Course/Event Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Course/Event Duration: 2 Days
A two-day residential course specifically designed for those in training roles in geriatric medicine, moving into senior roles. This course focuses on management and leadership issues that affect health services for older people.
Who should attend
The course is aimed at senior (ST6 and ST7) specialist registrars in geriatric medicine, who are approaching their final registrar year and looking for a consultant position in the near future. TIt is also relevant for those in new Consultant posts, SAS Grade doctors undertaking CESR, and ACPs undertaking senior leadership roles.
Why participate
Recommended reading list
The reading list is non-compulsory but it covers some important recent papers that will shape leadership and management agendas for geriatricians over the coming years alongside more generic issues of which you should be aware. The list is not exhaustive and has been whittled down to give a primer ahead of the course. You can download it on the course page.
If you have any questions about the leadership weekend, please contact registrations@bgs.org.uk
Using the seven domains of the NHS Leadership Framework, the course will be structured in small facilitated interactive group sessions, analyzing questions around leadership, policy and management topics that attendees may get asked in consultant interviews. The objective is for each delegate to leave the weekend with a personal development plan for leadership and management for the start of their career as a consultant in geriatric medicine.
Course/Event Venue: theStudio, Manchester
This course is targeted at the following specialty Groupings:
