ST3+ SPECIALTY TRAINING PROGRAMME IN RESPIRATORY AND INTERNAL MEDICINE

I wish you a warm welcome to the Respiratory Training programme in the Oxford Region also known as Thames Valley.This document is a summary of our programme.

We wish to encourage any trainee interested in excellence in respiratory medicine.

We pride ourselves on being a close knit, smaller programme giving you individual time within a full regional programme involving our Tertiary centre- Oxford University Hospitals, and our district general hospitals.

Best wishes

Dr. Charlotte Campbell

Training Programme Director

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The RESPIRATORY MEDICINE Training Programme

The Respiratory Medicine training programme is a 5 year programme, starting at St3 with highly competitive entry through national selection. During the training time, the trainee's work will be monitored for satisfactory progress by an allocated Educational supervisor who stays with you throughout your training to guide you; and the trainee’s reports are subject to annual reviews in the form of ARCPs. Progression on the programme will be dependent upon these reviews.

The successful ST3+ will rotate through the hospitals with a minimum time of 12 months in the tertiary hospital and additional 3 months in ICU. All the non tertiary centres offer GIM training.All aspects of the curricula are covered.

The trainees can commute to all the sites from a central location, usually around Oxford, and site accommodation is also available.

Academic fellows and academic lecturers are encouraged in our deanery, and most trainees undertake higher degrees in research. We have a number of less than full time trainees and job shares are usually arranged to accommodate this. We also have dual trainees in ICM and respiratory medicine.

We have 100% success rate at the speciality exam – SCE in respiratory. The regional teaching programme runs 1 day a month, and trainees are actively involved presenting some of the sessions. It has received excellent feedback in recent GMC surveys, and in local feedback. We have a trainee meetings, and trainee representatives sit on the Speciality Training Committee.

Trust / Hospitals and Locations
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust:
4 posts at Churchill Hospital -Tertiary Centre for Respiratory medicine (respiratory only).
1 post in GIM at John Radcliffe Hospital
1 post in ICM
1 post in Horton Hospital (Resp and GIM) / Churchill Hospital, Oxford

John Radcliffe, Oxford

Horton Hospital, Banbury

Milton KeynesUniversity Hospital:
1 post in respiratory and GIM / Milton Keynes General Hospital

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust:
2 posts in respiratory and GIM / Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust:
3 posts in respiratory and GIM / Wexham Park Hospital, Slough

Buckinghamshire NHS Healthcare Trust
3 posts in respiratory and GIM / Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospital

Training Information

Consultants in the centres are approachable and give on the job teaching and feedback in inpatient and outpatient settings.

In addition to specialist grade regional teaching held monthly,

there are regular 6 monthly regional day meetings for consultants and registrars; and audit, research, journal clubs and grand round teaching, within each centre.

Trainees also attend monthly GIM teaching sessions in Oxford.

Study leave to attend national and international meetings is encouraged.

Within the region there is special expertise and training in:

Respiratory physiology
  • Asthma and difficult airways;COPD
  • Sleep disorders
  • Lung immunology and interstitial lung disease
  • Pleural disease and Thoracoscopy
  • Clinical trialsand Epidemiology
  • Lung infectionand TB; Cystic fibrosis
  • Lung cancer, respiratory oncology and interventional bronchoscopy
  • Respiratory Radiology

Research opportunites

There are manifold opportunities for research and most trainees have progressed to complete higher degrees by taking out of programme experience in research OOPR. Currently we have registrars involved in research in all areas of special expertise listed above within Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and OUH hospitals

More information is available on request, please feel free to contact me.