Applications are invited for 2 posts starting May and November 2022 for the Head and Neck anaesthesia fellowship posts at NPH
Friday 4th June 2021
Announcing the Imperial Novice Course - February/March 2021 please contact info@imperialnovice.com for details
Freely available to all Imperial School of Anaesthesia Trainees
Consultant led course - intense viva preparation including exam technique
The Marsden have a slot open for their airway research fellowship from Aug 2021. They will be considering any applications that arrive by/on the 4th December and plan to interview on the 18th December. The application is through the Marsden website fellowship pages (and not NHS jobs).
Please apply now for Fellowship posts in 2021/2022
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12 month post involving 50% education and 50% clinical work. Develop and deliver educational opportunities for anaesthetic trainees including simulation training. Funding available to undertake a PG Cert in Education.
2 six month posts starting Feb '21 and Feb '22
ACCS training lasts three years; the first two years comprise four posts in acute medicine, emergency medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. The third year is spent in your parent speciality - ACCS (Anaesthesia) trainees complete a year of anaesthetics, in order to complete basic level training and obtain the primary FRCA.
This page provides information on the specific requirements for core training. Please ensure you read and fully understand the requirements below and read the separate pages on the ePortfolio for help with completing workplace based assessments and units of training and the ARCP for the requirements for your annual appraisal.
If you cannot find the information you need on this page, click here to contact your trainee rep and here to get contact details of your training programme director.
Training In Detail
Your first year will be spent in Emergency Medicine and Acute Medicine. During this time your main focus should be on the specialty that you are doing rather than Anaesthetics. However, it is advised that you start working towards your primary FRCA exam before your second year. You will not be allowed to apply for ST3 (registrar) posts until you have passed both parts (MCQ and SOE-OSCE) of this exam.
You should use the ACCS Record Book which is designed to give trainee and trainers a central document where all required competencies and clinical procedures can be recorded. This is a very useful document to follow and the EM and AM Clinical Supervisor Reports can be done using this paperwork. The ACCS CT1 ARCP Checklist document also summarises all the documents required for your CT1 ARCP.
Each hospital has a College Tutor for Anaesthetics, details for them can be found on the hospitals page of the website. You should make yourself known to them when starting in ACCS or if you change hospital. You will be allocated a Clinical Supervisor for each 6 month attachment (by the host department). They will be responsible for your ‘educational supervision’ during your placement in for example emergency medicine.
You should also have an overall ‘Educational Supervisor’ for the two years. You should ask the college tutor in your anaesthetic department if they could allocate you one. Please note that for the anaesthetic e-portfolio the term ‘educational supervisor’ refers to you 6/12 placement clinical supervisor and not your overall educational supervisor or training programme director.
Finally, contact details for the EM and AM posts can be a bit enigmatic. In previous years we have found that the previous year's trainee is often the best contact so if you do find you are struggling then contact either Terri Stewart (School Office Manager) or Philip Peel (Training Programme Director CT1-2/ACCS) and they will try to help out.
Summative Assessments i.e. All 6 Major Presentations and the 6 EM recommended Acute Presentations must be completed by Consultants
It is also worth noting that in addition to the requirements of the ARCP documents there is a minimum number of WPBA required for each block see below, so keep an eye on this when completing assessments
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CBD |
Mini-Cex |
DOPS |
ACAT |
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Emergency Medicine |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
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Acute Medicine |
3 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
Some trainees have uploaded these paper assessments to their anaesthetic eportfolio account afterwards, but this is currently not mandatory.
When you start your ICM and Anaesthetic rotations WpBAs are now completed on the RCOA e-portfolio. All WBPAs should be completed online; paper forms are available on the RCOA website and can be uploaded to the e-Portfolio in exceptional circumstances. .
Generally as part of ACCS you will complete 6 months of intensive care medicine during your second year. This may be before or after your 6 months of anaesthetics.
During your 6 months of ICM you must do all the ACCS requirements (as specified in the ACCS CT2 ARCP Checklist 2010 Curriculum and ACCS ARCP Record Book). By successfully completing the first two years of ACCS training, you will have automatically completed the RCOA BASIC ICM UOT. Your educational Supervisor at the end of CT2a can therefore sign this off. There is therefore no need to duplicate assessments.
The minimum assessment requirements are 13 compulsory practical procedures during ICU comprising of 6 DOPS, 3 Mini-CEX, 4 CBDs and 1 ACAT) during your ITU rotation. The ACCS ARCP Record book specifies the 11 compulsory practical procedure assessments to be done in ICM with suggestions of type of assessments to use to complete them. The remaining 2 practical procedures can be chosen from the list in the ARCP record book or any other procedures in ICU.
During your ICM rotation you also must do your annual multi source feedback (MSF). You can complete a second MSF during your anaesthetics rotation that year but this is not essential.
The ICM Structured Training Report found in the ACCS ARCP Record Book can be used for your end of placement supervisor report and uploaded to the eportfolio.
Please see the Core Training page for detailed information on the anaesthetic component of ACCS training.
In essence, by the end of ACCS CT2a you are expected to have achieved your Initial Assessment of Competency and have each of the 8 Units of Training within the Introduction to Anaesthesia curriculum signed off as well as completed 1 ALMAT. For your ACCS CT2a Sign off you will also be expected to have completed all 6 Major Presentations, 38 Acute Presentations, all practical procedures in the ACCS Record Book as well as making progress toward achieving level 2 of all the common competences. This is summarized in the ACCS CT2 ARCP Checklist
The ACCS Anaesthetics CT2b year is equivalent to the Core Anaesthetics CT2 year. See the Core Training page for information and the required assessments needed during this year
Anaesthetics Dr Phil Peel
Emergency Medicine Dr Abosede (GB) Ajayi
Acute Medicine Dr Nidhi Vaid
ICM Dr Parind Patel
