Episodios

  • Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Paediatric regional anaesthesia

    Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Paediatric regional anaesthesia
    Oct 31 2025
    In this podcast, recorded at our Anaesthesia 2025 conference in Belfast consultant anaesthetists Dr Branislav (Brano) Mislovic and Dr Will Donaldson discuss developments in paediatric regional anaesthesia, following Brano's address to the conference.

    Brano and Will address misconceptions around paediatric regional anaesthesia, the use of ultrasound and the various opportunities and challenges around this.

    Recorded 20 May 2025

    Related information:

    • Association of Anaesthesia: New blocks on the kids: core basic nerve blocks in paediatric anaesthesia
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    26 m
  • Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Human Factors - Hewitt lectureship

    Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Human Factors - Hewitt lectureship
    Oct 17 2025
    In this podcast, recorded at our Anaesthesia 2025 conference, Professor and Consultant Anaesthetist Helen Higham talks to Dr Paul Southall about her work and career improving the the 'complex and adaptive system' of anaesthesia often given by its shorthand, 'human factors'.

    For this work Helen was awarded the Hewitt Lectureship, given to established senior clinicians, academic experts or pioneers in their fields who have advanced the science or art of anaesthetic practice.

    Paul and Helen discuss her research interests, which include human factors and simulation-based education in healthcare, and her current projects focused on systems-based approaches to safety in primary care, human factors in low to middle income healthcare settings and the use of virtual reality to train healthcare professionals.

    Helen gives us an insight into her career and professional life, and bangs the drum for the importance of quality improvement, simulation and team-based learning and how central anaesthesia and its culture is to these practices in medicine.

    Recorded 20 May 2025

    Related information:

    • OxSTAR - Helen Higham
    • Lectureships | The Royal College of Anaesthetists
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    29 m
  • The experience of becoming a consultant anaesthetist

    The experience of becoming a consultant anaesthetist
    Oct 3 2025
    In this podcast Dr Jennifer Proc talks to Dr Tara Byott and Dr Sarah Muldoon about their experiences becoming consultant anaesthetists.

    They discuss how Sarah and Tara became consultants, and Jennifer's own experience working towards that, and cover topics including: the first appraisal, preparing for managing anaesthetists in training, handling expectations with surgeons and patients alike, imposter syndrome, advocacy for theatre teams, and more.

    Tara and Sarah provide lots of advice drawn from their personal experiences, much of it not exclusive to the consultant role, with reflections on authority, responsibility, and gender that may be applicable to anyone moving to a more senior position.

    Recorded 9 September 2025

    Related information:
    • Juggling the list – patient care and training opportunities | The Royal College of Anaesthetists
    • Making the most of stage 2 and 3 training
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    50 m
  • CPOC patient safety 2025 prizewinner podcast

    CPOC patient safety 2025 prizewinner podcast
    Sep 19 2025
    In this podcast Dr Hattie White talks to CPOC Director David Selwyn and CPOC Fellow Claire Frank about her prize winning presentation “Improving Clinical Incident Reporting in a District General Hospital Anaesthetic Department.” They discuss Hattie’s QI work, how she came up with the idea, the challenges and her contributions to perioperative care as a result. We hope this will be of interest to listeners who are thinking about embarking upon their own QI project.

    Related information:

    • Dr Hattie White's prize-winning poster
    • Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice 2026 event
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    22 m
  • Portfolio pathway - episode 5: Assessor viewpoint

    Portfolio pathway - episode 5: Assessor viewpoint
    Sep 5 2025
    This is a special podcast mini-series focusing on the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) programme, the process that enables doctors who don't hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to join the GMC's specialist register and therefore be eligible to take up substantive consultant posts.

    We have created this mini-series to support those already undertaking the programme or for those interested in following the programme. The series consists of 5 episodes as below:

    • Introduction to the Portfolio Pathways programme and this series
    • Non-Clinical domains
    • Clinical domains
    • SIAs
    • Assessor viewpoint
    Related information:

    • RCoA portfolio pathway page
    • Information for portfolio pathway applications
    • Specialty Specific Guidance
    • Special Interest Area Guidance
    • Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP)
    • LLP Webinar
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    15 m
  • Portfolio pathway - episode 4: SIAs

    Portfolio pathway - episode 4: SIAs
    Sep 5 2025
    This is a special podcast mini-series focusing on the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) programme, the process that enables doctors who don't hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to join the GMC's specialist register and therefore be eligible to take up substantive consultant posts.

    We have created this mini-series to support those already undertaking the programme or for those interested in following the programme. The series consists of 5 episodes as below:

    • Introduction to the Portfolio Pathways programme and this series
    • Non-Clinical domains
    • Clinical domains
    • SIAs
    • Assessor viewpoint
    Related information:

    • RCoA portfolio pathway page
    • Information for portfolio pathway applications
    • Specialty Specific Guidance
    • Special Interest Area Guidance
    • Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP)
    • LLP Webinar
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    9 m
  • Portfolio pathway - episode 3: Clinical domains

    Portfolio pathway - episode 3: Clinical domains
    Sep 5 2025
    This is a special podcast mini-series focusing on the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) programme, the process that enables doctors who don't hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to join the GMC's specialist register and therefore be eligible to take up substantive consultant posts.

    We have created this mini-series to support those already undertaking the programme or for those interested in following the programme. The series consists of 5 episodes as below:

    • Introduction to the Portfolio Pathways programme and this series
    • Non-Clinical domains
    • Clinical domains
    • SIAs
    • Assessor viewpoint
    Related information:

    • RCoA portfolio pathway page
    • Information for portfolio pathway applications
    • Specialty Specific Guidance
    • Special Interest Area Guidance
    • Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP)
    • LLP Webinar
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    10 m
  • Portfolio pathway - episode 2: Non-clinical domains)

    Portfolio pathway - episode 2: Non-clinical domains)
    Sep 5 2025
    This is a special podcast mini-series focusing on the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) programme, the process that enables doctors who don't hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to join the GMC's specialist register and therefore be eligible to take up substantive consultant posts.

    We have created this mini-series to support those already undertaking the programme or for those interested in following the programme. The series consists of 5 episodes as below:

    • Introduction to the Portfolio Pathways programme and this series
    • Non-Clinical domains
    • Clinical domains
    • SIAs
    • Assessor viewpoint
    Related information:

    • RCoA portfolio pathway page
    • Information for portfolio pathway applications
    • Specialty Specific Guidance
    • Special Interest Area Guidance
    • Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP)
    • LLP Webinar
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    14 m