Anaesthetists Handbook - MEDICAL EDUCATION at University ...

Administrative issuesYou will need a user name and password which you can get from theoffice staff. The rota is available from all locations inside and outsidethe trust; you can check it from home.Make sure you check the rota every Friday afternoon for the weekahead. The rotas will not be circulated by any other medium and arenot sent round on paper.List cancellations and changesIn the event of a list cancellation or early finish for whatever reason,you must notify the Anaesthesia Office and the general on callconsultant. The administrative staff will then determine whether toreallocate you to a different list.On call rotasTraining modules are now organised in one-month blocks withdesignated modules allocated flexibly to maximise trainingopportunities. The exception to this is Intensive Care Medicine whichis a three-month block. You will be doing on call duties around yourmodular attachments.On-call duties include long day shifts, night shifts, and trauma andCEPOD list work in the afternoon and evening. Rotas for this workare published at the start of the rotation by the college tutor.Trainees wishing to take leave of any description will beresponsible for arranging swaps of on call duty with theircolleagues so as to maintain on-call coverage.All swaps must be notified to the office on a swap form that has beenfully completed and signed by both trainees. In the absence of aproperly-completed swap form, signed by both doctors, the traineewhose name appears on the published rota is responsible for workingthe shift. It is only possible to swap duties with a colleague whohas worked on the type of shift that they will be covering. For66 Anaesthetists Handbook January 2010