Oxford Deanery Specialty Training Programme in Psychiatry (Years 1- 3).
Description of the Programme
The programme provides 14 specialty training posts in each of the ST1-3 years. In addition to these 42 posts, there are 18 FTSTA posts in total, distributed across each year. The 60 posts are provided by four NHS Trusts:
· Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership Trust (OBMH)
· Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust (Berks)
· Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust (MK)
· West London Mental Health Care Trust – Broadmoor site (Broadmoor)
The Programme has close links with the University of Oxford through the Department of Psychiatry based in Oxford. There are two academic clinical fellowship placements available on the programme for example.
Further details on these training providers and the sites of training are available on their websites: www.obmh.nhs.uk; www.berkshire.nhs.uk; www.mkpct.org.uk; www.wlmht.nhs.uk.
Distribution of Workplace based learning posts across Trusts
The programme is committed to the principles of workplace based learning and assessment. Workplace based learning opportunities are provided that adhere to the Royal College’s post-graduate training curriculum. These opportunities aim to provide trainees with competency specific learning outcomes addressed to their individual needs.
The overall distribution of the workplace base learning posts across each Trust is as follows:
· Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire 34
· Berkshire 14
· Milton Keynes 6
· Broadmoor 6
The ACF posts are linked to posts in the OBMH Trust
The more specific distribution of the training posts across the four Trusts in the Specialty Training Programme is provided in Table 1. The table includes the number of fixed term specialty training posts available at each Trust in addition. The specialty training posts in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Partnership NHS Trust include two academic clinical fellowship (ACF) posts across each year.
Table 1 Overview of placements available at St1-3 years
Trust / ST1 / FTSTA / ST2 / FTSTA / ST3 / FTSTAOxfordshire & Buckinghamshire / 8* / 1 / 10* / 1 / 10* / 4
Berkshire / 4 / 2 / 2 / 1 / 4 / 1
Milton Keynes / 2 / 1 / 2 / 1 / 0 / 0
Broadmoor / 0 / 0 / 0 / 3 / 0 / 3
14 / 4 / 14 / 6 / 14 / 8
* 2 ACF posts
Training Opportunities across the ST1-3 Programme
The programme provides workplace based training opportunities across each of the current specialty areas in psychiatry in addition to academic, addictions and eating disorder training opportunities. The number of posts available in each specialty is as follows:
· Working Adults 16 (10)
· Older Adults 7 (2)
· Eating Disorders 1
· Learning Disability 2
· Child & Adolescent 7
· Addictions 2
· Forensic 4 (6)
· Psychotherapy 3
The figures in brackets refer to FTSTA posts.
ACF posts
There are two ACF posts available from August 07. This number is expected to increase in later years. They are linked academically to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. Clinically they are linked to educational supervisors in older adult, adult and child & adolescent posts from among the 42 specialty training posts in the programme.
Workplace based learning opportunities in each Specialty Training year
This section outlines the types of workplace based training opportunities (posts) available across each of the specialty training years.
Year One Workplace based learning posts
The type of post available in Specialty Training year one across each Trust (and different geographic locations within the larger trusts) is presented in table 2. There are eight posts in the Psychiatry of Working Adults and six in the Psychiatry of Older Adults. In the FTSTA posts, there are posts in the Psychiatry of Working Adults and one in the Psychiatry of Older Adults.
Table 2 ST1 Workplace Based Learning Posts
Post no / Trust / Specialty / Educational Supervisor1 / Oxon ACF / Older adult / Mather
2 / Oxon / Adult / Geaney
3 / Bucks / Adult / Crowley
4 / Bucks ACF / Older adult / Spalding
5 / E Berks / Adult / Clifford
6 / W Berks / Older adult / Evans
7 / MK / Adult / Tba
8 / Oxon / Adult / Tsatolou
9 / Oxon / Older adult / Series
10 / Bucks / Adult / Pandit
11 / Bucks / Adult / Sharma
12 / W Berks / Older adult / Helling
13 / E Berks / Adult / Macaulay
14 / MK / Older adult / Marchevsky
FTSTA
15 / MK / Adult / Ahmed
16 / Oxon / Adult / Barrera
17 / W Berks / Adult / Sultan
18 / E Berks / Older Adult / Eastwood
Year Two Workplace based learning posts
The distribution of posts in Specialty Training year two is presented in Table 3.
This year includes posts in the following specialties:
· Working Adults 4 (2)
· Older Adults 1 (1)
· Learning Disability 1
· Child & Adolescent 3
· Eating Disorders 1
· Forensic 2 (3)
· Psychotherapy 2
The figures in brackets are the training opportunities available in FTSTA posts.
Table 3 ST2 Workplace Based Learning Posts
Supervisor
1 / Oxon ACF / Adult / Sargent
2 / Oxon / Adult / Chalmers
3 / Oxon / Learning Disability / Andrews
4 / Oxon ACF / Adult? / Fazel
5 / Bucks / Child & Adolescent / Acharya
6 / W Berks / Psychotherapy / Podichetty
7 / MK / Older Adults / Razzak
8 / Oxon / Forensic / Gordon
9 / Oxon / Eating disorders / Park
10 / Oxon / Child & Adolescent / Stewart
11 / Bucks / Psychotherapy / Newrith
12 / Bucks / Forensic / Shapero
13 / W Berks / Child & Adolescent / Allsop
14 / MK / Adult / Hassan
FTSTA
15 / E Berks / Old Age / Bedi
16 / Broadmoor / Forensic / Bhattacharjee
17 / MK / Adult / Edgar
18 / Oxon / Adult / Rule
19 / Broadmoor / Forensic / Das
20 / Broadmoor / Forensic / Kamal
Year Three Workplace based learning posts
The distribution of posts in Specialty Training year three is presented in Table 4.
This year includes posts in the following specialties:
· Working Adults 4 (5)
· Learning Disability 1
· Child & Adolescent 4
· Addictions 2
· Forensic 2 (3)
· Psychotherapy 1
There are eight FTSTA posts – identified in brackets.
Table 4 ST3 Workplace Based Learning Opportunities
Post no / Trust / Specialty / EducationalSupervisor
1 / Oxon / Forensic / Gregory
2 / Oxon / Addictions / Critchlow
3 / Oxon ACF / Adult / Quested
4 / Oxon ACF / Child & Adolescent / Jones
5 / Bucks / Learning Disabilites / Bannerjee
6 / W Berks / Child & Adolescent / Bucher/Golden
7 / E Berks / Adult outreach / D’Souza
8 / Oxon / Forensic / Lally
9 / Oxon / Child & Adolescent / Perkins
10 / Oxon / Psychotherapy / Bowden
11 / Oxon / Adult / O’Leary
12 / Bucks / Child & Adolescent / Lam
13 / W Berks / Addictions / Parry
14 / W Berks / Adult / Ahmad
FTSTA
15 / W Berks / Adult / Leslie
16 / Broadmoor / Forensic / Maden
17 / Broadmoor / Forensic / Vinestock
18 / Broadmoor / Forensic / Payne
19 / Oxon / Adult outreach / Patterson
20 / Oxon / Adult / Bale
21 / Bucks / Adult / Dye
22 / Bucks / Adult / Baruch
Job Descriptions and Educational Supervisors
Details of individual posts and the linked educational supervisors are provided on the Trust websites.
MRCPsych Course
The programme includes a highly regarded MRCPsych course that provides support for candidates preparing for College Examinations. The course supports learning opportunities that are provided in the workplace. The Course learning activities are based in Oxford. Currently the Part I learning activities are on Tuesday afternoons; the part II learning activities are on Thursday afternoons.
In addition each Trust provides “in-house” formal educational opportunities – journal clubs, case presentation days etc in addition to training opportunities in audit and ECT.
Programme personnel
The programme is managed by a programme director, college tutors and associate tutors from each Trust and the Programme’s MRCPsych course organsier. Each is highly committed to postgraduate training and development. Their details are as follows:
Programme Director Denis O’Leary, OBMH (Denis.O’)
College Tutors
Philip Wilkinson OBMH ()
Farooq Ahmad Berks ()
Andrew Macaulay Berks ()
David Marchevsky MK ()
Abdul Razzak MK ()
Mrigendra Das Broadmoor ()
Associate Tutors
Phil Davison OBMH ()
Brian Murray OBMH ()
MRCPsych course
Organiser
Jane Pearce OBMH ()
Administrators
Training Programme Jan Harris ()
MRCPsych Course Bridget Burchell (()