South West Peninsula Fellowship Directory
To add details of your fellowship experience, please contact susanne.edie@nhs.net
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Matthew Everson Derriford |
Bristol Children’s Hospital, UHBW |
2021 |
Paediatric Intensive Care + Anaesthesia Fellowship |
6 month post (3 months PICU + Transport, 3 months Anaesthesia). Excellent fellowship with exposure to tertiary Paediatric Anaesthesia (including Paediatric Cardiac Surgery and a high volume of unwell children), simply not available in the Peninsula. Travelling from the Peninsula is biggest drawback. |
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Craig Holdstock Derriford |
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
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2020 |
Cardiothoracic and Imaging
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Local fellowship. Advanced Cardiothoracics. Imaging including TOE. Advanced trainee position (off normal SpR rota and undertaking Advanced Trainee role on Cardiac Intensive Care Unit). Opportunities for research / teaching. |
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Sam Spinney Truro |
Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro |
2018 |
Regional Anaesthesia Perioperative medicine |
Friendly department with plenty of enthusiastic regional anaesthetists. No need to travel outside of deanery |
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Tori Field Derriford |
UHW, Cardiff |
2016 |
Obstetrics |
lots of tertiary obs as well as research opportunities - particularly into obstetric haemorrhage. |
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Tom Bevir Truro |
Birmingham Children’s Hospital |
2015-16 |
Post CCT Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowship (with 2 months PICU) |
Absolutely phenomenal place to work; inspirational; well established and designed year-long post CCT fellowship; paediatric cardiac centre; built on my ST7 fellowship in paediatric anaesthesia to provide me with the confidence and competence to work as a consultant with an interest in paediatric anaesthesia.
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Tom Bevir Truro |
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London, UK |
2014-15 (6 months) |
Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowship (with 2 months PICU/retrieval) |
Tremendous place to work; inspired me to pursue a post CCT paediatric anaesthetic fellowship; paediatric cardiac centre; central London.
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Tom Bevir Truro |
Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, UK |
2015 (6 months) |
ST7 Head & Neck/Regional Anaesthetic Post |
Specialist Head and Neck/Plastics hospital; great consultants; endless awake tracheal intubations and regional hand lists; small burns ICU; very pleasant night shifts; really made to feel like one of the team
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James Simpson RD&E |
RD&E |
2013 |
Regional Fellow |
Observational trip to Scandinavia, research project about TKRs. Found it very useful!
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Laurence Hulatt Derriford |
Oxford University Hospitals, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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2012-13 |
Post CCT Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowship |
Best discussed in person, but provided excellent clinical experience acting alongside the paediatric anaesthetic consultant body with every opportunity to develop and manage non-clinical projects. (note - no paediatric cardiac in Oxford (but I arranged to visit Southampton) and no formal PICU component (which may or not suit).
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Tom Clark RD&E |
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Royal Hospital for Children, NHSGGC |
Post CCT |
PICU |
Great experience. No specific project. Lots of ill children, ECMO, cardiac, potential for transfer (although probably now a separate fellowship with SCOTS STAR) |
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Michelle Chopra Derriford |
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South West including King's College London (Adult Liver ICU); Royal Brompton Hospital, London (Adult CardioResp ECMO unit) |
2012-13 |
Advanced ICM |
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Andrew Gunatilleke Torbay |
Mayday Hospital, South London |
OOPE |
Medical Management |
Helpful for me in my career so far |
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Roger Langford Truro |
Birmingham Children’s Hospital |
2009 |
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Harry Pugh RD&E |
Bristol Children's |
2006 |
PICU/ Paeds cardiac/ Gen Anaesthesia |
Good experience for DGH Paed anaesthesia Commuting, Parking near the hospital, winning the PICU nurses’ trust, the stress of cardiac paeds. |
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Africa
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Lara Herbert RCHT |
Mbarara Regional referral Hospital, Uganda |
2016-17 |
Lifebox clinical fellow in anaesthesia |
A wealth of benefits! Contact me to discuss further... |
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Asia
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Harry Pugh RD&E |
British Army (TA), Bastion, Afghanistan |
2008 |
Anaesthetic registrar, MERT doctor - Trauma
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Taught me war surgery, massive transfusion, lived and breathed trauma, camaraderie, worked with incredible people, helped set up the MOST course on the back of it/ Never stopped anaesthetising, permanently exhausted, long way from home, hard on your other half. |
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Australasia
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Susie Edie RD&E |
Wellington Regional Hospital, NZ |
2020 |
Provisional Fellow: Orthopaedics, Obstetrics |
Great place to live and work. Excellent clinical experience. Friendly tertiary hospital.
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Louise Cossey RD&E |
Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia |
2018-19 |
Fellow: General (busy neuro centre) |
Benefits: lifestyle in Australia, well paid, very busy tertiary centre, allocated non-clinical time, additional roles available (principal fellow / M+M fellow) Disadvantages: quite a lot of nights and long days, not much in the way of regional anaesthesia, no paeds, no obs, no real day case set up. |
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Michelle Chopra Derriford |
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Starship, Auckland, NZ
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2016-17 |
Consultant Sabbatical to a Senior Fellow role: Paediatric Anaes/ PIC |
Lots of cases in tertiary centre with similar geographical and social issues to SW Supportive environment Opportunities for other projects Highly competitive |
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Claire Todd RD&E |
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Australia |
2015 |
Provisional Fellow: Obs & Gynae |
Daytime normal working, one night a week non-resident on-call with following day off. Tertiary level obs unit and lots of gynae operating. Experience of extremely complex obs cases |
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Claire Todd RD&E |
Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand |
2014 |
Provisional Fellow: Obstetrics ENT/Max fax/Airway |
Registrar long days on call and weekend long days. No nights. Regular weekly max fax & ENT as part of job plan. Acted as consultant anaesthetist on labour ward. Excellent experience of stepping up into consultant role. |
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Martin Steynor Derriford |
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National Women's Health, Auckland City Hospital, NZ
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2014 |
Fellow in obstetric (and gynae) anaesthesia
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Lots of tertiary (and quaternary) level obs experience. Busy. Experience in supermorbidly obese patients. Cardiac conditions (GUCH, rheumatic valvular disease, IHD, cardiomyopathies etc). Acting at consultant level with accompanying pay and generous study leave budget. No nights or weekends. Ample opportunity for QI, teaching etc. |
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James Cockcroft RD&E |
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia |
2013 |
General & Vascular (6 months), Simulation (6 months). |
Rota like being a consultant (min on call/out of hours, regular lists with regular surgeons, bridges gap between registrar and consultant grades) Perioperative Echo very prominent here too. |
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Roger Langford RCHT |
Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia |
2008 |
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Jonathan Cheung RCHT |
The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia |
2008-09 |
Postgraduate fellowship in anaesthesia: Trauma |
Great city and experience. 400 bed hospital, >60 level 3 beds Regional centre for heart-lung transplant. Major research center – Prof Paul Myles is based at the Alfred with a thriving research team |
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Harry Pugh RD&E |
Royal Perth Hosp, WA, Oz |
2006-7 |
Senior Reg/ Sim Fellowship |
Loads of research projects, great place for young kids, Interesting anaesthesia, learnt lots, staff really into sim/ Long way from home if a member of your family becomes unwell. |
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Gavin Werrett Derriford |
Christchurch, NZ |
2006 |
MOSS - a grade between registrar and consultant |
It was a fantastic place and hospital with good Ts&Cs of work. You can mould your experience but the registrars get first choice on the popular lists. I tended to do a lot of primary teaching and vascular/paeds. You act as an “in between” reg/consultant but there is always a consultant you can call for help if you need out of hours. |
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Americas
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Matthew Boyd Derriford |
University of Toronto (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre), Canada |
2018-19 |
9 months Anaesthesia 3 months Critical Care
Trauma, critical care & Anaesthesia |
Worked hard - No EWTD! Lots of operating with wide variety of major cases: trauma, burns, cancer surgery (liver, gynae, neuro) Able to use some time to be TTL in ED. 1 day a fortnight of elective ortho. Good formal education. Informal mentoring less good. Lots of solo work. Critical care: covered 2 ICUs and 2 HDUs. At the centre of lots of different specialities. Very good clinical exposure. |
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Tom Bradley Derriford |
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Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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2018 |
Advanced Airway Management/ Head and Neck
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Great breadth and depth of clinical exposure, independent practice opportunities as an Attending, working in such a different healthcare system with a wide variety of international professionals, and in a thriving academic institution, working in a system where money is no object! Amazing place to live and explore. Did not need USA exams, although this seems to change over time and is state/institution dependent. Logistics and bureaucracy of visa and medical board registration challenging and lengthy, very expensive area to live. Overall, highly recommended. |
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Liz Drake Derriford |
BC Women's Hospital Vancouver, BC, Canada |
2006/7 |
Obstetric anaesthesia fellowship |
Tertiary referral for obstetrics and maternofoetal medicine, paediatric surgery and tertiary NICU. Hospital set up for research and expectation that you attend masters units for research at UBC. There is a research assistant to help with recruitment. Lots of opportunities to publish and encouragement to assist in article review. Resident teaching both organised and bedside. Ability to attend medical haem obstetric clinics as well as run high risk anaesthesia clinics. Approx 12 clinical shifts per month as well as research time. Very good work life balance - large vibrant city with the outdoors very close by.
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Additional Resources |
https://www.anaestheticfellowships.org https://www.apagbi.org.uk/professionals/trainee-section/fellowship-database
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