The Primary FRCA MCQ is a three-hour written exam comprising 90 Single Best Answer (SBA) questions. Candidates must pass the MCQ exam before they can become eligible to sit the Primary FRCA OSCE/SOE examinations.
We talk to Dr Layla Guscoth, an anaesthetist who has recently completed her novice period (as well as being an England netball star!), about pre-assessing patients and the pre-op visit. We discuss some of the challenges involved as well as key things not to miss and why we do pre-op visits in the first place.
Together with 18 other healthcare organisations, the RCoA urges Government to strip the General Medical Council of its power to appeal Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service decisions.
Dr Roger Sharpe qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1986. He trained in anaesthesia in North West London and was appointed as a consultant at Northwick Park Hospital in 1997. He is a generalist anaesthetist and has worked predominantly in trauma, obstetrics and DGH level paediatrics.
This report sets out how the NHS is in dire need of more anaesthetists. Anaesthetists play a critical role across many NHS services, and most operations require an anaesthetist to be present in order to take place.
Professor Neil Mortensen is President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He writes about how anaesthetists are needed to tackle the unprecedented backlog in elective surgery.