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Contents

  1. Sponsoring bodies in the UK
  2. Postgraduate training
  3. Employment contacts
  4. Work permits and visas
  5. Defence organisations
  6. Other useful contacts

1. Sponsoring bodies in the UK

Overseas Doctors’ Training Scheme

  • College of Emergency Medicine
  • Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
  • Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
  • Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  • Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Royal College of Pathologists
  • Royal College of Physicians of London
  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Postgraduate Institution Sponsoring Bodies

  • Atkinson Morley Department of Neurosurgery, St George's Hospital
  • Institute of Psychiatry, London
  • Imperial College, London
  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • South West Neurosciences Centre, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
  • University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

University Heads of Department

Several University departments operate sponsorship schemes for doctors wishing to undertake a postgraduate degree or research project in the UK. Please contact the relevant academic heads of the departments and they will be able to advise you if they are approved sponsors for the purposes of GMC registration.

2. Postgraduate training

National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education

NACPME
PO Box 2516
St James House
Bristol
BS2 2AA

Telephone : +44 (0)117 915 7069. Telephone lines are open Monday - Friday between 09.30 - 16.30.
Fax : +44 (0)117 9156721
Email : nacpme@nhscareers.nhs.uk

3. Employment contacts

The British Medical Journal, the Health Service Journal carry job adverts, and the National Advice Centre for overseas doctors has general information about postgraduate training opportunities.

4. Work permits and visas

We are not in a position to answer questions relating to work permits or visas. You should direct such enquiries to:

The Home Office 50 Queen Anne's Gate London SW1 9AT Tel: 020 7273 3000 Web: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk

5. Defence organisations

Medial Defence Union 3 Devonshire Place London W1N 2EA Tel: 020 7486 6181

Medical Protection Society 33 Cavendish Square London W1N 0PS Tel: 020 7637 0541

Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland Makintosh House 120 Blythswood Street Glasgow G2 4EA Tel: 0141 221 5858

6. Other useful contacts

Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom, 4 St Andrew's Place London NW1 4LB : Tel: 020 7935 0243

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission John Foster House 36 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PF Tel: 0207 387 8572

World Health Organisation Avenue Appia 20 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Tel: +41 22 791 21 11

Immigration and Nationality Directorate Public Caller unit Block C Whitgift Centre Croydon Surrey CR9 2AR Tel: 0870 606 7766

BMA head office
BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP
Switchboard: 020 7387 4499
Fax: 020 7383 6400
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