New Trainee Welcome Days 2023

Histopathology

Please see below the Webinar for the Histopathology New Training Welcome Day

FAQs

Questions and Answers

Can you give some examples of practical skills?

Will we need to provide evidence for all the CiP descriptors for ARCP?

Is there a minimum number for cut-ups?

Can you give some examples for ECE?

How strict are the deadlines in May? If I only have 1 or 2 SLEs outstanding in May, will I be able to do this later without any issues? (Before August)

Can a WBAs completed by BMS or MLA?

Can any senior Histopathology trainee sign off the assessment? Also, can a trust-employed Histopathology doctor sign it off?

On the rotation list, do you include compulsory weeks that are organised as part of your ST1 if they are at a site separate from your "base"?

Who do we ask for help if we have problems or queries about the LEPT system?

How do we log cut-ups and MDT meetings?

Do we add the virtual sessions to the resources list?

Who can I speak to in order to get login details for Expertpath and clinical key, please?

Please could you please explain AS ST1, do we have to do MSF?

On LEPT, where would you put records of your educational supervisor meetings? E.g., under personal activities or under resources?

Additionally, do we upload the logbook once it's completed, or should we just keep uploading it at different stages of completion to evidence progress?

 

Chemical Pathology

Please see below the Webinar for the Chemical Pathology New Training Welcome Day

FAQs

Questions and Answers

What should I do, if the whole training is in one hospital and they only run lipid and metabolic bone clinics, no access to other clinics like obesity and adult inborn error of metabolism?

When we send an assessment, our assessor can then accept or amend those changes? We cannot leave it blank for them to complete their own assessment?

 

Medical Microbiology and Medical Virology

Please see below the Webinar for the Chemical Pathology New Training Welcome Day

FAQs

Questions and Answers

How do you apply for tropical medicine training?

What is the future of medical microbiology given the expansion of Clinical scientists and HSST?

What scope is there to do additional virology training if you are an ID/MM?

Is there any route to be able to keep GIM e.g., via CESR route?