As an international medical graduate, most of you will be joining our trust as a Locally Employed Doctor employed directly via Kingston Hospital. Some of you may have been recruited on the ‘Doctors on the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) or into a Royal College training programmes and the study leave rules and allowances will vary according to this.
Asa locally employed doctor at Kingston Hospital in a full-time post, you are entitled to up 10 days of study leave and £700 of study budget per year. If you work less than full time (LTFT) or your employment contract is less than a year then this allocation will be pro-rata (i.e. if you work LTFT at 80%, you will have 8 days of study leave and a study budget of £560 per year or if you post at Kingston Hospital is for 6 months then in that 6 month period, you will have 5 days of study leave and a study budget of £350).
Outside of courses and conferences, you may use your study budget towards the cost of a Specialty Specific Portfolio should you wish to use one.
Please be aware that your study budget cannot be used to pay for examination fees.
To apply for study leave and / or access your study budget, please complete the study leave application form which should then be signed by a supervising consultant to confirm suitability for the course and be submitted at least 6 weeks prior to your planned study leave date to your rota coordinators who will confirm if this is approved.
Medical/Surgical Staff Study Leave Application
We are also pleased to provide you access to a programme of excellent free course that is run in conjunction with Epsom & St Heliers’ Hospital specifically for SAS doctors that you can also access as our Locally Employed Doctors. If you are interested in attending these please email khft.medicaleducation@nhs.net with your queries.
Additionally, our Post Graduate Centre runs a wide variety of Excellent Simulation Training Days and as Locally Employed Doctors at Kingston Hospital, you can apply to attend the following Simulation Sessions if these are of interest to you free of charge:
To find out more about these simulation days and to apply to attend, please visit the ‘Learning and Development’ section of our intranet from the home page (purple box). Following this, scroll down to subsection ‘The Education Centre’ and click on the ‘Simulation Tab’ where details of most of the above SIM sessions can be found along with details of how to book / register for these sessions.
We are confident Kingston Hospital is well equipped to provide and support an excellent learning and educational experience for you in the time that you are with us and look forward to welcoming you taking up these opportunities.
As a doctor in a training post in the UK, you will be provided with an Induction which will include information on your Study Leave Allowance, any specific Local and Regional Training Days and the study leave application process. You will also have an allocated Programme Director/Training Lead for your specialty within the trust who can help support and queries you may have in addition to your allocated Educational and Clinical Supervisors. You can see our Who is Who page for further information on who your Department training lead will be.
HEE have listed training courses suitable for you training/speciality under headings of Mandatory and Optional courses all of which will be fully reimbursed. Attendance at an Aspirational Course will need approval from your Training Programme Director to be reimbursed.
Please click on the link below to be taken to HEE’s studly leave page which has further information on this:
https://lasepgmdesupport.hee.nhs.uk/support/home?studyleave
You will find information about our trust’s study leave policy and allowance in this study leave application form. Please ensure this form is completed and submitted to the Post-Graduate Medical Education Department at least 6 weeks before your planned study leave date.
