Teaching Research Fellow

Aims:

• To provide an excellent candidate with the opportunity to develop his/her research skills to the level of MD or PhD.
• To further develop and improve teaching of undergraduate medical students within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
• To facilitate and encourage high quality educational research within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
• To strengthen the links between Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the Newcastle Medical School, and between the constituent hospitals within the Trust.

Objectives:

• To enable the Teaching and Research Fellow to undertake a substantive project, and to submit the work for a higher degree and publication in peer reviewed journals.
• To provide the Teaching and Research Fellow with experience and training in developing, delivering and monitoring the intensive Stage 3 teaching and traditional clinical teaching in stages 4 & 5 for Newcastle medical undergraduates.
• To provide the Teaching and Research Fellow with training in research methods; critical appraisal; project management; data analysis and academic writing.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any Trust in England.

This Teaching and Research Fellowship post is suitable for a registered medical practitioner with at least two years post registration experience, possessing MRCP(UK), MRCGP or equivalent, who wishes to undertake a PhD and gain training and experience in medical education. The post offers exciting opportunities for developing research and teaching skills. Higher degree completion rates from within the Education Directorate of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are high.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is the lead Trust for the Northumbria Base Unit of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, and plays a major role in co-ordinating, directing and delivering undergraduate teaching. Students are based at North Tyneside General Hospital and Wansbeck General Hospital .

The successful applicant will undertake a project entitled “Time to recovery of blood Eosinophil Count to stable state following severe exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (TREC COPD)”. This is part of a programme of COPD research led by Professor Stephen Bourke that has influenced national and international practice. The University Academic Supervisor is Professor John Simpson, co-supervised by Prof Bourke and Dr John Steer.