A Description of the Programme

• Typically 5 years

• Usually rotates every year – 5 stints during the training programme

• Traditionally 2 university hospital stints and 3 DGH stints

• University hospitals are – UHCW  Coventry, UHB Birmingham, UHNS Stoke on Trent

• Though not a written rule, the rotation generally tends to be geographically scheduled: south, central or northern part of Midlands, with the above university hospitals being the base respectively

• Change over in the first week of February

• DGHs would usually provide experience on Diabetes and Thyroid disease; University Hospitals would provide more specialist experience

• On an average about 4-7 trainees start each academic year    
   

Gain Valuable Experience

• Being Endocrine on call

• Supervising and performing dynamic endocrine tests in the Metabolic unit and interpreting them

• Inpatient diabetes service (different models in different hospitals) and Think-Glucose

• MDT meetings/ clinics – especially for pituitary/ neuroendocrine tumors/ thyroid cancers

Typical Week