West Midlands Training School

West Midlands Training School

West MIds - MAy 2019

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/wmhistopathology
Training School Lead:Dr Kalani Kurrupu

The Ken Scott Cellular Pathology Laboratory, Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, Wednesfield Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP

Email: kalani.kuruppu@nhs.net

Tel: 01902 307999 Ext: 88795

Training School Deputy:TBC
Administrator: N/A
Contact person(s) for arranging Cellular Pathology taster sessions:Wolverhampton/BCPS:

Dr Jo Chapman – joanne.chapman24@nhs.net

Dr Abbie Pugh  – abigailpugh@nhs.net

Coventry: Dr  Paul Matthews – Email: paul.matthews@uhcw.nhs.uk

Stoke: Dr Jane Walker – Email:Jane.Walker@uhnm.nhs.uk, Tel: 01782 674290

No. of trainees per school / deanery:

ST1’s: 6

ST2-5-30

ST1 Rotations;

No rotations during ST1 year:

2 posted at Stoke

2 posted at Wolverhampton (BCPS)

2 posted at Coventry

2 posted at Shrewsbury

2 posted at Worcester

Training Programme for ST1s:

National block teaching week in Bristol during September,

2nd block teaching week in Birmingham (November/December),

3rd block teaching week in Cambridge (January)

Local teaching within departments, and access to lecturio.com and new Virtual reality training package in development for basic cut up.

ST2-5 Rotations:

North rotation: Wolverhampton, Stoke, Shrewsbury,

Walsall and Birmingham City hospital rotations will be placed at BCPS (Wolverhampton) from 2020

East rotation: Coventry, Warwick, Birmingham Heartlands and also includes ones post at Wolverhampton (BCPS)

Trainees will be allocated to “Northern and Eastern” rotations during ST1 year with most achieving first preference. All trainees (North and East) will have similar placement periods in Birmingham hospitals for specialist attachments during ST2-3

For further information:https://sites.google.com/view/wmhistopathology

Cluster for your school:

Central cluster – West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England

Health Education England (Deanery):

Programme Administrator : Catherine English

Health Education England working across the West Midlands

23 Stephenson Street, Birmingham B2 4HQ
Tel:  0121 695 2222

Email:  catherine.english@hee.nhs.uk

Website: www.westmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk

Head of School or TPD’s:

Dr Kanwal Sikand
Dept of Histopathology -Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

Bordesley Green East
Birmingham
B9 5SS

Tel: 0121 4240121

Email: kanwal.sikand@nhs.net