Congratulations to Dr Victoria Millington who recently won the RWT’s Education Academy & Innovation Award 2018.
This is in recognition of her clinical work in Anaesthetics.
Well done Victoria!
Dear Trainees and Trainers
As you all know by now the RCoA e-portfolio in it’s current form is coming to an end on the 31 July 2018 and will be replaced by the Life Long Learning Platform.
Please read the attached RCoA and local guidance explaining the changeover procedure and requirements.
Please note it is paramount everyone engages in this changeover to prevent loss of data and information from previous training years.
LLL Platform changeover for West-Midlands Anaesthesia Trainees
The GDPR act, governs the data we collect about you. We collect the following user information for all registered users:
We do not pass this information on to any 3rd parties.
On the pages with access restricted to registered users, the rotations are available to be viewed by other registered users. These include full names and GMC numbers of the trainees.
If you are uncomfortable with us holding this data about you and would like to be forgotten, then contact us and we will remove your data from the website.
For details of HEE privacy notice regarding the data held by HEE for all the trainees, please follow the link:
There are new rules regarding what LTFT trainees are allowed to do with regards to Locum shifts. Please read the attachment if it applies to you
Due to the LTFT process being rather cumbersome at present and in line with the improving junior doctors working lives initiative we are making changes to the LTFT application process with immediate effect to make it as simple as possible for trainees to train less than full time. Previously trainees have been asked to complete an eligibility form (Stage 1) to train less than full time followed by a form which needed to be completed every time you rotated to a new post. From 1st April the process has changed so the stage 2 process will be removed. Therefore all trainees will need to have completed an eligibility form for LTFT training, once this is approved and they have an agreed LTFT percentage to train all future training posts will show this percentage. If they wish to change their percentage they need to complete an amendment to LTFT percentage form at least 16 weeks in advance of their next placement but this is the only time they will need to complete an additional form.
We will be producing new paperwork and guidance that will be uploaded to the LTFT section of the deanery website over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime please note that any outstanding or future stage 2 forms do not need to be completed unless a trainee intends to change the percentage they are training at in the future.
Communications has been sent to all trainees that are currently in a post that is less than 1.0 wte. We will also send out communications to all trainees in full time posts to ensure that they are aware of the process should they wish to apply in the near future.
Dr Helen Goodyear
Associate Postgraduate Dean for LTFT training, careers and professional support
It is unlikely that you have not thought about the use of formal written reflective practice, in light of the recent press coverage.
Restructuring of reflective practice templates on e-prtfolios is in progress. Please see the Joint statement below for further information
In the mean time it is important that you continue to reflect and learn from your experiences at work. If you are writing something down then my advice would be to focus on how your practice has developed and avoid mentioning any case history, dates or patient identifiable information.
John Dyer
