There are three ST3 (formerly "specialist registrar") posts in the East of England Deanery four year rehabilitation medicine training rotation. Each trainee will spend 16 months in Cambridge and 29 months in Norwich. Three months will be spent in the spinal injuries unit at Stanmore, North London and an additional year may be spent doing full time research towards an MD thesis, funding permitting.
These posts provide experience in neurorehabilitation in sub-acute in-patient units, brief admission rehab/respite wards, and management of chronic disability in the community, using multidisciplinary team working and audit. The majority of our in-patients have had traumatic brain injuries, strokes, multiple sclerosis, Guillain Barre syndrome, spinal cord lesions, multiple trauma or amputations. Training is given in the required areas of musculoskeletal medicine, psychological aspects of head injury and disability, special problems of school leavers, cardiac rehabilitation, prosthetics, orthotics, environmental controls, wheelchairs and special seating.
Trainees may also choose to spend more time working in a particular field, such as:
· Sports Medicine
· Respiratory Support
· Palliative Care
· Neurophysiology and Neurology
· Incontinence and Sexual Function
· Neuropsychiatry and Epilepsy
· Vocational Rehabilitation or Pain Management
They are expected to teach undergraduates, become a clinical supervisor, and often teach doctors preparing for the MRCP.
Our trainees have taken a year out to do full time research (3), completed doctoral theses (3), won the Philip Nicholls prize (2), Benjamin Gooch prize, European Board of Phys Med prize, set up a BSRM special interest group, organised a supraregional SpR seminar programme, and presented their research in Toronto, Boston, Tampere & Dublin.
SpRs, praying for early release 2004
Cambridge- Norwich Rehab Medicine SpR job
description
East of England Deanery
Cambridge University Department of Clinical
Neurosciences
Educational
meetings
Cambridge:
Rheumatology: Monday 2.30-4.30: Case presentations, invited
speakers, journal clubs
Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary journal club Mondays 12.30.
Neurology: Tuesday 1-3 : Case presentations and invited
speakers.
Neurosurgery: Thursday 10-12
Medical Grand Rounds: Wednesday 1-2pm: Case presentations
X ray meetings: Rheumatology: alternate Mondays 5.30
Stroke: alternate Thursdays 4.30
Norwich:
Rehabilitation: 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1.00-2.00: journal club,
seminar
Monthly multidisciplinary meetings: audit, journal club,
speaker
General medical meeting: Thursday 1.00-2.00
Neuro-interest group: Monthly, University of East Anglia
X ray meetings Neurology: Thursday 9.00
Regional:
Rehabilitation medicine case
presentation meetings four times a
year.
Eastern Rehab Group meetings.
Cambridge Amputee Rehab meetings.
Norwich Interviewing
Skills Course.
Management
Training for SpRs in
Cambridge.
Eastern Head Injury
Group and
NSF for Long Term Conditions good practice
example
EAST ANGLIA
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY FORUM: Dr Narinder Kapur, Consultant
Neuropsychologist, R3 Neurosciences, Box 83, Addenbrooke's
Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ Tel. 01223 216040 Fax.
348132
NEUROSCIENCES for
CLINICIANS: Prof
Alastair Compston
CAMBRIDGE DEMENTIA
COURSE: Dr Jeremy
Brown, Prof. John Hodges & Dr Andrew Graham
National:
Trainees are expected to attend some of the following courses, for
which study leave time is available: prosthetic, orthotic, special
seating and gait analysis courses at Strathclyde University,
environmental control unit course in Lincoln, wheelchair
prescription course at Norwich, BSRM Annual Trainees meeting and
Advanced Rehabilitation Course.
Trainees are encouraged to attend and present at national meetings
of the Society for Research in Rehabilitation and British Society
for Rehabilitation Medicine, to register for European Diploma
in Phys Med and Rehabilitation and to enter for the annual
Benjamin Gooch, Philip Nichols and European Academy of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation prizes.
SpRs are expected to join the email forum for amputee
rehabilitation doctors on Jiscmail, and anyone with a professional
interest in amputee rehabilitation may join the forum for all
clinicians: contact stephen.kirker@doctors.org.uk for further
information.