialist Registrars continue to train under the old curriculum and using the old JCHMT/JRCPTB paper log-books.

· SpR’s however are part of the School – and I am happy to consider giving access to the ePortfolio if any trainees would prefer this as a method to collect workplace assessments and undertake MSF.

ACCS: Curriculum and Assessment for Anaesthetic and EM Trainees

“ACCS – Acute Medicine” trainees need to maintain a JRCPTB e-Portfolio and document the same competencies as Core Medical Trainees.

However, ACCS trainees in Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine also need to document their competencies on their Acute Medicine attachments, whilst using their own Colleges’ documentation for the educational portfolio.

The following documents explain our approach to this in East Midlands South: