RIACT
Readiness for the Initial Assessment of Competency Training
The RIACT course aims to facilitate Anaesthetic and Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) trainees attain the initial assessment of competency (IAC) in anaesthesia. This six day release course runs over 3 months and is available to new anaesthetic and ACCS core trainees within the School.
Core Regional Teaching Programme
A twice monthly teaching programme for all Stage 1 Anaesthetists in Training. This rotates between face to face and virtual. The lead on teaching also rotates around each hospital. The programme encompasses focussed teaching for the Primary FRCA, as well as well being days which are twice a year.
Oxford Final FRCA Viva Course
An intensive two-day Final FRCA Viva Revision Course.
www.oxfordfinalfrcacourse.co.uk
Oxford Anaesthetic Deanery Trainees - Oxdat
A trainee led, trainee organised teaching programme for AiT who are post Final FRCA.
Once a month day long teaching programme.
For more details please see the Oxdat website.
Anaesthesia in Developing Countries
Anaesthesia in Developing Countries (ADC) is an unusual and successful course started by Dr Mike Dobson in 1981 in Oxford, in an effort to meet the specific needs of anaesthetists from the UK and similar high-income countries wishing to travel to low-resource settings to work, or to collaborate with other anaesthetists in these settings.
The provision of safe anaesthesia in low-resource settings is difficult but essential to reduce avoidable illness and death in some of the poorest places on earth. Much of this illness occurs in young people, often associated with childbirth, and a significant amount is preventable by safer and better resourced anaesthetic practice.
For this reason many anaesthetists from high income countries wish to support health care providers in LMICs in an effort to reduce the health burden in a particular place. When they do so, they encounter enormous differences between the environment in which they trained (with reliable power, sources of compressed oxygen and other gases, sophisticated machines and modern drugs) and that faced by their LMIC colleagues. The ADC course supports informed partnership and collaboration by offering training around common contexts and challenges faced in the low-resource setting.
Over the last thirty years the course has remained popular and useful with attendees who largely come from the UK, Australia, Canada and Europe.
To be added to our mailing list for information about booking please email events@ndcn.ox.ac.uk and put ADC in the header.
When booking opens, you can book directly on the Oxford Stores website: https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/nuffield-department-of-clinical-neurosciences-anaesthetics
Next course: 13th-17th November 2023, Mbale, Uganda