Options to complete a MSc, PG diploma or masters
Course duration 1-5 years
Flexible distance learning
Module 1: The Landscape of Perioperative Medicine
Module 2: Towards a New Model in Perioperative Care
Module 3: Data and Statistics in Perioperative Care
Module 4: Quality, Safety and Leadership in Perioperative Care
Module 5: The Evolving Paradigm in Perioperative cardiac disease
Module 6: Elderly Medicine
Module 7: Perioperative Pain and Cancer Disease
Module 8: Special Topics in Perioperative Care
Module 9: Dissertation/Research Project
In each module students study a different topic in their own time by looking at the on-line lecture, reading the written material and visiting other online resources as directed. The successful completion of certificate, diploma and dissertation will lead to the award of MSc. Each module will be examined by a short essay question (1200 words). A portion of the marks will be awarded for student contribution to course blogs, case reviews and other interactive activity.
Contact Dr David Walker: Course Lead Tutor periopmed@ucl.ac.uk
For more information please see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anaesthesia/education/perioperativemedicine and http://www.ucl.ac.uk/surgery/courses/msc-perioperative-medicine
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2) Trainee Module in Perioperative Medicine
UCL have developed an optional 3 week higher training module in Preoperative Medicine.
This includes:
attending surgical clinics to understand the barriers to prehabilitation
CPET and clinics
preassessment
visiting cardiac and respiratory medicine clinics with the aim of finding out how they contribute to preoperative optimisation of co-morbidities
major case anaesthesia for selected lower GI lists
targeted postoperative ward rounds with a care of the elderly physician.
knowledge of the key studies in perioperative medicine
an introduction to statistics
using clinical trials in perioperative medicine to illustrate points
For more information contact Abigail Whiteman (abigail.whiteman@doctors.org.uk)
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3) Duke Perioperative Medicine Fellowship
2 fellows
In collaboration with Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina
Involves:
- enrolment onto UCL's master program to earn a postgraduate degree in one year.
- 2-4 week exchange program with Duke
See our page on Perioperative Medicine at Duke
For more information see Duke Perioperative Medicine Fellowship webpage.
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FEEDBACK
"The clinical work on this fellowship involves managing a PACU. On the whole the work could be accomplished by a medical SHO as there very few level 2 or 3 patients. The work ends up feeling quite trivial for a high dependency area, and especially as a senior registrar I found this quite frustrating. Being called at 4am to correct a magnesium starts to become quite tiring. I would not recommend this fellowship for anyone in their senior years. I found a few other fellows had been promised anaesthetic sessions which did not materialise. "