Courses/meetings in the Oxford Region
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Oxford Region Trainee Study Days
These study days are exclusively for ST1 and ST2 trainees. Trainees should make attendance at these study days a priority as they are considered an important training objective.
Airway training
This study day consists of lectures and practical skills in airway management, and is held in Oxford. The faculty is generally made of consultants from the region and previous airway fellows.
Organiser – Dr Jenny Thompson, Oxford.
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 SHOs 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, Reading
Date Tuesday 22th February 2008 [programme and application form]
Paediatric Anaesthesia
This annual training day consists of lectures and workshops aiming to provide an introduction to paediatric anaesthesia.
Organiser – Dr Chris Leng, Northampton
Date to be confirmed
Pain
An annual study day on basic pain management for SHOs.
Organiser – Dr Andrew Lawson, Royal Berkshire, Reading
Date Wednesday 31 st October 2007
Regional Anaesthesia
General principles and basic anatomy are covered in lectures, and practical skills are taught using workshops and teaching videos.
Organiser – Dr Svetlana Rutter, Oxford
Date – Wednesday 14th October 2007 [programme]
2007 to be confirmed
Oxford Primary FRCA Course
The Oxford Primary FRCA Course is held annually, during February and March. The Course consists of two successive weeks 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 Annes College in central Oxford: an ideal setting for an academic fortnight. A walking tour of Oxford is arranged during the course.
Course Administrator Liz Dugmore, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HE
Date 25 th February to 7nd March 2008
2008 Course details:
Oxford Airway Workshops
Oxford Difficult Airway Workshop
The Difficult Airway Workshop is for trainees and Consultants wishing to refresh and update skills in managing patients with a difficult airway. The course aims to discuss the management of the anticipated and unanticipated scenarios, including can't-intubate-can't-ventilate. There are lectures, videos and interactive discussions and over 3 hours of hands-on workshops to reinforce the theory and refine manual dexterity.
The workshops cover a wide range of fibreoptic assisted techniques, ILMA and trans-tracheal access. There is a high faculty to delegate ratio (1:3) to allow maximum opportunity to interact and interrogate the faculty. Included in the registration fee are refreshments, a course manual and lunch. The workshop will be held in the Mary Sunley Building, St Catherine's College.
Course Organisers: Dr Mansukh Popat and Dr Stuart Benham, Oxford
Registration fee £150
5 CEPD points
Cheques payable to 'Oxford Difficult Airway Group'.
All enquiries to Marguerite Scott, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
Tel: 01865 221590/1
Date 13th Difficult Airway Workshop Tuesday 5th February 2008
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
Course fee (includes lunch and refreshments) £220
5 CEPD points.
Cheques payable to 'Paediatric Anaesthesia & Resuscitation Fund'.
All enquiries to Marguerite Scott, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
Tel: 01865 221590/1
Date 3rd Paediatric Difficult Intubation Workshop Thursday 19th April 2007
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
Course fee £150
5 CPD points
Cheques to 'Oxford Difficult Airway Group'.
All enquiries to Marguerite Scott, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
Tel: 01865 221590/1
Date - Friday 2nd March 2007
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
Enquiries to Carolyne O'Neill
Tel: 01753 633185
Email: Carolyne.O'Neill@hwph-tr.nhs.uk
9th Wexham Park Advanced Airway Workshop
Date – 16th June 2008
Oxford Region Combined ENT and Anaesthesia Study Day
A study day on shared airways.
Organisers Dr Hamid Manji, Milton Keynes, and Dr Shaun Scott, Oxford
Date 15th November 2006
Oxford Regional Anaesthesia Course
This intensive 2 day course covers regional anaesthesia equipment and techniques including upper and lower limb, intrapleural, cervical plexux and eye nerve blocks.
Course organizers Dr Svetlana Rutter, Oxford
All enquiries to Marguerite Scott, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
Tel: 01865 221590/1
Date – 26th to 27th March 2009
[Oxford Regional Anaesthesia Course 2008]
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
Date – 27th March 2008 [download programme]
All enquiries to the Anaesthetic secretary at Milton Keynes General Hospital
Tel: 01908 243159
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
Date – 15 September 2008 [ download programme and booking form pdf files]
Oxford Region Intensive Care Society Meetings (ORICS)
The Oxford Regional Intensive Care Society meets twice a year.
The last ORICS meeting was on Tuesday 1st April 2008.
Anaesthesia for Developing Countries
Following a one-day Primer Course in Oxford on Friday July 18th 2008, our main course will be held in Uganda in November. The aim of the one-day course is 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 this year will be held in Uganda in November. 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.
Anaes Developing Countries Courses 2008 [ flyer and application form ]
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