Welcome to the new Public Health Training website for Yorkshire and Humber.
This site aims to provide a range of information for Specialty Registrars (SpRs) training in the region and for all interested in applying to the programme. We aim to provide information to you, our users, in an ordered and timely manner. If you can't find what you are looking for please let us know, we'd like to learn what and where you expect information to be.
School of Public Health
The Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery’s School of Public Health offers high quality training and a wide range of opportunities and experiences within the training programme. There are also opportunities for placements working in partnership with other specialties.
The higher specialist training programme in Public Health is open to both qualified medical doctors and those from other public health disciplines.
Training usually lasts five years, full-time. The five years usually includes one year (full or part time) on an academic course, and 48 months in higher specialist training posts.
Shortly after being accepted on to a training scheme, trainees are likely to spend a year in a part or full-time academic course that will usually lead to a Masters or Diploma in Public Health, and give most of the basic training to take the Faculty's Part A Membership Examination.
Although this is usually done as the first part of the higher specialist training programme, periods spent on academic courses do not count towards the 48 months of higher medical training required for the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).
Training in Public Health in Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery takes place in a variety of settings, and may include placements with: the Health Protection Agency, the Strategic Health Authority, PCTs, Trusts, police departments, etc.
The School has arranged an “Open Day” to discuss Public Health training on 9 November 2009 from 10.30am to 1pm in the Charles Thackrah Building, University of Leeds, 101Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9LJ. You are more than welcome to attend!
Less than full time training is fully supported across the deanery.
The Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery covers the counties of North, East, South and West Yorkshire together with North Lincolnshire. We encompass the cities of Leeds, Hull and Sheffield, numerous smaller cities and towns including York and Harrogate, and market towns such as Settle, Thirsk and Penistone and seaside towns like Scarborough and Filey.
For further information regarding Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery, please visit: http://www.yorksandhumberdeanery.nhs.uk. For further information about Public Health training and requirements, please visit http://www.fph.org.uk/.
Ms Val Barker
Head of School of Public Health