Provisional programme for year ahead below.
Booking available via links on each date when highlighted.
Reserve study leave ASAP
Perioperative Medicine -24th November 2017
Book online below.
A week long conference in Tignes with plenty of self-directed learning time! Trainees are actively encouraged to deliver an oral presentation of their choosing. Great speakers, great networking, great accommodation (trainees are subsidised) and great ski area! Book your STUDY LEAVE now.
Of interest to Emergency Medicine and Retrieval Medicine trainees & specialists please see attached details regarding an upcoming burns course in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital entitled:
Pan-London educational meeting on airway management
6 Posts now advderised for substantive appointments at Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/8f26494652ca2de5e3d8b98b5258923b/?vac_ref=914787441
Obstetrics
The next Barts Heart One Lung simulation course is being held on 14 December 2017 - learn about the art of lung isolation, management of double lumen tubes and troubleshooting intra-operative problems in a high-fidelity simulation suite with experienced thoracic and trauma anaesthetists. Registration is £100 for the day and places are limited.
Nothing prepares you for a disaster following a procedure or surgery. The shock you
experience and helplessness you feel is unforgettable. You can get mentally blocked and the
stress of continuing to work afterwards can be unsurmountable. Your despair about your
career, future, other patients, and family. Your training, education, and experience does not
quite prepare you for such a situation. The looming consequence of GMC investigations and
licence withdrawal, patients’ complaints and bad pr
Free paediatric Anaesthetic Meeting.
Please email seth.galton@chelwest.nhs.uk to book a place
The Hospital
Charing Cross is a large acute general hospital. It is part of the Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust and one of Imperial College School of Medicine’s teaching hospitals. It contains The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, West London Neurosciences centre and Maggie’s cancer centre. It is a tertiary referral centre for complex surgery, plastic reconstruction and neurosurgery; as well as for head, neck and urological cancers.
As part of Imperial Healthcare trust it is a centre for Healthcare research namely in rheumatology and cancer research.
The Anaesthetic Department
The anaesthetic service is delivered by consultants, senior clinical fellows and senior trainees under direct supervision. Anaesthesia is provided for patients undergoing General surgical procedures, specialist ENT and Airway surgery, Urological (including gender reassignment and cancer) surgery, Plastics, Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic surgeries. Charing Cross Hospital is now the main site for Imperials’ chronic pain service with interventional procedures and clinics taking place.
As a trainee there is the opportunity to gain exposure to all of these surgical specialities as well as gaining experience in Regional techniques and anaesthesia for radiological procedures. The on call service is provided by a senior and junior registrar with support from consultants. Theatre, ED and ICU referrals are covered by this team on a 24/7 basis. Fellowships are available.
Weekly half day teaching is provided as well as monthly morbidity and mortality meetings. There is also an active Audit programme lead by Drinka Uzeirbegovic that everyone is encouraged to take part in.
The department website can be found here: click here
Audit Lead: Dr Drinka Uzeirbegovic
