Rotation 1
Urology
Mr K Alexandrou
ES/CS:
What type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
Mainly ward based as part of Urology team. Looking after inpatients and doing on-call for Gen Surgery/Urology. FY1 Teaching, Urology tutorials
Your Main Duties and typical working pattern in this placement could be:
Monday
Ward Round
Tuesday
Ward Round Clinic
Wednesday
Ward Round X Ray/ UrologyTeaching
Thursday
Ward Round Theatre
Friday
Ward Round
Sat/Sun
On Call (When rostered)
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.
Rotation 2
Paediatrics
ES/CS:
Dr R Cordingley / Dr M Parry
What type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
The FY doctor will be part of our paediatric team, working as a first on call doctor. We are an enthusiastic multidisciplinary team, and are proactive educational supervisors.
The FY will be part of the first on call rota, covering different areas to enhance the overall paediatric experience. Shifts are short days, long days and nights, and include shifts on the acute ward, paediatric assessment unit, day-case ward, neonatal unit and labour ward, postnatal ward and paediatric outpatients.
Direct clinical supervision is provided by consultants and middle grade doctors, and juniors are very well supported in this role. There is plenty of opportunity to contribute to and learn from our in-house teaching programme, as well as contribution and involvement in audit and QI projects, M&M reviews and learning, and datix reviews.
Paediatrics is a challenging, but very rewarding specialty. You will gain experience in both the management of paediatric pathology and the holistic approach to managing the health of children and their families. We are a happy and enthusiastic team who are keen to make your experience in our specialty as positive and productive as possible.
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.
Rotation 3
Gastroenterology
ES/CS:
Dr J Sutton / Dr K Radwan
What type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
You will be part of a large team- - 4 Consultants, 5 Middle Grades, 3 SHOs and 3 FY1s.
We look after a wide range of acute and chronic gastrointestinal disorders as well as general medical conditions. Although mainly ward based, as the team has expanded, we will be able to offer clinic exposure and the opportunity to experience the work of the endoscopy department. We have a regular weekly departmental teaching session, as well as MDTs which provide valuable learning opportunities.
Your Main Duties:
To assist in the day to day care of 24 Gastroenterology and general medical patients.
Your typical working pattern in this placement could be:
Monday
Consultant
Tuesday
Middle Grade Ward Round Ward Work
Wednesday
Ward Work
Clinic
(supernumery)
Thursday
Consultant Ward Round
Friday
Ward Work
Endoscopy
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.
F2
Post Numbers:
107a
107b
107c
Rotation 1
T&O
ES/CS:
Mr E Jesudason / Mr S Griffin
What type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
The Orthopaedic and trauma unit here in Ysbyty Gwynedd is a relatively busy site taking injured patients from the great outdoors of North Wales and Snowdonia including water sports and other past times and it is in addition a busy retirement area with a somewhat aging population running into problems associated with successfully surviving middle adult hood.
There is a busy elective unit in addition encompassing major joint replacement surgery, day case and sub specialties including hand, foot and ankle services and revision arthroplasty.
Our junior trainees rotate through other parts of the hospital including the Emergency Department and General Surgery and there are efforts made to provide useful and satisfying study leave opportunities to further the career progression of our juniors.
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.
Rotation 2
Emergency Medicine (ED)
ES/CS:
Dr R Talbot / Dr R Griffiths / Dr R Perry
What type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
You will work as part of the Emergency Department’s multi-disciplinary team which includes consultants, SHOs (F2, ACCS, GP training and “F3”), Middle grades/Registrars, Emergency and Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Physiotherapists and many more.
You will see patients with a wide range of acute and emergency presentations and have the opportunity to experience everything from the management of minor injuries to the resuscitation of some of the sickest patients in the hospital. Getting to see everything from small babies to the old and frail, this post will give any doctor a good foundation for their future career.
You will be encouraged to attend the department’s weekly junior doctor teaching programme as well as being given opportunities to be involved in monthly mortality and morbidity meetings, audit and other governance related activities.
Your Main Duties:
In the morning, you will accompany the consultant on the department’s five bedded observation unit ward round. Once the ward round is done and any jobs completed, there should plenty of time for you to see new patients in the Emergency Department (ED), under supervision. Depending on the day you could be working in Minors, Paediatrics, Majors or Resus.
Your typical working pattern in this placement could be:
In the morning, you will accompany the consultant on the department’s five bedded observation unit ward round. Once the ward round is done and any jobs completed, there should plenty of time for you to see new patients in the Emergency Department (ED), under supervision. Depending on the day you could be working in Minors, Paediatrics, Majors or Resus.
This job is 9-5 Monday to Friday and therefore unbanded. There is sadly no possibility for you to pick up locum shifts in the ED, however there may possibilities for extra internal locum F1 shifts in medicine or surgery if they are short.
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.
Rotation 3
General Surgery
ES/CS:
Mr B Chaudhary / Mr A Lala / Mr C Holden / Mr G Whiteley / Mr T Garsaa / Mr N Abdullah
What type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
The Department of General and Colorectal Surgery comprises of 8 consultants. There are 4 F1s in the
department, each of whom is allocated to a team of two consultants. During this rotation you will gain
experience in the management of common acute and elective General and Colorectal conditions. The
placement will allow you to develop the majority of the competencies required in the F1 curriculum.
Clinical duties are as follows:
• Initial assessment and management of emergency surgical admissions
• Maintaining hospital notes and drug charts
• Prescribing drugs and IV fluids
• Requesting referrals to other services
• Exposure to surgery in the operating theatre
• Initial assessment and management of ward patients who become unwell
• Assisting with ward rounds
• Preparing discharge summaries
• Preparing patients for surgery
• Participation in audit and morbidity /mortality presentations
• Communication with patients and their relatives
• Requesting investigations, documenting results and acting upon them
• Team working
• Fulfil requirements of the placement e.g. CBD, mini CEX, DOPs
Your typical working pattern in this placement could be:
You will participate in a 1 in 8 on-call day time rota with your own team and remain with the same team to
support post-take ward work. This allows you to experience the whole patient journey while managing
common acute surgical conditions. Once every 4 weeks, you will be allocated time to join the operating
theatres, endoscopy and clinics with your clinical supervisor.
There are no night duties and this post attracts a 1B banding.
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.