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Academic F2

QUB  
NIMDTA  
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

The AF2 programme offers 4 month placements and enables the holder to gain insights into clinical academic medicine through regular interactions with the Academic Clinical Supervisors (Medical Education or Research), Scientific staff and Postgraduate Research students.  This placement is designed to develop knowledge, skills and aptitudes for academic medicine and to foster interest in a long-term clinical academic career.

The following specialties are available:

 

Subject Area Lead Clinician Research Centre Job Description
Ageing Professor AP Passmore Public Health   Link
Cardiovascular Medicine Professor G McVeigh
Dr M Harbinson		 Vision & Vascular Sciences  Link
Paediatrics Professor M Shields Infection & Immunity  Link
Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine Professor IS Young/
Professor DR McCance		 Public Health  Link
Haematology Professor MF McMullin Cancer Research & Cell Biology  Link
ICU Professor DF McAuley Infection & Immunity  Link
Medical Education
(3 posts - one in each block)		 Dr J Murray
Dr G Gormley		 Medical Education  Link
Oncology Dr R Wilson Cancer Research & Cell Biology  Link
Ophthalmology Ms G Silvestri Vision & Vascular Sciences  Link

Psychiatry

Dr FA O'Neill

 Public Health  Link
Public Health Professor F Kee Public Health  Link
Renal Medicine Professor AP Maxwell Public Health  Link
Respiratory Medicine Professor JS Elborn Infection & Immunity  Link
Virology Dr U Power/
Dr PV Coyle		 Infection & Immunity  Link

 

There will be opportunity to join on-call rotas which are organised prior to the commencement of the F2 placement.  Each postholder will have an academic clinical supervisor.