NW Thames Foundation School
Individual Placement Description
Placement
Medical Microbiology 4 months
The department
Medical Microbiology
Trust & Site
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, based
at St. Mary’s and occasionally at Charing Cross
The type of work to expect and
learning opportunities
Reviewing patients with hospital or communityacquired infections and advising on best
management. The placement provides excellent
(consultant-led) training in the use of antibiotics
and the management of complex infections.
Clinical Supervisor(s) for
placement
Main duties of the placement
the Dr. Annette Jepson
Initial 2-week rotation in the main Microbiology
laboratory to become acquainted with the basic
tests. Subsequently based at St. Mary’s with the
Registrars to learn how to authorize clinical
results and how to handle telephone queries.
Clinical care of patients is discussed with the
microbiology team on a daily basis either on the
ward round or by giving information over the
telephone. The trainee will complete an audit
project of similar project
Acute medical skills are learnt in conjunction
with time spent with the physicians on call.
Typical working pattern in this Essentially the mornings are spent in the clinical
placement
office or doing ward rounds with the
consultants. There are fixed MDTs (with ID) on
Monday and Friday afternoons, with a
paediatric ID meeting on Tuesday afternoons.
On call requirements:
Nil – the post is not banded; however, in order
to maintain clinical skills, the post-holder is
expected to undertake on-call duties with one of
the clinical teams from the rotation (day-times
only, approximately one day per week)
Employer information
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was
created on October 1, 2007 by merging St
Mary’s NHS Trust and Hammersmith Hospitals
NHS Trust and integrating with the faculty of
medicine at Imperial College London. Now one
of the largest NHS trusts in the country, we
have come together with the College to
establish one of the UK’s first Academic Health
Science Centres (AHSCs).
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be
subject to change.