• Choosing Wales for your medical career means superb facilities, an innovative health service, a supportive environment and well-organised training schemes

    This is Wales. Train. Work. Live.
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    Join us

    Running over 50 specialty training programmes, we take pride in providing excellence and innovation in medical and dental postgraduate training to ensure quality care and patient safety in Wales.

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  • Medical Education Courses

    Medical Education Courses

    Supporting clinicians with educational roles and responsibilities, ranging from teaching techniques to Masters degrees in Medical Education, and by undertaking healthcare educational research and development.

    Medical Education Section
  • Dental Postgraduate Training and Education in Wales

    Dental Postgraduate Training and Education in Wales

    The dental postgraduate section supports postgraduate education and training for the whole dental workforce in Wales

    Dental Postgraduate Training & Education
  • Revalidation Support Unit

    Revalidation Support Unit

    The overall purpose of the Revalidation Support Unit (RSU) is to support and improve professional standards through revalidation, appraisal and CPD.

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  • General Practice Specialty Training

    General Practice Specialty Training

    Wales offers unparalleled variety in local environments giving you the opportunity to choose from a life in a bustling city centre to rural communities with spectacular views to life by the sea.

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  • Education Contract

    Education Contract

    The Wales Deanery have introduced a pioneering Education Contract which means that junior doctors in Wales will be the first in the UK to get ring-fenced time for learning written into their working week.

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  • 2016 GMC National Training Surveys

    2016 GMC National Training Surveys

    The GMC National Training Surveys for 2016 ran from 22/03 – 11/05. The annual surveys provide an opportunity for trainees & trainers to provide feedback on the training environment in which they work.

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The Wales Deanery delivers excellent and innovative postgraduate medical and dental education for Wales. It provides nearly 3,000 training grade doctors and dentists across Wales with access to high quality postgraduate facilities and educational support so that they can achieve their career aspirations, whilst ensuring high quality care and patient safety in Wales.

Funded by the Welsh Government, the Wales Deanery works in partnership with local health boards and NHS trusts in Wales. Ongoing investment provides some of the most modern medical and dental educational facilities within the UK, whilst leading edge education research activity within the Wales Deanery is of national and international excellence.

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Business hours

08:30 - 17:30 Mon - Fri

General enquiries

02920 688026

walesdeanery@cardiff.ac.uk

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Our Specialties

Running over 50 specialty training programmes, we take pride in providing excellence and innovation in medical and dental postgraduate training to ensure quality care and patient safety in Wales.

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We're here to help...

The Wales Deanery takes pride in fostering an inclusive and supportive culture for both its staff and its trainees. We have comprehensive processes for dealing with doctors in difficulty, the overall satisfaction of trainees in Wales is the best in the UK, and many training concerns are resolved before impact on patient safety, as a result of our risk based and escalated approach to trainee concerns and our visiting process.

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Latest events

Jun

07

2018

QIST Trainers Silver IQT Workshop

Thursday 10th May 2018 & Thursday 7th June 2018 The workshop will be held at: Postgraduate Education Centre (Room 5), Glan Clwyd. LL18 5UJ  The...

Jun

11

2018

QIST Anaesthetics Trainers Workshop

Monday 23rd April 2018 & Monday 11th June 2018 The workshop will be held at: SSE SWALEC Stadium, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff CF11 9XR The Wales...

Jun

28

2018

Preparing for Consultant Selection

New course date now live for the Preparing for Consultant Selection course taking place Thursday 28 June at the Education Centre, Morriston Hospital...

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Latest news

New member of staff Craig Newman joins BSSU

BSSU is pleased to announce that a new member of staff has joined the team. Craig Newman began work at the Wales...

ST3 Recruitment

Following the recent error in ST3 recruitment we are delighted to see that offers have today been re-issued.  Further...

The unspoken complication of childbirth

Improving awareness amongst clinicians of full impact of anal sphincter injuries in childbirth Cardiff University...

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