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Biography of Prof Alastair Andrew Spence
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Research led by the College around improvements in the care of over 24,000 patients before, during and after emergency bowel surgery.
Dr Helgi Johannsson, RCoA Vice President, shares what LGBTQ+ History Month means to him.
NHS England has today released its first Long Term Workforce Plan. The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) recognises this as a very welcome and significant first step towards putting NHS staffing on a sustainable footing.
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This page provides guidance on how to use the LLP Milestones and Certificates section. It includes equivalence certificates for users moving from the 2010 to 2021 curriculum.
This article explores how to make the most of indirect supervision for both anaesthetists in training and trainers alike.
This article explores how to make the most of indirect supervision.
The 2021 curriculum was explicit about having ‘levels of supervision’ embedded within it. These are descriptors of the supervision level the anaesthetist in training (AiT) would require if they were to repeat the same Supervised Learning Event (SLE) immediately after.
‘Snowflake’ is a term commonly wielded by our elders to bludgeon what they deem to be a fragile, over-sensitive and under-resilient youth of today. A people unable to cope with life. It does however require a certain amount of historical amnesia to use this slight without some irony catching in the throat. Did they not enjoy rock bottom housing prices, free higher education and high levels of job security, only to then preside over their decimation?
I recently listened to two anaesthetists talking in a coffee-shop queue.
One was of a certain age and clearly exasperated at having to contemplate the supposed burnout levels in my generation of anaesthetists in training. He simply couldn’t understand it. After all, in his day they worked hundred hour weeks! ‘Bloody snowflakes’, he reflected. The other nodded gravely.
‘Snowflake’ is a term commonly wielded by our elders to bludgeon what they deem to be a fragile, over-sensitive and under-resilient youth of today. A people unable to cope with life. It does however require a certain amount of historical amnesia to use this slight without some irony catching in the throat. Did they not enjoy rock bottom housing prices, free higher education and high levels of job security, only to then preside over their decimation?
The concept of entrustment is as ancient as apprenticeship. This article gives a collaborative trainee and trainer perspective on entrustment decision-making.
Our response to the CQC's annual assessment of the state of health care and adult social care in England, which reveals an extremely concerning picture. We suggest a number of measures to address the challenges identified.