Programme Director : Vacant
Specialty Programme Coordinator: Joanne O'Brien
People Services Officer - Lead Employer Trust - Allyson Ashwell / Christian Collins - 0191 275 4753/4783
Welcome to the Infection Specialties, encompassing medical microbiology (MM), medical virology (MV) and infectious diseases (ID). We aim to provide useful information to current and future infection specialty trainees and trainers at Health Education North East. We hope you will find this website a useful resource.
The Lead Employer Trust (LET) employs 19 training-grade, infection-focussed specialty doctors across the North East of England. These doctors may achieve a certificate of completion of training (CCT) in one of the following:
- Single specialty-accreditation in Medical Microbiology (MM) (4 year programme)
- Dual specialty-accreditation in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ID/MM) (5 year programme)
- Dual specialty-accreditation in Medical Virology and Infectious Diseases (ID/MV) (5 year programme)
- Dual specialty-accreditation in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (ID/GIM) (5 year programme)
Training can be broken down into combined infection training (CIT) and higher infection training (HIT):
- Two years of combined infection training (CIT), consisting of infectious diseases (ID), microbiology (MM), virology (MV) and general internal medicine (GIM); followed by
- Higher infection training (HIT): For trainees aiming for single specialty-accreditation in medical microbiology, this is 2 years long; For all other trainees, aiming for dual-specialty accreditation, it’s 3 years long.
As part of your training, you will complete rotations at different hospital Trusts and training sites. The Trusts that support training of infection-focussed specialty doctors across the North East include:
To read more information on medical microbiology and view opportunities for training in HEENE please view: