Useful links and contacts

BGS Trainees pages
All you need to know about a career in geriatric medicine, research centres and opportunities, research funding and even tips on making good presentations.

Postgraduate Medical Education Training Board - an independent regulatory body responsible for postgraduate medical education and training

BGS Education and Training Committee - who they are and what they do

Education and Training
Resources

Reports (new and old):

Recommendations for guarding and using non-clinical sessions in academic training in geriatric medicine (written by John Gladman for the SAC).

Powerpoint presentation: "Academic Clinical Career in Geriatric Medicine" by Julia Newton, Senior Lecturer, Institute of AGeing and Health, Newcastle University (posted December 2007)

How assessments contribute to successful training in Geriatric Medicine (Powerpoint presentation by Winnie Wade, Director of Education, RCP Education Department) -(posted December 2007)

Implementing Work-Based Assessments (Powerpoint presentation by Prof Tash Masud, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust) - (posted December 2007)

The role of the geriatrics SpR in teaching undergraduates (Powerpoint presentation by Adam Gordon, SpR in Health Care of Older People, Nottingham University Hospitals) - (posted December 2007)

MMC and the World after MTAS (Powerpoint presentation by Ian Hastie)

The e-portfolio - how it will work and how it will improve training (Powerpoint presentation by James Barrett, JRCPTB Clinical lead for e-portfolio) - (posted December 2007)

JRCPTB Glossary of terms

For trainees and those involved in organising specialty training, see a quick overview of the 'Gold Guide'.

For trainees to whom the 'Gold Guide' does not apply, there is still the "orange book" - A guide to specialist registrar training Feb 1998

Geriatric Medicine - Reading List (BGS compendium document revised July 2005)

Training in Geriatric Medicine (BGS compendium document revised in July 2007)

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JRCPTB Glossary of terms

A quick overview of the 'Gold Guide' (designed for those involved in organising specialty training (MSWord) - our thanks to Kirstin Barnett for her work on this document