About the Oxford School of Public Health

The Oxford School of Public Health is managed by the Oxford Deanery, which co-ordinates the delivery and funding of postgraduate medical and dental education in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.

In common with other deaneries, the Postgraduate Dean, with the Postgraduate Education and Training Committee, oversees training in all medical specialities across the Deanery. The delivery of training is overseen by the Training Programme Director - Dr Premila Webster.

The Postgraduate Education and Training Committee sets the overall strategy for postgraduate training and acts as one of several bodies to produce a co-ordinated training strategy for the broader public health function - which includes: recruitment, retention and assessment of trainees and continuing professional development.

Philosophy

The overall aim of the training programme is to recruit and train doctors and those from disciplines other than medicine to enable them to acquire the knowledge, skills, and experience required to be effective public health specialists. As such the training programme aims to accommodate the evolving role of the speciality; to allow a choice of career path; and to cover the academic, health protection and service components of public health practice.

While providing a programme that is flexible to suit the professional development of the individual, it is also important that the training provides Specialist Registrars (SpRs) and Specialist trainees (SpTs) with the essential and fundamental knowledge and skills to enable them to work as competent specialists. As such, in order to ensure that the training is relevant and tailored to meet the individual’s needs SpRs/SpTs are encouraged to take an active role in planning their training. 

In order to assure that the programme is of high quality and this quality is sustained, explicit criteria and standards are developed and monitored wherever possible with external validation where appropriate.

Principle

The principles which underpin the maintenance of high quality Public Health Training across the Oxford Deanery include:

- explicit deanery-wide standards for training are adopted and reviewed annually;

- the training provided in all training locations is appraised periodically;

- the progress of all trainees is reviewed in a systematic and constructive way annually;

- trainers are provided with appropriate support and continuing education;

- trainees are able to attend a formal academic course prior to the PartA MFPH exam and have access to expert advice for the PartB exam.

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