AVAILABILITY OF MANDATORY SPECIAL INTEREST TRAINING
All AIM trainees need to develop a single special interest over their 4-5 years of their training. The following are the current curriculum recommended special interests (NB ICM is a common SIS dealt with elsewhere on this form and needs to be to diploma or CCT level). Other potential interests may be followed but these must be approved in advance by JRCPTB.
| Special Interest |
Delivery possible with additional Information where necessary |
| Echocardiography (to cardiology curriculum standards) |
Access to regional course available with industry support for funding |
| Upper endoscopy (to JAG standards) |
No |
| Bronchoscopy (to respiratory curriculum standards) |
No |
Ultrasound (to RCR standards)
|
No |
| Medical education (to diploma / masters level) |
In near future and support provided |
| Management (to diploma / masters level) |
Support will be provided |
Leadership (to diploma / masters level)
|
Support will be provided |
| Toxicology (to diploma / masters level) |
No |
Infectious diseases and tropical medicine (to diploma/masters level)
|
No
|
Remote and rural medicine (following a defined training pathway with appropriate competence acquisition. Such a training and assessment pathway must be approved prospectively by the JRCPTB)
|
No
|
Inpatient diabetes care (Training should follow a training and assessment pathway agreed by both endocrine & DM SAC and AIM SAC.
Trainees should be assessed in the competencies by specialists in that field.)
|
Yes one of the consultants is the trust lead for inpatient diabetes |
Research (Demonstrates extensive involvement in research including
the acquisition of research grants and over five research publications in peer reviewed journals during their training period) |
In development. Dr Young has research background |
| Stroke Medicine (Stroke curriculum has 3 areas – acute stroke, stroke rehabilitation, and prevention of stroke – need all 3 for CCT but 2 (i.e. not rehab) enough for AIM specialist skill) |
Dr Spiliopilou has stroke and elderly care background |