STAGE ONE TRAINING
RCoA Novice Guide
The RCoA have produced an excellent guide to anaesthetic training aimed at the novice.
On appointment to a training post in anaesthesia, please complete a registration form and send it to the membership department at the RCoA. Once you are registered, a Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) account will be created for you. Registration with the College is a General Medical Council requirement.
Stage One training is normally three years in duration and starts with the Introduction to anaesthesia including the Initial Assessment of Competence (IAC), which is usually completed within the first six months of training. The remainder of the three years is dedicated to completing stage 1 anaesthesia requirements and passing the Primary FRCA examination.
Trainees who enter via the Acute Care Common Stem(ACCS) complete stage 1 training over four years. Two of the years are in ACCS and the final two years are solely anaesthesia. For further information on the ACCS programme, please visit the ACCS website. https://www.accs.ac.uk/accs
You should record training progress in the LLP.
Hospital Placements
One year will normally be spent in a teaching hospital, either Birmingham Heartlands Hospital or University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW), and one year in a district general hospital either Warwick Hospital, George Eliot in Nuneaton, Alexandra in Redditch or Good Hope in Sutton Coldfield.
Assessment
Each hospital has a college tutor and every trainee will be allocated an educational supervisor. The educational supervisor will meet with the trainee at the beginning of the placement and will carry out regular appraisals.
Educational meetings should be carried out every three months . Details of the paperwork required are on the trainee information pages of the school website.
All trainees will have an annual review of competence progression (ARCP) at which the following are assessed: Logbook, personal portfolio including appraisals, competency assessments, workplace assessments, multi source feedback and examination success.
A successful outcome from the ARCP is required to progress to the next year of training.