Curriculum

Trainees in anaesthesia are expected to pass the Initial assessment of competence (IAC) after approximately three months of training. ACCS trainees doing more than three months training in anaesthesia may also gain competencies in pain management, children’s anaesthesia etc. Anaesthetic trainees who complete ACCS training will normally join the anaesthesia training programme at ST 2. The subsequent content and duration of an individual’s anaesthetic training will depend on the competences already achieved during ACCS training. ACCS (anaesthesia) trainees may have acquired some or all of the intermediate level intensive care medicine competences at the expense of basic level anaesthesia competences. This imbalance should not prevent the progression of these trainees from ST 2 to ST 3, but the “missing” anaesthetic competences must be acquired at an early stage of ST 3 and before starting intermediate level training. These arrangements must be recorded on the basic level training certificate.

Workplace assessments

Guidance on which anaesthesia workplace assessments have been as set out alongside forms for CbDs, DOPs and Mini-Cex at the Royal Collage of Anaesthetists website

Anaesthetic logbook

In addition to the ACCS logbook anaesthetics trainees are expected to produce a specific anaesthetic logbook that will continue throughout their career and form a vital part of the ARCPs. Further guidance and facilities to download the logbook can be found on the Royal College of Anaesthetists (ROCA) (www.rcoa.ac.uk) and Anaesthesia UK (www.frca.co.uk) websites and from educational supervisors or college tutors.

Exams

Trainee will normally be expected to have taken FRCA part 1 MCQs before entry into ST 2 of anaesthesia, however this is not obligatory