Hi there,

Following graduation as a Doctor you complete your foundation training at one of the Defence Medical Group Units (Frimley Park, Northallerton, Portsmouth, Plymouth or the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham). You will work in a variety of departments within there, rotating as you would as a Junior Doctor outside of the military but will likely be in line with those specialisms availble in the Army. These are GP, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics and Resuscitation, General Surgery, General Medicine, Psychiatry, Pathology, Radiology, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Occupational Medicine or Public Health.

As a GDMO post FYs, you will likely be posted to a medical regiment and assigned to a medical centre where you work will focus on primary care at its core but you can also support whatever deployments, exercises or training the Army needs you to both in the UK and overseas.

14 November, 2023 14:44

Thank you for your reply.

So GDMO’s do not sent to NHS hospitals at all? I was told they can do, alongside going on deployment and spending time with their regiment and primary care practice.

Please can you confirm this? Thanks again.

14 November, 2023 15:22

Yes they can indeed spend some time in NHS hospitals, it is all a balance at that point depending on where your based and what you commitments might be,

14 November, 2023 15:25

Thank you.

14 November, 2023 16:45