Anaesthetists Handbook - MEDICAL EDUCATION at University ...

Education and trainingTraining 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. The external training modules are allocatedfor four or twelve weeks depending on the level of training.Priorities in training modulesSome modules involve working a separate shift pattern for a while,and some are expressed as targets for the achievement ofspecialised experience. While you are entitled to take reasonableannual and study leave, you should not concentrate leave in thesemodules, as this will cause severe scheduling problems for you andyour colleagues. The most important modules are as follows.1. Critical care resident: four StRs working a separate shift patternwholly in critical care medicine.2. Neurosurgical anaesthesia: training in UHCW is provided withover two hundred craniotomies and fifteen hundred cases intotal being done annually. Training is also available inneuroradiology especially interventional techniques for thecoiling of cerebral aneurysms. UHCW is able to provide all theclinical requirements necessary for advanced sub-specialitytraining in neuroanaesthesia as defined in the RCoA document‘CCT in Anaesthetics IV’. There is an option for modularattachment to the neurosurgical unit at the Queen ElizabethHospital in Birmingham (see below). This attachment must bearranged by the programme director of the school ofanaesthesia3. Cardiothoracic anaesthesia: at least one specialty registrarshould be attached to the cardiac theatres at all times.4. Paediatric anaesthesia: there are paediatric opportunitiesavailable in Coventry. Ask Dr Chari (paediatric anaesthesialead) about this. There is also a modular attachment inBirmingham – see below.5. ATM (advanced training module): year 5, 6 and 7 specialtyregistrars are allocated to this in their first month in order to gain76 Anaesthetists Handbook January 2010