ACCS Anaesthesia in the East of England

The Eastern region is a wide geographical area serviced by 18 acute hospital Trusts ranging from the QEH at King's Lynn in Norfolk to Southend in Essex and includes the University teaching hospitals at Norfolk and Norwich. The Deanery covers a population of five million people in six counties.

In line with national recruitment, all ACCS posts in the EoE Deanery are now themed. We expect to offer 14 ACCS anaesthesia posts each year.

The CT1 and CT2 years consist of six month posts in emergency medicine, acute medicine, anaesthesia and critical care. The rotations will be based in two hospitals. Excellent training takes place in all four acute care specialities in CT1/2 and the rotations are designed to deliver the competencies prescribed in the curriculum. In almost all the rotations, the first year CT1 will consist of emergency and acute medicine and CT2 will be in anaesthesia/critical care. Log books and continuous assessments are carried out throughout the training. There are formal annual assessments to review progress and plan further placements and training - the annual review of competency progression - ARCP.

ACCS- Anaesthetics training consists of four years. It forms the start of a career in anaesthesia and gives a trainee a comprehensive introduction to elective and emergency anaesthetic practice and preoperative care.

All hospitals with trainees are recognised to provide the RCOA curriculum for Stage 1 training, leading to the CCT in anaesthesia. CCT Guides are available in full from the RCOA website.

Rotations consist of 1 or 2 hospitals.  If 2 hospitals then the rotation is 1-2 years in the first hospital and 1-2 years in the second hospital. The School is committed to keeping the hospital rotations as close to each other as is feasible. We would like to remind trainees that rotations are accepted at time of appointment and trainees are expected to organise domestic arrangements accordingly. Please note that changes to these rotations are not allowed as the training programme is running to near full capacity and spaces are limited.

In the event of an exceptional change in your circumstances, resulting in a request to change rotations, each case will be reviewed by the Head of School and subsequently the Deputy Postgraduate Dean.

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