Fellowship programmes
A Comprehensive Fellowship Programme
Barts Health hosts the largest trauma centre in Europe for adults and children and three University-affiliated hospital sites. The Bone and Joint Health faculty are pleased to offer a fully comprehensive suite of fellowship programmes for subspecialist training. We have an immediate catchment population of around 2.5 million, with a wider network for complex trauma and tertiary referral of over double that.
Each of our fellowships prioritise professional development, surgical autonomy and the ability to teach others. Fellows are expected to leave the programme being confident, independent operators ready for practice and equipped to train. Fellows have allocated time and access to Queen Mary University of London facilities to explore research opportunities from the lab bench to the surgical simulator to the clinical trials unit.
Fellowship Alumni
Educational and social programmes, including partners and previous alumni provide a rounded, balanced, yet highly purposeful, tried-and-tested environment for surgical development and innovation. Fellowship supervisors are focused not just on training their fellows but also lifelong mentoring, advice and help to find definitive jobs into the network of the subspecialty.
Introducing the Fellowship Programme
If you have any queries about our fellowships or wish to apply for one of them, please contact the respective fellowship directors. For queries about the fellowship social and educational programmes please get in touch.
Peter Bates
Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma
FRCS (Ortho) and BSc (Ortho Science)
Pete is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon, subspecialising in pelvic, acetabular and lower limb long-bone/periarticular fractures. His practice is entirely trauma (with a bit of non-union) and his passion is around educating current and aspiring surgeons in fracture care.
Pete loves teaching the technicalities of fracture fixation but he also strongly encourages discussions around indications, pre-op planning and post-op management. These latter points are the core of our specialty. Pete loves polytrauma and the complex melange of decision-making that goes on around it. He is a mentor, an encourager of progression and an enabler of growth and development.
Pete is an honorary senior lecturer at QMUL and lead faculty for the, ‘Orthopaedic Trauma Sciences’ MSc, providing online, distance learning to budding trauma specialists. Pete’s passion is teaching, enthusing the next generation of trauma & orthopaedic surgeons. Outside of work Pete is most likely to be found building something, doing DIY, mountain biking or unwinding whilst eating a pie!
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