New! DH Clinical academic training pathway national internship opportunities for AHPs, nurses and midwives

From September, talented AHP, nurses and midwives across the NHS will be able to apply to their SHA Cluster for one of the 150 places on the Department of Health’s Clinical Academic Training Pathway (CATP) national internship programme.  Applicants will need to be graduate practitioners, ready to seize these new opportunities and take their first steps to becoming innovative clinical research leaders.

Securing a CATP internship opportunity will mean these practitioners can combine their practice expertise with a taste of structured learning about clinical academic research.  They will have the chance to learn what is involved in clinical research and generating evidence to use in driving up delivery of quality outcomes.  Many interns are likely to focus on a priority areas such as dementia care, obesity, care of older people, public health, long-term conditions and children and young people.

Internships for this phase of the CATP programme will need to be completed by March 31 2013 after which each intern will have an individual plan to build on their experience and improve their contribution to health care.  For most this is likely to be progressing to a Masters in research, for example applying to the National Institute for Health Research Masters in Clinical Research scheme (see http://www.nihrtcc.nhs.uk/cat/ )

For more information about the CATP programme national internship scheme contact your SHA Cluster Lead:

The Department of Health’s Clinical Academic Training Programme (CATP) is part of the government's strategy ‘Developing the Role of the Clinical Academic Researcher in the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions’ (March 2012)’