a night at the theatre
Whinges to follow.
I had no department induction because “I'm not new to the department”
tasked to do pre-op assessments, told I could do some e-learning, having had zero feedback I hope the day anaesthetists enjoyed my shitty assessments with loads of detail (apart from where teeth are, what's up with that)
wanting to be involved with cases, but not even knowing there were cases overnight until I stumbled across them... please. I will cannulate and art line whoever. Anyone.
and emergency medicine, ie my parent specialty, constantly being slated
I get it, my regs have to scope me out, as do I, but I was expecting more. to find things difficult because there were lots of new skills to learn and the intensity of the work, not the constant defense of my specialty and my place on the team and asking permission to do simple things
(my supervisor and I talked about belonging, early on this year. ED recognises (kinda) me as one of its own – that I'll be coming back to them eventually. the tendency on ICU and theatres is: anaesthetics trainees are a known quantity – the favourite children – and most of the seniors know exactly what they need from training. most of the seniors don't know what signoffs ED trainees need, don't think much of EM as a specialty anyway, and keep saying “you're not going to use it anyway”, as if that precluded actually training a trainee)