Specialist Interest Area in Perioperative Medicine
Southmead Hospital offers Stage 3 trainees the opportunity to develop advanced skills in Perioperative Medicine within a supportive, multidisciplinary environment. As a major tertiary centre, Southmead provides a wide spectrum of perioperative services, allowing trainees to gain experience in optimising complex patients for surgery and improving long-term outcomes.
Opportunities within the module include:
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPEX) - arrange by contacting the department secretaries, who will help with clinic scheduling
- Intravenous iron clinic - assessment and optimisation of patients with preoperative anaemia
- Complex Care clinic - led by Care of the Elderly physicians, focusing on frailty, multimorbidity, and shared decision-making
- Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings - vascular, bariatric, and adrenal surgery case discussions
- Radiology meetings - review of complex imaging to inform perioperative planning
Trainees will gain practical experience in evidence-based risk assessment, shared decision-making, multidisciplinary collaboration, and patient-centred optimisation. The SIA is designed to equip future consultants with the knowledge and skills to lead perioperative services and deliver safer surgical care. Any projects would need to be self-directed.
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