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Led by the Director of Medical Education, the Medical Education team work extremely hard to ensure that our undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes are of excellent quality and meet the needs of our students from Oxford and Leicester Medical Schools and our Postgraduate doctors in training (PGDITS) from the NHS England Workforce, training and education, East Midlands region.
We take in up to 90 medical students at any one time, and host over 235 post graduate doctors in training posts. We also support the development of our locally employed non-consultant doctors (Trust Grades, Specialty Doctors and Associate Specialists).
Our main aims are to:
If you have any questions or queries. Please do get in touch.
Named after Sir Cyril Cripps and opened in 1974 the Cripps Postgraduate Medical Centre is in Area J and houses the Medical Education team. The PGMC also is the home to the Doctors Mess and the Technology Enhanced Learning Suite (TEL Suite).
The Centre is open Monday to Thursday 08:30 - 17:00 and Friday 08:30 - 16.30. It is a well-equipped centre with two lecture theatres, three seminar rooms and two meeting rooms over two floors, able to accommodate small group meeting all the way up to a large conference or lecture.
Our rooms have large display screens with built in PCs which allow access to the hospital network, as well as an interactive whiteboard facility. There is also provision for a laptop to be connected to the large screens in many of the rooms. (Laptops not provided).
Rooms within the centre are available to hire to both internal and external hirers (further fees and terms and conditions apply to external hirers). Please contact us for further information.
Every year we welcome 100’s of new staff to Northampton General Hospital. Some are on a training programme as part of their foundation, core, or higher training whilst others are employed directly by the trust, either as substantive staff or on a fixed term contract – this is a mixture of doctors on the Speciality Doctor contract, CESR programmes, and Locally Employed Doctors. We have an online induction that covers most information our new starters need and supplement this with a face-to-face session 4 times per year (August, December, February, and April).
This gives our new colleagues an opportunity to meet senior members of the Medical Education team alongside key staff from other departments and ask any questions.
Complementing this our departments have their own local induction, some of which is hosted on our online learning platform DLS.
You should receive details of your induction with the welcome pack from the Recruitment team, if you don’t then please contact Recruitment to confirm your contact details.
We welcome trainees on a range of different training programmes and work with the department education leads and college tutors to ensure that all trainees receive a valuable educational experience. We monitor this through local surveys and the national GMC survey.
Our PGDiT’s have access to a range of education programmes whilst here at Northampton General, with specialist programmes ran for our FY1, FY2, IMT and IMT3 trainees.
Our departments will run local programmes, such as bedside teaching and departmental education programmes, which are held outside of the PGMC. Further information will be provided at your departmental induction on your start at Northampton General Hospital.
We (with Kettering General Hospital) are part of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and welcome students from the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford as part of their rotational clinical placements.
Each cohort receives their own induction and has dedicated points of contact within the medical education team.
Our Undergraduate team work hard to ensure that each student has a rewarding experience whilst on placement here at Northampton General Hospital.
Northampton General Hospital are pleased to offer Clinical Attachment and Medical Electives. Please see the information below.
We offer Clinical Attachments to International Medical Graduates applying for jobs with the NHS or preparing for the PLAB examinations to give them ethe required experience. Our Clinical Attachments are a non-paid, non-contact observerships.
Doctors do not need to be registered with the GMC to undergo a clinical attachment as they will not be carrying out any procedures. Clinical attachments last for 4 weeks, during which time the doctor will be attached to a consultant and observe their work. Clinical attachments provide invaluable experience of the NHS and can help overseas doctors gain a reference for future job applications.
Application Windows for Clinical Attachments: Please note applications outside of these periods will not be accepted.
2024-2025
1st September 2024 – 31st May 2025
2025-2026
1st September 2025 – 31st May 2026
2026-2027
1st September 2026 – 31st May 2027
The cost of a clinical attachment is £300 GBP for the 4-week attachment. This is payable prior to the commencement of your Clinical Attachment and forms part of your clearance process. If payment is not made, you will not be given a start date and will be unable to undertake the placement.
Northampton General Hospital can take a limited number of Medical Electives each academic year. If you are currently studying with either Leicester Medical School or Oxford Medical School, please contact the relevant teams at the schools to arrange your elective. If you are an overseas student or at a UK medical school that is not Leicester or Oxford, please read the below information to obtain a Medical Elective placement.
We run an elective programme for medical students in their penultimate or final year of study interested in a clinical placement at Northampton General Hospital. These placements give you the opportunity to explore a particular medical specialty in a different healthcare environment as part of your degree. This is a non-paid, non contact observership.
Our elective placements are 4 weeks long.
Application Windows for Medical Electives: Please note applications outside of these periods will not be accepted.
The cost of a medical elective is £300 GBP for the 4-week attachment. This is payable prior to the commencement of your medical elective and forms part of your clearance process. If payment is not made, you will not be given a start date and will be unable to undertake the placement.
If you require further information or would like to apply for a Clinical Attachment or Medical Elective, please email ngh-tr.clinicalattachments@nhs.net
We are pleased to offer a work shadow programme for post 16 students that are planning to study Medicine at University.
Applicants should fulfil the following criteria:
The student should apply for themselves(application by tutors or parents is not accepted) at any time after GCSE results are available, to attend at any agreed and available time.
Forms should be returned by email (preferably to avoid delay due to forms being returned), with every field completed as soon as possible, with a choice of 3 dates to attend.
The form must be signed by the student and have a signed handwritten testimonial from a tutor as validation of the contents of the application form.
Application forms will be reviewed to ensure that the applicant meets the criteria. If there is any doubt, the applicant will be written to and/or their tutor contacted before the application is turned down.
Medical schools are oversubscribed; the entry grades required are high and the courses are demanding. It is therefore not appropriate to offer a placement to a student who does not meet medical school entry criteria, and who should be considering other career options.
It is expected that you will attend all arranged sessions unless there are exceptional circumstances. The placements are highly sought after, and non-attenders are preventing someone else from doing so.
The NGH Work Shadow Programme is 2-3 days maximum depending on availability throughout the Trust and placements are scheduled in various departments around the hospital site throughout the week. This programme is aimed solely at medical school applicants.
Those applying to dental school can be accommodated by the maxillofacial department and should contact them directly via the Hospital Switchboard.
The programme is not of value to those who will not attain interview standard, and students and schools must be realistic in their academic predictions for students to enable them to attend only if the programme is likely to be relevant to their career plans.
All required paperwork is returned prior to placement.
There is no charge for the placement. Support is provided by Medical Education office and work shadow co-coordinator Dr Gordon French.
Please be advised that the Work Shadow Programme attracts high interest and at present there is a waiting list for placements. If you are interested in taking part in Work Shadowing, please contact us on ngh-tr.workshadow@nhs.net.
We are very fortunate to have a TEL Suite within the Post Graduate Centre; in it we have a range of simulation and immersive technology that we can use to supplement learning that takes place in clinical environments.
It is available for any of our staff to use and we are constantly looking for innovative technologies and ways to enhance the TEL Suite.
We believe that nothing can replace face to face teaching, but we also believe that simulation and immersive technologies can be used to support learning as they allow practice of rare procedures or challenging scenarios in a safe and supportive environment.
Some of the equipment we have includes:
Telephone: 01604 545448
Email: ngh-tr.medicaleducation@nhs.net
X: @NGHMedicalEd