| Placement |
Paediatric Intensive Care
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| Year | F1 |
| Region | West |
| Hospital(s) |
The Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow
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| Main Duties of Placement
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- Care of children and neonates within Paediatric Critical Care. This includes patients after general surgical and surgical specialty procedures, and also medical paediatric patients requiring high dependency or intensive care.
- Duties include ward round and patient management responsibility.
- Admissions and discharges.
- As part of this rotation trainees may undertake spells within other paediatric subspecialties (particularly paediatric surgery) to ensure a holistic exposure and maximum educational opportunities.
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| Typical Work Pattern
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- Full shift pattern, this may include night shifts to provide cover for emergency admissions.
- Hospital at night team available on-site.
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| Learning Opportunities
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- Daily multidisciplinary teaching ward-rounds.
- Due to high consultant /senior presence, there is ample opportunities for opportunistic learning.
- Real time feedback on acute cases seen.
- Medical procedures.
- Weekly journal clubs, radiology meeting, complex nutrition meeting, palliative care meetings, and ID/microbiology meetings.
- Regular mortality and morbidity meetings, and critical incident meetings.
- Plentiful, dedicated teaching in addition to active hospital CME programme.
- Most trainees undertake and present projects during this placement.
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| Teaching
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- Mandatory weekly FY1 teaching.
- Bleep free teaching 2-hrs a week, with other potential opportunities.
- Opportunity to attend general paediatric teaching on a Friday AM.
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| Unique Selling Points
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- Very well supervised post with a constant senior presence eager to support and teach.
- Assessment and management of critically ill and highly dependent patients under direct consultant supervision.
- Plenty of opportunities for participation in audits, presentations and projects that may lead to publications to the motivated trainee.
- Good preparation for a career in any paediatric, anaesthetic or GP career.
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It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.
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