Summary
Description of research component of programme
The primary objective is to facilitate clinicians who will go on to become future academic leaders in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Particular areas of focus for this post will be ‘platform science and bioinformatics’. Highly motivated and capable trainees will be selected and an internationally leading academic faculty will provide high quality training.
The academic work of the ACL in Obstetrics and Gynaecology will be based at the University of Birmingham. The opportunities involve engagement in research in maternal and perinatal health, reproductive health, cancer research and global health. The O and G research provides opportunities for working with big data at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health and Tommy’s Centre for Miscarriage, along with fetal medicine and gynaecology. The University has a large and expansive portfolio of Cancer research with a diverse range of expertise including basic cell and structural biology, genomics , virology, immunology, bioinformatics, medical oncology, radiotherapy and statistics.
Opportunities are available to work in following areas of research
Preterm birth Maternal health – obesity, diabetes, epilepsy Miscarriage and fertility Gynaecology – endometriosis, adolescent gynaecology Gynaecological Cancer portfolio Global Health Strengths of GMC Programmes
The ACL post would be based in obstetrics and gynaecology; a specialty with an established track record of successfully supporting academic trainees. The post is based at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust or Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals, within Birmingham Health Partners, and trainees regularly cite the quality of experience offered and the benefits of working with research active clinicians. Recognised experts that cover all sub-specialties provide clinical support to trainees. The West Midlands clinical specialty training schemes are committed to the development of excellent clinical academics and all specialty Training Programme Directors support this application. The successful candidate’s clinical training will be monitored by the TPD (O+G) and NHS England WM Associate Dean for Academia ensuring provision of a comprehensive spread of clinical experience to achieve all required competencies. Academic training will be protected (50% time) and delivered in blocks of weeks or months to optimise research time and clinical experience, and can be front‐ or back‐loaded depending on prior experience and progression.
Description of clinical training component of programme
The Clinical training will be at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital or at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS trust ( for trainee interested in gynaecological cancer research). BWH has 8500 deliveries per year and has large Programmes for benign gynaecology. It has the centre for minimal invasive surgery.
BWH also has three subspecialty training programme for the RCOG focusing upon:
Maternal and Fetal Medicine. Tertiary referrals of complex maternal and fetal medicine cases. Urogynaecology. Management of urogynaecological cases. Reproductive Medicine. Aspects of both assisted reproductive technologies, benign gynaecological surgery, genetics and endocrinology. Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS trust is a large teaching hospital for the University of Birmingham and Aston University, and an acute trust. A planned relocation of services to a new purpose built hospital Midlands Metropolitan University is anticipated in 2024.
Subspecialty training programme for Gynaecological oncology is situated at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Academic Lead (University) for the IAT Programme
Prof Kristien Boelaert, IAT Lead at the University of Birmingham: