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Our courses provide up-to-date information and advice on how to prepare your CV and portfolio for the competitive entry process into Core Training in Anaesthesia, as well as crucial preparation for one of the most important days of your career; the Anaesthetics Interview.
Both our CV/Portfolio Course and our Interview Skills Course have proved extremely popular and received resoundingly positive feedback. Thinking about a career in Anaesthetics? Anaesthetics is the largest hospital specialty, with anaesthetists being integral to the running of any hospital. They can be found working across the hospital, in theatres, labour ward, A&E, radiology, on the wards and in various outpatient clinics. It is a job that involves far more than just ‘putting people to sleep’. Anaesthetics is a very varied specialty, including the following areas:
There are now two routes into training for anaesthetics at CT1 level. The first is the traditional 'Core Anaesthetics Training' consisting of 18 to 21 months of pure anaesthetics, with 3 to 6 months of intensive care medicine. The second is the 'ACCS' (Acute Care Common Stem) route, consisting of 3 years broken down into 6 months each of acute medicine, intensive care, and A&E, and a further 18 months of pure anaesthetics. Both entry points are accessed through the same application and interview process, and both are followed by a further (usually less competitive) process to become a specialist registrar in either anaesthesia, intensive care, or both, via ‘dual training’. Work-life balance is a major selling point for a career in anaesthetics. It lends itself well to less than fulltime training (LTFT) for trainees and consultants with family commitments. Out of hospital interests and travel are actively encouraged, with most trainees taking part in at least one year abroad at some stage. Trauma anaesthesia in Cape Town or Flying Doctors Service in Australia anyone? There should be no doubt that as an extremely attractive career, it is a dauntingly competitive application and interview process, with many candidates left disappointed each year. However, with courses taught by previously successful candidates, and the opportunity to practise and perfect your interview skills in a safe environment before the big day, we believe our courses are ideally designed to put you in the strongest position possible for the rigorous application and interview process. Applying for Specialty Training (ST3) in Anaesthetics? Every year we get many enquiries from current Core Trainees in Anaesthetics as to whether our courses are suitable for them as they prepare for their Specialty Training interview. Our answer is that whilst the lectures and course handbook are specifically designed for junior doctors applying for Core Training in Anaesthetics / ACCS, the interview format and scoring systems used by ANRO are identical for both the Core Training and Specialty Training interview days. As such, we feel there is much to be gained by Specialty Training applicants from our December courses as the techniques and preparation we teach to score highly in each station are equally applicable to their circumstances. If you book on our December 7th course with mock interviews and you are applying for Speciality (rather than Core) Training, please leave us a message with your booking to state your intention. We will be happy to modify your individual consultant panel mock interview questions to be suitable for your stage of training. Alternatively, come and join us on the otherwise identical December 14th course (without mock interviews), and feel free to come and chat to us during the day regarding the relatively minor additional preparation for the Speciality Training interviews. Of note, the ST3 application window opens later than the CT1 window (late January rather than early November), thus there is more time to prepare for your speciality training interview if you attend one of our December courses. |
