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Find more infoGENERAL OBJECTIVES FOR THE SPECIALIST ANAESTHETIST The scope of the specialty includes clinical anaesthesia for surgery and obstetrics, with care for mother and newborn; techniques of resuscitation as well as care and management of the critically ill patient. The specialist anaesthetist will have knowledge of all these areas whose extent in any particular field will be determined by practice and experience. The hall-mark of the specialist anaesthetist will be the ability always to choose safe methods of practice inspire of extreme variabilities in clinical presentations of the patients coming under his/her care GENERAL OBJECTIVES FOR DIPLOMA IN ANAESTHETICS The goal of the D.A. Course is to train safe clinical anaesthetists. The course has a clinical orientation which emphasises knowledge for the clinical practice of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. Clinical training is obtained through first-hand experience with the practice of anaesthesia. This portion of the curriculum is divided into a series of one-month rotations which expose the trainee to anaesthetic techniques for a wide variety of general surgical, orthopaedic, gynaecological and urological procedures. Clinical experience is initially obtained under the direct supervision of a senior anaesthetist. As the trainee's experience and confidence increase this supervision is progressively withdrawn. On successful completion of the D.A. Course, the trainee is qualified to provide anaesthesia for surgical procedures comparable to those around which the D.A. training year is built. The D.A. Course does NOT prepare the trainee for unsupervised administration of anaesthesia in the following settings: 1. Neonatal surgery (patient <28 days of age) 2. Intracranial neurosurgical procedures
4. Major vascular surgery (where aortic cross-clamping required).
The goal of the D.A. Course is to train safe clinical anaesthetists. The course has a clinical orientation which emphasises knowledge for the clinical practice of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine.
Clinical training is obtained through first-hand experience with the practice of anaesthesia. This portion of the curriculum is divided into a series of one-month rotations which expose the trainee to anaesthetic techniques for a wide variety of general surgical, orthopaedic, gynaecological and urological procedures. Clinical experience is initially obtained under the direct supervision of a senior anaesthetist. As the trainee's experience and confidence increase this supervision is progressively withdrawn.
On successful completion of the D.A. Course, the trainee is qualified to provide anaesthesia for surgical procedures comparable to those around which the D.A. training year is built. The D.A. Course does NOT prepare the trainee for unsupervised administration of anaesthesia in the following settings:
1. Neonatal surgery (patient <28 days of age)
2. Intracranial neurosurgical procedures
4. Major vascular surgery (where aortic cross-clamping required).
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