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Dr Kemp and Dr Dore, creators of NovPod tell us how they developed the successful series and what they've learnt along the way.
Authors:
- Dr Duncan Kemp, Anaesthetic Registrar and co-creator of the NovPod
- Dr Eoin Dore, Anaesthetic Registrar and co-creator of the NovPod
This month marks a year of hard work coming to fruition since we launched the podcast ‘NovPod: A beginner’s guide to anaesthetics’. With more than 25,000 ‘listens’ in the first three months, it feels like we’ve created a practical, useful podcast that has been well-received. So to celebrate, we’d like to take you behind the scenes to talk through how we developed the NovPod and discuss some lessons learnt along the way.
From the beginning: why did we do it?
After creating a one-off podcast for a Difficult Airway Society multimedia competition, we wanted to build on this. Our plans coincided with the renovation of the RCoA novice curriculum and so our target audience became obvious – novice anaesthetists. We reflected on our own experiences and set out to share some of the best advice we received as novices. This wasn’t from textbooks or courses, but rather the voices of the friendly registrars and SHOs who would take us aside and tell us how anaesthetics worked in practice – giving us advice and survival tips to help us grow and develop.
This article looks at how the Lifelong Learning Platform continues to evolve, having undergone an unprecedented amount of change in the last couple of years.
Since its launch in August 2018, the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) has undergone an unprecedented amount of change. As well as adding the new Anaesthetic and ACCS 2021 curricula in August 2021, it also supports CPD Learners for Revalidation and FICM users, and automatically updates member details via our Customer Relationship Management system.
The platform continues to receive extremely high levels of use, supporting the career lifecycle of more than 24,000 fellows and members in the UK. Currently more than 21,000 of these have used the LLP for assessments and documenting their training in general. In a typical month there will be more than 400,000 LLP user interactions, including 100,000 Logbook entries and the addition of 45,000 Workplace Based Assessments or Supervised Learning Events.
The pandemic has generated a staggering backlog, with more than 7 million patients waiting for care. In order to treat these patients in a timely way, we need to increase our work rate beyond pre-pandemic levels but with our current workforce and model of care, this will be difficult.
Authors:
- Dr Hamish McLure, Medical Director (Professional Standards and Workforce Development) and Consultant Anaesthetist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Dr Natalie Drury, Consultant Anaesthetist and Anaesthesia Associate Lead, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The pandemic has generated a staggering backlog, with more than 7 million patients waiting for care. In order to treat these patients in a timely way, we need to increase our work rate beyond pre-pandemic levels but with our current workforce and model of care, this will be difficult.
Fatigue, burnout, repeated acute illnesses and a punitive tax system mean we have a fragile workforce with minimal capacity or interest in additional work. RCoA workforce data shows little to be optimistic about, with a projected gap of 11,000 anaesthetists by 2040. This demand cannot be met without a massive increase in training numbers. Given the pressures in virtually every other specialty, this is unlikely.
This article explores how and why less-than-full-time training is increasing in popularity, with 28% of AiTs now choosing to work LTFT.
Dr Emira Kursumovic is an ST7 anaesthetist in Bath and HSRC-NAP7 clinical research fellow. She leads work on anaesthesia and critical care COVID activity tracking surveys called ACCC-track.
In February 2021 we launched Anaesthesia – fit for the future, our UK wide campaign on the anaesthetic workforce.
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