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Thanks to all trainees who came to World TB Day at Homerton Hospital. A summary of the day with useful links will be available on the site soon. You can see many useful links on Twitter using the hashtags #worldtbday and #resped. New training days have been announced which will be: 25/04/14 North Middlesex (interesting sessions … Continue reading
It’s a New Year! We hope you’re helping all your patients to commit to stop smoking and increasing the rate of referrals to your stop smoking service. If your new year’s resolution is to sort out your ePortfolio and not leave it to the last minute pre-ARCP we stand with you! In sentiment at least… … Continue reading
Can’t be bothered to sign in to synapse? Well, never fear, you won’t miss anything with this handy round up of recent links to external educational events (both Respiratory and GIM) and important updates from synapse and beyond. An important date for your diaries is the 2014 ARCP/RITA Friday 11 July 2014 for North East Thames … Continue reading
In November we joined our colleagues from across London at the Hammersmith Hospital, for a day of Occupational Lung Disease. It was hosted by Prof Paul Cullinan and Dr Jo Szram. Their website is here: http://www.lungsatwork.org.uk/ Interesting facts about Hammersmith Hospital: Hammersmith Hospital is not in Hammersmith During WW1 Hammersmith Hospital was used as the Military … Continue reading
A Clinical Leadership Group (CLG) for Respiratory medicine has recently been established for a London Respiratory Clinical Network within NHS England (London region). The role includes support, advice and guidance on all aspects of respiratory care to the London Clinical Senate and commissioners (specialist and local). The group recently sought expressions of interest to join … Continue reading
The issue of pharmaceutical company sponsorship of training days was raised at the most recent UCLP TPMC meeting. Some believe that there should be a complete separation of education and pharmaceuticals, as sponsored education is just marketing. Others believe that drug reps can provide information of relevance to trainees. We would like to gather the … Continue reading
The RCP has published it’s latest Acute Care Toolkit 8: The medical registrar on call. It focuses on maximising clinical experience, training and patient care, and should be mandatory reading for all Chief Execs, Medical Directors, and Medical Registrars! Have a read and see what changes you could suggest to improve your local acute take.
In October a group of intrepid trainees left the lights of central London and headed for the coast, for a training day in sunny Southend. Interesting facts about Southend: Southend has the world’s longest Pleasure Pier (1.34 miles) Notable people from Southend include: Phill Jupitus, comedian; Helen Mirren, actress; and Simon Sharma, historian and TV … Continue reading
September 23rd saw the most recent meeting of the UCLP Training Programme Managers Committee (TPMC) for Respiratory Medicine. UCLP Committees can never be accused of having exciting names! Dr Bhowmik chaired the meeting, with attendees including a number of Respiratory Consultants, UCLP managers and the three trainee reps (miraculously all able to make the meeting … Continue reading
There were some queries arising from the latest round of ARCPs regarding required competencies and sign off for procedures in GIM. Please see the following information from Dr Bhowmik for clarification: The acute take logbook is to confirm that you have seen a minimum of 1000 acute medical patients in your training. You can use the … Continue reading
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