General

1 Arrival

Please arrive during the Sunday preceding your attachment. Although there is no Accommodation Officer on duty, your keys may be collected from the Main Hospital Reception Desk.

2 Reporting Instructions

An information pack containing a timetable will be left with your keys at the Main Reception Desk. Please report at 8.30 a.m. on your first day to Nissrine Tollaz, Medical Student Manager, located on the ground floor of the Chichester Medical Education Centre.If you have any queries then Nissrine Tollaz can be contacted before the start of an attachment by phone on 01243 788122 Ext 2795 or by email nissrine.tollaz@wsht.nhs.uk

3 Dress

You are expected to dress smartly. Please do not wear jeans or training shoes or midriff tops. Excessive and large items of jewellery are also considered inappropriate.

4 Meals

There are other on-site catering facilities – a list will be provided on arrival.

5 Medical Education Centre

The Chichester Medical Education Centre (CMEC) was established in 1964 and is a registered charity managed by a committee  of Trustees. The original Centre was one of the first to be built in the country and was opened by Sir George Pickering, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, in April 1966. Over the years the CMEC has undergone phased redevelopment work. The latest phase was completed in December 2009 when the Roger Miles Clinical Skills Suite was finished, providing state-of-the-art clinical skills faciities and simulation suite. The Suite has a dedicated Clinical Skills lead and faculty of simulation who provide an extensive training programme for medical students and doctors.

The activities of the Centre are aimed at keeping all branches of Medicine and Dentistry abreast of the rapid advances in these various disciplines. The Centre holds regular meetings, seminars, tutorials and lectures for Senior and Junior Hospital Medical staff, General Practitioners in Medicine and Dentistry and other health service staff. Notices of daily events are displayed in the Centre and the Doctors Mess, with more detailed programmes available from the Centre itself.

The Centre staff will be willing to assist you. They are:

Please do not hesitate to contact them if you have any problems, queries or require further information.

6 Dunhill Library

Chichester Health Libraries is one of the largest non-university health information resources on the south coast. Nearly 200 journal subscriptions are maintained, accompanied by just under 10,000 text books. The library’s computer network provides access to full Medline, local and regional bibliographic databases and the Cochrane Library and there are internet and online links to other resources.

An Open Learning Centre has been developed to provide facilities for computer assisted and video based learning packages.

Services and stock for medical students include the following:

- multiple copies of undergraduate – level text books
- range of core texts for Trust specialties
- Index-Medicus search facilities
- self-service photocopying
- developing range of CD-based texts and atlases
- word processing facilities
- an internet connection which students can use to access their e-mail.

Opening Times
Monday   -   9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tuesday   -   9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday   -   9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday   -   9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday   -   9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Head of Library Services
Mike Roddham

Students may borrow up to six books to take out of the library.

7 Information Technology

CMEC has a large dedicated computer room for medical student and doctor use only. It is open throughout the day and from 6.00 p.m. to 10 p.m. Out of hours access can be gained by using the swipe card on the back of the ID badge issued by the Medical Student Manager.

8 Occupational Health

The Occupational Health Department at St Richard’s require all medical students to complete a Declaration of Health Form. The form and instructions are with the information booklet in the Main Hospital Reception. Students on attachment to A&E, O&G, Surgery, Anaesthetics and Orthopaedics need to bring their Pathology report with them to enable the Occupational Health Department to give them EPP clearance.

9 Telephones

There are pay phones around the Hospital campus. Please do not use Hospital telephones for private calls.

10 ID/Swipe Badges

All staff at St Richard’s are required to wear an ID badge, which should be clearly visible at all times.

The badge (issued by Nissrine Tollaz) also acts as a swipe card to gain access to the rear entrance of the new hospital building opposite the Goldsmith Centre. A deposit of £15 will be collected for this badge. Please make cheques payable to Western Sussex Hospitals. A lost swipe card must be reported immediately to Nissrine Tollaz so that the number can be removed from the memory of the lock to prevent unauthorised access.

11 Car Parking Permits

St Richards now charges for parking. Students will be charged £6.00 per week. If you are on a bursary then no charge will be made but you will need to send proof that this is the case. Please contact Nissrine Tollaz at least 2 weeks before the start of your attachment date to supply her with the make/model and registration number of your car along with a cheque to pay for the number of weeks you will be on site (or proof that you are in receipt of bursary. Cheques should be made payable to “Western Sussex Hospitals”. A parking permit and swipe card will then be placed in your information pack so that you will be able to access the staff car parks when you arrive. Failure to do so will mean that you have to pay parking charges in the general car parks.

12 Bleeps

Bleeps are available from the Medical Student Manager. If students wish to borrow a bleep you will need to speak to Nissrine.  If you borrow a bleep then it is your responsibility to return it personally at the end of your attachment. Please do not lend your bleep to anybody else. The cost of replacing a lost bleep is approximately £180 and it would be your responsibility! Please be careful.

To contact a bleep holder direct via the Hospital Bleep system:

1. Lift the handset

2. Dial 86 – a brief ringing tone will be received followed by the continuous tone

3. Dial the bleep number followed by the extension number you wish the bleep holder to ring

4. Press # for the broken tone

5. WAIT for the broken tone

6. Replace handset.

13 Student Accommodation

Student accommodation is provided in the Leslie Goldsmith Centre on the St Richard’s campus and in two student houses close to the hospital entrance. To enable us to maintain them both in excellent condition we ask you to treat the buildings and contents with care. With this in mind please do not pin or sellotape anything to the walls or woodwork. Please ensure that all electrical equipment is switched off after use.

The Goldsmith Centre was opened in 1994. It is a two-storey building with 23 study bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen facilities and a laundry room.  There is also an out of hours teaching roomwith computers and Internet access for students. The building also houses the Doctors Mess. As medical students you are welcome to use the Doctors Mess, however, the food, equipment and utensils in the Mess kitchen are for the use of Doctors only.

There is a ‘No Smoking’ policy in operation in the Goldsmith Centre and THROUGHOUT the whole hospital site.

The houses, in Spitalfield Lane, are fully furnished. One house has 6 bedrooms and the other 4 bedrooms, with a shared kitchen, living room, bathroom and shower room.

All accommodation is provided with bedding and a hand towel, which is changed once a week.

Please remember to take all spare food with you and to ensure that you have not left behind dirty crockery, pans etc. as it is not the duty of the cleaners to wash up after you. Ensure that all cupboards and drawers are empty.

If, you have to leave the hospital before the end of your attachment then please inform Nissrine Tollaz.

Students staying in the Goldsmith Centre

We ask you to vacate your room by 10 a.m. on the Friday morning upon completion of your attachment to enable the cleaner to prepare it for the arrival of the next occupant on the Sunday.

Students staying in the houses in Spitalfield Lane

We ask you to vacate your bedroom by mid-day on the final Friday of your attachment to allow the cleaner to prepare it for the next occupant. You may leave your packed cases in the living room for collection at the end of the day.

Please personally return your key to the Main Reception Desk.