Cliff Reid wrote:
> An SHO in medicine who has just passed her MRCP has approached us for advice
> regarding a career in acute general medicine - ie. becoming a consultant
> physician trained in general (internal) medicine responsible for an
> emergency medical admissions unit.
>
> As far as I know this is not a specialty recognised by the Royal Colleges of
> Physicians
It is possible to get a CCST in General Internal Medicine without another
medical sub-specialty.
Some programs were set up in the Oxford Deanery. They were intended for
"Academics" who would do PhDs etc on the way to their CCST and needed to be on
the register to do an acute take but would probably have a reaserch interest in
something obscure.
There was in fact little demand for such posts as far as I can find out.
The CCST program for GIM is 3 years provided 2 years are spent at SHO level and
the MRCP is obtained.
In theory this could be combined with a CCST in A&E. The flexible year in A&E
SpR training could be spent in GIM leaving only 2 additional years on top of the
5 year A&E program. The JCHMT might even recognise some of the ordinary A&E time
towards GIM giving dual credit and making the combined program less than 7
years.
As the legal requirement for Consultant appointment is merely to be o the
Specialist register I suspect that a CCST in A&E spending as much time as
possible on medically related things would e the best option.
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Andrew
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Andrew Hobart FRCS
Birmingham
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