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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).

"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.

Dr Richard Knight provides a gripping first-hand account of military surgical facilities during the Falklands War..."The doctrine under which the unit had trained was essentially the same as was used during the Second World War: treat a wound, evacuate and repeat to a major facility. The Falklands were 8,000 miles from any tertiary facility. Helicopter evacuation at night, when most battles took place, was extremely difficult."

Our working lives as anaesthetists revolve around effective teamwork, communication, and empathy with the many different professions we interact with. Interprofessional education (IPE) is an increasingly familiar teaching methodology which aims to enhance and improve these collaborative abilities. Considering recent critical reports on the lack of teamwork and interprofessional co-operation within clinical systems, we present a review of IPE and how its increased adoption may help address these failings.