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Annual and Study Leave

Annual Leave

Annual leave must be approved by the Education Superviser and Clinical Director of the department in which you will be working when taking the leave.

Under normal circumstances, half of each year's annual leave entitlement should be taken during each 6 month attachment. Any variation from this must be agreed in advance with the departments with whom you are working for that leave year. It is entirely the decision of the department employing you in a six month period to agree to the variation.

Annual Allocation: From F1 - ST3 trainees are allocated 27 days per annum

From ST4 and above trainees are allocated 32 days per annum

Study Leave

The Study Leave budget for all StRs is held centrally, in a single budget at the Deanery. It is anticipated that little study leave will be taken in the first two years (other than the weekly Physics, Anatomy, and Radiology seminars, which are funded from the study leave budget), leaving the majority of the budget for use for pre-FRCR IIB courses, for sub-speciality courses, to fund diplomas, or even to visit RSNA. If there are sufficient funds in the study leave budget, it may be possible to reimburse more than the annual allocation, or fund courses such as Certificate of Medical Education.

Study Leave applications must be approved and signed by the Education Supervisor at the Trust to which the STR is attached at the time of the leave. The leave entitlement (30 days) for years 1, 2 and 3 it largely taken up by the organised teaching sessions delivered locally. The remaining days entitlement (specified below) is split pro rata in each 6 month attachment.

The process for claiming Study Leave expenses is run from the deanery; contact karen.fishenden@southwest.nhs.uk
 the School Support Manager.

The process will follow the Deanery Study Leave Policy, which can be found on http://www.severndeanery.nhs.uk/deanery/policies-and-procedures/study-leave/study-leave-for-doctors-in-training/.

Please note that your expenses claim forms will only be processed if they are typed.

Registrars are entitled to up to 30 days study leave annually, but this includes the organised study afternoons in the first three years of the course. The recommended guideline for leave over and above the organised half days is -

Year 1: 3 days in the year (The organised teaching takes up over 60 afternoons: Physics, Anatomy, Emergency Radiology etc.)

Year 2: 5 days each 6 months (c. 40 afternoons of organised radiology teaching)

Year 3: 5 days each 6 months (c. 40 afternoons of organised radiology teaching)

Year 4: 15 days each 6 months (some discretion for FRCR IIB tutorials)

Year 5: 15 days each 6 months (can be taken as a block for specific sub-speciality experience)

Post FRCR registrars have the option to take a weekly half dayof study leave, or to accumulate their study leave, and take it as a block to attend longer courses or to do a clinical attachment. This has to be with the agreement of the department at which they are working, and of the School of Radiology. Potentially this gives the possibility of an attachment at a distant hospital of up to 6 weeks to acquire specific skills, such as PET or specific interventional experience.

Recommended Courses

Each StR has a limited budget, and must decide what they wish to do with it. The following is a list of some courses which have been attended and recommended by StRs in the past. However not every course fits everyone’s needs. This is especially so when developing sub-speciality interests in the later years.

Some of the bigger meetings – e.g. UKRC – are OK if you have a paper or poster to present, but may otherwise be too general to be of good value for StRs, compared to courses specifically designed to educate.

For Everyone

  • Society of Radiologists in Training
  • RCR Spring Meeting
  • RCR Study Days

Year 1.

  • RCR Contrast Medial Study Day
  • Swindon trauma course (Red Dot)
  • Birmingham or Portsmouth CXR courses (and possibly Portsmouth Abdomen day as well)

 Year 2/3

  • Oxford introduction to On Call
  • Wales A&E course
  • Plymouth Introduction to Intervention

Year 3 & 4

  • Leicester/Sheffield/Liverpool-Aintree/Coventry II B courses
  • Swindon II B
  • Bristol II B
  • Northwick Park Plain Film / Rapid Reporting
  • Coventry Intervention
  • Brompton Chest (New Pulmonary Seminar)
  • Great Ormond Street Paediatric

Years 4 and 5.

  • Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals
  • Severn Deanery Management day release management course – minimal cost
  • Keele Management Course – but expensive
  • Hammersmith Management Course
  • Erasmus MRI courses www.emricourses.org
  • Oxford MRI
  • Somerset MRI Course
  • Sheffield Intervention
  • RSNA – especially if you have presentations.
  • ESGAR (European Society of gastro-intestinal and abdominal radiology)
  • Harefield Cardiac CT