Royal College of Anaesthetists’ response to the Department of Health consultation, ‘Promoting professionalism, reforming regulation’
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This guidance sets out the experience and evidence required for the transition year between intermediate level training on the 2010 Anaesthetics Curriculum and Stage 3 training on the 2021 Anaesthetics Curriculum.
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Introduction
Cardiothoracic anaesthesia services are provided for patients undergoing cardiac and thoracic procedures. To reflect current practice, these guidelines have been more clearly divided to identify areas of differing requirement. Anaesthetists in cardiac surgical services are now more frequently required to provide anaesthesia for invasive cardiology procedures.
Cardiac surgery
Cardiac surgery may involve adult, paediatric and neonatal patients and includes...
Introduction
Day surgery is the planned admission of a surgical patient for an elective or semi-elective procedure where the patient is admitted, undergoes surgery and is discharged on the same calendar day.2 If the patient remains in a hospital bed overnight on the day of their surgery they are classed as having undergone inpatient surgery. The term ‘23-hour stay’...
This identifies the purpose, content of learning, process of training, and the programme of assessment for postgraduate specialist training leading to a Certificate of Completion of Training in Anaesthetics.