What type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
You will work as part of the Emergency Department’s multi-disciplinary team which includes consultants, SHOs (F2, ACCS, GP training and “F3”), Middle grades/Registrars, Emergency and Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Physiotherapists and many more.
You will see patients with a wide range of acute and emergency presentations and have the opportunity to experience everything from the management of minor injuries to the resuscitation of some of the sickest patients in the hospital. Getting to see everything from small babies to the old and frail, this post will give any doctor a good foundation for their future career.
You will be encouraged to attend the department’s weekly junior doctor teaching programme as well as being given opportunities to be involved in monthly mortality and morbidity meetings, audit and other governance related activities.
Your Main Duties:
In the morning, you will accompany the consultant on the department’s five bedded observation unit ward round. Once the ward round is done and any jobs completed, there should plenty of time for you to see new patients in the Emergency Department (ED), under supervision. Depending on the day you could be working in Minors, Paediatrics, Majors or Resus.
Your typical working pattern in this placement could be:
In the morning, you will accompany the consultant on the department’s five bedded observation unit ward round. Once the ward round is done and any jobs completed, there should plenty of time for you to see new patients in the Emergency Department (ED), under supervision. Depending on the day you could be working in Minors, Paediatrics, Majors or Resus.
This job is 9-5 Monday to Friday and therefore unbanded. There is sadly no possibility for you to pick up locum shifts in the ED, however there may possibilities for extra internal locum F1 shifts in medicine or surgery if they are short.
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.