Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

The Wessex five-year Microbiology training programme provides the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training, based on a rotation between University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (two years), Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (two years) and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (one year).

Trainees may start at any point within the rotation, dependent on availability of posts. This programme aims to provide a very high quality of Medical Microbiology training.

The Training Hospitals

To find out more about training in pathology, visit the Royal College of Pathologists website.