Adapting to change is the theme for this year's training issue. As always, the issue is packed with the usual great mix of features, opinions and guidance. You'll also get to meet our new editorial board anaesthetist in training members and we have a new feedback form.
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We are really excited to be publishing the second edition of our new Digital Bulletin. This month's edition is filled with features, editor's picks, opinion pieces, and newsworthy topics. We hope you enjoy the new Digital Bulletin experience.
Prehabilitation is a collection of methods that aims to improve outcomes in surgery by optimising the patient’s condition prior to their operation. Increasing surgical wait time has led to calls for a change in the perception of waiting lists to seeing them as ‘preparation lists’. Preparation is multifactorial, and one aspect of it is psychological prehabilitation.
Planning and implementing one of the new special interest areas (SIAs) available from the 2021 curriculum: a trainee’s and trainer’s perspective.
Let’s consider some real patients who were invited to prehabilitation (‘prehab’) clinic for colorectal cancer surgery (names anonymised).
Patient perspective: Wondrous excellence - the contribution of Islamic medicine to modern healthcare
"When I was first asked by the College to write a short article on the talk I had given earlier in the year on the history of medicine, I was initially hesitant for the simple reason that the subject was so vast to do justice to, and moreover that it had to be accessible to everyone."
‘May you live in interesting times’ has a heavy degree of irony at present. However, It is my honour to write my first piece as fifth dean of the Faculty and following our historic public statement, made in conjunction with the RCoA, of plans to start work to develop a UK College of Intensive Care Medicine.
Find out the latest appointments approved, and with sadness we record the deaths of some of our fellows.
Here is the latest data from the CPD event-accreditation scheme. During 2022 we received more than 900 applications for CPD event accreditation. Around two-thirds of these gained the accreditation applied for without condition, although for the remainder this approval only became available when further information or clarification was provided.
Dr Tom Burr, ST4 Anaesthetist and Dr Marie Nixon, Clinical Quality Advisor, Consultant Anaesthetist tell us how flashcard simulation helps tackle unrecognised oesophageal intubation.