The Stoke-on-Trent School of Anaesthesia

The RCoA have published guidance to help understand the extension of time available to gain the Final FRCA, 6 months into ST5

Final FRCA Exam Timing

This can be found on the Structure of the rotations page of the website

We are aware that there are trainees of all grades demonstrating exemplary behaviour within the school. More often than not, this goes unrecognised. We have introduced the Stoke School Excellence Awards so that trainees may be rewarded for such behaviour. A trainee may be recommended for an award by anyone from Consultants, other trainees, allied health professionals and support staff. Please follow the link on the website and complete the form if you would like to recognise someone’s excellence.

 

Dear all,

The College has published some Frequently Asked Questions relating to the newly GMC-approved Perioperative Medicine modules of the CCT in Anaesthetics, which are available here:

https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/periopmed/news

The College will continue to develop these so if you have any further questions, please email training@rcoa.ac.uk

Best wishes,

John

The RCoA has gained approval from the GMC to extend the time to gain the Final FRCA.

For trainees commencing Intermediate Training in August 2016, you will have 30 months to gain the Final FRCA. This means if you fail to complete the FRCA by the end of ST4 you will be able to commence ST5 training. This will give you 1 more attempt at the Final FRCA. If you are still unsuccessful after this attempt you will require an extension to your training according to the rules set out in the Gold Guide.

If you started Intermediate training before August 2016 then you will not be given this extra 6 months and will need to complete the Final FRCA by the end of ST4, as before.

I am pleased to announce that Dr William Rea has been appointed Regional Advisor for Pain Medicine for the West Midlands.

His email address is williamrea@nhs.net should you need to contact him for any help or guidance regarding Pain Training. His contact details are also available on the website contact page.

 

The Stoke School would like to thank Dr Helga Funkel for all her efforts as RAPM for West Midlands for the last six years.

The latest Advanced level guidebook is now available on the Workbooks page of the website.

Although Advanced training is fairly bespoke, aimed at gaining mastery in the subspecialities, some guidance is useful. Certain sub-specialities will have individualised, comprehensive requirements supplied at the time of the module. For guidance on the others please refer to the latest Guidebook.

Regards

John Dyer

Please note that the College require a couple of WPBA’s in addition to ALS/APLS/EPLS courses to complete this module.

Please refer to you guidebook/workbook relevant to your level of training to find out your requirements.

Regards

JD & CDK

The new workbooks have been updated to include the new Perioperative Medicine modules, mandatory at all levels of training.

The Core Level workbook has been available on the website for a few weeks.

The Intermediate and Higher Workbooks are available as of today.

See the Workbooks page of the website to download

 

Regards

John Dyer

The GMC has confirmed approval for the next iteration of the 2010 Anaesthetics CCT Curriculum. This will take effect from 3^rd August 2016.

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Version 1.7 of the 2010 curriculum is now available on the RCoA website

• https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/careers-training/training-anaesthesia/the-training-curriculum/CCT2010

It reflects the changes outlined in the annual summary of changes submitted to the GMC.

The following changes are included:

• Revision of wording in the main CCT Curriculum document. The document has been condensed, repetition has been removed and certain sections have been moved around so that the information flows better. NB The essence of the document has not changed at all
• ‘Basis of Anaesthetic Practice’ now known as ‘Introduction to Anaesthesia’ to reduce confusion
• ‘Basic’ level training now known as ‘Core’ level training
• New units of training in Perioperative medicine at all levels (mandatory up to and including higher)
• Revision of the Military Anaesthesia unit of training.

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To support the introduction of the perioperative medicine (PoM) units of training, the following implementation plan has been agreed.

Trainees and trainers should implement this unit of training when trainees commence their next respective level of training (i.e. intermediate, higher);

·         CT1 Core unit from August 2016

·         ST3 Intermediate unit from August 2016

·         ST5 Higher unit from 2016

·         ST6/7 Advanced unit from 2016

The PoM units can be optional for CT2 and ST4 trainees in 2016, as these trainees will commence their mandatory units when they progress to their next training level i.e. ST3/5 in 2017.

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As soon as the e-portfolio has been updated to include the Perioperative Medicine units of training, the workbooks will be updated for the trainees starting CT1, ST3 and ST5 this August.

 

Kind Regards

John Dyer and Chris De Klerk

The latest version of the Guidebook for ICM competencies at Intermediate and Higher Level Training is now available on the website.

It contains a guide to using the ICM training progression Grids and recommended WPBAs to complete in order to complete the Grids.

The WPBAs and Training progression Grids are identical across all three Schools of Anaesthesia in the West Midlands.

Within the new Intermediate and Higher Level guidebooks the ICM module instructs you to refer to this document when completing your ICM module.

Follow the Workbooks link to go directly to the page on the website.

Regards

John Dyer