CMT Training Programmes - Leeds
Leeds Town Hall
The surrounding area
Leeds is a vibrant and exciting city. It boasts a vast amount of culture including theatres, art galleries and museums. It is the home of the Royal Armouries Museum, the Thackray Medical Museum and Temple Newsam House. The city also offers a city museum and art gallery. Opera North is based at the Grand Theatre and the West Yorkshire Playhouse is also central. The city also boasts a number of excellent sports centres and facilities.
The nightlife and shopping are excellent. Getting out of the city to the moors and the beautiful Yorkshire Dales is within easy reach; there are good rail, air and motorway links.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
Leeds General Infirmary
This is a large 1,300 bedded teaching hospital situated in the centre of Leeds adjacent to the Leeds Medical and Dental School. The hospital is also the Regional Centre for Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery and Trauma. The hospital provides weekly, protected teaching sessions relevant to the MRCP in addition to running an excellent course for the PACES exam. Most medical departments run active teaching programmes for postgraduate staff and students, together with departmental MDT, audit and governance meetings.
St James’s University Teaching Hospital
This large teaching hospital is just 2 miles from the city centre. It is the regional centre for a number of specialties. Many medical subspecialties have cross-site activities and educational opportunities. There is an extensive and spacious library on site in the Clinical Sciences Building with a CD Rom literature searching system. Over 300 journals are taken and there are over 5,500 books. This library will also arrange loans from the Medical School Library (l mile away) and the National Lending Library at Boston Spa. The hospital provides weekly, protected teaching sessions relevant to the MRCP in addition to running an excellent course for the PACES exam. Most medical departments run active teaching programmes for postgraduate staff and students, together with departmental MDT, audit and governance meetings.
Chapel Allerton Hospital
This hospital is situated to the north of the city approximately two miles from the LGI. The hospital has two Medicine for the Elderly wards, a stroke rehabilitation ward (for patients aged over 65), a Medical Rehabilitation ward, a Rheumatology ward and an Orthopaedic ward. The Hospital has facilities for out patients and day case surgery as well as a day hospital. The Hospital has a postgraduate centre and library.
This hospital is the main inpatient centre for Rheumatology, Rehabilitation, elective Orthopaedics and also a few Geriatric wards. The academic units of Rheumatology and Orthopaedics are located here and most of the associated post-graduate teaching occurs here. All Rheumatology outpatients are located on this site.
Cookridge Hospital
This is the Yorkshire Regional Radiotherapy / Oncology Centre situated five miles north of Leeds. The hospital treats over 5,000 new patients a year. The hospital has a library. A new oncology wing at St James’s Hospital will be completed in 2008, to enable centralisation of all oncology services.
Seacroft Hospital
This hospital, several miles east of the city centre provides extensive community facilities. The Cystic Fibrosis Unit is currently sited at Seacroft but is planned to move to the centralized respiratory service over the next year. There is an excellent outpatient department serving most specialties supported by a good range of diagnostic facilities at Seacroft including endoscopy, echocardiography and the majority of radiological techniques (excluding CT and MRI scans).
Leeds Medical Posts
There are a wide range of posts available in Leeds, comprehensive descriptions are available in this downloadable document: Leeds Medical Posts (pdf format)