Why train in Wessex?
Palliative Medicine training is well established in Wessex and provides 10 posts across 5 locations. The programme provides excellent training opportunities in a variety of NHS and independent hospices as well as acute hospital trusts (Hospital Palliative Care teams and GIM experience).
Wessex is a geographically small deanery compared to many others and provided you live centrally (see information regarding ‘Rotation Information’) then all sites are reachable within a 50 minute commute.
As a programme, we are happy to support both applications for Less Than Full Time (LTFT) training and Out of Programme experience.
Outside of work, the region provides access to the beautiful Dorset and Hampshire countryside, coast and award winning blue flag beaches. The cities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester provide all the entertainment and shopping facilities one could need.
Our recent Palliative Medicine Resident Doctor surveys show a very high level of satisfaction with the training programme in Wessex and a large majority of previous Residents have gone on to secure consultant posts in the centres they have trained in.
For more information do not hesitate to contact the Programme Director – details under the contacts page.