Yorkshire & Humber

Yorkshire and the Humber covers a large geographical area, covering some eastern coastal resorts, Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District. The deanery is divided into three localities - east, south, and west. Please see the Deanery website for more information.

For brief info on each locality, please click on each heading below:

All interviewed applicants are asked to state their locality preferences. Offers are made in rank order, with the highest-ranked candidates being offered their preferred locality first. Lower-ranked candidates may be offered their second or third choice locality.

Once each locality is nearly filled, the training programme directors will then allocate specific programmes. You will be sent a list of available programmes and asked to rank them. The programmes are allocated according to preference, taking the assessment ranking into account.

The first year of the programme is defined; the second year is indicative, because for various reasons we are unable to be completely sure that there will have been no service changes, for example, that would affect placements.

Delivery of the acute & generic curricula is undertaken in a variety of ways. In the east and west localities, the generic curriculum is covered by eight training days (four in each year). These mandatory 'G' days are repeated on a number of occasions in different localities, in order to allow attendance of all trainees. The acute curriculum is delivered within the trusts.

In the south locality, there is a regionally-organised, two-year structured programme to support the acute curriculum which consists of 16 mandatory training days (eight in each year). The training days are facilitated in rotation in all hospitals within the locality. The generic curriculum is organised by RCP tutors within each trust.

All hospitals will offer good experiential teaching, and opportunities to attend grand rounds, departmental and audit meetings. There are also web-based learning opportunities in Trusts.

CMT trainees are encouraged to attend the Royal College of Physicians regional teaching days, which occur four times a year across the region. These are specific courses (MRCP Part I, PACES, IMPACT) which run across the region, and are optional courses, charging a fee.

CMT trainees form an important group of the trainers at undergraduate level. The University runs a regular programme of teaching the teachers, which CMT trainees are encouraged to attend.

All trusts have an actively-supported programme of audit; CMT trainees are expected to undertake audit and are actively supported to do so. Research is also supported, with presentation of research at national and international meetings and publication of research achieved regularly by trainees in the trusts in the regional programme.