Honorary position for Director of Studies for Primary Care
5 April 2012
Tim Bilham, Director of Studies for the MSc Primary Care, in the Department for Health, has been appointed to an honorary position of Associate Postgraduate Dean within the School of Primary Care of the Severn Postgraduate Deanery.
Postgraduate Deaneries are responsible for the training of doctors who have completed their pre-registration year and are entering specialist training. The Severn School of Primary Care has around 360 doctors engaged in specialist training to become General Practitioners and is responsible for the region incorporating Bristol, Bath, Weston, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
Professor Bill Irish, Director of GP Education said ‘’We expect this appointment will further cement the close working relationship we have established with Bath University over the last few years, particularly as this relates to the exciting new MSc in Primary Care.’’
The MSc Primary Care is a unique course open to GP trainees and established GPs providing a lifelong learning framework for professional and practice development and incorporating modular courses from across a range of disciplines relevant to contemporary primary care.
Tim Bilham said, ‘’The Severn School of Primary Care is consistently ranked as one of the top GP training schemes nationally in terms of the calibre of its intake and in the results of its trainees. The MSc in Primary Care is designed to enable high performing GPs to extend their expertise intellectually and practically and apply it to the rapidly evolving primary care environment’’.
The Severn Deanery is providing generous bursaries to enable trainees and teaching GPs to study on the MSc programme or associated modules. Further details are available from Tim Bilham.
