About the author

Overview

My name is Tom Porter and I'm a Specialist Registrar (SpR) in Public Health in the Oxford Deanery area, United Kingdom. I started my Public Health training in February 2005 with a one-year Locum Appointment for Training (LAT) post, and entered the the full SpR scheme from February 2006.  I am currently based at Berkshire East PCT in Slough and the NHS National Knowledge Service in Oxford.  I'm also organising a local public health 'mini-conference' for April 2008 in Oxford, initially for local trainees and consultants, but with the plan to open up to a wider audience for subsequent events.

Public health training

So far in my specialist training I have spent 3 months at the Thames Valley Health Protection Unit (HPU), 3 months at SW Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (now part of Oxfordshire PCT), 6 months at the Clinical Trials Service Unit (CTSU), and nearly 9 months at Slough PCT (now part of Berkshire East Teaching PCT).  Between October 2006 and September 2007 I took the full time Masters (MSc) in Global Health Sciences at the University of Oxford as part of my training, including a placement at the KEMRI-Wellcome Research Institute in Kilifi, Kenya.  In January 2007 I passed the MFPH Part A and in December 2007 the Part B (OSPHE) - phew!  More information on projects I have done to date can be found here.

Previous professional experience

Prior to Public Health I was a Medical Senior House Officer (SHO) at Addenbrooke's and Papworth Hospitals on the Cambridge rotation.  After doing my house jobs in Guildford and Cornwall I was an A&E SHO at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and then took a few months away in Guyana, South America as an expedition medic with Trekforce Expeditions.  This latter experience was amazing and highly recommended!  (Sadly Trekforce has recently stopped doing charitable work due to a lack of volunteers.  However, work with similar charities such as Raleigh International is, I'm sure, equally rewarding.)

Medical training

I trained in medicine at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge (pre-clinical, including doing a Part II in Genetics) and Guy's, King's and St. Thomas', University of London (clinical).

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