Department of Medical Education

The Department of Medical Education at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for the educational welfare and support of doctors, student doctors (medical students), physician associates and student physician associates. We provide clinical placements for the University of Liverpool and the University of Chester.

With the majority of our senior clinical staff being recognised as Clinical and/or Educational Supervisors by the GMC, we take pride in our Educational and Clinical supervision of learners. We ensure support of Supervisors in their roles with local faculty professional development, supervision support, professional support and the promotion of educational roles (both in the trust and regionally) to ensure that the experience that trainees and trainers get whilst working with us is of the highest quality. We encourage completion of the yearly GMC Training Survey by trainees and trainers to allow us to continually improve our placements and training.

The Medical Education Team are based in a purpose built Education and Training Centre on the hospital site which provides large group teaching space, small tutorial rooms, a clinical skills suite and high fidelity simulation.

We hope you find the information on this site useful in your day to day activity within the hospital. It is hoped the content will be regularly developed and updated by our teams to keep the information current and relevant. The information for specialties has been provided by team members who have worked within the specialties. Medical practice and ways of working are constantly evolving so sometimes information on this site may become out of date or there may be some inaccuracies. Where guidelines or clinical advice has been included please check the intranet document library (accessed via the Trust home page on every computer) to ensure that this is the current, most up to date information.

If you have any comments or aware there are any errors / omissions please let the Medical Education Team know as soon as possible or email postgraduate.education@nhs.net

Prof Nicola Eardley

Director of Medical Education