Academic clinical fellowships in emergency medicine
Academic emergency medicine at Sheffield is based in the Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE) and is linked with NHS organisations throughout South Yorkshire, including Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, and Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
About our fellowships
CURE is based in the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR), allowing academic clinical fellows (ACFs) to access a wide range of research methods, including health economics, qualitative research, epidemiology and public health, medical statistics, and information science. ACFs can also access research support from the NIHR Research Support Service and Clinical Trials Unit.
CURE offers ACFs exceptional academic supervision, with four Professors of Emergency Medicine (including a current and an emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator), an NIHR Advanced Fellow (Clinical Senior Lecturer), and a Professor of Health Service Research who specialises in emergency care research.
CURE researchers lead major national evaluations in health technology assessment and health service research, providing opportunities for ACFs to get involved in research addressing the key challenges facing clinicians and the emergency care system.
A wide range of issues in emergency care are studied, including:
- The organisation of emergency care: CURE leads the urgent care theme of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) and hosts the CURED+ research database of linked prehospital and hospital urgent care data.
- Health informatics: Involvement in the MRC Health Data Science UK and the Better Care Northern Partnership
- Emergency department and prehospital triage: The PRIEST study of triage tools for suspected COVID-19, the MATTS study of prehospital major trauma triage tools, and the PHEWS study of prehospital early warning scores for sepsis
- Clinical trials in emergency medicine: CURE led the 3Mg trial of magnesium sulphate in acute asthma, the RATPAC trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in acute chest pain, and the ACUTE feasibility trial of prehospital CPAP for acute respiratory failure.
- Workforce evaluation in emergency care: Studies on delivery of pre-hospital care in the community without transfer to hospital, and evaluation of motivation and well-being of junior doctors in emergency departments.
- Economic evaluation in emergency care: Secondary research into strategies for acute aortic syndrome, venous thromboembolism prophylaxis, acute coronary syndrome, and head injury care.
