Regional Training Days

Regional training days are held monthly for Geriatric Medicine trainees (usually the last Wednesday of the month; no meeting in August). The venue varies from month to month, rotating through different hospitals in the region.

The aims of the training days are to provide deeper knowledge of curriculum areas, aid preparation for the Specialty Certificate Examination, allow registrars to meet and work together, and to raise the profile of research in the region and encourage registrar involvement.

Each training day typically covers one or two themes, covering a particular area of the curriculum in the form of lectures, workshops or small group work. They include trainee led sessions for which there is a timetable allocating trainees to dates. This could be a presentation relating to a specific area of the topic of the day, a case presentation or journal review etc. and should be agreed with the organiser of the meeting in advance.

Of the eleven training days, two are merged with the British Geriatric Society regional meetings (usually the March and September dates) organised by Dr Abhay Das (abhay.das@midyorks.nhs.uk).

Trainees are required to attend at least 70% of the training days, including at least one regional BGS meeting per year. Queries and apologies should be directed to Yvonne Sherrard (y.sherrard@nhs.net) who maintains the list of trainee emails and collates attendance information. Please let Yvonne know well in advance (at least one week) regarding planned attendance. 

2020 Schedule

(Last updated January 2020 – subject to change)