Academic Lead(s):
Professor Phil Chowienczyk
The specialty specific programme provides a broad training in acute and general medicine, hypertension, onsite clinical toxicology, medicines management activities, research methods in clinical pharmacology, experimental medicine and vascular function techniques.
Clinical pharmacology also has a strong educational component, and the Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) will be invited to teach Phase 3 students on our cardiorespiratory firm in bedside teaching sessions and tutorials. Clinical pharmacology also organises and runs BSc course (Ferro) and MSc course (the latter as part of Clinical Pharmacology/Translational Medicine/Drug Development Science).
We have a well-established programme, which gives exposure to general medicine and clinical aspects of clinical pharmacology, clinical toxicology, medicines policy (joint formulary committee and drugs and therapeutics committee). This has been approved for core medical training and specialist training.
The ACF will contribute to the Acute and General Medicine Service as well as contributing to research and teaching within CPT. Within GSTT, the ACF will integrate with our other trainees in terms of the General Medicine service and in research. They will rotate on and off the wards in 4 month blocks as has been the case with previous ACFs. However, instead of rotating into Quintiles for their research they will undertake experimental medicine research in the CRF. The ACF will be invited to select one of the Investigators’ experimental medicine or translational studies, on which they will become part of the Investigator’s team through formal registration with R&D.
ACFs are given the opportunity to spend time in the Department during their Specialty weeks, to gain exposure to a range of different studies, to choose their study for their dedicated research time and begin to learn any research techniques and to initiate arrangements to join the study and if appropriate develop the study or define a new sub-study and prepare a NOSA (notification of substantial amendment) so that this is set up in time.