Courses/meetings in the Oxford Region

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Oxford Region Trainee Study Days

These study days are exclusively for CT1 and CT2 trainees. Trainees should make attendance at these study days a priority as they are considered an important training objective.

Intensive Care Medicine

Basic Intensive Care issues are approached through a combination of small group sessions and lectures from regional experts. The use of innovative teaching techniques attracts large numbers of CT1/2 trainees and formal feedback continues to be excellent.

Organiser – Dr Clare Stapleton, Wexham Park

Obstetric Anaesthesia

The first ever Oxford Region SHO study day was in Obstetric anaesthesia, and was held in Reading in 2004. On an annual basis since then, essential topics in obstetric anaesthesia are covered in a mixture of lectures and small group workshops.

Organisers – Dr Rosie Jones, Dr Jane Bird, Royal Berkshire

Paediatric Anaesthesia

This annual training day consists of lectures and workshops aiming to provide an introduction to paediatric anaesthesia.

Organiser – Dr Chris Leng, Northampton

Pain

An annual study day on basic pain management for CT1 and CT2 trainees.

Organiser – To be confirmed

Regional Anaesthesia

General principles and basic anatomy are covered in lectures, and practical skills including the use of ultrasound, are taught in workshops.

Organiser – Dr Clare Skinner, Reading and Dr Svetlana Rutter, Oxford

Oxford Primary FRCA Course

The Oxford Primary FRCA Course is held annually, during the last week of February. The Course consists of five intensive days of lectures and tutorials covering the vital parts of the exam syllabus and includes MCQ practice. The course is updated annually in response to candidate feedback. The limited number of places ensures you are not lost in a huge lecture theatre.

As well as covering physiology and pharmacology, our particular strengths are physics and clinical measurement. These subjects are responsible for the failure of most candidates who are unsuccessful in the examination. We know from feedback from previous courses that participants have welcomed the expertise of our enthusiastic faculty which includes academic staff as well as expert NHS consultant teachers from the Oxford School of Anaesthesia: this combination reflects the profile of the Primary FRCA examiners.

A huge file of educational material is provided to all candidates.

In 2007, the Course moved to St Anne’s College in central Oxford: an ideal setting for an academic week.

Course Administrator – Silvia Siret, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
Tel: 01865 231511

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Booking form 2010
CC authorization form
Accommodation list
General information
To St Anne’s by bus

Oxford Airway Workshops

Oxford Difficult Airway Workshop

This workshop has now been reintroduced in a new and improved format and is for all grades of anaesthetists wishing to refresh and update skills in managing patients with a difficult airway. The course aims to provide practical and hands on experience in techniques outlined in the DAS guidelines and in a variety of other advanced airway management skills. There is an entire session dedicated to awake fibreoptic intubation with interactive case based discussions, videos and over 5 hours of hands-on workshops to reinforce the theory and refine manual dexterity.

Course Organisers: Dr Alex Marfin and Dr Mridula Rai

Oxford Paediatric Difficult Airway Workshop

The Paediatric Difficult Intubation Workshop is for trainees and consultants who anaesthetise children and wish to refresh and update skills in managing children with a difficult airway. The course aims to discuss the management of the anticipated and unanticipated paediatric difficult airway. The format of the day is one of short interactive lectures, videos and hands-on small group workshops. The workshops cover care and basic use of the fibre-optic laryngoscope, modified airway and LMA access techniques using guidewires and exchange catheters. Delegate numbers are limited to 24 places to allow maximum opportunity to interact and interrogate the faculty.

Course Organisers: Dr David G Mason, Dr Mansukh Popat, Dr Stuart Benham, Oxford

Oxford Training the Trainers – Airway Management

This is not an airway workshop. This is a course to empower trainers with the knowledge and practices to optimise airway training in the face of reduced trainee hours and training opportunities. At a time when airway training is under such pressures, we need to develop radical training methods which optimise every training opportunity to equip our trainees with the appropriate airway management skills. Experienced Faculty will cover:

Basic airway training (SHO)
How to assess airway competency
Advanced airway training (SpR1-4)
The use of simulators and workshops
Where do airway workshops fit in?
Teaching fibreoptic intubations on each other
The College curriculum - a work in progress
Is there capacity to deliver airway training?
Timetabling airway training blocks for SHO/SpR1
Advanced airway fellowships SpR 4/5.

Course Organisers: Dr Mansukh Popat, Dr Stuart Benham, Oxford

Wexham Park Advanced Airway Workshop

This workshop is geared towards trainees wishing to refresh and update skills in airway management. There are lectures, interactive discussions and over 4 hours of hands-on workshop training. The course provides intensive practical tuition on manikin and animal models.

Organisers – Wexham Park Airway Group

Oxford Regional Anaesthesia Course

This intensive 2 day course covers regional anaesthesia equipment and techniques including upper and lower limb, intrapleural, cervical plexus and eye nerve blocks.

Course organiser – Dr Svetlana Rutter, Oxford

Ophthalmic Regional Anaesthesia Study Day

An annual study day on ophthalmic anaesthesia at Milton Keynes. This includes lectures on anatomy, regional anaesthesia for eye surgery, and complications, as well as demonstrations of blocks in theatre.

Organiser – Dr V Hariharan, Milton Keynes General Hospital

OPIUM - Oxford Pain Interdisciplinary Update Meeting

At the annual Oxford Pain Interdisciplinary Update Meeting, presentations on different aspects of acute and chronic pain management are given by local experts and invited speakers.

Organiser – Dr Jane Quinlan, Dr Helen Higham, Oxford

Oxford Region Intensive Care Society Meetings (ORICS)

The Oxford Regional Intensive Care Society meets twice a year. The Autumn meeting is held in Oxford and the Spring meeting rotates around the regional hospitals.

OxSim Courses

OxSim is a purpose-built medical simulation centre based at the John Radcliffe Hospital. The OxSim Centre houses medium fidelity adult and paediatric patient simulators (SimMan/Simbaby/SimNewB) and has advanced audiovisual capabilities in the simulator suite and the adjacent seminar room. The centre provides a state of the art environment where medical students and multidisciplinary healthcare professionals can use adult and child patient simulators to rehearse a wide variety of medical scenarios. In addition the centre works closely with the Kadoorie Critical Care and Trauma Training and Research Centre which houses a high fidelity adult (METI) patient simulator.

Current courses include:

Train The Trainer – The Potential & Pitfalls of Creating and Running Simulation Scenarios
Train The Trainer – Facilitation & Feedback
Anaesthetic Crisis Rescource Management (ACRM)
Obstetric Anaesthetic Crisis Simulation (OACS)
Airway Refresher for Non-Anaesthetists

Director of the OxSim Centre	Dr Helen Higham
Clinical Support	Dr Nick Crabtree
Simulation Teaching Coordinator	Nick Thompson
Simulation Teaching Assistant	Alex Rawlings
Clincal Lecturer	Dr Imogen Davies
Department Administrator	Liz Barnes-Moss

Tel: 01865 234527
Email oxsim@nda.ox.ac.uk

Anaesthesia for Developing Countries

A one-day Primer Course in Oxford aims to outline the basics of anaesthetic practice in the Developing World, and to provide an introduction for those who plan to attend our main course, which in 2009 was held in Uganda. The five day course covers the needs of those with an interest in working in the developing world, and also those involved in planning for military and disaster situations.

Organiser – Dr Mike Dobson, Oxford

ADC Oxford Kampala 2009 [pdf]

Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC)

The Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) course was designed by Charles Gomersall of the University of Hong Kong and has rapidly achieved international recognition. The two day course covers the assessment of the critically ill patient, mechanical ventilation, haemodynamic monitoring, shock, acute renal failure, trauma, neurological emergencies, sepsis, arrhythmias, airway management and transfer. The topics are covered by a series of lectures and reinforced by a series of small group tutorials and skill stations delivered by an expert faculty of experienced clinicians. It is currently offered free to ACCS and ICM trainees in the region.

Organiser – Dr Julian Millo, Oxford

Ethics and Law in Anaesthesia

This two day course provides a combination of lectures and workshops from national and regional experts covering core topics in ethics and law in anaesthesia. These include: medical negligence, the Mental Capacity Act, consent in children, the coroner, end of life decisions. Other sessions include organ transplantation, resource allocation and ethical decision making.

Organiser – Dr Kate Thomas, Oxford