All trainees undergo appraisal. In addition, all appointees entering an SpR training programme after February 2003 will be required to undergo in-theatre assessment.
Educational Activities - Departmental: Educational meetings take place at 08:00 on Monday (TOE Tutorial), 08:00 on Wednesday (Consultant lead), 08:00 on Thursday (Trainee Presentations), and 08:00 on Friday (ICU Journal Club). It is expected that trainees with clinical commitments that immediately follow Departmental educational meetings arrive at 07:50 in order to allow sufficient time to change into the operating theatre clothing. Titles of past and future meetings.
Educational Activities - Hospital: Monthly audit meetings take place at 09:00 in the lecture theatre on the third thursday of the month. Monthly morbidity and mortality meetings are held at 14:00 on a rotating weekday. Attendance at these meetings is considered to be mandatory.
The hospital has a multi-disciplinary library with a good supply of Anaesthetic and Intensive Care journals. There are on-line facilities for Medline literature searches and access to the internet is available. The librarians will provide you with a photocopying allowance upon request. The anaesthetic trainee room is equipped with a personal computer and there is a small collection of CD-ROMs containing teaching material for Transoesophageal Echocardiography.
Educational Activities - Regional: Rotating SpRs are released for Friday teaching at Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital except when they are due to be on-call during the day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Trainees on-call on the Thursday night preceding Regional Training meetings may be able to leave Papworth Hospital earlier than usual. In each instance this must be arranged in advance with the Consultant on call providing another trainee agrees to provide earlier cover.
Annual / Study Leave Requests: Details of the trainee leave policy and the procedures for booking leave can be obtained from the Specialist Registrar page.
Commuting: The Department does not encourage trainees to spend more then two (2) hours daily commuting to and from Papworth Hospital. For this reason accommodation is provided for trainees during their short rotation at Papworth Hospital.
Duties of the trainees: It is the trainee's responsibility to participate fully in the training and clinical programme, maintaining a personal log-book and appropriate records of progress, and participating in performance reviews.
The first on-call trainee is resident to provide immediate support for the critical care areas and resuscitation. A second on-call trainee assists the on-call consultant with out of hours theatre cases, assists the first on-call trainee on the ICU when requested, and is also responsible for hospital transfers and management of organ donors.
Trainees will be required to observe all hospital policies and procedures and appropriate clinical protocols
On-call duties: The rotas is 1:6 (first on-call) - partial shifts with prospective cover for annual and study leave. Daytime shifts currently start at 08:00 seven (7) days a week. Night shifts start at 18:00 hours (Monday to Friday) and 20:00 (Saturday and Sunday). Morning ICU ward rounds typically end before 10:00. It is expected that an evening hand-over round will take place between 18:00 and 19:00 on weekdays (Consultant lead) and between 20:00 and 21:00 at weekends.
The first on-call SpR is resident on-call for the ICU (1:6) and holds the cardiac arrest bleep. Under no circumstances should the cardiac arrest bleep be taken to the MRI or CT scanner. Arrangements must be made for another SpR or the ICU Consultant to hold the bleep in your absence.
The second on-call SpR is expected to remain resident in the hospital during the week until 21:00.
Due to the intensity of night work produced by the ICU, operating theatres and organ donor excursions, the posts are currently in pay Band 3. It is very likely that new working patterns will be introduced during 2004 to make the posts compliant with the 'New Deal'.
