TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
UNDERGRADUATE TRAINING
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School, London 1977-1982
Qualified in June 1982 M,B; B,S.
Full registration with General Medical Council July 1983
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Training as a junior hospital doctor in the following specialities:
General Medicine
Cardiology
Emergency Medicine
General Surgery
Orthopaedics
Paediatrics
Intensive Care
Anaesthetics
Full training in Accident and Emergency in London with secondments in psychology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, ENT, general practice, dermatology, and plastic surgery in the UK.
He also gained experience in major trauma care in the USA.
POSTGRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS
May 1985 - Member of the Royal College of Physicians
(MRCP) by exam.
May 1987 - Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
(Accident & Emergency Section) Edinburgh
(FRCS) by exam.
June 1991 - Full accreditation Accident & Emergency
Medicine
June 2002 - Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians
(FRCP) by election.
January 2007 - Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
(FRCEM) by election.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) – Provider and Instructor from 1989 - 2014
2. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ATLS) – Provider and Instructor from 1988 until 2000
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
Knott Medical Prize – 1980
(undergraduate: written and clinical examination)
Brackenbury and Waring Scholarship in Surgery – 1982
(undergraduate: written and clinical examination)
Willetts’ Operative Surgery Prize – 1982
(undergraduate clinical examination)
Wellington Foundation Travelling Bursary – 1991
(postgraduate: written proposal and interview)
Kings Fund Travelling Bursary – 1991
(postgraduate: written proposal and interview)
Ernest Finch Travelling Bursary – 1999
(postgraduate: written proposal and presentation)