The Study Leave budget for all registrars is held centrally, in a single budget at the Deanery. The hope is to enable each registrar to accumulate their 5 years' budget into a single sum (circa £2,500), to be used over their 5 year training period. It is anticipated that little study leave will be taken in the first two years (other than the weekly Physics, Anatomy, and Radiology seminars, which are funded from the study leave budget), leaving the majority of the budget for use for pre-FRCR IIB courses, for sub-speciality courses, to fund diplomas, or even to visit RSNA.

The Study Leave process is run from the deanery; contact Ros Lewis, the School Assistant.  Study Leave applications must be approved and signed by the Education Supervisor at the Trust to which the STR is attached at the time of the leave, and then forwarded to the Deanery for approval by the Head of School.  The Study Leave expenses claim should be submitted to the Deanery (Ros Lewis), who will arrance re-imbursement.

The process will follow the Deanery Study Leave Policy, which can be found on http://www.severndeanery.nhs.uk/policies.shtml  .  

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR EXPENSES CLAIM FORMS WILL ONLY BE PROCESSED IF THEY ARE TYPED

Registrars are entitled to up to 30 days study leave annually, but this includes the organised study afternoons in the first three years of the course. The recommended guideline for leave over and above the organised half days is -

Year 1:  7 days + the multiple Study Afternoons
Year 2:  10 Days + weekly Study Afternoon
Year 3:  10 days + weekly Study Afternoon
Year 4:  10 days + weekly half day
Year 5:  10 days + weekly half day

Post FRCR registrars have the option to work the weekly half day, accumulate their leave, and take it as a block to attend longer courses or to do a clinical attachment.  This has to be with the agreement of the department at which they are working, and of the School of Radiology.

Recommended Courses

Each STR has a limited budget, and must decide what they wish to do with it. The following is a list of some courses which have been attended and recommended by STRs in the past. However not every course fits everyone’s needs. This is especially so when developing sub-speciality interests in the later years.

Some of the bigger meetings – e.g. UKRC – are OK if you have a paper or poster to present, but may otherwise be too general to be of good value for StRs, compared to courses specifically designed to educate.

For Everyone

Society of Radiologists in Training

RCR Spring Meeting

RCR Study Days

Year 1. 

RCR Contrast Medial Study Day

Swindon trauma course (Red Dot)

Birmingham or Portsmouth CXR courses (and possibly Portsmouth Abdomen day as well)

Year 2/3

Oxford introduction to On Call

Wales A&E course

Plymouth Introduction to Intervention

Year 3 & 4

Leicester/Sheffield/Liverpool-Aintree/Coventry II B courses

Swindon II B

Bristol II B

Northwick Park Plain Film / Rapid Reporting

Coventry Intervention

Brompton Chest (New Pulmonary Seminar)

Great Ormond Street Paediatric

Years 4 and 5. 

Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals

Severn Deanery Management day release management course – minimal cost

Keele Management Course – but expensive

Hammersmith Management Course 


Erasmus MRI courses  www.emricourses.org

Oxford MRI

Somerset MRI Course

Sheffield Intervention

RSNA – especially if you have presentations.

ESGAR (European Society of gastro-intestinal and abdominal radiology)

Harefield Cardiac CT