Postgraduate Clinical Academic Training

The Faculty of Medicine has become actively involved in the new development of clinical academic training streams arising from national implementation of the recommendations for Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and changes to clinical training programmes.

This builds on the support for postgraduate clinical training provided by our founding medical schools (Royal Postgraduate Medical School, National Heart & Lung Institute), and takes full advantage of the range of clinical research and education opportunities available across our clinical campuses and partner NHS Trusts, as described elsewhere on the Faculty website.

We have the largest number of clinical training posts awarded in the first tranche of the new scheme, across all four levels:

• Foundation Year – Academic Stream
• Academic Clinical Fellows
• Clinical Lecturers
• New Blood Clinical Senior Lecturers

Full details of the new developments in postgraduate clinical training are available from the MMC website, and the London Deanery and NCCRD websites:

http://www.londondeanery.ac.uk/

http://www.nccrcd.nhs.uk/intetacatrain/

Applications for these Foundation Year, ACF and Clinical Lecturer posts are normally done through national advertisement and selection processes managed through the NCCRD and London Deanery, and details are available on their websites.

For those who are appointed to academic clinical training posts linked to Imperial College a programme of training and mentors is being put into place to provide access to the wide range of facilities available through the NW London Foundation School, the Graduate School of Life Science & Medicine and the clinical research training programmes across Imperial. Further details of these programmes are available in the pages below.

The Faculty is providing oversight of its development of postgraduate clinical academic training through the Postgraduate Clinical Academic Training Committee, which reports to the Principal’s Advisory Group, and contains representatives from associated NHS Trusts and the London Deanery in addition to lead clinical academics involved in the schemes.

Professor Charles Pusey
Head of Postgraduate Medicine