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
Register to attend this Online event
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
Reminder for ST6s
The North Central School Novice Course booking is now open on Synapse!
The Imperial Novice Course was established in 2010 and we have over a decade of experience delivering a high-quality introduction to Anaesthesia. We have consistently tried to improve and keep our content relevant to the developing needs of our novices. Our traditional face-face course format, prior to 2020, consisted of 4 days of lectures and workshop-based small group teaching, and one day of simulation. As the Covid-19 pandemic evolved, we transformed our course into a qualitatively successful online learning package (www.imperialnovice.com) for our August 2020 novices.
We fully recognise that novices, starting in February/March 2021, will have drastically reduced training opportunities as elective surgery is likely to continue to run at a reduced level. With this in mind, the online content has been devised to ease you into the specialty well-known for its complicated knowledge, drugs, equipment, and skills. The purpose of the course is to support you to achieve the Initial Assessment of Competency which must be obtained within your first 3-6 months of anaesthesia training.
This course will not only provide you with the very basic knowledge you need to achieve your Initial Assessment of Competency but also a taste of things you should be considering during your everyday practice. We know and understand that to begin with it’s about surviving and getting through the list (both novices and patients alike – we were novices once too and remember how tough some days can be!). Video podcasts have been produced on key areas of anaesthetic practice which are likely to be completely new to you. You will be expected to be familiar with these basics within weeks of starting your training but being able to refer back, reflect and refresh on them as you progress will be of real benefit. You will have access to this online material for the next 12 months.
In recognition of the steep learning curve you are facing, the Imperial School of Anaesthesia, has made our novice course a mandatory requirement for all core anaesthesia trainees, all ACCS trainees and all ICM trainees with a rotation in Anaesthesia – you will have been sent login details.
Learners progress through online material at a self-directed pace. The online material is divided into 71 video podcasts and 46 written topics. The podcasts have been recorded by consultants and trainees from the Imperial School of Anaesthesia hospitals network and we would like to thank all those that have contributed to this material. Each topic is stand-alone and approximately 10 minutes duration. The content has been divided in this way to allow it to be viewed in easily digestible chunks with a low risk of screen fatigue. Our learning platform is designed to allow us to monitor progress of our individual learners so that poor compliance or potential issues can be rapidly identified.
The online material will be accompanied by live interactive sessions which will be held once a week for four weeks. The focus of these sessions will be to apply the learning from the online material in small-group discussions of case-based scenarios. This interactive component of the course has been postponed until the current Covid-19 surge eases. Once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, we hope to re-instate the face-to-face components of our course which include practical skills workshops and simulation.
Please feel free to contact us at anytime at info@imperialnovice.com with any issues or concerns and we will do our best to help promptly.
Good luck! We hope to meet many of you in the coming weeks and months.
Imperial School of Anaesthesia Novice Course
Directors 2021
Dr Sadie Syed – Consultant Anaesthetist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Rakhee Nathwani – Consultant Anaesthetist, West Hertfordshire NHS trust
Dr Rajinder Chaggar – Consultant Anaesthetist, London North West Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Patrick Ward – Consultant Anaesthetist, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust
Dr Ivan Dillon – Associate Specialist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Rajan Saini – Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Dr Sanooj Soni – Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London
Dr Sneh Shah – Senior Specialty Trainee, Imperial School of Anaesthesia
Dr George Bailey – Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
