Elma Buckley, MSc

So you’ve got the Fellowship…CSTThe SpR scheme produces approximately 18 SpRs per year who receive a Certificate of Specialist Training on completion. At the end of SpR training the trainee will be competent to take up a consultant post in Anaesthesia.

Even if you seem like the perfect candidate to fill a vacancy…

Preparing to become a new consultant? Learn about personal responsibility:

“Wait guys! This one’s a lawyer, I’d better wash my hands”

Preparing to become a new consultant? Become responsible for your own continuing medical education:

“There are some things they don’t teach you in medical school…I think you’ve got one of those things”

Preparing to become a new consultant? Teach others:

“Couldn’t find anything wrong with this one… Maybe he’s just lazy”

Preparing to become a new consultant? And find out that things do go wrong unexpectedly…

“What a screw up! I was supposed to get a new hip…”

Although there should be compensation?

Fatal blunderPatsy Bryan, 39, was

unlawfully killed when an anaesthetist mistakenly put an oxygen tube into her stomach during a routine operation, a jury at Leeds Coroner’s Court ruled. The mother of three died a day after the procedure at Leeds General Infirmary in 2002. Her family plan to press for criminal charges.

Doctor clearedA consultant

anaesthetist who injected air into a baby’s bloodstream was cleared of manslaughter. A jury at Swansea Crown Court decided that the mistake did not constitute gross negligence. Dr Robert Falconer, 45, who wept at the verdict, may still face disciplinary action.

MSc Bridges a Gap???