Douglas Chamberlain was not successful during his school years; he would frequently completely fail spelling and writing exercises.
17 Facts About Douglas Chamberlain
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Douglas Chamberlain's parents sent him to board at Ratcliffe College, a private school near Leicester.
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Douglas Chamberlain graduated from the university in 1953 with a Bachelor of Arts, that was later promoted to Master of Arts.
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Douglas Chamberlain then studied at Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying as a doctor in 1956 as Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.
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Douglas Chamberlain first undertook a nine-month appointment as house physician then three months as a house surgeon.
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Douglas Chamberlain had been described by his surgical supervisor as the worst house surgeon he had ever encountered.
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Douglas Chamberlain served as a Senior House Officer at Royal United Hospital in Bath and then took a role as Resident Medical Officer at the country branch of the National Heart Hospital in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire while studying for the MRCP diploma.
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Douglas Chamberlain entered national service on 5 January 1959, commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army as a lieutenant and was posted to the British Military Hospital in Iserlohn.
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Douglas Chamberlain was promoted to captain on 5 January 1960 and posted to BMH Hostert in Rheindahlen.
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Douglas Chamberlain served 2 years of the 4-year posting before taking a year's fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital in 1968 working within the orbit of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, a subdivision of the Department of Cardiology before returning for a final year at St Bartholomew's.
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Douglas Chamberlain worked at the Royal Sussex County Hospital between 1970 and 1991 as a Consultant Cardiologist, and as Honorary Consultant subsequently.
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Paramedics are now acknowledged as an autonomous and regulated profession and are still recognized for their abilities in cardiac care - as was first discovered by Douglas Chamberlain when teaching ECG recognition and cardiac care to nurses, doctors and ambulancemen from the 1970s to the mid-1990s in Brighton.
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Douglas Chamberlain maintained a major interest in resuscitation and prehospital care, and played a role in the development of the European Resuscitation Council and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation.
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Douglas Chamberlain co-edited Cardiac Arrest: The Science and Practice of Resuscitation Medicine, a reference book on advanced life support and resuscitation medicine.
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Douglas Chamberlain is Editor Emeritus of Resuscitation, the official journal of the European Resuscitation Council, and has been author or co-author of over 200 papers.
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Douglas Chamberlain is a Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great and an Honorary Fellow of the College of Paramedics.
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Douglas Chamberlain was made an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Sussex in 1989, Hertford in 2003, and Coventry University in 2008.