Medical and dental education
These pages are about the courses, support and facilities offered by:
In 1961, the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust arranged a conference at Christ Church College, Oxford. This meeting set out the requirements for postgraduate medical education as follows:
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junior doctors should be recognised as being in training post
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a consultant in each major regional hospital should be identified as a district manager of postgraduate education (known today as the District Clinical Tutor)
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a postgraduate medical centre should be provided in each district hospital providing education and administrative help.
Today, the George Pickering Education Centre is now a multidisciplinary centre for healthcare professionals and, together with the Terence Mortimer Postgraduate Centre, supports the training and development of staff and associate specialists, educational supervisors and over 500 junior doctors, the largest number from all the Trusts within the Thames Valley area, in a wide range of specialties at:
The centres also support the training of GPs and dentists in and around Oxford.
Training and education ensures that doctors working in the Trust and community are highly skilled and knowledgeable, which is essential if the quality of service to patients is to remain high.