NHS Education for Scotland

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NHS Education for Scotland

• North of Scotland Region

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North of Scotland - Geriatric Medicine

• Head of Academic Section Professor D G Seymour
• From January 2010 - Prof Arduino Mangoni
• Regional Specialty Adviser Dr W R Primrose

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• 6 Old-Style Specialist Registrars
• 1 General Medicine Elgin
• 2 General Medicine ARI
• 2 Geriatric Medicine Woodend Hospital
• 1 Geriatric Medicine ARI
• 4 New-Style Specialty Registrars
• 1 General Medicine ARI
• 2 Geriatric Medicine Woodend Hospital
• 1 LAT currently GIM - ARI

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Geriatric / GIM Clinical Training
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2 Year Rolling Monthly Curriculum

• 2nd Wednesday of each month
• Approx. 1 4 pm
• 3 Sections
• Core-Geriatric Teaching Based on curriculum
• External Expert Speaker e.g. MDDUS -
  Medicolegal
• Journal Club e.g. Critical appraisal / Info /
  Discussion

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• Finished our 1st cycle - July 2008
• Half way through 2nd Cycle
• Overlap of certain topics in curriculum
• Restructured our curriculum
• 18 main core topics
• Joint meeting with Tayside (6 Monthly)
• 2 meetings Nov and June
• Next planned for Dec 09
• Collaboration Research
• Joint effort in covering curriculum
• Local experts
• Networking / Social
• Continued participation in Geriatric
  Evidence-Based Day