Entries from MMC: Resources tagged with 'anaesthetics'
Peripheral Regional Anesthesia, Book with DVD: An Atlas of Anatomy and Techniques
The use of peripheral anesthesia and regional nerve blocks is rapidly increasing as physicians and patients gain firsthand experience of the benefits these techniques offer. Practitioners have an ever-increasing choice of options, as the range of techniques expands and becomes...
A View from the Head End
Choosing an easy life as an anaesthetist over the cut and thrust of art college, Steve Yentis has been drawing medical cartoons for the last 20 years, whilst waiting for surgeons to turn up or his regional blocks to work....
Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease: Expert Consult: Online and Print, 5e
Today’s leading authorities present the succinct, yet thorough guidance you need to successfully avoid or manage complications stemming from pre-existing medical conditions. Organized by disease, the new edition of this popular guide has been completely revised and updated to reflect...
Stoelting's Anesthesia and Coexisting Disease 5/e and Handbook for Stoelting's Anesthesia and Coexisting Disease 3/e Package
This convenient, money-saving package offers must-have guidance for successfully avoiding or managing complications stemming from pre-existing medical conditions. It combines the comprehensive coverage of Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease, 5th Edition – Expert Consult: Online and Print, with the succinct...
Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes: Text with Image Bank CD-ROM, 2e
Obtain optimal diagnostic results from the field’s foremost pain expert! Noted authority Steven D. Waldman, MD, JD, offers complete, concise, and highly visual guidance on the diagnosis of more than 100 uncommon pain syndromes less frequently encountered in daily practice....
Acute Pain Management: A Practical Guide, 3e
This is a new edition of a highly successful practical guide to acute pain management in the adult patient. The book provides a clear understanding of the current methods of analgesia for all those involved in the pain management team:...
Examination Intensive Care & Anaesthesia: A Guide to Intensivist and Anaesthetic Training
This text has been designed to guide Intensive Care and Anaesthetic trainees in their approach to the clinical components of the Fellowship examinations of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine...
Textbook of Anaesthesia, 5e
This title is recognised as the standard text for Part 1 of the FRCA.F35...
Miller's Anesthesia e-dition: Text with Continually Updated Online Reference, 2-Volume Set, 6e
The two volume set plus a continuously updated website for the life of the edition gives you unprecedented reference power! This new 6th edition of Miller's Anesthesia covers fundamental principles through advanced subspecialty procedures. A who's who of internationally recognized...
Practical Perioperative Transoesophageal Echocardiography: Text with CD-ROM
Transesophageal Echocardiography is routinely used for perioperative and postoperative monitoring of cardiac patients. This book is a practical guide for the anaesthetist or intensivist, covering the principles and techniques of diagnosis and monitoring....
Anaesthesia Education Website
A valuable collection of online examination-related resources for anaesthetics trainees, maintained by Dr Kerry Brandis, a Council member of the Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Also includes a very active Bulletin Board....
Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine....
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists - Faculty of Pain Medicine.
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists - Faculty of Pain Medicine....
Comparison of Training Conditions & Vocational Training Costs in Australian Specialist Medical Training Programs
Australian Medical Association. Comparison of Training Conditions & Vocational Training Costs in Australian Specialist Medical Training Programs....
Careers in Medicine : The Avant Handbook
Hewson, A. D., Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute., et al. (2006). Careers in medicine : the Avant handbook. Newcastle, N.S.W., Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute. Buy it here....
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty
Freeman, B. (2007). The ultimate guide to choosing a medical specialty. New York, McGraw-Hill Medical. A very useful and reader-friendly medical specialty guide written by doctors for students, blending first-hand experience with facts and figures to capture the essence of all the major specialties.
Anaesthesia as a Career.
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Anaesthesia as a Career....
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists....
Entries from MMC: Specialty profiles tagged with 'anaesthetics'
Anaesthetics
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists administers two training programs: Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine. These two careers are vastly different and do not share a common training pathway.The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists also administers the Intensive Care Medicine training program jointly with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. The Faculty of Pain Medicine is the body responsible for training, education and standards for Pain Medicine in Australia and New Zealand. The Faculty of Pain Medicine was established within the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), incorporating true multidisciplinary representation from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (RACP) (AFRM RACP). The Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine is the body responsible for training, education and standards for intensive care medicine in Australia and New Zealand. It is a joint faculty of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Flexibility in Training
Part-time training with at least 50% of normal work hours may be undertaken if prior approval is sought. Extended absence of training greater such as for sick or parental leave is allowed for up to one consecutive year. If the...
Availability/Competition for training positions
Entry to the training program is competitive with more applicants than positions....
Cost of Training
Once Only Registration Fee $1,400 Annual Training Fee $1,400 Examination Fee Part 1 $3,030 Examination Fee Part 2 $3,530 Courses: EMST (Early Management of Severe Trauma): $2,100 EMAC (Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises): $1815 (incl GST) Costs as at 2008,...
Length of Training
Training takes 5 years in total to complete comprising two years basic and three years advanced experience....
Application process
Applicants are eligible after completing 24 months of post graduate medical training which includes internship and a subsequent residency. Application for accredited training positions are made directly to hospitals which offer accredited anaesthetic registrar posts....
Training Program
This is a five year program which comprises two years basic training and three years advanced training. Successful completion of the training program requires passing both the primary and final examinations; completing a formal project (ie research paper or review);...
Lifestyle and Practice Options
Anaesthetists may work in public or private practice or a combination of both. Public positions often involve an academic or teaching role and is centered in the operating theatre. Services are provided for departments other than surgical based ones such...
Medical indemnity
Medico-legal issues, as with all aspects with medical practice are becoming increasingly significant. Nonetheless the problems are not as prevalent as with high risk specialties such as surgery and obstetrics. Use our risk category tool to see what risk category...
Intellectual content
Anaesthetics is an intellectually demanding specialty requiring in-depth knowledge of pharmacology and physiology, particularly cardiac and pulmonary physiology. As more and more complex patients are undergoing surgery, anaesthetists are increasingly required to have a sound knowledge of internal medicine in...
The doctor-patient relationship
Despite the image often jokingly portraying anaesthetists as doctors who would rather have their patient asleep than talking, anaesthetists often have important patient interactions. The doctor patient relationship is generally limited to the pre-operative assessment and period of peri-operative care....
The workplace
Anaesthetists provide anaesthesia for patients undergoing operations and those having medical procedures requiring sedation such as endoscopy or interventional radiology. Anaesthesia is provided for patients undergoing the full range of operative procedures ranging from relatively simple hernia repairs to more...
Anaesthetics
Anaesthetics is a medical specialty which combines in-depth knowledge of physiology and pharmacology in combination with a proficiency in various procedural skills, particularly airway management. The anaesthetist undertakes an enormous responsibility. By rendering patients paralyzed and insensitive to pain and...
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