Medical Careers Advisors
Helen Goodyear – Associate Dean for Medical Careers
Helen.Goodyear@wm.hee.nhs.uk
Dr Helen Goodyear is Associate Dean for Careers. Her portfolio includes Less
Than Fulltime training, Professional Support Unit and being Head of School of
Paediatrics. She is a Paediatrician at Birmingham Heartlands hospital. She has a
long standing interest in medical education and improving training for junior
doctors and has a Masters degree in Medical Education and a MA (with
distinction) in Managing Medical Careers.
Julian Chilvers – Birmingham North
julian.chilvers@nhs.net
I am a consultant anaesthetist and postgraduate clinical tutor at Sandwell and West
Birmingham NHS Trust. Trainees need to decide on a career pathway at a very
early stage in their training. In addition with the ever evolving training pathway it
became apparent to me in my role as anaesthetic College tutor and now Clinical
Tutor how important it is to be able to give accurate and effective career advice. I
therefore decided to become a careers advisor for HEWM covering Birmingham
North in 2012.
I now provide career support for all levels of trainees. This can range for delivering
lectures and tutorials, arranging interview practice to ‘one to one ‘ meetings with
trainees.
It is a role I very much enjoy and find rewarding
Jane Panikkar – Burton & Staffordshire
Jane.Panikkar@sath.nhs.uk
I am a consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist at Shrewsbury & Telford NHS
Trust.
I have always had a keen interest in supporting fellow medical professionals
and am delighted to have been appointed as a career advisor for HEWM.
I am a tutor for Keele Medical School.
I am Deputy Head of Postgraduate School of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in
the West Midlands and involved in recruitment in obstetrics & gynaecology.
I am a keen colposcopist and involved in NGO work to reduce burden of
cervix cancer in low resource
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Medical Careers Advisors
Jon Lacy Coulson – Shrewsbury & Telford
drjlc@doctors.org.uk
Mr Lacy-Colson is a General and Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Shrewsbury
Hospital. He is the FY careers advisor for SATH and a surgical tutor for Keele
Medical School.
Sandip Ghosh – Central & South Birmingham
Sandip.ghosh@uhb.nhs.uk
Dr Sandip Ghosh is a Consultant Physician in Diabetes and General (Internal)
Medicine at the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He
joined UHB in 2006. Sandip is interested in Medical Education and Training and
has taken up several key roles in UHB, University of Birmingham Medical School
and in Health Education West Midlands.
Sandip therefore very much appreciates the need for good and effective careers
advice in this ever changing world of postgraduate training pathways. He has
taken up the post in 2013 and delivers careers guidance and coaching through a
variety of programmes which include group interview practices, lectures in F1
teaching session, Windmills Sessions and one to one sessions as required.
Rob Grinsted – Black Country
robgrinsted@doctors.org.uk
Rob Grinsted qualified as a doctor in 1983 and completed his Vocational Training for
General Practice in 1987. He started practising in Willenhall and joined his current
practice in Wolverhampton in 1997, leading the development of training in the
practice as a GP trainer. Further extending his special interest in
teaching/training/mentoring he became Training Programme Director for the Black
Country Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice, now Wolverhampton
Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice, in 2002, and remains in this role.
He has experience of previously working as Associate Dean for Recruitment and
Retention at West Midlands Deanery, a role he has now relinquished as part of a
career plan to reduce his own working sessions, and now works part time as a
GP. Rob has been a Medical Careers Adviser for the Black Country since 2007.
This role includes providing the Windmills training to the Black Country Foundation
Doctors, giving general advice to foundation doctors on career choices and giving
specific detailed advice on a one to one basis to doctors with specific careers
issues.
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Sally Millett – Coventry & Warwick
Sally.millett@worcsacute.nhs.uk
I am currently a consultant anaesthetist at Worcester where I have worked for
the past 12 years. Prior to this appointment I was a consultant anaesthetist in
Reading. I undertook my training in anaesthesia at Oxford, Bristol and London.
Anaesthesia was my second choice of career having initially set out to be GP
and doing GP vocational training. My pre-clinical undergraduate training was at
Oxford, following by clinical training at Barts.
Rita Mildner – Hereford & Worcestershire
rita.mildner@worcsacute.nhs.uk
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