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Novice Induction Programme

August 2025 Date Time Venue Trainer Subject Wednesday 6th August 8:30am UHI building, multipurpose room 1st floor Medical Education Healthboard Induction programme 1pm Anaesthetic library Max Fourman Departmental Induction 3pm Max Fourman Basics from a trainee perspective Wednesday 13th August 2pm Room 9, 1st floor training suite Jenny Parsons Embarking upon the training programme 4pm…
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The Trainee Development and Wellbeing Service
The TDWS is a service provided by NES for doctors in training. They can help with Less than Full Time Training, careers advice, and signpost to lots of support. Some of their resources are freely available on their website to get started. You can refer yourself to TDWS or allow your supervisor to refer you.…
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Lifelong Learning Platform

The online platform used by all UK anaesthetists in training and many other anaesthetists now has 25,000 users. Lifelong Learning | The Royal College of Anaesthetists (rcoa.ac.uk) I attended an update session for LLP regional “leads”, in which many leads fed back to the college recent bugbears, glitches, and requests for improvements. They mentioned they…
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Training LTFT in Anaesthesia
The information about moving to Less than Full Time training in Scotland is all here. Here’s me talking about it Main point is: A doctor in training now only needs a “well founded individual reason” LTFT is the solution, not the problem.
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Supervision levels, and remember the North of Scotland School

For those of you who need a prompt to define the different Entrustment Scales or Supervision Levels defined in the current Anaesthetic and ACCS curriculum – here is a great prompt taken from the Aberdeen Anaesthesia site. Remember, when countersigning Supervised Learning Events, you are deciding what level of supervision you’d be happy with if…
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Novice Induction Programme

August 2024 Date Time Venue Trainer Subject Wednesday 7th August am UHI building Medical Education Healthboard Induction programme 1pm Anaesthetic library Jenny Parsons Departmental Induction 3pm 2nd Floor Anaesthetic Tutorial room Jenny Parsons Embarking upon training and LLP Monday 12th August 2pm 2nd Floor Anaesthetic Tutorial Room John Smith The misconduct of anaesthesia 3pm 1st…
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GAS newsletter Summer 2024

With Permission, A copy of this most recent newsletter from Green Anaesthesia Scotland. Newsletter
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ST4 recruitment – Portfolio scoring

5 minutes chat from Jenny about ST4 application, particularly Portfolio scoring ST4portfolioScoring.webm (sharepoint.com) Text summary: February start recruitment job advert 22nd July. August 25 jobs advertised mid November 2024 Candidates upload portfolio evidence and score themselves. Then Assessor moderate the scores. Reviews can be requested. There’s also an overall “portfolio organisation Score” This year they…
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Jenny Chat (Exam changes)

For those of you who prefer to get your college news by chatting to me in theatre and yet aren’t lucky enough to be doubled up with me any time soon. Errors or misunderstandings are my own, and I apologise. Info released by the college will be more accurate. Future Exam Changes
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CT1 recruitment

5 minutes chat from Jenny about what I’ve heard about the MSRA exam. June 29th 2024 RecruitmentCT1MSRA.mp4 Text Summary of video: MultiSpecialty Recruitment Assessment (MSRA) is an exam used for short listing CT1s There are preparatory materials available. Tis an exam of two parts. this years results – 3182 sat the exam with an application…
