Academic Clinical Fellows
Recruitment of ACFs
ACF recruitment is undertaken by the North Western Deanery. Recruitment usually begins in October for a 1st August start date the following year. For further information, including a current recruitment timetable, please visit the North Western Deanery website.
Monitoring ACFs
All ACFs have regular informal meetings with their Academic Programme Lead (APL) and Training Programme Director (TPD). In addition they are required to have formal meetings that are documented to ensure satisfactory academic progress is demonstrated for ARCP. Each ACF is responsible for organising Academic Progress meetings with the appropriate people in plenty of time. These meetings should be documented using the appropriate form. All completed forms should be sent to the MAHSC ICAT Administrator, Sarah Williams, at the University of Manchester either electronically or in hard copy format. A summary of the formal meetings is given below along with links to download the electronic form:
| Date | Meeting | With |
| Y1 September | Induction - Introduction to ACF Programme, RTP and mentoring - Monitoring procedures and ACF Advisors |
John McLaughlin |
| Y1 October | Project Planning Meeting - Planning for the first year - Identify supervisor - Discussion about project - Discussion about Training (MRes/Portfolio of CPD) |
ACF Advisor and Supervisor |
| Y1 April/May | Project Progress Meeting - Project progress – outputs (abstracts, presentations, papers), skills acquired - Preparing for academic ARCP |
ACF Advisor, Supervisor and TPD |
| Y2 October | Fellowship Planning Meeting - Planning for the second year: set annual objectives for ARCP - Planning for fellowship applications - Discussion about project - Discussion about Training (MRes/Portfolio of CPD) |
ACF Advisor and Supervisor |
| Y2 April/May | Project Progress Meeting - Project progress – outputs (abstracts, presentations, papers), skills acquired - Preparing for academic ARCP |
ACF Advisor, Supervisor and TPD |
| Y3 October | Application Review Meeting - Planning for the third year: set annual objectives for ARCP - Review fellowship applications - Discussion about project - Discussion about Training (MRes/Portfolio of CPD) |
John McLaughlin, ACF Advisor and Supervisor |
| Y3 April/May | Project Progress Meeting - Project progress – outputs (abstracts, presentations, papers), skills acquired - Preparing for academic ARCP |
ACF Advisor, Supervisor and TPD |
Previous ACF Appointments
84 appointed so far:
- 2006 – 9 appointed
- 2007 - 15 appointed
- 2008 - 18 appointed
- 2009 - 12 appointed
- 2010 - 12 appointed
- 2011 - 18 appointed
21 Academic Clinical Fellows (ACFs) have now obtained NIHR/MRC/WellcomeTrust/BHF/CRUK/Fight for Sight/other sources PhD/MD/MPhil research training funding.
