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Welcome to the South West School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
This site outlines the training and education in Obstetrics and Gynaecology offered by South West. Obstetrics and Gynaecology is one of the broadest of hospital based specialties encompassing aspects of medicine, surgery and childbirth; indeed it is this immense variety that is one of the major attractions to our specialty.
The curriculum, set by the RCOG offers broad-based training in both Obstetrics and Gynaecology for the five years with opportunity to specialise in different areas in the final two years of training.
Pictured - Dr Louise Ashelby - Head of School
The Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has a number of aims which include:
- Organising and managing postgraduate medical education in Obstetrics and Gynaecology enabling a coherent approach to the delivery of high quality training
- Producing fully trained, competent and professional specialists
- Supporting trainees choosing Academic career pathway
- Supporting educators and trainers
There are 71 training posts in the Severn end of the South West area in our seven year Training Programme rotating around six Trusts in the Deanery. Details about each Trust can be found under our Training Programme. There are currently four sub-speciality training posts – details can be found under Advanced Training.
Dr Abigail Oliver - Training Programme Director for Assessments (ARCP related queries) and Severn Logistics
Dr Ed Maclaren - Training Programme Director for Advanced Training and SITMs
Dr Sophie Haynes - Training Programme Director for Quality and Peninsula Logistics
Pictured - Dr Rebecca Swingler - Training Programme Director for Education and Wellbeing.
Pictured - Dr Sharon Moses - Training Programme Director for Community Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Emily Jones is the Education Programme Lead for the South West Scgool of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.