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YHFS Specialised Foundation Programmes

West Yorkshire (WY) Specialised Posts

Within West Yorkshire there are 21 Specialised Academic Foundation Training Programmes.  These incorporate a standard F1 training programme and an F2 training programme which includes a 4-month academic research or medical education attachment at the University of Leeds and enrolment on an appropriate Postgraduate Certificate in Health Research or Medical Education.

The full specialised rotations for YHFS are available at the bottom of this page (filter by West).

How to Apply

For details of how to apply, please see our Allocation Process section. If you have any queries, please contact england.foundation.yh@nhs.net

 

Projects and Supervisors

Specialised Foundation Academic Projects and Supervisors – West Yorkshire (for 4-month F2 projects in Aug 24-Jul 25)

 

West Yorkshire Academic Foundation Placements (Specialised Foundation) are available with the following supervisors in the research areas indicated below. If there is not a project offered in a particular specialty that you are interested in pursuing research in please contact Jo Bentley (J.Bentley@leeds.ac.uk) to discuss.

 

Supervisor

Clinical Specialty

Project description

1

Dr Oliver Todd

Prof Andrew Clegg

Geriatric Medicine

Which patterns in wearable blood pressure recording are predictive of adverse cardiovascular events as well as syncope and falls? A range of reviews.

 

2

Dr Oliver Todd

Prof Andy Clegg

Geriatric Medicine

Optimising structure medication reviews for older people to reduce overprescribing and associated inequalities using big data sets in CPRD

 

3

Dr Oliver Todd

Prof Andy Clegg

Geriatric Medicine

Optimising blood pressure management for care home residents using big data sets in Connected Bradford

 

4

Dr Darren Treanor

Histopathology (Digital Pathology)

Evaluating new systems for digital pathology

 

5

Dr Darren Treanor

Histopathology (Digital Pathology)

Are you sure it’s cancer? Cognition, error and image quality in diagnostic pathology

 

6

Dr Darren Treanor

Histopathology (Digital Pathology)

Artificial intelligence and digital pathology for the diagnosis of cancer

 

7

Prof Phil Quirke

Dr Nick West

Histopathology

Clinical Trials research

 

8

Prof Phil Quirke

Dr Nick West

Histopathology

Tumour immunology

 

9

Prof Phil Quirke

Histopathology

Cardiovascular pathology

 

10

Prof Phil Quirke

Dr Nic Orsi

Histopathology

Gynaecological oncology/placental pathology

 

11

Prof Phil Quirke

Dr Richard Digby

Histopathology

Dementia

 

12

Prof Phil Quirke

Dr Kate Marks

Histopathology

Bowel Cancer

 

13

Prof Phil Quirke

Dr Caroline Young

Histopathology

Pancreatic Cancer

 

14

Ms Grainne Bourke

Plastic Surgery

Patient related outcome measures in children's hand surgery. Several options for projects here to link with national and international outcomes assessments in congenital hand surgery

 

15

Ms Grainne Bourke

Plastic Surgery

Functional Rotational limb range in adolescence with and without nerve injury

 

16

Ms Grainne Bourke

Plastic Surgery

Patient related outcome measures after hand trauma. Is there a gender difference in evaluation

 

17

Ms Grainne Bourke

Plastic Surgery

Evaluation of nerve repair after injury – imaging/clinical/neurophysiology

 

18

Prof Hemant Pandit

Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery

Sensors in orthopaedic surgery

 

19

Prof Hemant Pandit

 

Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery

Pain relief in osteoarthritis.

 

20

Prof Dermot Burke

General Surgery

Improving outcomes of emergency general surgery

 

21

Prof Dermot Burke

General Surgery

Examining a new approach to infection prevention in colorectal surgery

 

22

Prof Dermot Burke

General Surgery

Improving outcomes for patients with intestinal failure.

 

23

Mr Yazan Khaled

General Surgery

Systematic review on quality of life after Total Pancreatectomy. Analysis of the literature and local data. 

 

24

Mr Yazan Khaled

General Surgery

Neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio as a predictor for response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with pancreatic cancer.

 

25

Mr Yazan Khaled

General Surgery

20-year review of Leeds Pathology Protocol margin analysis post Pancreaticoduodenectomy- longest FU series.

 

27

Mr Yazan Khaled

General Surgery

Outcome of 20-year series of venous + pancreatic resection at Leeds Pancreatic Unit.

 

28

Prof David Jayne

Mr Joshua Burke

General Surgery

Investigating novel therapies for gastrointestinal anastomotic healing

 

29

Miss Candice Downey

General Surgery

Quality of life after emergency surgery

 

 

30

Dr Faisal Mushtaq

Mr Ryan Mathew

Neurosurgery

Using Virtual and Augmented Reality to support surgical training and performance

 

31

Dr Faisal Mushtaq

Mr Ryan Mathew

Medical Education

Using virtual reality to support trainees to manage complex mental health consultations in General Practice

 

32

Mr Chris Derham

Mr Ryan Mathew

Neurosurgery

Biomechanical stability of the cervical spine. Pathological processes implicated in degenerative cervical disc disease.

 

33

Prof Julian Scott 

Mr Marc Bailey

Mr Patrick Coughlin

Mr Henry Davies

Vascular Surgery

Multi-morbidity and its effect on decision making processes in patients with complex vascular disease.

 

34

Mr Patrick Coughlin

Mr Fabio Stocco

Mr Marc Bailey

Vascular Surgery

Assessing the patient, societal and economic costs of failed lower limb surgical revascularisation in patients with lower limb peripheral arterial disease.

 

35

Mr Marc Bailey

Mr Patrick Coughlin

Dr Chloe Kwan

Vascular Surgery

Opportunities for and impact of optimal secondary cardiovascular risk management in patients undergoing intervention for abdominal aortic aneurysms.

 

36

Mr Jonathan De Siqueira

Prof Julian Scott 

Mr Henry Davies

Vascular Surgery

Frailty and co-morbidity in patients considered for surgically created vascular access.: is the apparent survival advantage in surgically created vascular access related to patient factors

 

37

Prof Julian Scott 

Mr Ryan Laloo

Mr Marc Bailey

Vascular Surgery

One year outcomes following acute limb ischaemia; does COVID-19 impact results

 

38

Prof Simon Howell

Dr Richard Wakefield

Prof Ai Lyn Tan

Anaesthesia/Intensive Care

 

Assessment of frailty and sarcopenia in surgical patients using ultrasound imaging of muscle

 

39

Prof Simon Howell

Anaesthesia

Pain management in patients undergoing major body cavity surgery: do opiate sparing strategies improve quality of recovery?

 

40

Prof Simon Howell

Anaesthesia

Targeting exercise prehabilitation strategies in older surgical patients.  Is effective training feasible in a limited time window?

 

41

Prof Simon Howell

Anaesthesia

Health informatics Assessing co-morbidity in surgical patients using routine hospital data

 

42

Prof Ramzi Ajjan

 

Endocrinology

Improving vascular outcomes in overweight people with type 1 diabetes: Role of adjunctive therapies in double diabetes

 

43

Prof Ramzi Ajjan

Dr Sarah Mackie

Dr Afroze Abbas

Endocrinology

Steroid therapy and cardiometabolic risk: are we doing enough?

 

44

Prof Ann Morgan

Dr Euan Baxter

Prof Khalid Naseem

Rheumatology/Cardiology

Assessing FcGamma receptor FcRlla signalling events in platelets: a therapeutic target in autoimmunity and cardiovascular disease.

 

45

Prof Ann Morgan

Dr Euan Baxter

Dr Jim Robinson

Rheumatology

Optimising therapeutic monoclonal antibody design for autoimmunity and cancer

 

46

Prof Ann Morgan

Dr Euan Baxter

Dr Jim Robinson

Rheumatology

Unravelling how autoantibodies potentiate autoimmunity and modulate treatment response through studying fcg Receptor biology.

 

47

Prof Ann Morgan

Dr Sarah Mackie

Dr Aruna Chakrabarty

Rheumatology

Can blindness and ischaemic symptoms in giant cell arteritis be predicted by histological features?

 

48

Prof Ann Morgan

Dr Sarah Mackie

Dr Aruna Chakrabarty

Rheumatology

Does macrophage and T-cell polarization in giant cell arteritis tissue biopsies predict response to treatment?

 

49

Prof Ann Morgan

Dr Sarah Mackie

 

Rheumatology

Can response to steroids be predicted at disease onset in in giant cell arteritis? Can we identify patients who require additional immunosuppressant therapy/biologics at presentation?

 

50

Prof Ann Morgan

Dr Mark Iles

Rheumatology

Identifying genetic predictors of GCA, PMR or COVID-19 through polygenic risk score analysis

 

51

Dr Sarah Mackie

Rheumatology 

Methods for developing new taxonomies of disease: updating the definition(s) of polymyalgia rheumatica using the ADDRESS-PMR dataset

 

52

Dr Sarah Mackie

Rheumatology

Addressing persistent health inequalities in polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: a system-level approach

 

53

Dr Sarah Mackie

Dr Oliver Todd

Rheumatology

Daily fluctuations in blood pressure in outpatients treated with corticosteroids: feasibility of detection and clinical significance.

 

54

Prof Ann Morgan

Prof Andrew Scarsbrook

Dr Harry Tsoumpas

Rheumatology

Enhancing imaging analysis and reporting in large vessel vasculitis through novel analytical techniques

 

55

Prof Philip Conaghan

Dr Sarah Kingsbury

Rheumatology

What is the relationship between metabolic syndrome and joint pain?

 

 

56

Prof Philip Conaghan

Dr Sarah Kingsbury

Rheumatology

What interventions work for MSK hand, wrist and elbow problems?

 

 

57

Prof Anne-Maree Keenan

Prof Anthony Redmond

Rheumatology/Diabetes

Foot Stress Fractures in Peri-menopausal Women:  incidence and impact

 

58

Dr Peter Swoboda

Cardiology (Cardiac MRI)

Mechanisms and significance of cardiac fibrosis detected by MRI in endurance athletes

 

59

Dr Eylem Levelt

Cardiology (Cardiac MRI)

Clinical outcomes associated with obesity in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopath

 

60

Dr Eylem Levelt

 

Cardiology

Impact of ketone infusion on myocardial function and energetics in healthy volunteers and patients with diabetes

 

61

  Dr Andrew Walker

  Dr Richard Cubbon

Prof Mark Kearney

Cardiology Andrew to let me know

Understanding factors that promote healthy cardiovascular ageing

 

62

Dr Richard Cubbon
Dr Michael Drozd

Cardiology

Understanding the predisposition to infection in people with cardiovascular disease

 

63

Dr Eylem Levelt

Prof Eleanor Scott

Prof Sven Plein

Cardiology

Exploring the impact of gestational diabetes on the myocardial energetic, structural, and functional adaptations to third trimester of pregnancy

 

64

Prof Francesco Del Galdo

Rheumatology

Management of Raynaud’s within stratified risk for Connective Tissue disease: a new challenge

 

65

Prof Francesco Del Galdo

Rheumatology

Multidisciplinary care of Connective Tissue Diseases: Rheumatologist led comprehensive patient care

 

66

Prof Francesco Del Galdo

Rheumatology

Vascular complications of Connective Tissue diseases: at the frontiers of Rheumatology

 

67

Prof Francesco Del Galdo

Rheumatology

Antifibrotics for the management of CTD-ILD, the new class of kids in the block.

 

68

Dr Rebecca Spencer

Obstetrics and Gynaecology/Maternal/Fetal Medicine

Placental extracellular vesicle cargo as a prognostic marker in severe early-onset fetal growth restriction

 

69

Dr Rebecca Spencer

Obstetrics and Gynaecology/ Maternal/Fetal Medicine

 

Placental extracellular vesicles as a non-invasive placental biopsy: comparing the protein and RNA cargo with the placental transcriptome and proteome in the first and third trimesters

 

70

Dr Rebecca Spencer

Obstetrics and Gynaecology/ Maternal/Fetal Medicine

Longitudinal assessment of maternal anxiety in ‘normal’ and complicated pregnancies

 

71

Dr Rebecca Spencer

Obstetrics and Gynaecology/ Maternal/Fetal Medicine

Development of new maternal and fetal adverse event terms and standard grading criteria using a modified Delphi approach

 

72

Dr Rebecca Spencer

Obstetrics and Gynaecology/ Maternal and Fetal Medicine

 

Retrospective validation of standard maternal and fetal adverse event severity grading criteria using anonymised adverse events from clinical trials in pregnancy

 

73

Dr Katherine Paradine and Prof Mark Kearney

Cardiology (subspecialty Heart Failure)

How do disease-related changes in microvascular endothelial cells affect the function of adipose tissue?

 

 

74

Dr Alexander Francisco-Bruns and Prof Mark Kearney

Cardiology (subspecialty Heart Failure).

How do disease-related changes in microvascular endothelial cells affect the function of skeletal muscle?

 

 

75

Dr Natalie Haywood and Prof Mark Kearney

Cardiology (subspecialty Heart Failure).

Using organoids to explore the impact of disease-related changes in microvascular endothelial cells on human adipose tissue function.

 

 

76

Dr Stuart Currie

Clinical Radiology

Quantitative assessment of glioma using MRI fingerprinting"

 

77

Prof Adam Glaser

Paediatrics

Prevalence of cardiometabolic syndrome in adult survivors of cancer diagnosed before the age of 30

 

78

Prof Adam Glaser

Paediatrics

Defining the unmet needs of young people living with and beyond a diagnosis of Sickle Cell disease or Thalassaemia

 

79

Prof Adam Glaser

Paediatrics

Outcomes of Paediatric Intensive Care e.g. impact of socioeconomic factors

 

80

Prof Adam Glaser

Paediatrics

Addressing the unmet reproductive health needs to childhood cancer survivors

 

There are additional projects available:-

 

81

Mr Chris Mannion

Medical Education

Please contact christopher.mannion@nhs.net

 

82

Prof Andy Scarsbrook

Clinical Radiology

Please contact A.F.Scarsbrook@leeds.ac.uk

 

83

Dr Harriet Wallace

GU Medicine

Please contact harriet.wallace@nhs.net

 
Medical Education

Projects and Supervisors

West Yorkshire Rotation: Specialised Foundation Programme in Medical Education

 

The Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) is a vibrant environment for learning and teaching with an international profile of excellence.  The Institute holds 6 ASPIRE to excellence awards from the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and benefits from a wealth of experience and a strong track record of scholarship in medical pedagogy.  Successful candidates will work within the Medical School during a dedicated 4-month FY2 rotation to support teaching across the MBChB course.  Specialised Foundation Programme (SFP) Med Ed trainees should have a passion for education and be keen to expand their knowledge and skills in teaching through bespoke training, feedback, and mentoring from experts at the University. 

What will I do?

SFP Trainees will teach core elements of the MBChB course during a dedicated 4-month Medical Education FY2 rotation.  Sessions will include anatomy demonstrating, practical skills instructing, small group facilitation, communication skills training, lecturing, and bedside teaching.  There will also be opportunities to contribute to curriculum development and assessment.  Research projects in clinical education will be encouraged and supported with expenses available to present at pedagogic conferences such as AMEE and ASMEE.  Examples of key active research themes within the Institute include the digital delivery of teaching, curriculum development, the involvement of students in their education, patients as educational partners, innovation in assessment, and the use of cutting-edge technologies such as ProximieTM and HololensTM in the delivery of teaching.  Trainees will have study leave to attend relevant training and CPD opportunities during the F2 year of Foundation Programme post.

Who should apply?

We expect a highly competitive application process for the scheme recruiting high calibre trainees with a passion for education.  We hope to attract trainees interested in a career in medical education keen to further their existing knowledge, skills and experience.  Successful completion of an SFP in Medical Education will prepare trainees for competitive application to Academic Clinical Fellowships in Medical Education and provide a stepping-stone towards the study of higher degrees in the speciality (Masters, PhD etc).

Is this an official University position?

The SFP Med Ed programme is a valuable opportunity for formal training in and experience of student education within the University of Leeds.  A University Visiting Worker ‘honorary’ contract entitles trainees to the use of UoL resources including the Library, CPD courses and online journal access.

What training will I receive?

SFP Med Ed Trainees will receive bespoke training and mentorship from experienced educators within the School of Medicine.  Sessions will be focussed on ensuring trainees develop their teaching skills through hands-on practice with peer and expert feedback to improve performance.  Successful applicants will receive feedback on their teaching practice over the period of the scheme.  Training will include practical skills teaching, small group facilitation, lecturing, online delivery of teaching (hybrid), feedback, and assessment.

Will I get a formal qualification from the scheme?

SFP Med Ed trainees will complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education (PGCert) over the course of their FY2 rotation.  Study leave will be available to complete the modules required.  Trainees will also be encouraged to apply for Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy during their post, with support from the PRISE scheme at the University of Leeds.  Trainees will receive certificates to confirm CPD received and formal feedback on their teaching performance which can be used as evidence for their ePortfolio.

How do I apply?

Please apply through the Oriel application process for Foundation training and complete the Speciality programme section.

For queries about the programme, please contact Dr Andrew Walker

a.m.n.walker@leeds.ac.uk. For application queries please contact the Foundation team at Foundation.yh@hee.nhs.uk

 

 

 

 

 

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