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)