Current fellowships within Perioperative Medicine
This is a fellowship post providing out-of-programme experience, with applicants required to have completed at least the primary FRCA examinations (or equivalent). The post is also well suited to post-CCT applicants, with experience, training and supervision tailored to help such doctors develop confidence and skills for the transition to a consultant career.
- Successful applicants will have the opportunity to gain experience in the delivery of care throughout the surgical journey. This includes
- Objective risk assessment and shared decision making in preoperative assessment clinics
- Health promotion and prehabilitation
- Multidisciplinary meetings and discussion to co-ordinate complex care
- In-theatre anaesthetic management of high-risk surgical patients
- Advanced post-operative analgesia and fluid management
- Promotion and implementation of strategies to achieve the early milestones of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)
- Patient follow-up including recognition and management of post-operative complications
This clinical fellowship offers a unique opportunity to tailor high-risk anaesthesia and perioperative medicine experience, according to interests. The fellowship can be themed in one, or a combination of our tertiary/quaternary surgical services.
The Anaesthetic service provision at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) covers a wide variety of specialities but has a major commitment to Cardiac (including transplantation), Neuro, Hepatobiliary and Pancreas (including Liver Transplantation), Gastrointestinal, Vascular, Renal (including transplantation), Trauma, ENT, Maxillofacial, Ophthalmology, Burns and Plastics. The department also provides the complete complement of anaesthetists to the Women's Hospital for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Fertility services. Additional service level agreements also exist with the local Dental Hospital and the Mental Health Trusts.
For more information contact Dr Jignesh Patel (jigneshbhai.patel@uhb.nhs.uk)