Mr Richardson is a senior consultant of vast experience, having established the minimal access endometriosis centre at Chelsea and Westminster, created CCMIG and established the foundation of all the courses it offers today. Mr Richardson is retired from day to day clinical practice but continues in his role as Honorary Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and is a core faculty member on many CCMIG courses.
Mr Richardson has been appointed as a Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College in recognition of contributions to the Division.
Bsc Pharmacology(Leeds)1979, MBBS(London) 1984, MRCOG 1991, CCST 1997, Acredited preceptor in Laparoscopic and Hysteroscopic surgery 2001, FRCOG 2006
Gynaecology – Leading the Endometriosis and Rapid access services, Gynaecology – Laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery including out patient hysteroscopy
The buzz word for practical courses is validation. Essentially does going on a course lead to improvements – does a course really enhance a trainees dexterity skills. Whilst it is easy to assess how a course improves a trainees knowledge base using formative and summative assessments is more difficult to quantitatively assess dexterity skills especially longitudinally. We have always had formative assessments during our course.
Cementing our links with SRA developments, who manufacture the LOTUS harmonic scalpel, in December 2015 we took our delegates to their headquarters near Exeter on the Train. Leaving London on the Thursday night we stayed overnight in Exeter before travelling to Bremridge House.