Most meetings are held either in the Anaesthetic Library, Staffroom or in the Orthopaedic Library on the 3rd floor.
There is a library situated in the Postgraduate Centre. The Centre publishes a list of educational activities taking place throughout the hospital and to which you are most welcome.
Once a week, there is a departmental meeting at 16.45 hrs. This is on TEAMS. The day of the week this is on changes every six months. As of Winter 2024 it is currently on a Tuesday.
On usually Wednesdays or occasionally Thursdays there is a teaching afternoon during term time. If your name does not appear on CLW for the Wednesday afternoon teaching, then it is not compulsory that you attend if it is not counted as part of your working hours, perhaps you are on zero hours or post nights. However, it is desirable that as many trainees as possible do attend.
Doctors in training on their Critical Care rotation should be released to attend the FRCA teaching programme. If this is not happening, please bring it to my attention or discuss with the Head of Department for Critical Care.
Every month there is an audit afternoon which affects all departments in the hospital and is held at different locations. Again, if it is a day you don’t expect a zero-hours or leave, then you’d be expected to attend this CME. Strangely this often does not appear on CLW so please keep your eye out for these “audit afternoons”. Dates are listed here.
All trainees are obliged to maintain a portfolio of all educational activity.
Trainees have up to 30 days study leave per year. 5 days are top sliced for the tutorial programme, leaving 25 days during which they may attend external courses or apply for private study leave. This leave may not be carried over from one year to the next. There is a maximum of 5 days private study leave allowable per part of each exam.
Tea Trolley Teaching
This way of delivering teaching across our department has been established and if you would like to take on the running of it, contact Dr Hooper.
The concept is very simple: A pair of anaesthetic trainees (or a trainee and a consultant) go from theatre to theatre with one taking over the anaesthetic case while the other runs a teaching session. This typically involves a ten minute talk on anything from a new guideline, an exciting piece of kit or running through a scenario. The target audience include all grades of anaesthetists and ODPs/anaesthetic nurses.
An interesting article on Tea Trolley Teaching can be found here: Combining the day job with time for training and tea – The BMJ
Statutory and Mandatory Training
How to Access
The Statutory and Mandatory Training is mostly on TURAS Learn. An up-to-date matrix of what training modules you require can be found on the intranet in a Spreadsheet at the bottom of this page here:
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The corporate induction on your first morning may cover some of these subjects already. The departmental induction is also mandatory training of course. Otherwise, these modules add up to about 17 hours of work. Please complete them during your IAC period, fitting in an hour before and/or after your Novice Induction to anaesthesia tutorials which occur in the 3rd and 5th week of August.
Healthboard Mandatory Training
- Fire Safety FIRE001
- Moving & Handling Module A M&H001
- Violence and Aggression V&A001
- Information Governance: Safe info handling INF001
- Why Infection Prevention and Control matters HAI002
- Equality and Diversity and Human Rights EQU001
- Hand Hygiene HAI001
- Public Protection – Everyone’s responsibility CPT004
- Staying Safe Online – Top Tips for staff INF002
- Intro to adult protection in Highland Level 1 ASP001
- Safe Transfusion Practice BTS016
- Safe Transfusion Practice for Paediatrics BTS017
- Medical Gases Clinical Theory H&S009
- Medical Gases Practical Tutorial Video H&S011
- Breaking the Chain of Infection HAI003
- PPE HAI004
- Safe disposal of waste HAI005
Line Manager Mandated Training
Feel free to clarify with your Line Manager, Head of Department – David Blacoe
The training which I know so far is mandatory is:
The HEPMA training – a link should have been emailed to you
The Synopsis training for access to digital Preopearative Assessment documents – the link is here: https://elearning.intouchwithhealth.co.uk/login/?lang=en and a username and log in should be emailed to you. If it is not, then ask Morag to make an IT request for a login.
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