Our medical education team operate from our education faculty within Roseberry Park, Middlesbrough, the only one of its type in the area.
A dedicated undergraduate team ensures a timetable is produced to ensure relevant experience and support is in place for the students to meet their outlined curriculum. Students welcome the support and organisation the team provide whilst on placement with the Trust.
The Trust also supports student selective component (SSC’s), Extended Student-led Research or Evaluation Project (ESREP) and Scholarship and Special Interest Programmes (SSIPs).
Year 1
Students from Hull and York Medical School based in York spend four afternoons in the Trust during Year 1 to gain a taster of Psychiatry as part of their ‘Psychological Medicine’ block.
Year 3
Third year medical students from Newcastle University join the Trust in January until mid-July for their four week ‘essential junior rotation (EJR) in Psychiatry’. During this time each student will have the opportunity to gain clinical experience in adult, elderly and community environments.
When commencing your placement you will receive an introduction from the medical education team and be given a timetable for the four weeks you are with us. You will also receive a portfolio to help track and achieve your learning outcomes.
During your time on placement support will be on hand from the team, and we will provide everything you need to make your experience as enjoyable as possible.
Shared primary care and mental health
Teaching of medical students
The purpose of the programme is to help medical students get a better understanding of mental health issues in primary care and the transition of care across primary and specialist mental health services. The joint teaching initiative involves GPs in Teesside and consultant psychiatrists from TEWV.
GP teachers arrange for medical students to gain experience in assessment of consenting service users within primary care and the teaching session involves case discussion with the GP and consultant psychiatrist. Small group teaching methods are used in this project.
Medical students from Hull and York Medical School join the Trust from September until June in York and Scarborough areas.
For further information on this programme or to offer any other support to medical education please contact:
Year 4
The opportunities for good clinical experience are immense. The Trust covers a substantial part of the North East and North Yorkshire, and has a record of accomplishment and of proven excellence.
Leeds University
Medical students from Leeds spend time in Harrogate during their 4th year from September to the end of May. This programme is an apprenticeship model, where you will spend two weeks working alongside members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) on a ward or with the liaison team. We are currently in the process of developing a community based apprenticeship, where you will work with community mental health teams. You will be assigned a supervisor for each apprenticeship who will provide support and supervision while you have the opportunity to ‘act-up’ to being a FY1 doctor. The remaining week consists of a mixture of additional experience.
You will receive an introduction from the medical education team and receive a timetable for the five weeks you are with us. During your time on placement support will be on hand from the team, and we will provide everything you need to make your experience as enjoyable as possible.
Student selective components (SSCs)
Student selective components (SSCs) form an important part of the medical undergraduate curriculum. An SSC provides a fourth year medical student with a chance to build upon their mental health experience by concentrating on an area they enjoy or were not given an opportunity to cover before.
TEWV has interesting and innovative SSCs available. We have included all areas of psychiatry as well as several collaborative projects.
We believe that our specialism has relevance to all clinicians and disciplines, and with this in mind, we encourage all students to consider psychiatry as an SSC option.
Some of the SSCs are non-medical (but clinical): psychology, medical education, pharmacy, chaplaincy and nurse-consultancy. Students are required to undertake one clinical SSC, though two are advised.
- Our other SSCs encompass the range of mental health services: child, adolescence, adult, older people and learning disability.
- All SSC providers are willing to amend the aims and objectives in order to help individuals develop their own interests.
- TEWV can provide free accommodation in Middlesbrough or help with travel expenses.
Both Leeds and Newcastle Universities have SCC programmes. The two differ considerably in style. At Leeds the SSC runs throughout the whole course whilst Newcastle offers three SSC placements during the fourth year.
More information
For more information on any of these placements contact:
Emma Tootle
Nurse specialist in medical education
Telephone: 01642 838146
Email: [email protected]
Dawn Carter
Nurse specialist in medical education
Telephone: 01642 838155
Email: [email protected]
Elective placements
The undergraduate programmes have now been further extended to host elective placements within the Trust. The elective placement is an eight week period of study undertaken during the summer in the fourth year of the Newcastle medical degree programme. Students generally chose to travel overseas for these placements; however students from overseas, or who are unable to finance an overseas placement, are now opting to request placements in local Trusts.
It is expected that, during their elective placements, students will revisit previous learning outcomes, and that they will be influenced greatly in their future career choices by the clinical experiences gained.
Placements can be tailored to your specific needs and to the specialty in which you have an interest. For further information please contact Emma Tootle, nurse specialist in medical education – [email protected]
Year 5
Fifth year medical students join the Trust in September until late November for their three week rotation in psychiatry. During this time, each student will also have the opportunity to gain clinical experience in adult, elderly and community environments.
When commencing your placement you will receive an introduction from the medical education team and be given a timetable for the three weeks you are with us. You will also receive a portfolio to help track and achieve your learning outcomes.
During your time on placement support will be on hand from the team, and we will provide you with everything you need to make your experience as enjoyable as possible.
All seminar materials and paperwork required will be given out in a booklet at the beginning of the placement in the introductory session. It will also be available on the website for your convenience, including your timetable and other necessary information.
Information needed for year 5 for your ESR
- Seminar materials
- Assessment forms
Contact us
The team has a generic email for you to contact us as well as individual contact details. This email is [email protected] and can be used for general queries or issues you wish to raise.
