Oxford and Thames Valley Newsletter autumn 2017

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1 Oxford and Thames Valley Newsletter autumn 2017 Introduction Welcome to the first of what will become a regular Royal College of Physicians (RCP) newsletter for the Oxford and Thames Valley region. The RCP is aware that region-specific engagement and information are areas that have been somewhat lacking for a number of years, so these newsletters will address this by introducing your local RCP regional management team, regional advisers (and their roles), and the college tutor team. We will also flag up forthcoming local and national RCP scheduled events and courses, and profile other local leaders in education and the RCP. One exciting development is the Quincentennial lecture, which will be delivered at the RCP Update in September 2018 by a trainee from within the region. For information, please visit the Quincentennial lecturer scheme-web page.please consider throwing your hat into the ring for what will undoubtedly be a highly prestigious lecture for your CV. I am a consultant gastroenterologist at Milton Keynes Hospital, and have been regional adviser for training since Within this, and allied to my role as head of the School of Medicine for Health Education Thames Valley (HETV), is a desire to maintain the region s excellence in training and status as one of the most popular regions for postgraduate training in the UK. Please let us know what else you d like to see in these newsletters. Dr George MacFaul RCP regional adviser

2 Regional office staff I am a consultant gastroenterologist at Milton Keynes University Hospital. Over the past 15 years, I have gained experience in a number of management roles, including clinical director and divisional director for medicine. I am currently clinical director for the Milton Keynes and Bucks Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. I am also the current chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee at my trust and I sit on the Clinical Services and Standards Committee at the British Society of Gastroenterology. I am the Oxford regional gastroenterology rep for RCP London and was previously secretary of the Oxford Regional Gut Club. I am also an MRCP(UK) PACES examiner. I look forward to promoting the values of the RCP in my role as a regional adviser. Outside of my clinical work, I enjoy playing badminton, table tennis and cricket. If you wish to discuss any issues or concerns, please contact me at: ravi.madhotra@mkuh.nhs.uk Dr Ravi Madhotra Regional adviser I have been a strong advocate of improving patient access in the NHS and have developed straight to test cancer pathways that were nationally recognised. I believe in the RCP values that focus on delivering patient-centred and clinically led care. I support high standards of clinical training and education for future doctors. I strongly advocate fairness, equality and diversity in training and the workplace, which I believe make our NHS a uniquely high-class healthcare system. We say goodbye to Susan Pope, regional manager Helen Flood Regional manager Jayne Richards Office assistant After nearly 10 years at the RCP, Susan leaves us for pastures new. We thank her for her enthusiasm and dedication and I am sure you will all join in wishing her every success for the future, and thank her for all the work she has done for so many of us! Contact details: Royal College of Physicians Office Birmingham Research Park Institute of Research and Development Vincent Drive Birmingham, B15 2SQ Telephone: Sue Cyprus Deputy regional manager OxfordThamesValley@rcplondon.ac.uk

3 RCP chief registrars at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust We are part of the first cohort of RCP chief registrars, starting in post in ambulatory care at the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2016 and due to complete in Both of us have an interest in leadership and management with a focus on service development and quality improvement. In our time as chief registrars so far, we have worked closely with the divisional leadership in the development of two new services at the Oxford University Hospitals: the Ambulatory Assessment Unit (AAU) and the Acute Hospital at Home services, with development of pathways, processes, teaching and training and embedding clinical governance structures within these services. In addition, we have worked to engage junior doctors in quality improvement to drive some positive changes within the directorate of acute general medicine. We have worked to develop an interface with specialties such as heart failure, respiratory medicine, acute oncology and radiology in order to improve the care provided to patients seen on the AAU. Both of us have found this in-house experience, along with the teaching programme at the RCP, extremely valuable for our personal and professional development and to gain a better understanding of leadership roles within the organisation. We are excited to introduce two new chief registrars who are due to start in our region: Dr Abigail Ash, a specialist trainee in acute and general internal medicine who is due to start at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and Dr Sean Noronha, a specialist trainee in diabetes and endocrinology who is due to start at Milton Keynes Hospital. Dr Mridula Rajwani Dr Judy Martin Acute and general medicine trainee Geriatric medicine and general internal medicine trainee RCP chief registrars, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Quincentennial lecturer 2018 Will it be you? As part of the 500th anniversary celebrations, the RCP is pleased to announce that a Quincentennial lecturer will be appointed in each region to give a lecture at the regional update in medicine in Applications will open in early 2018 in our region to give the Quincentennial Lecture at the Update in medicine Bucks on 10 September If you are a medical trainee at CMT or ST3 7 level, please do consider submitting an abstract for consideration based on your work in one of the following areas: clinical research successful quality improvement programme achievements in medical education chief registrar experience and achievements. Further details with application details will be sent out in due course, but if you have any queries in the meantime please do not hesitate to contact us on: oxfordthamesvalley@rcplondon.ac.uk For more information please visit: Quincentennial lecture

4 RCP Trainees Committee representatives Michael FitzPatrick (ST6 gastroenterology, Oxford representative for RCP Trainees Committee and Chairman of Oxford Trainee Physicians Committee) Gareth Hynes (ST6 respiratory medicine, Oxford representative for RCP Trainees Committee and deputy chairman of Oxford Trainee Physicians Committee) We are the Oxford region representatives at the RCP Trainees Committee, and we co-chair the Oxford Trainee Physicians Committee. Both of us are studying out of programme for a DPhil in Oxford, which gives us a little more freedom than you get in clinical work to carry out these roles! It has been a busy few months, both at the RCP Trainees Committee and locally, as we work through some of the changes affecting physician training. At the RCP, we have represented trainee views on the proposed new internal medicine curriculum, as well as working on a range of changes that we hope will improve opportunities for trainees, including plans for an RCP trainee conference next year. More locally, we have just chaired the Trainee Physicians Committee, at which trainee representatives from all specialties discussed topics with George MacFaul (head of school) and Sally Edmonds (head of CMT), including: the effect of the new junior doctors contract on training; the introduction and local implementation of the proposed internal medicine curriculum; and how to improve GIM training in the region. We are also working with the Health Education Thames Valley School of Medicine to plan for the introduction of the internal medical training (IMT) programme, which will replace CMT from This will involve increased clinic attendance, improved simulation training, a specific elderly care attachment and a mandated ITU placement, which will be of enormous benefit to physician trainees. We are here to represent all physician trainees, so please get in touch if there is anything you want us to raise locally or nationally, or if you want to represent your specialty and get involved. E-learning from the RCP The RCP supports its members and fellows, as well as other physicians and healthcare professionals, with a range of online learning modules that provide up-to-date, evidence-based training to help them excel in their careers. Check out our new RCP e-learning page and video for further information and the benefits of online learning

5 Regional information College tutors RCP college tutors (CTs) provide an educational leadership role. They promote education within their directorate, oversee the training of all postgraduate physician trainees and ensure high-quality training for core medical trainees (CMTs) and higher specialty trainees (specialty registrars (StRs)). Specifically, the CT supports the educational supervision process for CMTs and, in many trusts, acts as the CMT tutor. The CT will work with their associate college tutors (ACTs) and support core and higher specialty trainees. CTs undertake an important role for the RCP and they link directly with the RCP s strategic aims by helping to shape the future of health and healthcare. Dr John Northfield Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Dr Ishi Patel Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Dr Jas Chana Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Dr Beatrix Nagyova Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Dr Mike Ward Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Dr Nicola De Savary Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Dr Gordon MacDonald Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Regional event schedule January Peer support workshop tbc February Acute and general medicine conference 6 March Peer support workshop 18 June Peer support workshop 10 September RCP Update in Medicine Bucks If you would like further information about any of the above events, please oxfordthamesvalley@rcplondon.ac.uk or telephone MRCP(UK) examinations 2018 Part one Tuesday 9 January Tuesday 8 May Tuesday 4 September Part two Tuesday 27 March Wednesday 27 June Wednesday 24 October PACES examiners If you are not already a PACES examiner, please consider applying to be one! You must be a fellow of the RCP, and an enthusiastic trainer or teacher. The MRCP(UK) PACES examination is a key part of training for those who wish to become physicians. Each cycle requires 11 examiners, and there is a need to recruit examiners to maintain the necessary numbers. You will find becoming a PACES examiner enjoyable, an excellent form of CPD, an opportunity to learn about practices from other hospitals, and a chance to meet new physician colleagues. For an application form or further information, please visit

6 West Midlands regional event schedule 2018 (and remaining events in 2017) To find out details about any of these events, see 19 October 2017 Update in medicine Birmingham 10 November 2017 Midland Gastroenterological Society conference Birmingham 14 December 2017 Retired physicians gathering 16 February 2018 Physician associates conference 7 9 March Birmingham movement disorders course 21 March Acute and general medicine (regional CME conference) 25 April StR GIM training day 11 May Midland Gastroenterological Society Meeting 17 May West Midlands Physicians Association 12 June National training scheme for the use of radioiodine in the treatment of benign thyroid disease 14 June Retired physicians gathering 8 October Update in medicine Birmingham 16 November Midland Gastroenterological Society Meeting tbc November West Midlands Physicians Association 6 December Retired physicians gathering National events 5 8 February 2018 Advanced medicine London 6 February Teach in Diabetes London 8 February Regional update East Midlands East Midlands 5 March Regional update South West South West 6 March Teach in Cardiology London 6 March Teach in Genitourinary medicine Mersey 8 March Transformation through the 100,000 Genomes Project London 15 March Regional update Mersey Mersey 20 March 500 years of the diagnostic neurologist London 22 March Regional update Eastern Eastern 3 April Teach in Renal medicine London 3 April Teach in Trainees showcase Mersey 18 April Acute medicine London April Trainees first annual meeting Birmingham 23 April Regional update Yorkshire Yorkshire 24 April Acute medicine Northern 30 April Regional update London and South East London and South East 1 May Teach in Dementia London 1 May Teach in Respiratory medicine Mersey 5 June Teach in Gastroenterology London 5 June Teach in Rheumatology medicine Mersey June Medicine 2018, RCP annual conference ExCeL London 3 July Teach in Neurology London 3 July Teach in Infectious diseases and tropical medicine Mersey 11 September Teach in Gastroenterology Mersey 13 September Cardiology London 20 September Acute medicine East Midlands 20 September Rheumatology update London 27 September Regional update Northern Ireland Northern Ireland September Faculty of Physician Associates London 2 October Teach in Respiratory London 2 October Teach in Dermatology Mersey 9 October Care Quality Improvement London 17 October Acute medicine Mersey October Acute and general medicine London 6 November Teach in Infectious disease and HIV London 6 November Teach in Maternity medicine Mersey 8 9 November Regional update Wales Wales 20 November Regional update Northern Northern 30 November Palliative medicine London 4 December Teach in Rheumatology London 4 December Teach in Cardiology Mersey 4 December Regional update North West North West 5 December Adolescents and young adults: improving health and wellbeing London 2 December Gastroenterology London