There are many logbooks available, some better than the one provided by the college.
For all your assessments, the summaries must be in the format as per the college one so most people still use that. It is also easy to export the college logbook in a spreadsheet format. Alternatives include Logbook (anaesthetics.app) There is a programme of improvement for the college one continuing over the next couple of years.
If it wasn’t already clear, a logbook of your cases and procedures is absolutely mandatory and it will be examined when determining whether you have met your Learning Objectives in most Domains and at every Annual Review of Career Progression (ARCP).
Supervision Definitions
Each case in your logbook requires the supervision to be recorded. The following definitions provided by the RCoA should be used.
Immediate – ‘This means that the individual is working directly with a supervisor who is actually with the supervisee or can be present within seconds.’
Local – ‘The supervisor is usually within the theatre suite, is immediately available for advice and is able to be with the supervisee within minutes of being called.’
Distant – ‘For distant supervision, the supervisor is rapidly available for advice but is off the hospital site or separated from the supervisee by over 10 minutes.’
Solo – no supervision required, so only consultants should use this for anaesthesia cases.
For procedures, there is no definition from the RCoA so the supervision definitions below should be used. They have been agreed by the education team in Aberdeen.
Observed – you have watched someone else do the procedure.
Supervised – you have done the procedure with supervision as defined above.
Solo – no supervision required
Teaching – you are competent at the procedure and have taught or supervised someone else.
If using the college logbook, please do not click the radio button under teaching marked “none”. There is a glitch as of Summer 2024 that means if you do this, the case is counted in the summary as a teaching case. If you were not teaching, just leave it blank.
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