Severn Deanery

The Region

Welcome to the Wild West and the ‘Magnificent Severn’! The Severn Postgraduate School of Medicine is a vibrant organisation committed to training of our future physicians. Severn offers something for everyone – the Cotswolds, the ‘big city’ feel of Bristol, and the attractive coastline and hills of Somerset. There are good transport links to London, and also further south down the M5 for sailing and surfing in Devon and Cornwall. Our sporting and cultural opportunities are excellent, and it is no coincidence that virtually everyone who has worked in our part of the West Country wants to stay.

Core Medical Training in Severn

The majority of core training rotations are offered on a split NHS Trust basis with a number of posts offering a single Trust rotation. All our rotations have been designed to provide a similar broad high-quality experience of the postgraduate CMT curriculum, whether in our district general or tertiary referral hospitals.

The posts in all rotations are appropriate to training in acute and general medicine together with some opportunities to gain experience in some of the specialties. Most involve a total of 6 x 4-month attachments, but a few include some 6-month blocks (e.g. critical care medicine).

Our training programmes in medicine are based in the eight trusts in the Severn Deanery’s territory:

• Bath Royal United Hospital NHS Trust
• Gloucestershire Hospitals
• North Bristol NHS Trust
• Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust
• Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust
• University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
• Weston Area Health NHS Trust
• Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Candidates invited to interview will be asked to rank their choice of Trusts by submitting a preference form to the Deanery via the Deanery website in advance of their attendance at interview.

All the rotations and the Trusts involved are detailed on the Severn School of Medicine website at http://medicine.severndeanery.org/. Successful candidates at interview will be allocated specific rotations by the College Tutors in the Trusts as per preference expressed by the trainees according to interview ranking.

We have an excellent training record and 21/23 of our CMT year 2 trainees passed PACES last year. Our trainee representatives sit on the school of medicine and CMT committees and are able to represent the views at a board level. Apart from the local teaching programme that is aligned to the curriculum, we run regional study days four times a year and these are hugely popular.

Our Heads of School, Training Programme Directors, college tutors and educational supervisors (several of whom have educational qualifications) are highly motivated with a passion for supporting and educating our trainees, and helping them achieve their potential. We are ably supported by a very efficient management team at the deanery.

We wish you every success with your career in medicine, and remember – we’re the best from the West!

Contact details

Deanery House
Vantage Office Park
Old Gloucester Road
Hambrook
Bristol
BS16 1GW

Email: severn.stsupport@southwest.nhs.uk