ACCS news and events
ACCS Training Leads Day - Wednesday 1st May 2024 from 10:00 am - 4:45 pm
Click here to register https://events.rcoa.ac.uk/rcoa/710/home
We welcome all ACCS trainers to join us for an exciting all-day event including updates, presentations, and open discussions.
Click here to take a look at the programme.
If you have any questions about the event please contact the team at accs@rcoa.ac.uk
ACCS Webinar
On Tuesday the 16th of January the ACCS webinar for both trainees and trainers was held online.
Please view the recorded Zoom by clicking the link below. If you have any access issues, copy the link and paste it into your web browser.
Password: Q4#h$@8o
Many thanks to those who attended and contributed.
ACCS Trainers Survey 2023
The ACCS Trainers survey remains open for a few more weeks and we would be grateful if all trainers involved with ACCS trainees from any/all of the three parent specialties could complete this.
This is one of the most important sources of feedback about the curriculum, e-portfolio, differential attainment and other aspects of training, supervising and assessing, and the data and free text comments support the ACCS committee in making changes and supporting our trainees.
We would therefore be very grateful if you could take the five or so minutes required to complete this survey.
Kind regards,
Dan Becker (ICACCST Co-chair)
Pippa Newton (ICACCST Co-chair)
ICACCST Trainee representatives
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is recruiting two Trainee Representatives to join the Intercollegiate Committee for Acute Care Common Stem Training (ICACCST) and represent anaesthetists in training.
The applicant should currently be an ACCS trainee, ideally in their ACCS1 or ACCS2 year.
Applications will be reviewed by the Anaesthesia Consultant representatives on ICACCST who will select the suitable candidates.
Role of the trainee representative on ICACCST:
· To attend the four ICACCST meetings a year (three online and one in person).
· To represent the views of ACCS trainees from their parent specialty with respect to ICACCST business.
· To be a point of contact for ACCS trainees from their parent specialty. To be able to voice issues and queries relating to ACCS training at a national level.
· To respond to trainees who raise queries or issues in a helpful and timely manner, and to escalate or redirect their queries when appropriate.
· To organise the trainee element of the 'ACCS Trainee and Trainers Day', or equivalent.
How to apply:
Interested parties are invited to send the following to accs@rcoa.ac.uk
· CRN and School of Anaesthesia/region
· Why you are interested in the role
· A current CV
The closing date for applications is the 16th of January 2024.
ARCP – entrustment level changes
8 March 2023
Following feedback and discussions at the ACCS Training Leads Day in May last year the committee made a formal submission to the GMC towards the end of 2022 to lower the required entrustment level for some of the procedural skills within ACCS LO5 and for ACCS LO3 (Resuscitation) as a whole. We are pleased to report that GMC approval was received in mid-January and came into effect on February 1st. The changes are as follows:
LO3 - Identify sick adult patients, be able to resuscitate and stabilise and know when it is appropriate to stop – changed from 2b to 2a in all four ACCS placements.
LO5 - Deliver Key ACCS procedural skills. – the following are changed from 2b to 2a: pleural aspiration of air; Seldinger chest drain; invasive monitoring; DC cardioversion; external pacing; US-guided venous access and fascia iliaca block; lumbar puncture.
End of placement report template
February 2023
For which the end of placement report is not yet available on the LLp, a Word form can be used to record the process and then be uploaded as a personal activity to a trainee's record.
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Please note a new version of ACCS ESR with amended entrustments levels LO3 and LO5.
June 2022
Please note a new version of ACCS ESR with amended entrustments levels LO2, LO7 and LO8.
These reduced requirements match those set out in the ACCS ARCP Decision Aid and supersede those on the previous version of ESR.
These effect LO2, LO7 and LO8 only.
ARCP Decision Aid 2023
February 2023
The ARCP Decision Aid for 2023 is now published.
Duration of ACCS Placements
January 2023
There have been a number of queries relating to the required duration for the four ACCS placements for LTFT trainees. This seems to be driven in part by the significant increase in the number of trainees opting to go LTFT, typically at 80% WTE. There have been many discussions and meetings with Colleges, regional ACCS leads, HEE and lead deans to try to clarify the position as it has proven to be a complex issue and one which affects not just ACCS but all training programmes. The current situation has been summarised in the ICACCST guidance that was sent out last year and which accompanies this newsletter circular as a separate document.
End of year Educational Supervisor report template
February 2023
For anaesthetic ACCS trainees, this form should be used as the end of year ES report rather than the anaesthetic ESSR which appears on LLP. This form contains similar information to the ESSR but in addition has the ACCS Learning Outcomes. For EM and IM trainees, this form is already on your EP.