Postgraduate Centre

Our Postgraduate Centre can be found on Perimeter Road also know as the Education Centre 

Library Facilities

Our Library is based in the Main Hospital 1st Floor of the Hunter Wing

IT Facilities

Other Facilities
(Recreational or otherwise)

Doctors’ Mess

Our Doctors mess can be located on 1st Floor Lanesborough Wing

Local Amenities/ Attractions

Transport Links

The hospital is within easy access to the underground and several bus links

Parking Arrangements

There is no staff parking available on the hospital grounds unless you are a permit holder, we do offer a park and ride facility

Accolades/
Achievements of the Trust

Any Additional Information

St George’s Hospital is the major teaching hospital for the South West of London. It is a regional referral centre for a wide array of specialities and provides excellent Standard of care for patients who come from the local area, from the region and from further a field. It has a close association with St. George’s University of London Medical School and is the central point of postgraduate medical education for many trainees. St. George’s has more than 5000 staff members, it admits more than 61500 patients per year for treatment and almost 100000 are seen in the A&E department.

Clinical Skills - Initial learning and maintaining competence in clinical skills have always been fundamental requirements for doctors in training and other medical staff. Now with revalidation about to become mandatory, clinical skills training and competency are taking on a higher priority. St George’s has earned a sound reputation as a centre of excellence, meeting all these needs. The programme of courses is both comprehensive and balanced with a long track record of success. St George’s clinical skills courses have fully equipped training rooms with all necessary support aids, course specific literature, support staff and specialist training consultants.

Accommodation

A limited amount of accommodation is available at a cost of £334.91 per month (as of April 2008 but costs will be reviewed in April 2009).

Shadowing

Shadowing can be arranged through Annabel Little

Tasters

Tasters can be arranged through Annabel Little

Teaching Programme

Foundation Programme posts at St. George’s reflect the wide variety of clinical experience to be found in the hospital and its associated general practices and institutions. The rotations are all three four month jobs and have been designed to give an interesting variety of acute clinical experience. In some, there is an opportunity to work in one of the less common areas of medical practice and some trainees find that they are inspired to make a career choice based on their first hand understanding of what it is like to work in areas such as Specialist Paediatrics , Ophthalmology , Hypertensive medicine, Audiological medicine, Psychiatry and Genito-urinary medicine. F1 posts all include four months of surgery and four months of medicine, F2 posts all include four months of A&E.

Both F1 and F2 trainees have the opportunity to attend some of the enormous variety of lectures seminars and departmental meetings in the hospital and medical school as well as Ground Rounds.

The 39 F1 trainees are offered ALERT and Simulation as well as protected teaching sessions that takes place every Tuesdays.

At F2 levels trainees are offered ALS, Simulation and ATLS courses, as well as protected teaching. Career workshops are also held to guide trainees when applying for ST posts.

Simulation

The St George’s Advanced Patient Simulator - (GAPS) has been in operation for the past 10 years and provides specialty and multi-professional patient simulation training using a variety of high fidelity paediatric and adult patient mannequins. GAPS also run mobile simulations in ward and other environments under the banner of WOMBATS (ward orientated mannequin based action training & simulation). Feedback on individual and team performances is facilitated by video recording and playback and scenarios are based on real clinical events. The Foundation Programme simulation days were developed in conjunction with the Barts and the London Medical Simulation Centre and the Chelsea and Westminster Simulation Centre and are founded on competencies required for completion of the Foundation Programme curriculum. The website for the St George’s Simulation and Skills Centre is www.revalidation.co.uk.

Social Activities

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