Welcome to the Medical Education Website.  This department is responsible for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education for students, (junior) doctors in training and senior/ career doctors within our Trust.

Medical education is led by a number of consultants within our trust., a strong team of teachers and experienced and well qualified support staff.  Their roles and responsibilities include faculty support (including training the trainers) as well as organisation of undergraduate and postgraduate education.

We have strong links with the Universities of Newcastle and Durham for our medical students, the Base Units of the Tees and the Wear within our Medical School, other Trusts within the Northern Region for specialty rotations and the Northern Deanery in Newcastle with the support of the Postgraduate Dean, Professor Chris Gray.

We have a number of objectives.  These include: -

• To continue to improve the education of medical students within our Trust and to increase the number of medical students we take from the Wear and Tees Base Units, as well as to encourage these students to apply for junior doctor posts within our hospitals.
• To make sure that our Foundation Doctors are well trained and have a varied and happy experience in the two years of Foundation Programmes across our main hospital sites.  We hope to give our Foundation Doctors a variety of experiences in different specialties, in conjunction with opportunities within our general practices in County Durham and Darlington and our partners in the Mental Health Trusts.
• To develop high quality basic and higher specialty training rotations across our Trust, in the hope that the education and training we provide for our trainees and trainers will improve the quality of care that we as a Trust provide for our patients, and to give all our junior doctors the experience they require to progress in their careers.
• To encourage and sustain medical education as part of the multi-disciplinary education/learning department within our Trust, and we will actively encourage multi-professional training events, experiences and courses within our Trust, so that all professionals who support patient care will work together as a team to improve the quality of care we provide for our patients.

Director of Medical Education: Dr. Richard Prescott
People and OD Manager - Medical Education: Mrs. Anne Sewell
Undergraduate Tutor: Dr. Andrew Hawthorne
Assoc Undergraduate Tutor: Mr. Andrew Jennings
Foundation Tutor: Dr. Leigh Simmonds

Foundation Tutor: Dr. Daya Ashok

Specialty Tutors:  Mr. Pete Blakeman, Mr. Jeremy Cundall & Dr. Namita Kumar

Please contact anne.sewell@cddft.nhs.uk if you need further information.