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Association of Mersey Intensive Care Units.

Education, Training and Continuing Professional Development:

Regional Critical Care Training Programme

Dates and venues for meetings in 2008 are as follows:

 

Plan of the Whiston site [.pdf]

Further information is available from Dr Nagaraj.

 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: ehayes@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 D'Hoir (Domino), 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 58 hours/week (56 hours from August 2007 and 48 hours from August 2009*) 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 has limited the working week to 56 hours since 2003. 

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

NTNs in Critical Care Medicine

   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 are 2 further intermediate posts at Aintree, 2 further intermediate posts at Whiston and the research /intermediate 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. 

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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