Specialty Training
Specialty Schools
Specialty Schools are Deanery structures for managing specialty training that bring together the relevant Royal College/College/Faculty, the Deanery, the NHS and other providers of training. Each Specialty School has a Management Committee drawn from the institutions and groups that contribute to training, as well as other stakeholders. They provide a structure for educational governance and set the direction for the development of Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) in that specialty within the Deanery.
The Schools
In all there are 11 specialty schools, each with it's own webpages (Heads of School are indicated in brackets):
- Anaesthesia - (Dr Rob Cruickshank)
- Emergency Medicine - (Dr Maya Naravi & Dr Alison Smith)
- Medicine - (Dr Tony Arnold)
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology - (Miss Diana Fothergill)
- Ophthalmology - (Mr John Bradbury)
- Paediatrics - (Dr Simon Clark)
- Pathology - (Dr Kim Suvarna)
- Psychiatry - (Dr Paul Rowlands)
- Public Health - (Dr Val Barker)
- Radiology - (Dr William Ramsden)
- Surgery - (Prof. Micheal Gough)
Plus General Practice (Dr Mark Purvis)
Aims of the Schools
- to deliver the education and training to the standards set by the Royal College/College/Faculty and GMC
- to set up quality control mechanisms that reflect the GMC agreed curricula to the standards set out by GMC and the relevant Royal College / College / Faculty
- to promote excellence in all aspects of the work of the School
- to support and encourage innovation in training and education
The GMC 'domains' that must be reflected in quality control mechanisms for medical education and training, and for which the Deanery through each Specialty School will be accountable, are:
- Patient Safety
- Quality assurance, review and evaluation
- Equality and Diversity and Opportunity
- Recruitment, selection and appointment
- Delivery of curriculum including assessment
- Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty
- Management of Education and Training
- Educational resources and capacity
Each Specialty School has a Head of School, a consultant in the specialty appointed jointly by the Deanery and the relevant Royal College/College/Faculty. The Head of School is managerially accountable to the Deanery but professionally responsible to the Royal College/ College /Faculty.
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