I joined North Birmingham Community Health Trust as a Locum Consultant Psychiatrist. This commitment was supervised by Professor Shashidharan, Medical Director and I was able to lead very active community clinical team which covered an area which was later divided between two Consultants due to the large number of patient morbidity involved in that area.
Besides the regular clinical commitment in the form of ward rounds, out-patient clinics, staff support and supervision, I had undertaken the following commitments:
Weekly Consultants Clinical meetings supervised by Professor Shashidharan, for regular monitoring of the bed situation and received regular support from Professor Shashidharan and senior colleagues.
I was also involved in not less than six Medico-legal reports, some of which were supervised by Professor Shashidharan.
I also participated in the regular case conferences, audit meetings and other staff-management meetings.
I worked as a Senior Clinical Medical Officer in a Psycho-geriatric Unit at Solihull Hospital in Birmingham, attached to Dr Grewel’s Unit.
Participated in regular case conferences, audit and clinical meetings.
I worked with Dr M George, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital as a Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry. The Unit also had special responsibility of covering the Intensive Care Unit.
I worked with Dr Pearson, Psychotherapy Unit, Uffculme Clinic as a Registrar and had the opportunity to do both individual and group dynamic psychotherapy.
I worked with Dr Mahadeshwar, Consultant in Learning Disability Service, St Margaret’s Hospital, Great Barr, Birmingham.
I worked as Registrar with Professor Brockington in the Mother and Baby Unit, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital,B/ham.
I worked as Registrar with Dr Sheik, Consultant Psychiatrist at Hollymoor Hospital covering General Adult Psychiatric Services.
I worked as Registrar with Dr Rauchenberg, Consultant Psychiatrist at Highcroft Hospital, Birmingham, in Adult Psychiatric Services
I worked as Registrar with Dr Telfer, Consultant Psychiatrist at All Saints Hospital, Birmingham, covering the Drug Addiction Service.
I worked as Registrar at Hollymoor Hospital with Dr Clark, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Regional Adolescent Unit.
Registrar in old age psychiatry with Dr Gaspar,at Holymoor Hospital Birmingham.
I joined the Birmingham Psychiatric Training Scheme on 1 September 1990 as Senior House Officer and then promoted to a Registrar whilst I was working with Dr M Davies, Consultant Psychiatrist in General Psychiatry until 31 January 1991 at the Midland Nerve Hospital, Birmingham.
I worked with Professor Bashir in the Department of Psychiatry at the Khartoum Teaching Hospital for 2 years.
Department of Endocrinology at Khartoum Teaching Hospital for one year.
Internship period at Khartoum Teaching Hospital.
Student at the university of Khartoum, faculty of medicine.
Research and publications:-
– I took part in the following papers either as principal investigator, co-author or active participant:
– Tardive dystonia British Bullutin sep. 1992 it’s a case report of permanent facial and neck dystonic symptoms ,as side effect of Haloperidol medication
that showed poor response to conventional treatment including Botulinium A toxins, for over 18 month.
– Reliability study of multilingual questionnaire for mothers with postnatal psychiatric conditions, professor brockington August 1995.
In this study, the research team under the leadership of professor Brockington was able to show that The postnatal psychiatric questionnaire designed by the main author is able to stand high rating in its inter-rater reliability test “over 79%” and high validity for the diagnostics groups “80%”.
– Balance 1 study generated many international reports coordinated by the Oxford Group. It’s a multi centre controlled clinical trial study of the prophylactic study of the effectiveness of lithium carbonate , sodium valproate, versus the combination of the above drugs in Bipolar mood disorders.
– My role in this study was center coordinator and lead investigator at Dudlley town in the West Midlands region U.K. This study is thought to be the biggest study in this field which is concluded late 2006. Its is also followed by Balance II comparing lithium against , SSRIS , and the combination of SSRIS, with lamotrigine in controlling the depressive symptoms in Bipolar patients.
Participation in international conferences and specialized clinical courses:-