tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722509310767947398.post3721483638194074480..comments2024-02-27T21:32:04.260-08:00Comments on KI Doc: A Course..a Course! My Kingdom for a Course!Tim Leeuwenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02071386260651236300noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722509310767947398.post-78177433560345900412012-04-11T06:38:36.498-07:002012-04-11T06:38:36.498-07:00Hey Tim
Great post.
A master class would be perf...Hey Tim<br /><br />Great post.<br /><br />A master class would be perfect. I wonder how we could get some rustling in the ACRRM faculty? <br /><br />I am actively looking this year at how I am going to spend my time upskilling and what courses I would like to attend.<br /><br />For Anaesthetics (Newly fellowed as yourself) I was thinking<br /><br />-> EMAC<br />-> Airway skills or Advanced Airway Management Refresher<br />-> I week back where I trained in late Jan 2013<br />-> ARACUS -> regional ultrasound course run here in WA<br /><br />For Emergency I was actually going to do as Minh suggested and rock up to my old ED in Fremantle or do some Paediatrics at Princes Margaret Hospital in Perth for a few weeks.<br /><br />But we should be using our time to update and advance ourselves to the current evidenced based way or be presented with the controversies and work it our for ourselves!<br /><br />JRJonathan Ramachenderanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09229988035069229277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722509310767947398.post-57273508674083462682012-03-31T04:47:21.919-07:002012-03-31T04:47:21.919-07:00Tim, I hear you. I am an EMST instructor as well a...Tim, I hear you. I am an EMST instructor as well and yes there are things that could improve. You hit the nail on the head when you wrote, "rather than repeat the course, isnt it better to advance to a new level?" The answer is of course, yes. Your problem, is that there is no current advanced course, well at least not what you are looking for. Teaching the cutting edge, controversial stuff...all courses in Oz teach conventional, peer accepted material. <br />at the point you are at, you need to slay a few critical care dragons and deal with bloody sick or injured patients until you are ready for the next level. I would not spend more time in anaesthesia. I would spend time in a busy ED that sees everything from all age groups. Thats where I do my CME nowadays. I was recently doing three weeks at Cairns Base hospital ED and I develop my critical care and ED USS skills there each time I go. sit in with the sonographers and learn routine USS. during my three weeks, I used bedside USS to pickup a pericardial tAmponade, haemoperitoneum and appendicitis. I tubed two critical kids, one a sixth month old . dealt with two serious traumas in the one shift.<br />even better ask Dan Ellis if you can spend time as the retrieval Fellow at Medstar. They do take rural GPs and roster them as registrars under consultant supervision. tHats the next level for you, being on the other side of the retrieval game. Alternatively, ask Cliff Reid if you can spend time with their unit. Their induction training is probably some of the best prehospital critical care training in the country.<br />I agree ite a great idea to have rurally focussed critical care training for the rural doctor. a Skills and drills short course light on the lectures and heavy on the problem based skills and procedural content. I will talk to my brother and see what we can try in Adelaide!rfdsdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13919495080954427480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722509310767947398.post-73040162427250564762012-03-29T04:27:30.485-07:002012-03-29T04:27:30.485-07:00Bloody hell - do ALL the Wudinna docs fly? Scott a...Bloody hell - do ALL the Wudinna docs fly? Scott and Karen were over at the weekend and I was mighty impressed with their 'family plane'...now it turns out there's more of you.<br /><br />Do give me a bell or email off list re: courses and training stuff - I'm getting really fired up about improving rural GP and registrar training with hands-on sessions<br /><br />Keep up the good workTim Leeuwenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02071386260651236300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722509310767947398.post-17869648986717321692012-03-29T03:16:57.311-07:002012-03-29T03:16:57.311-07:00http://ruralflyingdoc.wordpress.com/http://ruralflyingdoc.wordpress.com/Gerrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722509310767947398.post-48036713172541995312012-03-29T03:15:55.217-07:002012-03-29T03:15:55.217-07:00Hey Tim, great idea on the ARREST front. I was at ...Hey Tim, great idea on the ARREST front. I was at a SAPMEA (or whatever the hokey acronym was) event in Whyalla based on retrieval and multitrauma medicine recently. Wasnt really worth the $300 than us rural registrars had to pay (let alone 800 for fellows!) for 8 contact hours. It wasn't structured well and lacked the hands on, lets look a different airways/ECGs/whatever crazy stuff you might see in the country. They did talk about finger chest decompression though which was great. <br /><br />Anyway long time listener first time caller. Spent some time with Ben in Jtown and now in Wudinna for the year. Feel free to check out the blog Ive just started. Hoping to add some more med stuff as it starts to interest me again!<br /><br />CheersGerryhttp://ruralflyingdoc.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com