West Midlands Region

The West Midlands Deanery has a friendly and well-organised ACCS and EM training scheme.  ACCS and CT3 trainees have monthly regional teaching sessions and Higher Specialist Trainees meet weekly for teaching.  There is regular additional exam-focussed teaching and also the opportunity for additional ultrasound teaching.

There is a regional website for EM trainees - see http://www.wmemergency.com/.

Contacts:

Chair of Regional Training Committee and Higher Specialist Training Lead: Ellen Jones, EM Consultant, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Training Programme Director (North region): Mark Poulson, EM Consultant, University Hospital North Staffordshire

Training Programme Direction (South region): Peter Doyle, EM Consultant, Russell's Hall Hospital

Regional CEM Representation and ACCS(EM) Lead: Dominic McCreadie, EM Consultant, New Cross Hospital

HST Teaching Leads: Caroline Leach and Helen Blackhurst, EM Consultants, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire

HST Rotations Lead: Tom Kippax, EM Consultant, Russell's Hall Hospital

Simulation training lead: Louise Woolrich-Burt, EM Consultant, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire

ACCS Lead: Tom Gallacher, Anaesthetics & ICM Consultant, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

ACCS Teaching Lead: Susan Dorrian, ST6 Emergency Medicine

Less Than Full Time Training Leads: Rachel Boddy & Shewli Rahman, EM Consultants, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Training Committee Chair: Kash Jamalapuram, ST6, Subspecialty in Paediatric EM

LTFT Trainee Representative: Katie Wright, SpR

ACCS Trainee Representative: Brijesh Patel, CT2 ACCS(EM)

Website/Communications Representative: Emma Jenkinson, ST3