SW Thames Prospectus - South Thames Diabetes and Endocrinology

outreach. When on-call the Registrar will supervise the work of at least 4
other junior doctors.
The MAU is staffed in the daytime by its own team of 2 Consultants and
junior staff who work flexibly with the “on take” team.
Diabetes and Endocrinology
The full range of diabetes and endocrine services are provided from the base
at East Surrey Hospital. Clinics are held in the community, including
Crawley where there is a significant ethnic population. Joint clinics are
held with the high risk obstetric team for antenatal medical problems, with
the Consultant Endocrine Surgeon and with Consultant Vascular Surgeons
in our joint diabetic foot clinic.
There is an active Podiatry Service, for patients with diabetic foot problems
and the Registrar would be expected to be involved with the consultants in
this aspect of care. There are four experienced diabetes nurse specialists
working in the Trust, who will normally liaise closely with the Registrars as
well as the Consultants.
The unit has considerable experience in Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin
Infusion and aims to be innovative in its approach to the care of patients
with diabetes. The district already runs DESMOND courses for Type II
patients and has introduced a modified DAFNE training. We have also
recently developed a MSc training module for primary care under the
auspices of Brighton University and the participation of the Registrar in
these training programmes will be encouraged.
Training and Education
The hospital is proud of its Post Graduate Education Centre, which includes
130 seat lecture theatre and video conferencing facilities. There is a clinical
skills room for tuition of junior staff, in addition to a range of programmes
held by the department of medicine generally. The Registrar will be
expected to attend monthly diabetes/endocrine units departmental
meetings, endocrine x-ray meetings and neuro-radiology meetings, the latter
reviewing Pituitary MRI and CT scans. This is a busy endocrine unit with a
lot of material for audit and research will be encouraged.
Fifth year students from Brighton and Sussex University’s Medical School,
will be based at East Surrey Hospital on a regular basis from 2007. We
already have a small number of 5 th year students from St. George’s Hospital
Medical School and Imperial College London. The Registrar will be
encouraged to involve himself in the training of these students.
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