title: Specialist registrars in acute medicine receiving patients in the resuscitation room: a key component in the training curriculum.
abstract: A key component of training in Acute Medicine is the assessment and initial resuscitation of severely ill medical patients. The curriculum for General Internal Medicine (Acute Medicine) states that all specialists in Acute Medicine should attain Level 3 competencies in all emergency presentations.1 Different training programmes have variable exposure to the emergency department, to which the majority of these patients present. One module, currently being developed at City Hospital, Birmingham, is for the Acute Medicine Specialist Registrars (SpRs) to attend all medical alerts in Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department. This means that the SpR works as part of the receiving team, seeing patients first hand, rather than taking secondary referrals. At our hospital over 80% of alerts brought in the resuscitation room are medical emergencies.
authors: Medical Assessment Unit Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Dudley Road Birmingham B18 7QH.
authors: Sarbjit
authors: S
authors: Clare
authors: Susan M
authors: SM
authors: Fair
authors: Nigel J
authors: NJ
authors: Langford
authors: Brian C
authors: BC
authors: Lee