 
Training for General Practice in Chichester
Why come to Chichester for General
Practice Training?
A very attractive area to live
and work.
Delightful countryside and coast with huge opportunities for leisure activities,
particularly water sports.
Long established vocational
training scheme
Based
at St Richards Hospital, Chichester. St Richards has a strong reputation for
both undergraduate and postgraduate training. It is a modern hospital with an
excellent working environment.
Jobs available
On the
scheme are Accident and Emergency, General Medicine which comprises acute input
from the Medical Assessment Unit together with Care of the Elderly, Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, Paediatrics together with a flexible option of psychiatry.
VTS
This 3
year scheme comprises 2 years in hospital followed by one year as a General
Practice Registrar in a local training practice. During the SHO posts,
arrangements are made for an on-going link with a local practice and release for
5 days in each 6 month period. There is room for flexibility and schemes
of 2 years or 18 months may be available.
Complete your training with a
registrar post
There
are 12 training practices attached to the scheme which offer full and part-time
training. The practices extend from Arundel to Southbourne and include both
Chichester and Bognor Regis.
Extensive educational programme
With
local trainer registrar groups and a day- release course shared with Worthing
VTS. The day release course is very popular with a high reputation. It is
designed to be fun. It concentrates on skills and attitudes and includes 3
residential components.
The future
A high
percentage of doctors who have trained on the Chichester VTS and in local
practices stay and are now working locally. It’s difficult to leave!
Further details
from:
Alan Copsey VTS Course Organiser at Chichester Medical Education Centre, St
Richards Hospital, Spitalfield Lane, Chichester, West Sussex. Tel 01243 788122
Ext 2795.
Email
alancopsey@aol.com or the deanery website
www.gpse.ac.uk
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