| School of Medicine |
Diabetes & Endocrinology
| Role | Name |
| Training Programme Director | Dr Mark Daly |
| Regional Advisor | Dr John Foote |
| Head of School of Medicine | Dr Jon Goldman |
| Associate Postgraduate Dean & Medical Lead for Programme Management and Recruitment & Selection | Dr Jeremy Langton |
| Programme Manager | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Introduction
The South West Peninsula Deanery supervises all postgraduate medical specialist training in the Devon and Cornwall region. The following information details the South West Peninsula Diabetes & Endocrinology Specialist Registrar programme.
Thinking about diabetes and endocrinology as a career? Our specialty has always had a strong academic emphasis and this is exemplified by the consultants in the South-West and the training opportunities we provide.
We have a small, friendly cohort of specialist trainees supported by a cohesive consultant group with strong research and clinical ties between the four centres. We’re friendly and our trainees are on first name terms with their consultants.
Clinically we provide training in core endocrine and diabetes training but in addition we have excellent training opportunities in:
- The DAFNE programme, with medical accreditation
- Insulin pump therapy including group starts
- Genetics of Diabetes and pharmacogenetics of treatment
- Management of morbid obesity, inc pre and post-surgery
- Specialist services for rare conditions (eg PKU, CAH, Alstrom’s syndrome)
- Specialist medical vascular services
- Thyroid eye disease
- Adolescent and paediatric diabetes and endocrine experience
- Medical education as a career
- NHS management for clinicians
With Professor Sir John Tooke as Dean of the Peninsula Medical School and Ken MacLeod as Director of Clinical Studies (both endocrinologists in the South-West) our links with the medical school are as strong as any specialty and we support and encourage those seeking academic teaching careers. For those interested in research, we are members of the Diabetes Clinical Research Network, and recipients of a PenClarc grant, with all the opportunities for clinical research that brings. Professor Terry Wilkin runs the Early Bird study in Plymouth looking at the metabolic implications of weight gain in children, and Professor Andrew Hattersley has developed a hugely successful molecular genetics team in Exeter and has taken many trainees through successful PhDs and MDs and onto academic careers in their own right. Most of the clinicians in the South-West are active researchers.
The South West happens to be a rather nice place to live, so if you are looking for excellent training opportunities as well as a fantastic time then the Peninsula offers it all:
Dr Mark Daly, Training Programme Director
The Training Hospitals
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
Torbay Hospital (South Devon Healthcare Trust)
Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust
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