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Association of Mersey Intensive Care Units.

Education, Training and Continuing Professional Development:

Regional Critical Care Training Programme

 
The meetings are open to doctors and nurses of all grades including consultants and trainees from all specialities such as Critical care medicine, Emergency medicine, Acute medicine, General internal medicine and Anaesthesia (in short, anyone interested in Intensive care medicine).

Aintree now has a new 1200 spaced car park just 10m from the venue and hence car parking will not be a problem for anyone.

Next Seminar: TBA

CEPD accreditation has been requested for the meeting and it is anticipated that 5 points will be awarded by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Further information is available from Dr SV Nagaraj, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive care medicine, Regional advisor in Intensive care medicine.
University Hospital Aintree NHS Foundation trust, Liverpool, L9 7AL. phone: 0151 5295152/5153 fax: 0151 5295155

 Sources of Information for trainees considering a career in Intensive Care.

Address: Royal College of Anaesthetists, 48-49 Russell Square, London WC1B 4JY. Telephone: 020 7908 7343     Fax: 020 7636 8280.

Email Mr James Goodwin: ibticm@rcoa.ac.uk    The IBTICM advises on the CCT in Intensive Care Medicine and also advises on the UK Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (DICM)         

[See also http://www.dicm.co.uk/ for an unofficial view of the DICM]

Address: 29B Montague Street , London WC1B 5BH
Tel: 020 7291 0690   Fax: 020 7580 0689  

E-mail: admin@ics.ac.uk                  

(Each ICU should have an ICS “Linkman” through whom the ICS tries to communicate with its membership).    

The ESICM advises on the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC)

Further information about the EDIC: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Mrs Dominique De Boom, 40 Avenue Joseph Wybran, B-1070 Brussels

Phone.0032 2 559 03 59     Fax.0032 2 527 00 62       E-mail. public@esicm.org  

 

 The Working Time Directive and trainees' hours of work

Working Time Directive

Since 1 August 2004 Doctors in training:  

  • May work an average of no more than 48 hours/week since August 2009 (formerly 56 hours since August 2007)* and
  • Must have a minimum of 11 hours of continuous rest in every 24 hour period and  
  • Must have at least a 20 minute break when a shift exceeds 6 hours and  
  • Must have a minimum of 24 hours of rest in every 7 days or 48 hours of rest in every 14 days.
  • The SiMAP Ruling indicates that time spent resident whether working or not must be considered as working time.
  • The Jaeger Ruling indicated that compensatory rest should be taken immediately when an overrun beyond scheduled working had occurred or when an on-call period at home had been interrupted by a period of work.

   *The New Deal limited the working week to 56 hours from 2003. 

For consultants and non-consultant career grades the 48 hour maximum working week is already in force.

NTNs in Critical Care Medicine

Any trainee interested in ICM should contact Dr Nagaraja and their respective programme director regarding the complementary specialty training at the earliest possible opportunity to do a 6 month complimentary specialty if not already achieved.

   Download a pdf file (126 KB) or PowerPoint file (102 KB) of Dr Shearer's (previous Regional Advisor) presentation to AMICU on 9 December 2005 entitled Future of ICU training.

The intention is that these posts would be for those who already hold an NTN in their primary specialty but want to get dual CCT in their primary specialty and critical care medicine.

More details about these posts.

In addition to these there is a research/clinical post at Whiston.

Further inquiries should be addressed to The Regional Advisor in Intensive Care, Dr Nagaraj, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool. 

ICM training in Mersey region: an update from Dr Nagaraja:  September 2011.

This is a summary of an e-mail sent by Dr Nagaraja to all interested parties and published here with his permission:

Single CCT in ICM:

Approved by GMC and the recruitment will start in Feb. 2012 to start in August 2012. This will be a central recruitment co-ordinated by West Midlands Deanery.

Dual CCT in ICM:

Dual CCT programmes have still not been finalised and hence will start from August 2013. These posts also will be advertised and recruited centrally to be started in Feb 2013. the exact composition of these posts will be decided in the next year or so.

How about Dual CCT for trainees starting in Aug 2012?

Special arrangements will be made for the trainees who take up CCT in ICM or Anaesthesia or Medicine in 2012 August and yet want to pursue dual CCT. These trainees will be allowed to apply for their second specialty in Feb. 2013. Obviously, if they are successful in obtaining these posts in the same deanery, they will be eligible for dual CCTs. Please note that this opportunity is open to all ST3 trainees starting in august 2012 as long as they are from the recognised training programmes/specialties. Eg. Medicine/Anaesthesia trainees from 2012 August can apply for ICM (provided there are posts) from the same deanery via central recruitment process and achieve a dual CCT . Single CCT ICM ST3 trainee from Core medical training can apply for medicine training.

Alternatively, these trainees can apply for dual CCT posts for 2013 and if successful, will be able to apply for some consideration of their training time that has already been undertaken.

Please note that this will remain a tentative planning until this is formally communicated by the FICM and when that happens, it will be detailed.

How many posts?

FICM is envisaging an expansion in numbers of posts and hence more posts are likely to be available than previous years. Currently, we have about 140  ICM posts in the country and it is likely to be expanded to 200 and above. This again is currently not finalised yet.

What should I advise my trainee?

Please advice the trainees to apply for the specialty that they want to pursue in future irrespective of single CCT/dual CCT issues. 

How about all the trainees already in ST posts?

All the trainees who are already in their ST3+ years before the beginning of August 2012 will be able to pursue the 2010 curriculum as it stands today. i. e. they will pursue intermediate training in ICM as part of their parent specialty training, undertake the advanced post in ICM during their final years in competitive entry.  This will enable them to get the Joint CCT in ICM. However, their recruitment and registration for joint CCT should have occurred before August 2013.

In Mersey region, we have reserved a number of posts for these trainees for the next few years and envisage advertising them this September and next February. Please advise your trainees to apply for these posts even if the advanced training is to be undertaken quite a few years down the line. E.g. an ST3 anaesthesia starting in 2011 will be not be able to take up an advanced post until August 2015 and yet they should apply for the posts when they are advertised and take up these posts before August 2013.

Trainees who secure an advanced ICM post will be eligible for Joint CCT as it exists today. Hence, we will endeavour to provide ‘complementary specialty posts’ to only these trainees at an appropriate time during their training programme.

 Nagaraja

Shankara.nagaraja@aintree.nhs.uk

REA, ICM, Mersey  

7th September 2011.

Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD)

Visits by Consultant Intensivists to other ICUs are now recognised for CEPD. 

ICUs willing to accommodate such visits, along with contact details and availability will appear here as soon as this information is provided.

 

 

 

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Page last updated: 24 Sept 2011

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