East Midlands Endoscopy Training Centre at King's Mill Hospital
The East Midlands Endoscopy Training Centre is JAG accredited, and is housed in the Endoscopy Department at King's Mill Hospital.
All courses can only be booked through JETS, where you will need to be registered.
For information on the courses we offer, please see the list below.
Find out more by reading our East Midlands Endoscopy Training Centre guide (opens in new window).
Our Training Centre and Endoscopy Training Lead is Sharon Hudson.
Our Clinical Educator for Endoscopy nursing is Hayley Day.
For further information, please contact Training Centre Co-ordinator, Fay Oxley by emailing fay.oxley@nhs.net.
This is a two day Joint Advisory Group (JAG) approved course for endoscopy trainees wishing to gain/improve their skills in GI Endoscopy.
It is an intensive, interactive, practical course covering the theoretical basis of performing a safe gastroscopy and safe effective peri-endoscopy management.
The course includes a series of small group and one-to-one teaching sessions, videos, hands-on model work and supervised endoscopy. Each trainee will undertake a number of gastroscopies (minimum of 4 per delegate) under the supervision of expert trainers. The one-to-one teaching focuses on the development of individualised learning outcomes and plans to progress skills.
This is a two day course for Higher Trainees wishing to gain/ improve their skills in Colonoscopy.
It is an intensive, interactive, practical course covering the theoretical basis of performing a safe colonoscopy and safe and effective peri-endoscopy management.
The course includes a series of small group and one-to-one teaching sessions, videos, hands-on model work and supervised endoscopy. Each trainee will undertake a number of colonoscopies under the supervision of expert trainers, which will be transmitted to other delegates using the latest A/V resources, including magnetic 3D imager to facilitate training.
The one-to-one teaching focuses on the development of individualised learning outcomes and plans to progress skills. Trainees must have written support from their educational supervisor or endoscopy trainer to guarantee six months supervised training on completion of the course.
It is essential that trainees have at least one training list per week available to them at their base hospital following this course.
The course comprises of a combination of lectures and discussion related to modern colonoscopic practice and therapeutic technique, combined with hands on 1:1 training on patients.
The course is available for independent practising endoscopists, who are already achieving 90% completion and wishing to improve or develop therapeutic technical skills.
This course is interactive and relies on delegate participation.
Day one comprises classroom/seminar and model based teaching aimed at developing a training framework to apply to endoscopic training. Seminars, model work and group teaching are used.
Day two is used to apply the knowledge gained from the previous day in a clinical teaching environment.
This course is interactive and relies on delegate participation.
Day one comprises classroom/seminar and model based teaching aimed at developing a training framework to apply to endoscopic training. Seminars, model work and group teaching are used.
Day two is used to apply the knowledge gained from the previous day in a clinical teaching environment.
This one day course is designed for endoscopists who are fully certified in OGD and wish to gain/improve skills in performing trans-nasal gastroscopy.
It is an intensive, interactive, practical course covering the evidence for trans-nasal gastroscopy, the performance of a TNE and safe effective peri-endoscopic management.
This is one-day intensive practical course using the WIMAT porcine model of endoscopic polypectomy. The course provides an overview and practical experience of how to perform safe and effective polypectomy. Hands on training will include practical polypectomy, tattooing, endoclip placement and endoscopic mucosal resection.
