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Anaesthesia

London Academy of Anaesthesia

Our mission is three-fold:

  • to inspire excellence among our trainees
  • to ensure our patients receive the highest standard of clinical care
  • to inspire all disciplines linked with our specialty to perform to the highest standards

We offer the highest quality of anaesthesia training and provide our trainees with the skills and experience needed to meet the challenges and demands of the NHS today and tomorrow.

Why choose the London Academy?

The London Academy of Anaesthesia is comprised of five schools of anaesthesia, each of which have trained anaesthetists successfully for more than 10 years.

Working in world-renowned surgical centres of excellence, trainees will participate in every possible range, type and specialty of anaesthetic practice. Programmes are led by enthusiastic, experienced and committed trainers.

The diverse nature of London's population offers unparalleled clinical challenges and the opportunity to work in a variey of clinical contexts. These include district general hospitals, dedicated ambulatory care centres, teaching hospitals, research units and specialist surgical hospitals, such as:

  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and the Evelina Children's Hospital
  • Queen Square & the Atkinson Morley, for neurosurgical specialties
  • The Royal Brompton, Harefield & National Heart Hospitals
  • Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, for plastic and reconstructive surgery
    Stanmore Spinal Unit
  • The Liver Unit at King's College Hospital

The Academy works closely with its constituent schools of anaesthesia and the Royal College of Anaesthetists to take maximum advantage of all the resources and opportunities London has to offer. We are enhancing our simulation centres to provide additional training opportunites and we offer a range of didactic teaching and training courses. Trainees sit on the programme boards of the five schools of anaesthesia and elect a representative to sit on the board of the London Academy.

We believe the London Academy of Anaesthesia represents an opportunity to become part of a world-class scheme that will benefit not only our patients but generations of trainees to come.

Who is the head?

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Dr Robert Ginsburg was appointed head of the London Academy of Anaesthesia in January 2008. This was a joint appointment with the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Rob has been a consultant anaesthetist at King’s College Hospital since 1988. He is one of a team of six anaesthetists providing services for the King’s liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgical programme. He is currently an examiner for the Final FRCA and also examines for the MRCS in Edinburgh.

Rob has had a longstanding interest in postgraduate medical education and has been college tutor, regional advisor and chairman of the SE Thames Specialty Training Committee in Anaesthetics. During his time as STC Chair, he helped set up SESA - the South East School of Anaesthesia - and developed and introduced a scheme of workplace-based assessment. In 2001 Rob was appointed associate postgraduate dean to the London Deanery and managed a number of surgical specialties until his move to the Academy in 2008.

Our constituent schools

The Academy is comprised of five schools of anaesthesia which together provide training in anaesthesia, ACCS anaesthesia, intensive care medicine (ICM) and pain management for 1,200 doctors in London and the south east of England. The five schools are:

Trainees must follow a competency based specialty training programme covering core, intermediate and advanced training in anaesthesia, pain management and ICM to obtain a CCT in anaesthetics. Core training lasts two years in anaesthesia and three years in ACCS anaesthesia. Trainees must obtain a pass in the primary FRCA to be eligible to apply for entry to intermediate and advanced training, which takes five years.

Find out more

To find out more about training in anaesthesia, visit the Royal College of Anaesthetists
or email LAAAcademics@londondeanery.ac.uk

If you are interested in perioperative medicine research, please go to the academic training forum on Synapse or email LAAAcademics@londondeanery.ac.uk. More information can be found at www.perioperativemedicineforum.org

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