South
The South Yorkshire Anaesthetic Training Programme is the most geographically compact in the country and is based around the following hospitals
- Barnsley Hospital
- Doncaster Royal Infirmary
- Sheffield Children's Hospital
- Northern General Hospital
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Rotherham General Hospital
The rotation prides itself on its friendly and supportive network of supervisors, college tutors and training programme directors. We really listen to our trainees and the programme has changed markedly recently responding to feedback from trainee representatives and supervisors.
During the early years on the rotation skills, knowledge and confidence will usually grow under careful supervision in the highly supportive district hospitals. More specialist knowledge will be gained at ST level in both district and teaching hospitals.
Core Anaesthetics training consists of 2 years, typically 1 year in a larger hospital and 1 year in a smaller hospital as decided by the Core Training Programme Directors. Trainees undertaking ACCS Anaesthetics spend 3 years as a core trainee (1 year Acute/Emergency Medicine) and 2 years anaesthesia, organised by the ACCS Training Programme Director.
For recruitment since August 2018 the structure of training at ST3-7 in HEE YH changed, recruiting to a pan-region structure, giving trainees a clearer pathway for their training, please see the FAQs for further details.
Typically a larger proportion of time is spent in the teaching hospitals for speciality training especially as the concept of spiral learning means that the speciality blocks have to be completed twice.
Core rotations take place every 6 months in February and August on the first Wednesday of the month.
ST rotations take place every 3 months in February, May, August and November on the first Wednesday of the month.
Recent developments in the South include:
- Making our supervision system more robust - to help guide trainees career decsions and to spot any trainees that need extra support
- Development of several Advanced Modules for final year trainees - enabling them to enhance their CV and develop skills in their area of career interest
- A programme to rotate our Supervisors through the ARCPs to enable them to guide their Supervisees more effectively
- A rolling Supervisor Update programme to make sure Supervisors are abreast of the latest developments in the ever changing training landscape
