APPLICANT - Imperial College London

CODE: QML/006
F1
F2
King George
Hospital
See rotation for
site
Women’s Health 4m General Medicine/
Gastroenterology
Psychiatry (Centre 4m Neurology (The
for Psychiatry,
Royal London
Wolfson Institute of Hospital)
Preventive
Medicine)
4m General Surgery 4m
4m
MAU (The Royal
London Hospital)
4m
• F1 General Medicine, General Surgery and Women’s Health – Barking,
Havering and Redbridge Hospital NHS Trust (King George Hospital)
• F2 Medical Admissions Unit, Psychiatry and Neurology – Barts and the London
NHS Trust
MAU attachment – based at the Royal London Hospital
Clinical Supervisor – Dr P O’Callaghan; Lead Clinician – Dr VLC White
Cambridge Ward MAU is situated adjacent to the A&E department at the Royal London
Hospital and deals with a wide variety of acute medical problems. The medical staff of the
unit has expanded considerably since its inception. It was highly commended in an
inspection visit by the Royal College of Physicians in 2005 and has been held up as a model
for the management of acute medical disorders across the UK.
The successful applicant will receive supervised training in the management of patients with
acute medical illnesses and will be taught the skills needed to manage those patients. The
F2 trainee will work under the supervision of one of the more senior members of the medical
team and will participate in the admission, assessment and treatment planning for newly
admitted patients. He/she will learn about the treatment and management of a wide range of
medical disorders and the post provides great opportunities for learning and skill acquisition.
The trainee will be able to acquire many of the competencies required by the Foundation
Programme while working on the Unit.
The Royal London provides a Hospital at Night service and the successful applicant will
either be part of that team or will work out-of-hours on the MAU, depending on seniority and
levels of cover available.
Psychiatry attachment – based at the Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of
Preventive Medicine, Charterhouse Square, St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Academic Leads – Professor S.Stansfeld, Professor K. Bhui, Professor P. White.
The trainee will be based at the Centre for Psychiatry, Charterhouse Square. The Centre
has research interests in epidemiological, cultural and social psychiatry as well as liaison
psychiatry and interactions between physical and psychological ill-health.
The clinical experience will be general adult psychiatry. The exact content will depend on the
candidate’s interests and the existing range of clinical and research opportunities. There are
also possibilities for more clinical experience within East London Mental Health Trust based
at Mile End Hospital.
These include attachments focussing on mind-body interactions, rehabilitation psychiatry,
and psychotherapy, prescribing practice, ethical decision-making and legal aspects of
mental health care tailored to individual trainees. This post will cater for doctors with a
primary interest in either research or teaching.
The trainee will have the opportunity to obtain some training in research methods including
epidemiology and basic clinical trials, and attending the Mental Health Assessment and/or
Transcultural Module of the MSc in Transcultural Mental Healthcare. They will also be
involved in research through completing a systematic review of a relevant topic, doing
secondary analysis of existing data, completing pilot work for a research study or
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