University of Liverpool
Intensive Care Medicine
The University of Liverpool and Health Education North West (North West) have one Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) in Intensive Care Medicine to start in post in August 2017.
The Fellowship is for up to 3 years and the Fellow will spend 75% of the time on clinical work and 25% on research. The programme will be tailored to the trainee’s needs and ensure enough time to achieve all required clinical competencies while advancing their research skills. The ACF will receive an NTN in Intensive Care Medicine and will join the North West Intensive Care Training Programme.
Research component of the specialty specific programme
Depending on prior research experience the ACF will undertake modular training to advance skills in research methodology. The protected periods of full time research will be tailored to accommodate the ACF’s research interests within the University of Liverpool’s major research areas to achieve submission of a competitive application for an externally-funded PhD. The training scheme will be coordinated jointly by the Academic Programme Leads (Prof. Dr. med. Ingeborg Welters/Prof. Cheng-Hock Toh) and the Training Programme Director (Dr. Tom Williams).
Major areas of research at the University of Liverpool include:
A) Life-threatening infection (sepsis) in Intensive Care: an established programme of work on vascular and clotting dysfunction, which crosses boundaries between different specialties (intensive care, infectious diseases, haematology, cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology) and is funded by grants from NIHR and Innovate UK. Early results from this work include insights into the role of circulating histones in cardiac damage during sepsis and in acute respiratory failure. New collaborative opportunities also exist to explore mechanisms of deranged clotting related to sepsis and acute systemic inflammation and its relation to micro- and immunothrombosis.
B) ICU-acquired weakness and Rehabilitation: an established work stream to identify reasons why critically ill patients lose muscle and ways of increasing bulk, performance and power. Particular interest lays on the interactions between muscle proteins, inflammatory mediators and nutrition. Alongside strong international links, this research area has received substantial funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease is an important partner in the acclaimed Centre for Integrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA), together with the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle.
Clinical component of the specialty specific programme:
Trainees will fit into the clinical Intensive Care Training Programme within Cheshire & Merseyside with rotations through different hospitals and specialties within the region, including specialist centres (Walton Centre for Neurology, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital). At least one year of clinical training will take place predominantly at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is adjacent to the University of Liverpool campus with established links to the University of Liverpool’s Institutes of Ageing and Chronic Disease and Infection and Global Health. Liverpool Health Campus in the centre of the city’s Knowledge Quarter which encompasses the University of Liverpool, the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2Bio and the Liverpool Science Park.
The Critical Care Department at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital consists of a 19-bed intensive care unit (ICU) and a 14-bed high dependency unit (HDU). Between them ICU and HDU admit over 1300 patients per year. Seventy percent of patients are ventilated and approximately twenty percent require renal replacement therapy. Clinical mentorship, including regular departmental teaching sessions and multidisciplinary ward rounds, is provided for all trainees. The department is accredited for all stages of training in Intensive Care Medicine, and for Focused Intensive Care Echocardiography (FICE) and Core Ultrasound Skills in Intensive Care (CUSICS).
Host Institution (University of Liverpool)
The University of Liverpool is part of the Liverpool Health Campus, which provides for a concentration and co-location of research, industry and healthcare provision collaborating in health-related research and clinical trials, thus enabling Liverpool to become a centre of global excellence in biomedical sciences.
The academic Intensive Care Units at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the University Hospital Aintree have developed strong collaborations focusing nf acute infection and respiratory failure.
Both units contribute successfully to NIHR-funded clinical studies and promote academic careers via competitive personal funding from MRC and NIHR. The regional training scheme in Intensive Care is dedicated to supporting academic training flexibly, and welcomes Academic Clinical Fellowships as an important route of research training to obtain externally funded Clinical Research Fellow positions and subsequent Clinical Lectureship posts.
Contact
Academic Lead: Ingeborg Welters and Cheng Hock Toh
Training Programme Director/Head of School: Tom Williams
Recruitment Helpdesk: Lead.Employer@sthk.nhs.uk
Applicants wishing to find out more about the relevant clinical training programme(s), should go to the Specialties Schools page and click on the link(s) for the relevant clinical training programme(s).
Last updated: 08/11/2016