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This is a 5 year training scheme and entry to the program is at ST3 level.
For the purposes of hospital rotations, the deanery is divided into two separate areas:
- East/West
and
- South.
Within these sub-regions, all trainees will rotate through posts in tertiary and district general hospitals to gain a wide range of haematology experience. Comprehensive training in clinical and laboratory haematology will be provided throughout.
Specialty trainees in the East/West and South Yorkshire training schemes are provided with a joint educational program (see Regional Training Days). This programme comprises ten full days per year, which take place either remotely with online sessions or face-to-face at a venue away from the hospital, on an approximately monthly basis. There is a rolling programme of topics which covers most areas of the haematology curriculum.
Trainees on the East/West rotation will gain tertiary hospital experience at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. The Bexley Oncology Wing, which opened in January 2008, centralises inpatient haematology across the city at St James's Hospital, and also houses the Regional Haemophilia Centre. Other large teaching hospitals within the rotation include Hull and Bradford, providing a wealth of training experience, and there are a number of district general hospitals within the rotation providing experience of haematology in a slightly different setting. (Click here for further information and map.)
It is expected that trainees will be posted in any of the hospitals within the East/West region throughout their training. Potential rotations between hospital sites occur every 6 months, though we try hard to keep people in a single location for at least 12 months. Within the 6 monthly time periods set out by the Deanery, movement between inpatient teams tends to occur every 4 months, so one can generally anticipate approximately 4 monthly rotations within subspecialties such as BMT, paediatrics, transfusion etc.
South Yorkshire trainees will gain their tertiary experience at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust, which comprises five hospitals: The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, The Northern General Hospital, Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Weston Park Cancer Hospital, and Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital. Sheffield Children's Hospital Haematology and Oncology Department is the principal treatment centre for children with cancer and leukaemia within South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Derbyshire. District general hospital experience is gained at Barnsley, Rotherham and Chesterfield. (Click here for further information and map.)
For those trainees with a particular interest in paediatric haematology, we try to facilitate 40% of your total training time within paediatrics including paediatric on calls (i.e. 2 years on a 5 year training programme). For those wishing to pursue a career in adult haematology, the paediatric rotation is usually 4 months.
For all trainees, much of the subspecialty training (see Placements and Training Opportunities) will be delivered during the tertiary hospital rotations, including Paediatrics, Specialist Coagulation, BMT, HMDS (Regional Diagnostic Service) and Blood Transfusion. Sub-specialty training is supplemented by further coagulation and autologous transplant experience during the trainees’ DGH attachments.
The mandatory subspecialty rotations to be undertaken at the tertiary centre are: paediatrics, BMT and transfusion. One can gain specialist haemostasis and thrombosis curriculum competencies throughout one's training in all centres, though undertaking a specialist coagulation rotation within a Regional Haemophilia Centre is recommended.
