There will be two posts sharing both the teaching and clinical duties. The exact split between the duties will be agreed between the Lead Clinicians and the successful candidates. This is an exciting opportunity to gain formal experience of teaching as well as improving clinical skills in General Surgery. The post will enable you to build on your experience and obtain appropriate competencies but the post is not recognised by the Deanery for training. The RUH in Bath is a busy District General Hospital and previous SHOs have been able to improve their surgical experience to significantly enhance their portfolio for application to national ST3 posts.
The Royal United Hospital has an excellent reputation for training in medical and surgical specialties; evidenced by excellent feedback from the GMC training survey for an acute hospital. The department and the hospital provide a progressive and friendly atmosphere in which to work, and there is an active postgraduate teaching programme, in which you will be involved.
With the reduction in training numbers nationally, we envisage that many able doctors will seek an alternative training route in active departments such as this one at the RUH, and we have already demonstrated a long-term commitment to training and career progression of our Trust appointed doctors.
For more information please contact Dr Alistair Kerr, Academy Dean, on 01225 825339
The Clinical aspect of the post is based at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and is suitable for candidates who will already have at least 12 months’ pre-registration experience, who would like to gain further experience in an acute speciality.
Your duties will be primarily care of in-patients and the admission and primary care of emergency cases, including performance of surgical procedures. There will be opportunities to be supernumerary in elective subspecialty clinics, or assist in and perform elective surgery according to learning objectives, previous experience and competencies. There is a training programme and regular audit and teaching sessions. On-call duties during working hours cover the General Surgery acute take, with the addition of out of hours cross cover of Urology.
The successful candidates to undertake focused training in Medical Education. The successful candidates will contribute to the SHO grade rota with out of hours commitment in General Surgery for half of their contracted time. The other half of their will be spent in Medical education where there will be no out of hours commitment.
The successful candidates will also have the opportunity to gain a Medical education qualification. Funding for this will be provided through the Bath Academy.
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