| Cancer Physicians in Training
News
- The annual meeting this year
was in Leeds at Weetwood Hall, 10-12th November 2006. The slide
handouts have now been posted. Details
- Adam Dangoor has stepped down as a
trainee rep. If you are based at a centre in England and Wales
outside London and Newcastle and are interested in applying please
contact Alison Norton.
Old News
- Christina Thirlwell has taken over
from Sheela Rao as rep for London and the South East. She is
currently in the 2nd year of a PhD working on the genetics of
colorectal cancer with CRUK and has spent 2 years on the West London
rotation.
- Sanjay Popat from the Marsden SpR
rotation is taking over as the new SAC rep for the trainees from
Marina Parton.
- If you are interested in checking
out the sort of performance assessments we are soon going to have to
take part in go to
this section of the JCHMT website. Basically evaluation of our
patient consultations, chemo prescribing, procedures, 360 degree
assessment (what people around you think of you) and a patient
satisfaction questionnaire! Also a multi-choice exam is coming,
possibly the ESMO exam.
Meetings
The Autumn 2005 meeting took place at the Marriott
Forest of Arden in November. Details and slide handouts can be
viewed here
The Spring/Summer Meeting took place in
Manchester in April 2005. Details here. The slide handouts
are still available.
About CPIT
CPIT is a branch of the ACP set up for trainees
in medical oncology around the country. We organise at least one Annual
Meeting per year although there is usually a Spring and Autumn meeting. We are also involved in liasing with the ACP about training issues such as the
curriculum and trainee numbers. We hope to facilitate
communication between trainees in the different centres
and keep you informed about relevant issues.
This page will be
updated regularly with information and links relevant to
medical oncology trainees so check back here
occasionally.
Representatives
on the ACP Executive Committee
Christina Thirlwell (London
and the South East) christina.thirlwell@(delete)cancer.org.uk
Adam Dangoor (Rest of
England and Wales) adam.dangoor@(delete)christie-tr.nwest.nhs.uk
Yvette Drew (Newcastle,
Scotland, Northern Ireland) yvette.drew@(delete)northglasgow.scot.nhs.uk
Specialist Advisory Committee / Education Representative
– Sanjay Popat
If you want to raise any
issues or have any queries do not hesitate to contact us
directly or via Alison Norton at the Central Secretariat.
Information
and Issues for Trainees
- Prizes: The McElwain
Scholarship (£3000) and Prize (£1000) are
available for trainees to apply for. Further
details are here.
- Curriculum: The curriculum is
currently being updated. Download a summary of the new version
here and a presentation by
Graham Dark about it here. The latest
version is at the Medical Oncology page of the JCHMT website here and also for direct download
here. Contact us with any
comments. This is obviously an important
issue.
- Jobs: You may be interested
to know that there are currently around 207 medical oncology
consultants and 222
trainees. However some consultant posts
advertised in the past year remain unfilled. It
has been predicted that there should be 300
consultants by 2006.
- Look out for the
minutes for the Executive Committee meetings to
keep abreast of some of the issues affecting
medical oncology in the UK.
Resources
- Here is an Excel
Training Log (updated
10/06) you may
find useful to record your experience towards CCT. It is consistent
with the new curriculum.
- See the Links
section for other useful resources.
Please contact us if you
have any suggestions, queries or concerns that we might
be able to help with.
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