The Oxford Deanery is the smallest UK deanery, and is composed of three counties - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
Trainee satisfaction
A high standard of training, supervision, and teaching delivered to all our CMT trainees have contributed to our trainees rating the Oxford Deanery top in the 2008/9 Postgraduate Medical Education Training Board survey for trainee satisfaction with the CMT programme; and in the 2011 GMC survey, three quarters of trainees rated the programme 'good' or 'excellent', with the quality of clinical and educational supervision scored at over 85%.
Added to this our 89% pass rate with full MRCP for our 2010/2011 CT2 trainees, makes this a desirable deanery in which to do core medical training.
Teaching and the development of learning opportunities are a priority – an example being the development of a programme of practical skills simulation and scenario training days across the Oxford region.
Audit & research
A wealth of audit and research opportunities augment the training programme in both the tertiary centre of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, but also in the environment of the district general hospitals (Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - Buks Healthcare also includes Wycombe Hospital and Stoke Mandeville Hospital).
The development of future collaborations and research opportunities with the University of Oxford become a real possibility.
Hospitals
Each hospital has something different to offer; for example, Stoke Mandeville has the nationally acclaimed National Spinal Injuries Centre offering comprehensive care to those suffering with spinal cord injury and its complications; within the Royal Berkshire Hospital the trainee does acute unselected take over the entire two year rotation.
The DGH environment enables development of increasing responsibility over the two year training programme. The tertiary centre enables learning with a scientific rigour.
Rotations
All the rotations offered within the Deanery provide a broad experience on which to base your future specialist career. Some rotations are only within ORH, some only within a district general hospital and some rotating between the two – a big plus is that typically at the time of appointment the trainee knows the exact rotation they are committing to.
Trainees
The trainees' needs are very much at the forefront of our training programme. The trainees are supported throughout their two year training programme by their educational supervisor, a RCP college tutor in each hospital and by the CMT and ACCS-AM programme director, currently Dr Emma Vaux who will soon be replaced by Dr Chris Davies.
The Oxford Deanery welcomes applications from enthusiastic and dynamic trainees with a thirst for knowledge and wanting to ensure delivery of the safest, highest quality of care to patients and their families.
