Key Contacts
Training Programme Director for Gastroenterology – Dr Andrew Claridge – based at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Head of School of Medicine: Dr Carolyn Mackinlay
Associate Dean for Medicine: Dr Jon Francis
Education programme Manager: Joanne Pickstone
Education programme coordinator: vacant
Health Education South West Severn supervises all postgraduate medical specialist training in the region.
Information about the specialty
Welcome to Gastroenterology at Severn Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME).
Gastroenterology is one of the most fascinating specialities a doctor can choose. It is near unique in combining a requirement for continued basic clinical method together with many and varied highly-skilled, practical procedures. The requirement of the pondering nature of a physician with the practical skills of a surgeon makes gastroenterology a very attractive speciality.
You can choose to sub-specialise to concentrate on one particular area. Again there is something to suit everyone: endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, GI bleeding, hepatology, pancreatobiliary, nutrition, GI physiology to name but a few. However, most people think the variety that being a general Gastroenterologist provides is another major plus of the specialty.
Please click here to access the Induction Booklet.
Training Opportunities in South West Severn
This excellent training programme consists of a five year ST3-ST7 training programme in gastroenterology and general (internal) medicine based in the North part of the South West of England. Severn PGME covers Bath, Bristol, North Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Swindon, Taunton, Western-Super-Mare and Yeovil. It is a great place to live, train and work.
The hospitals in the region offer a large breadth of training in general gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and nutrition. There is supervised exposure to general outpatient, inpatient gastroenterology, endoscopy and emergency endoscopy, in addition to training in acute and general medicine.
There are also excellent opportunities for further sub-specialist training.
The Training Hospitals
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon
Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Bath
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol
Weston General Hospital, Weston-Super-Mare
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Yeovil
Annual Assessment Information
This is an annual review of training undertaken by the Severn Gastroenterology Training Committee plus a representative from the GIM training committee. Your first assessment will be approximately 1 year after starting in the ST3 grade. Assessments are held in September. Both Gastroenterology and GIM are assessed together in ST4 and ST6, otherwise they are held separately. You will be emailed the dates of these by the postgraduate school separately. At the first few years’ assessments, the competency assessment tools (DOPS, mini-CEX, MSF) will be reviewed on e-portfolio together with endoscopy and GIM patient portfolios, training day attendance, course attendance, a summary of the post(s) under assessment, completed Gastroenterology and GIM educational supervisor’s reports, up to date CV and a summary of extra activities achieved. More detailed information can be found on the Gastroenterology assessment page of the Deanery website. Please note that a separate educational supervisor’s report for GIM and gastroenterology should be completed. These will be reviewed and a decision made based on the process outlined in the JRCPTB handbook.