Cardiff is the capital city of Wales. It’s a vibrant and yet homely city and is a popular place for doctors to live.
The site-locations listed above for each post may vary due to organisational changes within the department or host practice. Trainees may be expected to travel to a different location during their placement e.g. to a branch surgery.
Fixed rotations are not available. However, GP Programme Directors take into consideration each trainee’s prior hospital-based experience and endeavour to offer posts that complement this. We want to ensure our GP trainees have a broad base of hospital experience. This cannot be guaranteed and depends on the hospital rotations available for each recruitment round. Trainees are not able to choose their GP training practice as allocation depends on availability at the time rotations are set.
The hospital posts on our scheme include ten different specialities: emergency medicine, clinical oncology, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, medicine, rehabilitation and care of the elderly, paediatrics, palliative care medicine, community paediatrics, and otolaryngology.
We try and offer trainees opportunities to work in different types of General Practice (GP) practices throughout their training. This approach offers experience in different geographical GP clusters, and across different demographical populations which Cardiff uniquely offers. The diversity and variety of different populations in a seemingly small geographical area can be fascinating and provides a rich array of learning opportunities to our trainees. Doing house-visits for patients in the inner-city areas of Cardiff can be a significant contrast to those in more affluent suburban communities of the city. We also have GP placements in Caerphilly, as well as the sea-side towns of Penarth, Barry and Sully.
There are three training Programme Directors, Dr Uroosa Kabeer, Dr Samantha Wilson and Dr Anne-Marie Eliades, all of whom are local GPs with educational qualifications. Their longstanding experiences and expertise in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education makes them confident and supportive in addressing trainee’s learning-needs.
In recognition of the high calibre of trainees on the Cardiff Scheme, we encourage trainees to submit an entry for our unique Cecilia Thomas Prize. Exclusive to our scheme, it is an annual prize awarded to a high performing GP trainee. We have a high success-rate for the MRCGP examination, with several of our trainees becoming medical GP leaders after their training. A high proportion of trainees also choose to continue their careers locally. Many become employed in training practices where they can get involved in medical education and help train future generations of GPs.
Half day release (HDR) is a half day of teaching that all GP trainees have to attend each week.
Training programme director contact details can be found here - GP relevant contact details - HEIW (nhs.wales)
Scheme Administrator - Ceri Hill