2021 Curriculum for a CCT in Anaesthetics

The RCoA will comply, and ensure compliance, with the requirements of equality and diversity legislation set out in the Equality Act 2010.

The RCoA believes that equality of opportunity is fundamental to the many and varied ways in which individuals become involved with the Colleges, either as members of staff and Officers; as advisers from the medical profession; as members of the Colleges' professional bodies or as doctors in training and examination candidates.

Deaneries will quality assure each training programme so that it complies with the equality and diversity standards in postgraduate medical training as set by GMC. They should provide access to a professional support unit or equivalent for anaesthetists in training requiring additional support.

Compliance with anti-discriminatory practice will be assured through:

• monitoring of recruitment processes
• ensuring all College representatives and Programme Directors have attended appropriate training sessions prior to appointment or within 12 months of taking up post
• Deaneries ensuring that educational supervisors have had equality and diversity training (for example, an e-learning module) every 3 years
• Deaneries ensuring that any specialist participating in anaesthetist in training interview/appointments committees or processes has had equality and diversity training (at least as an e-module) every 3 years
• ensuring anaesthetists in training have an appropriate, confidential and supportive route to report examples of inappropriate behaviour of a discriminatory nature. Deaneries and Programme Directors must ensure that on appointment anaesthetists in training are made aware of the route in which inappropriate or discriminatory behaviour can be reported and supplied with contact names and numbers. Deaneries must also ensure contingency mechanisms are in place if anaesthetists in training feel unhappy with the response or uncomfortable with the contact individual
• providing resources to anaesthetists in training needing support (for example, through the provision of a professional support unit or equivalent)
• monitoring of College Examinations
• ensuring all assessments discriminate on objective and appropriate criteria and do not unfairly advantage or disadvantage an anaesthetist in training with any of the Equality Act 2010 protected characteristics. All efforts shall be made to ensure the participation of people with a disability in training through reasonable adjustments and recognising that not all disabilities are visible.