| Individual Placement Description | |
|---|---|
| Placement | Emergency Medicine |
| Year | F2 |
| Region | West |
| Hospital(s) | Forth Valley Royal Hospital - FVRH |
| Main Duties of Placement | The care of patients presenting to the ED of FVRH, both adults and children. The assessment and management of patients. Ensuring ongoing care through admission or referral back to GP. |
| Typical Work Pattern | Full shift pattern, including night shifts and weekend working. |
| Learning Opportunities | Department-based teaching; discussing individual patients with the middle grade/senior members of the ED medical team, opportunities to discuss interesting x-rays, clinical presentations on the shop floor. Daily handover meetings when any issues and patients to be handed over are discussed. Encouraged to present at one of the ED training sessions; either an audit or interesting patient with evidence based review of the condition. |
| Teaching | Induction programme. 2 hour formal training every Thursday afternoon in the ED seminar room. FV-wide weekly training sessions for 1 hour (mandatory FY2 sessions). |
| Unique Selling Points | Well-supervised post which exposes the doctor to the whole range of medicine; this is usually the first time the doctors will have ever discharged a patient. Excellent grounding for a career in GP, EM or general medicine. |
| It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change. | |
