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Gartnaval General Hospital - Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus (Community based)

Individual placement description
Placement:

Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus (Community based)
Year:

F2
Region:

West
Hospital(s):

Gartnavel General, Glasgow
Main duties of placement:
  • Diabetes Clinics at Clydebank Health Centre.
  • Support of diabetes team.
Typical work pattern:

Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm.
Learning opportunities:
  • Consultant-led diabetes clinics.
  • Attendance at GP/diabetes community nurse clinics and visits.
  • Weekly diabetes MDT.
  • Diabetes MCN meetings.
  • IP review visits with secondary care DSN.
  • Structured patient education.
Teaching:

Attendance at all FY2 teaching programmes.
Unique selling points:

This new post is a unique opportunity to learn about chronic disease management across the divide of primary and secondary care.

The trainee will spend half their time in a tertiary referral diabetes centre where they will gain knowledge and experience in diabetes complications/new diabetes therapies/type 1 diabetes/insulin pump treatment/diabetic foot ulceration treatment.

Great opportunities to perform clinical research.

Other side of post will be spent seeing patients with primary care team seeing management of type 2 diabetes in the community. 
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.

This page was last updated on: 11.03.2025 at 16.05