LNRMed

List of News and Updates on the LNRMed site from December 2006

Specialty School of Medicine

 East Midlands Deanery (South)

 

Updates:

 

1 December 2006

  • New: Descriptions of Hospitals and Trusts in LNR Training Programmes 

 

5 December 2006

  • Updated: Leicester ACCS Programme

 

8 December 2006

  • Updated: Dermatology ST3+
  • Updated: Respiratory Medicine ST3+

 

11 December 2006:

  • Updated: Immunology ST3+

 

14 December 2006:

  • Updated: Numbers of posts at ST1, ST2 and ST3 updated to Deanery MMC Submission for December
  • Updated: Leicester Core Medical Training Programme
  • Updated: Kettering Core Medical Training Programme
  • New: List of News and Updates (this document)
  • New: Frequently Asked Questions

 

15 December 2006:

  • Updated: Rheumatology ST3+

 

19 December 2006:

  • Updated: Kettering Core Medical Training Programme and Description
  • Updated: Palliative Medicine ST3+

 

20 December 2006:

  • Updated: Geriatric Medicine ST3+
  • Updated: Minor Updates to UHL General and Programme Descriptions

 

22 December 2006:

  • New: Links to National Vacancy numbers on MMC website

 

27 December 2006:

  • New: Links to JCHMT/RCP advice to applicants
  • Updated: FAQs responses on eligibility to apply at different levels

 

7 January 2007:

  • New: General Terms and Conditions of Service added (applies to all posts and overides older paragraphs in other descriptions
  • Updated: Leicester ACCS Programme description

 

17 January 2007:

  • Updated: Haematology ST3+
  • Link to new MMC Applicants Guide
  • Numbers now reflect MTAS Round 1 advertisments

 

14 January 2008:

  • Details for 2008 Round 1 Recruitment Round

 

10 November 2008:

  • 2009 Recruitment Round updates in Progress

 

29 July 2009:

  • ACCS Acute Medicine requirements for Anaesthetists and ED doctors updated

 

News Items:

 

News: 1/12/2006: MTAS Applicants Guide published by MMC – see link at foot of home page

 

News: 4/12/2006: Basic Neuroscience Training programme now included in LNR

 

News: 4/12/2006: Academic Clinical Fellowships in Medicine – 2 in LNR for August 2007

 

News: 8/12/2006: Latest numbers for advertisment agreed with Deanery

 

News: 19/12/2006: Three Academic Clinical Fellowships in Medicine CMT ST1 for August 2007

 

News: 20/12/2006: National decision: ‘Basic Neuroscience Training’ renamed ‘Core Medical Training – Neuroscience’ and will be recruited as a ‘themed programme’ within CMT rather than as a separate application in MTAS. The projected LNR/West Midlands programme however remains unchanged

 

News: 22/12/2006: MMC Release Number of Expected Vacances Nationwide

 

News: 18/1/2007: MTAS website and advertisments now ‘live’

 

News: 7/1/2008: Core Medical Training – August 2008 Entry

•                             Applications for August 2008 entry to Core Medical Training in East Midlands Deanery (South) opened today on NHS Jobs.

•                             We are advertising to appoint at least 30 trainees at CT1 level in Core Medical Training for 2 year training rotations

•                             We do not currently propose any appointments at CT2 level, nor as FTSTA’s

•                             Link to the NHS Jobs listing

•                             Please note that application will involve completion of the standard NHS Jobs application form and of a supplementary form devised by the Specialty School of Medicine which asks for details of clinical experience and reasons for application to our programmes

•                             Applications which do not provide both forms completed will not be considered for interview

•                             Please note that if you wish to exclude any previous posts from the maximum clinical experience stated in the national person specification (<= 12 months at SHO/ST1 level) then you will need to justify this exclusion in detail on the application forms (whether in the UK or overseas, and whether or not formally ‘educationally approved’), otherwise you may be considered ineligible for appointment on the basis of person specification

•                             Closing date 16th January

•                             Update 14/1/2008: Candidate Information for Interview in Core Medical Training 2008

 

News: 7/1/2008: Acute Care Common Stem – August 2008 Entry

•                             Applications for August 2008 entry to Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) – Acute Medicine in East Midlands Deanery (South) opened today on NHS Jobs.

•                             We are advertising to appoint at least 3 trainees at CT1 level in ACCS-Acute Medicine for 2 year training rotations

•                             2 posts will be based in Leicester and 1 based in Northampton

•                             We do not currently propose any appointments at CT2 level, nor as FTSTA’s

•                             Link to the NHS Jobs listing

•                             Please note that application will involve completion of the standard NHS Jobs application form and of a supplementary form devised by the Specialty School of Anaesthesia (which is leading recruitment for ACCS) which asks for details of clinical experience and reasons for application to our programmes

•                             Applications which do not provide both forms completed will not be considered for interview

•                             Closing date 16th January

•                             Update 10/2/2008 – Northampton ACCS programme description now updated on this website

 

News: 31/12/2007: ST3+ Specialty Training – August 2008 Entry

•                             Most ST3+ vacancies in 2008 will be used for allocation to ST2 run-through trainees appointed in 2007, and as part of the East Midlands contribution to national ‘headroom’ posts.

•                             We expect that a few additional ST3+ vacancies will be available in due course. These will be advertised for national competitive application, and details will appear on this site when they are available

 

News: 3/6/2008: Core Medical Training

  • Round 1 appointments for August 2008 entry to Core Medical Training in East Midlands Deanery (South) are now complete
  • Application is now open for a handful of remaining places in our Core Medical Training Rotations for August 2008 entry within the next couple of weeks as part of “Round 2” – Closing date 11th June 2008
  • This will include posts in Kettering, Northampton and Leicester (click link to see details)
  • Appointments at CT2 level (for 1 year) will be preferred, but applicants with less than 12 months experience post-Foundation will also be considered in the shortlisting and interview process (with appointment at CT1 level if any of these candidates prove to be the more successful at interview)
  • Link to the NHS Jobs listing for these posts
  • Please note that we expect that application will again involve completion of the standard NHS Jobs application form and of a supplementary form devised by the Specialty School of Medicine which asks for details of clinical experience and reasons for application to our programmes
  • Applications which do not provide both forms completed will not be considered for interview
  • Application and interview process is an East Midlands Deanery-wide process – but candidate preferences for North or South rotations will be used to decide location of interview. Candidates who are unsuccessful for their first choice, but considered appointable for CMT, may subsequently be offered a post in the other half of the Deanery

·         Updated 14/1/2008: Candidate Information for Interview in Core Medical Training 2008

 

News: 20/5/2008: ST3+ Specialty Training – August 2008 Entry

  • Most ST3+ vacancies in 2008 have been used for allocation to ST2 run-through trainees appointed in 2007, or filled as part of the national ‘headroom’ interview and application process.
  • We expect that a few additional ST3+ vacancies which were not filled in these interviews will be available in the next couple of weeks.
  • Details will appear on NHS Jobs when they are available – but we predict that there may be vacancies in Acute Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology and Rheumatology
  • Application and interview process is likely to be a East Midlands Deanery-wide process – but candidate preferences for North or South rotations will be taken into account

 

News: 20/5/2008: ARCP Dates – June/July 2008

Planned dates for the ARCP panels for 2007/2008 are …

·         Core Medical Training – ST1 – Monday 30th June

·         Core Medical Training – ST2 – Wednesday 16th July

·         ACCS – ST1 – Tuesday 10th June

·         ACCS – ST2 – Friday 13th June

·         Medical Subspecialties at ST3 will be arranged by the relevant specialty TPD

 

·         For Core Medical Training ARCP you will only be required to attend the ARCP Panel if an unsatisfactory outcome is likely or possible

 

News: 10/11/2008: Core Medical Training - August 2009 Entry

•                             In 2009 there will be a single national application process for Core Medical Training in England, under the leadership of the Royal College of Physicians of London.

•                             Applications will take place as a single electronic application form via a robust internet portal from 5th January 2009. You will be able to rank your preferences for training programmes in medicine in 4 Units of Allocation (UoA – typically a Deanery or part of a Deanery).

•                             The web based application service will be based on www.CMTrecruitment.org.uk (site not live a time of updating this page)

•                             Details will also appear on www.MMC.nhs.uk and advert is expected for 15th December 2008.

•                             All eligible candidates will be considered for interview in their first  and second choice of UoA.

•                             Interviews in East Midlands South are scheduled for week commencing  23rd March 2009.

•                             All candidates will be required to sit an electronic knowledge-based test (as a pilot) on Saturday 21st February 2009 (the same test used for all GP applicants).

•                             If you are planning to apply for Core Medical Training in 2009 please put these dates in your diary now – don’t book your skiing trip to clash!

News: 10/11/2008: Academic Clinical Fellowship - August 2009 Entry

•                             2009 Recruitment for Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs) starts on Friday 14th November 2008

•                             www.nccrcd.nhs.uk/news/2009acfrecruitment

•                             Leicester University will be advertising a number of ACFs – at least one of these could be in Medicine, but there will be a joint interview process involving many specialties (including Medicine) to identify the most academically able candidates.

•                             A successful candidate wishing to train in Medicine would typically be allocated an appropriate rotation in Core Medical Training

News: 10/11/2008: ST3+ Sub-Specialty Training - August 2009 Entry

•                             A many of ST3+ training opportunities for 2009 will be filled by ‘run-through’ from ST2 Core Medical Training (trainees appointed in August 2007 prior to uncoupling)

•                             There may be a few unfilled ST3+ training posts which will be advertised nationally in January

•                             We will not know the details of which posts are available until the ST2 to ST3 allocation process is completed in December 2008

 

News: 17/12/2008: Core Medical Training – New Rotation Programmes

•                             From August 2009 rotations in Core Medical Training in East Midlands South have been revised so that most rotations now spend 1 year in Kettering or Northampton and 1 year in Leicester

•                             Details of 2009 rotations are now available for review on this site

•                             We plan to appoint at least 28 trainees at CT1 level to these rotations in August 2009 (a few additional posts may become available during the application round) 

 

News: 14/4/2009: Core Medical Training - August 2009 Entry

•                             In 2009 there is a single national application process for Core Medical Training in England, under the leadership of the Royal College of Physicians of London.

•                             The web based application service is based on www.CMTrecruitment.org.uk

•                             The selection process is now approaching completion.

•                             Interviews in East Midlands South are being held in the week commencing  23rd March 2009.

•                             We began to make offers in the week commencing 30th March 2009 but in common with many other deaneries around the country a large number of posts are currently ‘held’ rather than accepted. Guidelines for accepting or holding offers are detailed on the national recruitment website

•                             Round 2 will commence soon – see the National CMTrecruitment site for details

•                             Our individual posts and rotations are allocated by ranking based on your overall assessment score in application and interview.

•                             Successful candidates will be asked to rank all of our CMT rotations after acceptance of a post in CMT within the School - but a particular post or rotation cannot be guaranteed before appointment.

•                             Details of rotations are available for review on this site

 

News: 24/3/2009: Acute Care Common Stem – Acute Medicine - August 2009 Entry

•                             The application round is completed and all posts have been filled

 

News: 14/4/2009:: ST3+ Sub-Specialty Training - August 2009 Entry

•                             A majority of ST3+ training opportunities for 2009 will be filled by ‘run-through’ from ST2 Core Medical Training (trainees appointed in August 2007 prior to uncoupling)

•                             A few posts are currently open for application in acute medicine, geriatric medicine, clinical oncology, medical oncology and dermatology

•                             A post in immunology will be recruited via the national application process

•                             We expect one further post in rheumatology may become available in the coming months

 

News: January 2010: Core and ST3+ Training – 2010 Entry

•                             For latest information of Core Medical Training for 2010 watch http://www.cmtrecruitment.org.uk/

•                             In East Midlands South we will offer 35 CT1 places in Core Medicine Training for August 2010

•                             Interviews are planned for 8th-10th February 2010

•                             ACCS CT1 posts (3 in ACCS-Acute Medicine) were advertised in December 2009 via the deanery website and interviewed on 18th January 2010

•                             Are you better in ACCS or Core Medicine Training? Read our advice on making your choice.

•                             Recruitment to ACF posts opened 2 November 2009 with a deadline for applications on 4 December 2009. Interviews and offers will take place in January 2010 – at least one ACF post will be available linked to clinical training in Core Medical Training from August 2010.

•                             ST3+ Recruitment will take place from March/April onwards – full details are still awaited

•                             National application coordinated via RCP is planned for – cardiology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, renal medicine and diabetes / endocrinology. Applications open 26/2/2010 via national portal ( http:/www.st3recruitment.org.uk )  & national guidance but local interviews, 2 applications per specialty allowed, some applicant-self assessment, deanery-lead long-listing, some clinician short-listing, local interviews 29/4/2010 to 17/5/2010 & offers completed by 26/5/2010. National clearing will be undertaken if necessary.

•                             Other ST3+ specialties have individual arrangements – but a majority will have a single national application (organised by a lead deanery) with local shortlisting and interview.

 

News: Jan 2010:: Core and ST3+ Sub-Specialty Training – LAT posts 2009/10

•                             Any LAT opportunities up to August 2010 will be advertised in the usual way with application via the deanery website