Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialty Trainee

The Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialty Trainee post is RCOG recognised and is expected to lead to RCOG MFM subspecialist accreditation. Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital provides high- and low-risk maternity care, fetal medicine, obstetric medicine and day assessment services. The Centre for Fetal Care and de Swiet Obstetric Medicine Unit work closely together to support women with complex maternal and fetal conditions.The Centre for Fetal Care provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic options, including fetoscopic laser treatment for monochorionic twins, radiofrequency ablation, fetal blood sampling, intrauterine transfusion, amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling. The Centre for Fetal Care is supported by perinatal cardiology, paediatric surgery, genetic counselling, clinical genetics, fetal neurology, paediatric nephrology and urology, together with maternal and fetal medicine subspecialty trainees, a clinical lecturer/subspecialty trainee and clinical research fellows. The de Swiet Obstetric Medicine Unit provides tertiary care for pregnant women with complex medical disease and works with specialist obstetricians, obstetric physicians, specialist midwives and consultant physicians. The department has close links with Imperial College London and adjacent reproductive and developmental research facilities.

As a senior trainee within the fetal and maternal medicine services, the trainee will be fully immersed in the running of both services and provide leadership and mentorship to more junior colleagues. Fetal medicine activity includes regular fetal medicine, fetal cardiology, paediatric surgery, fetal neurology and fetal urology clinics, together with fetal medicine multidisciplinary meetings and genetic counselling appointments. Maternal medicine activity includes specialist clinics for haemoglobinopathies, renal disease, cardiac disease, neurological conditions, diabetes, haematology, liver disease, endocrine and metabolic conditions, and pre-pregnancy counselling. The trainee will attend fetal medicine and maternal medicine multidisciplinary meetings and participate in the delivery of care across the integrated maternal and fetal medicine service. The trainee will be responsible for preparing for the multidisciplinary meetings and presenting cases in both fetal and maternal medicine and will participate fully in the teaching (weekly) and journal club (alternate weekly) activities. Clinical activity and the trainee's weekly timetable will be adjusted in line with progress through the subspecialty training programme as determined by the RCOG curriculum and trainer recommendations.