NHS ORIENTATION COURSE:

We will be conducting a  NHS orientation course for those doctors who have not yet started working in the hospitals to familiarise with working in the NHS hospitals as junior doctors.

Date :               31st July and 1st of August 2010 (for two days ) .

Timings :         8.45am to 7.30pm

Course fee :      £50.00 ( for both the days).

Taught by doctors working in the hospitals.

To book  for the course:  please call our office – 0208 4786100 and give you name. You can pay when you arrive here to do the course. We will be taking  limited number of candidates. If you are interested in attending - please book your place early.

 

Topics for the course :

A)     Junior doctors duties and responsibilities:

·       Ward duties, Night duties, handing over, On call duties, Attending OPD, Pre op assessment clinic.

·       Ward rounds, daily checking and documentation of progress or deterioration of patient's health, case presentations to the Consultant.

·       Patient clerking, case sheet documentation, writing drug chart, mistakes in writing drug chart, Prescribing common medications (analgesics, PCA,  antibiotics, fluids, Blood, FFP, Insulin, Warfarin,  thrombo-prophylaxis,     anti-emetics, laxatives, anti-diarrhoeals, antacids etc ).

·       Discharge notes writing, Prescribing on discharge,  GP note writing, Referral letters

·       Maintaining daily job list/ diary, using BNF.

·       Ordering investigations (Bloods, including how to take blood for FBC, Biochemistry, Culture and Sensitivity, Blood grouping  & Cross matching, Urine, Swabs etc)

·       How to fill up investigation forms for Blood, urine, stool, X-Rays, IVU, ECG, Echocardiogram, 24 cardiac tape, USG, CT scanning MRI scanning.

·       Observation charts, IV Cannulation, Catheter, NG tube insertions.

·       Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) decisions, Incident form documentation.

·       Consent taking – informed, written

·       Operating and answering bleeps

·       Activating crash calls

·       Familiarising with the ward staff – Consultant secretaries, ward clerk, ward sisters and nurses, Health care assistants, porters, phlebotomists.

·       Multidisciplinary team involvement – Dietician, Social service, Occupational health service, Physiotherapy. B)         Working in major specialities     1)              As Medical SHO:   ·       Practical management of Common cases in the ward and ITU,          CCU, HDU etc ·       Preparing patients for OGD, Colonoscopy, ERCP. ·       Attending OPDs.     2)              As Surgical SHO:   ·       Management of Common cases ·       Acute abdomen – Appendicitis, intestinal obstruction,         Perforation, Pancreatitis, gastritis, Cholecystitis, Obtructed         hernias etc.   ·       Pre operative preparation of patients including bowel         preparations, Special cases preparation – DM, HTN, Jaundice,          patients on Warfarin, steroids etc   ·       Post – operative management – Common complications, Fluid         management, Blood transfusions, Medications.     3)      As Accident and Emergency medicine SHO:   ·       Practical management of Common emergencies of all the        specialities including trauma  -  MI, PE, Asthma, Epilepsy, Stroke,         Acute abdomen, Bleeding in pregnancy,  Feverish child, Unwell         child (meningitis) etc.     3)              As Orthopaedic  SHO:   ·       Practical management of common cases – including         pre- operative  preparation and post – operative management.   C)      Applying for jobs and Clinical attachments.   D)     CV Writing and improving your CV.     E)   Attending courses – BLS, ALS, Alert, ECG.        F)  Interview skills : Common Interview questions (Clinical and Non-clinical)     G)     Training structure : Training and Non-training jobs         H)  Salary, Study and Annual leave.      I)   Career progression   J)       Maintaining Portfolios   K)       Audit, Research and Clinical Governance