The South East Scotland Emergency Medicine training scheme offers unmatched potential to successful applicants.

It allows placement in one of the largest Emergency Departments in Scotland (RIE) with high levels of activity, delivery of large numbers of advanced procedures, as well rotation to a variety of District General Hospitals and the Royal Hospital for Children & Young People in Edinburgh.

The program has a large proportion of trainees undertaking subspecialty training, including Paediatrics, Intensive Care Medicine, Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, and has one of the highest volumes of Emergency Medicine research output in the UK.

There are specific teaching programmes for ST1-3 and ST4-6+ trainees, supported by Consultants.

One of the strengths of the South East Scotland region is the emphasis and importance that education and training hold within the specialty. From being taught to teaching: the opportunities are endless, whether you prefer short patient centred learning or formal structured sessions, there really is something for all educational and learning styles.

The Emergency Department at RHCYP offers a weekly paediatric programme with emphasis on the management of the acutely unwell child. St. John’s Hospital offers a well established educational programme incorporating a departmental M&M focussing on the care of adults and children presenting to a district general hospital. EM trainees at SJH also benefit from small group weekly consultant teaching centred on management and RCEM curriculum.

A daily educational programme based at the RIE has recently been developed covering the entire RCEM curriculum aimed to develop clinical reasoning skills. There is an extensive simulation programme ru by the RIE ED Sim Team (EDSim).

In addition to the formal monthly higher specialty teaching programme, the longitudinal HST induction focuses on preparing the trainee for their role as a Consultant and preparation for FRCEM.

All life support courses (ALS, EPLS and ATLS) are available locally and are supported by Emergency Medicine consultants from across the region. Additional courses such as the Trauma Team Course and POCUS are also delivered locally.

Trainees are encouraged and supported financially via a study budget to attend external training and educational events when appropriate for their continuing professional development.

Edinburgh is a spectacular place. Built on dormant volcanoes, overlooking the Firth of Forth, the Ochil and Pentland Hills, and crammed full of stunning architecture from every era of the last millennium, it lives up to its UNESCO World Heritage Site fame. Within this unique cityscape is every opportunity for experiencing life to its full - the world-renowned International Festival that visits each August, along with the Film, Book and Fringe festivals is a reason in itself to be here. You also have the choice of a bustling pub, club and dining scene, with several Michelin-starred establishments, the full range of arts venues, national sporting arenas, shopping and transport links direct to Europe and America. For those more active, there are any number of sporting clubs for football, rugby, cycling, hockey, cricket and tennis, as well as council and championship golf courses, reasonable surf and kite surfing beaches, sailing, dry slope skiing, mountain biking and international climbing arenas. The schooling is thought to be amongst the best in the UK, and there are 3 Universities in the city. It is also surprisingly sunny!

The medical community is similarly blessed - strong links with the University of Edinburgh (with recent Nobel prize) and Napier University afford world-leading research, and this is translated to all 4 of the major hospitals in and around the city, which host all the major local, regional and supra-regional specialties. The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is also the Major Trauma Centre for South-East Scotland, and already forms the hub of all time-critical illness requiring specialist intervention for the region.

It's got it all...