There are currently THREE types of opportunities to combine General Practice training with an academic career:

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowships in General Practice and Primary Care

NSPCR ST3 entry Academic Clinical Fellowships
There are a 2 nationally funded Academic fellowships available each year which allow current GP trainees in ST2 to extend their training by a year with part-time attachment to a University Department during the ST3 and ST4 year.

Local opportunities for Academic activities during a standard or extended GP training programme

NSPCR ST3 entry Academic Clinical Fellowships
August 2012

Applications are invited from second-year general practice specialty trainees in English deaneries (current ST2s) who wish to undertake clinical academic training. Funding is now available to allow trainees to extend their training by a year, allowing part-time attachment to a University department during the ST3 and ST4 years.

ST3 entry Academic Clinical Fellowships are offered at five Universities: Birmingham, Bristol, Keele, Oxford, and Southampton. In most cases we anticipate applicants will wish to continue to train in their existing Deanery although cross-Deanery transfer may be possible in specific cases. Details of the opportunities offered by each University are shown below.

The proportional split between clinical and academic activity in the ST3 and ST4 years varies between Universities and is often negotiable within the constraint that, taken over the two years, trainees must spend about half their time engaged in each activity. By the end of the ST4 year trainees will be expected to have gained specialist accreditation as a general practitioner and have completed the requirements for the award of MRCGP. The academic attachment is likely to include some taught courses as well as participation in a research study resulting in journal publication. The academic focus is on research training although this can include research into medical education.

Before making an application, potential applicants are encouraged to make direct contact with the University Department to which they would like to be attached. This should normally be a University in the Deanery in which they are currently training. Individuals training in Deaneries without a participating University should discuss the feasibility of part-time academic training with their own Deanery lead in the first instance. It may be feasible for individuals to be attached to a University outside the Deanery or, with mutual agreement, by cross-Deanery transfer. Brief details about each University and the person to contact are given below.

To make an application, please click on the following link:

https://secure.intrepidonline.co.uk/PATHWAY2012/sys_Pages/Programme/ProgrammeList.aspx

West Midlands Deanery is hosting the recruitment to these posts and the website address is www.westmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk

ACADEMIC CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP
IN GENERAL PRACTICE AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
TO START AUGUST 2012

WEST MIDLANDS

Applications are invited from second-year general practice specialty trainees (in ST2 year) who wish to undertake clinical academic training. Funding is now available to allow trainees to obtain dual qualification in General Practice and Clinical Pharmacology.

Before making an application, potential applicants are encouraged to make direct contact with the University Department.

To make an application, please click on the following link:

https://secure.intrepidonline.co.uk/PATHWAY2012/sys_Pages/Programme/ProgrammeList.aspx

There is also information about the post on the website of the West Midlands Deanery who is hosting the recruitment application process at www.westmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk

Academic Clinical Fellowship in General Practice
East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery

University of Nottingham, Division of Primary Care - 1 post

Applications are invited from newly appointed GP trainees who have been allocated to a GP training programme and are due to commence ST1 in August 2012 and current GP trainees, due to commence ST2 in August 2012.

The appointed Academic Clinical Fellow will select a focus from within existing strengths of the Division of Primary Care which are: smoking cessation and tobacco control; smoking in pregnancy; accident prevention; applied genetics; safe and effective use of medicines; ethnicity, disadvantage and health and clinical epidemiology. The overall clinical: academic split is 75%: 25% but the balance of academic versus clinical work varies across the four programme years.

The Division of Primary Care is a thriving research environment, with 95% of research output judged of international standard in the last Research Assessment Exercise. We have substantial expertise on a range of methodologies covering the whole spectrum of health services research from qualitative interviews through to clinical trials and epidemiological research using large primary care medical records databases. The Division has a prominent national profile for research into smoking cessation (particularly in pregnancy), applied genetics, accident prevention, prescribing and clinical epidemiology. Senior academics are enthusiastic about developing junior colleagues’ research skills; the Division currently collaborates with the East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery (EMHWD) GP Directorate to deliver academic training attachments for GP Registrars and host an Academic Training Programme as part of the Trent Foundation School. This is all in addition to our long-established, highly successful, in-house training programme for clinical lecturers. Divisional academics, therefore, have substantial experience of mentoring and supervising junior colleagues who are embarking on clinical research careers.

The Divisional has strong collaborations with the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health and contributes to the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies – a UK Centre of Public Health Excellence with an international reputation for tobacco control and smoking cessation research. The Division is also a member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research which includes those English academic departments of primary care which have produced the most highly-rated research.

Academic training will be appropriate to the research undertaken by the ACF and will vary with the subject of research chosen. This will be closely integrated with clinical training which will be provided a local VTS scheme and overseen by the East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery. Supervisors will be appointed for both academic and clinical training and both training programmes will be as integrated as possible. Post holders will make use of research infrastructure support from the National School for Primary Care Research and those who elect to work within, smoking cessation / tobacco control will be encouraged to forge collaborations with and use resources from the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies. All academic supervisors are adept at cross-disciplinary collaboration and ACFs will be supported in making their own links with researchers both within and outside of Nottingham, as appropriate. Although the overall clinical: academic mix is 75%: 25%, the initial 3 months and the final 9 months of the scheme will be divided approximately 50:50 between the academic department and general practice. In the intervening years of the programme, when the ACF works in hospital posts, approximately one half day per week will be devoted to academic work.

All applications for this post must be submitted via the Intrepid Pathway website http://www.intrepidpathway.co.uk

Applications will be accepted from the opening time of 12 noon on Friday 11th May 2012 until the closing time of 12 noon on Friday 25th May 2012. It will NOT be possible to submit an application after this date/time.

More: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chs/divisions/primarycare/index.aspx
http://www.ukctcs.org/ukctcs/index.aspx

Professor Tim Coleman -Tim.coleman@nottingham.ac.uk - 0115 82330204

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