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AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND COLLEGE OF ANAESTHETISTS
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(Document effective at the beginning of the 2004 Hospital Employment Year)

1.   INTRODUCTION

1.1   Trainees in anaesthesia must complete a five year training program, pass the Primary and Final Examinations of the College, and complete other specified training requirements to be eligible for admission to Fellowship of the College.

1.2   Trainees who have completed Basic Training and two years of Advanced Training, passed the Final Examination, completed all requirements of training Modules 1 to 10, and who have obtained prospective approval from the Assessor for an optional individualised program of training during all or part of Advanced Training Year 3 within a Hospital Department (or other organisation) approved by the College will be recognised as Provisional Fellows for all, or part of a year.

1.3   Trainees must seek approval from the College before commencing their Provisional Fellowship Program. The trainee is responsible for making application to the College with the written support of the appropriate Departmental Head.

1.4   Trainees in this year are known as Provisional Fellows. They must be registered with the College and pay the annual training fee.

1.5   The Provisional Fellow:

1.5.1   Is not a specialist anaesthetist

1.5.2   Must be supervised appropriately

1.5.3   Should achieve widened experience and maturity

2.   DETAILS

2.1   The Provisional Fellowship Year will allow for the development of:

2.1.1   A consultant approach

2.1.2   An interest in continuing education

2.1.3   An interest in teaching

2.1.4   An understanding of research methods and techniques

2.1.5   Responsibility and commitment to the training of other staff

2.2   Provisional Fellowship Programs must satisfy the above requirements and must be either:

2.2.1   Specifically approved by the College as part of its training programs; or

2.2.2   Specially approved by the College on prospective application to the Assessor

2.3   Approved Provisional Fellowship Programs may allow:

2.3.1   Recognition for intensive care training

2.3.2   Recognition for pain medicine training

2.3.3   Experience in a field of special interest

2.3.4   Experience in a deficient area of training

2.4   Provisional Fellows should be involved in teaching and supervision of other trainees provided that the clinical situation is appropriate and that supervision as specified in College Professional Document TE3 Policy on Supervision of Clinical Experience for Trainees in Vocational Anaesthesia is available.

2.5   Provisional Fellows should ordinarily work only in situations where work is supervised as noted above. Distance supervision will not ordinarily be permitted for more than three months.

2.6   The Assessor (on behalf of Council) has discretionary powers to approve specific proposals for the Provisional Fellowship Program and will be flexible in considering a proposal. Any such program must have prior approval. Training outside Australia and New Zealand is to be encouraged.

This Professional Document should be interpreted with regard to the following Documents:

TE1 Recommendations for Hospitals Seeking College Approval for Vocational Training in Anaesthesia

TE3 Policy on Supervision of Clinical Experience for Vocational Trainees in Anaesthesia

TE4 Policy on Duties of Regional Education Officers in Anaesthesia

TE5 Policy for Supervisors of Training in Anaesthesia

TE17 Policy on Advisors of Candidates for Anaesthesia Training

COLLEGE PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENTS

College Professional Documents are progressively being coded as follows:

TE Training and Educational

EX Examinations

PS Professional Standards

T Technical

POLICY – defined as ‘a course of action adopted and pursued by the College’. These are matters coming within the authority and control of the College.

RECOMMENDATIONS – defined as ‘advisable courses of action’.

GUIDELINES – defined as ‘a document offering advice’. These may be clinical (in which case they will eventually be evidence-based), or non-clinical.

STATEMENTS – defined as ‘a communication setting out information’.

This document has been prepared having regard to general circumstances, and it is the responsibility of the practitioner to have express regard to the particular circumstances of each case, and the application of this document in each case.

Professional documents are reviewed from time to time, and it is the responsibility of the practitioner to ensure that the practitioner has obtained the current version. Professional documents have been prepared having regard to the information available at the time of their preparation, and the practitioner should therefore have regard to any information, research or material which may have been published or become available subsequently.

Whilst the College endeavours to ensure that professional documents are as current as possible at the time of their preparation, it takes no responsibility for matters arising from changed circumstances or information or material which may have become available subsequently.

Promulgated: 1988

Reviewed: 1991, 1996

Date of current document: June 2003

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