Junior Clinical Fellow - Internal Medicine Training Equivalent Year

Job summary

This is an innovative post rotating through clinical departments giving a broad exposure to medicine mirroring the Internal Medicine Training Programme.

The post is a standalone one-year post of 3 clinical rotations in internal medicine and is structured and administered as per the internal medicine stage 1 training programme to allow full or partial sign off via the alternate certificate to enter group 1 or group 2 specialty training. These posts are at junior clinical fellow level equivalent to IMT1-2. For this reason, applicants must have undertaken work in the NHS in medical specialties prior to application. This must be equivalent to completion of the Foundation Programme and additional work in any medical specialty at 'FY3/junior clinical fellow' level post Foundation competency sign off.

With successful engagement and local appraisal (equivalent to an ARCP) there will be an opportunity to extend to a second year of rotations with a view to obtaining alternative certificate sign off for internal medicine for entry to group 2 specialty training. At present an 'IMT3 equivalent year' cannot be guaranteed but may be possible depending on local availability of posts.

The posts rotate through a combination of 3 posts per 12 months of the programme:

• Internal Medicine (4 months)
• Acute internal medicine (4 months)
• Intensive care medicine (4 months)
• Nephrology (4 months)
• Geriatric medicine (hospital at home) (4 months)
• Stroke medicine (4 months)
• Cardiology (4 months)

Main duties of the job

Doctors in this post will have access to the full programme of Internal Medicine Training stage 1 teaching, including weekly teaching and skills and simulation teaching. You will be encouraged to maintain an equivalent portfolio which could be used to demonstrate experience equivalent to one year of the IMT programme, or consider a second year of rotations to obtain IMT1-2 equivalence via the alternative certificate.

Completion of one year of the programme will allow demonstration of some competencies of the IMT stage 1 curriculum to be demonstrated in a portfolio. Successful completion of the two-year JCF level programme will allow sign off via the alternate pathway to enter group 2 training assuming all competencies have outcomes have been met with no concerns as per the IMT ARCP decision aid and local ARCP process and sign off. Completion of the two-year JCF programme plus a third SCF 'IMT3 equivalent year' (where available) will lead to sign off via the alternate pathway to enter group 1 training assuming all competencies have outcomes have been met with no concerns as per the IMT ARCP decision aid and local ARCP process and sign off.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, comprising two of London's oldest and best-known teaching hospitals. The hospitals have a long history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. Both hospitals have built on these traditions and continue to have a strong national and international reputation for clinical excellence, teaching, research and innovation.

GSTT includes St Thomas' Hospital, Guy's Hospital, Evelina London Children's Hospital and both adult and children's community services in Lambeth and Southwark. Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals also became part of Guy's and St. Thomas' in February 2021, bringingtogether world-leading expertise and research in heart and lung disease.

We are part of King's Health Partners (KHP), one of only eight accredited UK Academic Health Sciences Centres (AHSC), and a pioneering collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. It consists of King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. King's Health Partners includes seven hospitals and over 150 community-based services, is responsible for seeing over 2 million patients each year, has 25,000 employees, 19,500 students, and over a £2 billion annual turnover.

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Guy and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Guy and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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