worD document last updated June 2024
Introduction for New Anaesthetists
See the Novice Introduction to the specialty programme for August 2024 (if you have access via sharepoint) here: Novice Programme
Welcome to the Highlands. Welcome to anaesthetics training.
Have a look at The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA) advice before you start Anaesthetics. https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/training-careers/training-anaesthesia/novice-guide
More information may be available on the Department Sharepoint site, the NoSSoA sharepoint site, Eolas
This will be a time of transition for you. You have probably come from a job where you took a lot of responsibility for your patients and, after two years or more as a doctor, felt like you had the hang of things.
You will be based in Raigmore for the duration of your three-year core training programme.
You will know which theatre you are allocated on a particular day from the clwrota app. You should contact the consultant or specialty anaesthetist you are with to find out where you should meet in the morning.
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.
If it wasn’t already clear, a logbook of your cases and procedures is absolutely mandatory
Your normal working week is 8am – 5.30pm Monday – Friday.
A weekend is 8am – 8.30pm both Saturday and Sunday.
You request your own annual leave, your study leave, and your Educational Development Time.
You need to take a pro-rata portion of your annual leave in each quarter.
How to survive in anaesthesia
Weekly there is a departmental meeting at 16:45
Every month there is an “audit afternoon”
Tea trolley teaching
Statutory and Mandatory training
Training in Anaesthesia Highlands of Scotland 