An analysis of the delivery of anaesthetic training sessions in the United Kingdom.
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Green, A
Tatham, KC
Yentis, SM
Wilson, J
Cox, M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We analysed data from the electronic rota system CLWRota, covering 2,689,962 anaesthetic sessions between 01/01/2014 and 31/12/2015, in 91 UK Trusts, in order to investigate trainees' supervision. There were 8209 trainee attachments analysed, during which 618,695 sessions were undertaken by trainees. The number of supervised sessions per week that trainees worked varied considerably (median (IQR [range]) 2.6 (1.6-3.6 [0-10]) for all grades combined), with senior trainees more likely than junior trainees to be supervised for fewer than the three sessions per week mandated by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. The number of supervised sessions was unrelated to Trusts' size, suggesting that trainees in smaller hospitals receive the same level of supervision as in larger teaching hospitals. Analysis of a dataset of this size should be a good reflection of the delivery of anaesthesia training in the UK.
Date Issued
2017-06-06
Date Acceptance
2017-04-30
Citation
Anaesthesia, 2017, 72 (11), pp.1327-1333
ISSN
0003-2409
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
1327
End Page
1333
Journal / Book Title
Anaesthesia
Volume
72
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2017 The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. This is the accepted version of the following article: Green, A., Tatham, K. C., Yentis, S. M., Wilson, J. and Cox, M. (2017), An analysis of the delivery of anaesthetic training sessions in the United Kingdom. Anaesthesia. doi:10.1111/anae.13950, which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anae.13950
Subjects
Anaesthesia
medical education
training
1103 Clinical Sciences
1109 Neurosciences
Anesthesiology
Publication Status
Published online