Advanced training posts
Advanced Training Posts in Hand Surgery are intended for UK surgeons in years 4-6 of specialty training in orthopaedic surgery and plastic surgery.
Advanced trainees will have made a career decision that as a specialist they will wish to take a major interest in Hand Surgery (trauma and elective) or work purely as a hand surgeon with no other orthopaedic surgery or plastic surgery duties. They will have undergone training in either Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery or Plastic Surgery, and will have passed the Specialty Fellowship FRCS(Trauma and Orthopaedics) or FRCS(Plast).
Hand Surgery encompasses both soft tissue and bone/joint procedures, and training therefore requires exposure to both plastic surgery and orthopaedic surgery techniques. Many trainees will have a period of nearly two years of training allocation between sitting Specialty Fellowship and obtaining their certificate of completion of training from PMETB, and will combine an Advanced Training Post with a Hand Surgery fellowship either in the UK or overseas.
Between the inception of the posts in 1992 and 2006, over 100 surgeons have completed either six or 12 months in an Advanced Training Post.
There are currently nine active Advanced Training Posts
- Advanced Training Posts
- Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester
Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, and Southend Hospital - Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
- Nottingham University Hospital (Queens Medical Campus and Nottingham City Campus)
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham - St James's University Hospital, Leeds
- Wrightington Hospital, Lancashire
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust
A brief description of each unit is here (pdf)
For details about appointments commencing in February 2011, please visit http://www.severndeanery.nhs.uk/specialty_recruitment_10/adv_training_posts_hand_surgery.shtml
For further details of these posts, please contact the individual units. Details may also be available from the JCST here