BLOCK 18 ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586
BLOCK 18 ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 - Block organiser: Dr S Spijkerman
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 If you have problems: - Consult immediately after a contact session - Appointment with lecturer as arranged with departmental secretary: Ms Hettie Steyn Tel: 012 354 1892 Ms Anna Wedderspoon Tel: 012 354 1510
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 Don‘t wait until it is too late. .
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 • Syllabus theme aim: The Anaesthesiology component of the block comprises the basic principles of theory and practice of Anaesthesiology relevant to the generalist
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 Prescribed text: • Anaesthesiology: Undergraduate course as available on Click. UP • Clinical Anaesthesiology G Edward Morgan et al Lange Medical Books Mc. Graw-Hill
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 Morning Rotation 20% Progress Tests 15%+15% Block mark Block Test 50%
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 Block mark A 60% + Morning Rotation 50% PROMOTE! Optional <60% First Block Exam B (A+B)/2 50% HOLIDAY! Pass! <50% Second Block Exam
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 Second Block Exam 50% <50%
What will be assessed? • Prescribed departmental text • Everything covered in: • Contact Sessions: • block 18 • morning rotation tuts (12: 00 -13: 00) • Practical sessions: • morning rotation in theatre
Click-UP • Block 18 formal contact session material may be available online (Click. UP) within 48 hours • The above is not guaranteed and is at the discretion of the individual lecturer
st 1 Progress Test • All work up to the test • If legitimately missed cannot promote • If illegitimately missed forfeit marks
nd 2 Progress Test • All the work since the previous test, thus excluding the work covered in 1 st progress test • If legitimately missed cannot promote • If illegitimately missed forfeit marks
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 NB: Not all the study material can ever be covered in the formal contact sessions! Contact sessions serve to highlight, clarify and bring additional information ! Assessments will include work covered in formal sessions and prescribed lecture notes PLUS work covered during morning rotations (theory and practice)
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 No additional tests will be written (for missed progress test / block test) – such unfortunates cannot promote and will sit for the block exam! Absence from any assessment without a valid reason, as determined by the Faculty, will require a student to repeat the block…. Legitimate absence from the block exam will invoke the second block exam as the first and last block exam!
ANAESTHESIOLOGY GNK 586 YOU CANNOT PROMOTE IF: - YOU FAILED THE MORNING ROTATION TEST! - YOUR MORNING ROTATION LOGBOOK IS FOUND TO BE INADEQUATE! - YOU MISSED AN ASSESSMENT DURING BLOCK 18 (progress test / block test) - YOU HAVE LESS THAN 60% AS PROVISIONAL BLOCK MARK
Scope of tests: • Class test 1: • 08: 00 -10: 00 31/05/2012 • Covers: 1. Basic principles 2. Pre-operative assessment 3. Machine and breathing circuit 4. Airway management
5. Opioids and post-op analgesia 6. Monitoring 7. Intravenous induction agents 8. Local anaesthesia 9. Regional anaesthesia 10. Inhalational agents From day 3!
• Class test 2: • 07: 00 -09: 00 04/06/2012 • Covers: 1. Muscle relaxants 2. Muscle diseases 3. Obstetrics 4. Electrolytes and acid-base 5. Respiratory physiology 6. Respiratory disease
• Block test: • NB: Thursday 07/06/2012 13: 00 -16: 00 • Covers: 1. Cardio-vascular physiology and anaesthesia 2. Geriatrics
3. ENT, eye and OPD anaesthesia, porphyria 4. Trauma 5. Paediatrics 6. Renal and liver disease 7. Recovery room and PONV 8. Endocrine 9. Fluids and blood
Test venue allocation • Please contact Ms H Steyn @ (012) 354 1892 for an allocation list regarding times and venues for tests and exams
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