East of England

Our core medical training (CMT) programme provides opportunities for over 200 trainees. The hospitals providing CMT are:

• Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge (Teaching)
• Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (Teaching)
• Basildon and Thurrock Hospital
• Bedford Hospital
• West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds
• Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford
• Colchester Hospital
• James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth
• Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow
• Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon
• Ipswich Hospital
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn
• Luton and Dunstable Hospital
• Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood (oncology)
• Papworth Hospital (cardiology and respiratory medicine)
• Peterborough Hospital
• Southend Hospital
• Lister Hospital in Stevenage
• Watford Hospital
• Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City

Clicking the following link will take you to our website trust page: https://www.eoedeanery.nhs.uk/medical/page.php?page_id=1652

This will show a map of the Deanery and its constituent counties, along with weblinks to the trusts and hospitals within East of England Deanery.

All the CMT programmes are for two years and provide excellent experience in acute medicine. Most CMT programmes rotate through the more common acute specialties such as cardiology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, diabetes & endocrinology and geriatrics, while others offer experience in smaller specialties such as oncology, renal medicine, stroke medicine and neurology.

Many rotate between teaching hospitals and neighbouring general hospitals; for example, trainees at Addenbrookes Hospital may spend time at West Suffolk, Hinchingbrooke, Peterborough, Bedford or Papworth Hospitals. Trainees at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital may rotate through Queen Elizabeth or James Paget Hospitals.

There are seven acute care common stem (ACCS) rotations, which are currently based for their first two years in either Ipswich Hospital, Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds (12 months on each site), or Peterborough Hospital.

To visit website trusts page, please click this link: https://www.eoedeanery.nhs.uk/medical/page.php?page_id=1650

At the end of this period, a third year of medical specialty training is offered to ACCS (acute medicine) trainees in order to facilitate acquisition of the CMT competences as well as the ACCS competences. For this third year, trainees are able to apply competitively for a placement of their choice; trainees are encouraged to attend the acute medicine training days.

The majority of ACCS (acute medicine) trainees are committed to higher speciality training in acute medicine, although our training programmes are suitable for progressing towards any of the acute specialties. The acute medicine training programme in the East of England Deanery is well-established and one of the largest in the country.

In both the CMT and ACCS Programmes, we will place trainees where they wish to be, whenever possible. However, some rotations are more popular than others, so a small minority might not be successful with their first choice.

The East of England Deanery’s School of Medicine sponsors and coordinates teaching throughout the region. This includes MRCP PACES training, simulator training and free access to the Royal College of Physicians’ Medical Masterclass for all trainees.

The region is very well served throughout by road and rail links to London. There are many leisure opportunities in the cities and towns of the region, as well as in the countryside and on the coast. The East of England is a popular place to live and work, and many of our trainees choose to stay and go on and successfully apply for consultant posts in the region.

For further information, please contact: recruitment.helpdesk@eoe.nhs.uk