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What is a ‘teaching hospital’ ?
Training in
medicine differs from other vocations in that clinical teachers are always
practising clinicians, and often at the forefront of clinical practice and
research.
Teaching hospitals
have close links with major Universities, in our case with Manchester
University. You are most effective as a teacher if you are knowledgeable,
skilled and working to the highest professional standards. Teaching
hospitals are often the most progressive and best equipped and deal with the
most complex cases.
Doctors remain
fiercely loyal to the hospital in which they trained and often wish to
return to it later in their careers. Good training is crucial to future
recruitment. Teaching is not an incidental activity of this Trust, Together
with research, it is central to our status as a ‘centre of excellence’.
Who are ‘the teachers’ ?
In one way or
another, every member of the Trust is a teacher. Salford Royal has three years to
turn people who may scarcely have set foot in a hospital and faint at the
sight of blood into the sort of person you would choose to have looking
after you if you were ill; skilled, knowledgeable and caring. The attitudes
of people around you have a powerful effect. If hospitals are impersonal
places in which poor standards are tolerated, that is how you will practise.
If people show concern for you in your learning, you will carry that concern
forwards into your practise. If people are unhelpful and create obstacles to
your learning, you will not realise your full potential.
Every doctor in the
Trust has a contractual commitment to teach. Naturally, doctors play the
main part in teaching medicine; however members of every professional group
in The Trust have expertise which is relevant to medical training. Training
in a multi-professional environment is an essential preparation for good
future team-working.
Student Numbers
 Year 3
135
Year 4
135
Year 5 120
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