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Paediatric education

G/THUR/EDU1 AN AUDIT OF SPR TRAINING AT A LARGE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL: IS IT POSSIBLE TO MEET THE RCPCH STANDARDS FOR CORE TRAINING WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE EWTD, ON A FULL SHIFT ROTA?
K. Lamb, M. Zalkin.North Middlesex University Hospital (Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust), London, UK

Aims: To determine if the Standards and Criteria for Core Higher Specialist Training as laid down by the RCPCH are being met by core trainees working a band 2a rota in a large district general hospital.

Methods: Audit forms were sent out and returned by email weekly over 10 weeks. Shifts worked by each registrar were analysed retrospectively from the rota over the same time period.

Results: Time spent at work between 8.30–5.30; 49%. Time spent out of designated clinical areas; 20% (when out of hours work excluded) 61% (as proportion of total time at work). Clinic attendance; 41% of the recommended number of clinics were attended within the 10 weeks. Teaching; amount attended (weeks audit returned) 42%, bleep rate 75%. Reasons given for non-attendance were: cancelled 18%, leave 16%, nights 11%, . . . [Full text of this article]