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Breaking news WELCOME TO THE NEW ST3s who will be joining us in October. You will have met several of them on the Pleural training day at Royal Free. We’re excited about them joining the North East Central London Respiratory Family! Say hi at the next training day. Have a look a the ST3 page … Continue reading
Interested in lung cancer care, now and in the future? Why not join the RSM Cardiothoracic section for a TED-style meeting to address the cutting-edge solutions and technologies needed to cure lung cancer on Friday Nov 11th? “In a series of TED-style talks, this meeting will take us on the journey for the lung cancer … Continue reading
Breaking news New whistleblowing policy: what does the extended whistleblowing protection mean for HEE’s postgraduate medical and dental trainees? There is a new legal route with some technical aspects, but a short summary from HEE aims to give you the main points. Many thanks to Angshu for the updates on how to smoothly pass through ARCP. Don’t forget that … Continue reading
The London Advanced TB Course is taking place Nov 10-11th. It is organised by Public Health England with the Centre for Respiratory Infection (CRI), National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London. “This intensive course will offer a comprehensive update to participants on the clinical management of TB cases and incidents, evaluate new diagnostic techniques … Continue reading
Immunology is an area of the curriculum which is relevant to a growing number of areas of day to day practice in Respiratory medicine, but does not often receive explicit attention in the training programme. In view of this, Dr David Jackson has put together a one day workshop on ‘Immunology for chest physicians’. The aim … Continue reading
In addition to training opportunities already highlighted in the recent ‘News and opportunities‘ UCLP have now opened booking for some professional development sessions. These are non-clinical and cover some essential areas of training. If you missed the recent Homerton Training Day, this would be a great opportunity to access Courtroom training, which is rarely available. Click … Continue reading
Updated in Nov 2023 University College London Hospitals comprises 7 sites around Bloomsbury. The Respiratory department is predominantly based at University College Hospital. The Respiratory Department comprises 17 consultants. Dr Rónan Astin is the Clinical Lead. UCLH Respiratory is a tertiary ILD centre, a specialist Cancer and interventional bronchoscopy centre, a specialist neuromuscular ventilation centre, … Continue reading
Amidst a country in turmoil over Brexit, members of the Respiratory community met for a really interesting and varied programme of educational talks at the BTS Summer Meeting in York this June. Excitingly, it also saw the launch of a new website for Respiratory trainees. The aim is to bring together respiratory trainees from … Continue reading
As you progress through your rotations acquiring skills and experience, you need to check you are also acquiring sub-specialty experience in time for your CCT. For Lung Transplantation the requirements are: attend teaching programme/course 2 outpatient clinics in specialist/satellite clinic CbD You can find more details in a previous news and opportunities post, and in the … Continue reading
Breaking news For some years it has been mooted that training rotations should be confined to HEE LETB geographies and specifically that London rotations should no longer rotate into East of England (EoE) territory. We were unaware of any actual plans to make this happen. We have just been informed that there will now be a complete … Continue reading
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