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Postgraduate Centre
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The centre has a total of seven teaching rooms; 4 with a full range of audio visual equipment & an X-ray box, a large and small lecture theatre with similar facilities plus a microscope and visualiser along with video conferencing facilities. The Conservatory is used for teaching and meetings but has limited equipment. Together with a ten station fully equipped Dental skills laboratory. There is also a four station internet café
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Library Facilities
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Croydon Health Sciences Library works closely with the PGMC to support the professional development of junior doctors. The library supports clinical governance, evidence based practice and improvement in patient care. The library provides over 5,000 books, hard copy subscriptions to over 100 journals, access to many more electronic journals via your ATHENS password. There is fully trained, professional library staff, multimedia resources (DVD’s, CD ROMs), computing facilities and study areas. The library is staffed from 9am- 5pm Monday to Friday. In addition a member of staff is usually available from 8am- 6pm (subject to staff availability), but closed during the bank holidays. Junior doctors can get 24/7 access to the physical library via their Intellikey. Croydon Health Sciences Library is part of a wide local and national network of libraries. We can source items for you via our inter-library loan service. If the item you require is not in our collection we are happy to purchase. We base some of our book purchases on this ‘on demand model’. The IT suite has PC’s and a plasma screen that is used for teaching.
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IT Facilities
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The Internet café in the PGMC has 4 PC’s, IT room in the library has 14 PC’s, with access to 2 PC’s in the MESS.
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Other Facilities
(Recreational or otherwise)
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Small staff gym that is accessible 24 hours a day. £25 joining fee and induction and £5 pcm membership fee. Active MESS that hosts a Summer and Christmas Ball, chaplain board. The main entrance has a small selection of shopping outlets; McColls newsagents, Ladies Fashion, Uppercrust, Burger King, Costa Coffee lounge, The Hairdressers, together with ATM and post box. A pretty chapel in a quiet garden that contains a prayer room. A notice board is located in the PGMC that publicises all religious events for all denominations. A PGMC website has been commissioned.
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Doctors’ Mess
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The MESS has recently been upgraded, decorated, new lockers and wide screen television together with Sky TV. A full size snooker table and access to 2 PC’s, as well as showers and changing facilities. Daily newspapers and breakfast refreshments are available. The new MESS president has recently been appointed and I am sure the usual recreational activities will continue including the Summer and Christmas MESS Ball.
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Local Amenities/ Attractions
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Central Croydon is lively, with multiple restaurants, cinemas, two large shopping centres and busy night life. Transport is frequent with tram and train services and a 24 hour bus service.
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Transport Links
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East Croydon into Central London via train is approx 15 mins, East Croydon to Gatwick airport is approx 15 mins. There are also reliable tram and bus services.
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Parking Arrangements
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On-site (first come first served), £25 per annum for permit, 80p per day on scratch card. There is also off site parking.
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Accolades/
Achievements of the Trust
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Awards have been received for our work on the following projects:
- An STFS award for helping doctors who are having difficulty reaching their goals.
- STeLI ‘Excellence in Education’ award for the introduction of our bite size clinical skills workshops that have been organised for lunchtime sessions. These allow access for the use of our STeLI equipment provided by the London Deanery.
- Recognition from the London Deanery for our careers development and the dedicated Careers corner that offers trainees career information together with support from the Mayday Careers team, our own library services and London Deanery.
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Any Additional Information
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Mayday University Hospital prides itself as a ‘Great place to train, great place to learn’.
Mayday University Hospital is a 660-bedded District General Hospital (with 45 day case beds) and a 24 hour Accident & Emergency Department. The hospital is based on a 19 acre site in Thornton Heath and the earliest buildings date from 1885. The most recent large building project was the new Jubilee Wing, opened in December 2004 housing a state of the art day case facility. The Trust also provides services at Purley War Memorial Hospital.
Every year we treat local people throughout 450,000 episodes of care including 126,000 visits to our accident and emergency department, one of the busiest in London. This makes working at Mayday a fantastic training experience.
The Mayday University Hospital offers excellent training opportunities with a very busy A&E department that sees an enormous variety of pathology. This is supported by a full range of teaching sessions, F1’s have protected teaching twice weekly and the F2’s programme runs one day a month and takes the curriculum in a scenario setting. There are also lunch time practical skills workshops that makes use of the wide variety of simulation equipment that the Trust has been acquired from bids made to and granted by the London Deanery.
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