Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcomes:
Use problem-solving techniques to arrive at a diagnosis for a patient.
Communicate efficiently and effectively with the patient and other health care workers as a team.
Show sustained competence in psychomotor skills necessary for the practice of Anaesthetics.
Demonstrate competency and responsibility in the use of instruments and equipment necessary for this practice.
Conduct all research with due regard for the moral, legal and ethical accountability and requirements of the profession.
Practice Evidence-Based Medicine by critically evaluating published literature in the field and applies it in practice.
Guide junior learners who are studying or working in the same branch of specialisation.
Show respect for patients and colleagues that encompasses, without prejudice, diversity of background and opportunity, language, culture and way of life.
Where applicable, refers patients to practitioners who are more appropriately qualified than the learner is, to treat certain conditions.
Demonstrate an awareness, through actions or in writing, of the moral, legal and ethical responsibilities involved in individual patient care and the provision of care to populations.
Consider both the impact of health care on the environment as well as on health.
Strive to improve patient care, to reduce inequalities in health care delivery, to optimise the use of health care resources in our society and uses his or her professional capabilities to contribute to the community as well as to individual patient welfare by the practice of Anaesthetics.
Teach, through clinical practice at the specialist level, the application of knowledge from the basic to the advanced level to other professionals.
Communicate this knowledge by teaching undergraduates and supervising interns and more junior colleagues in the speciality.
Use appropriate strategies for learning that will prepare the learner for continued professional development throughout life, both as a specialist doctor and as a responsible citizen.
Acknowledge responsibility for continuing professional development (CPD) to keep up to date with new developments and to maintain accreditation and meet statutory CPD requirements.
Identify personal limitations and develops the capacity of self-audit and participates in the peer review process, showing a willingness to seek help when necessary.
Integrated Assessment:
Assessment is in the form of:
Physics:
Formative tests.
The option of CMSA Part 1 Physics Anaesthesiology examination.
Pharmacology:
Monthly tests.
The option of CMSA Part 1 Pharmacology examination.
Physiology:
Monthly tests.
The option of CMSA Part 1 Physiology examination.
Anaesthesiology:
Weekly Tutorials (group or individual).
Multi-disciplinary meetings.
Clinical department presentations.
Work-based assessments for the recording of observed competences in procedural and reporting techniques by the use of Logbooks. The assessment of the learners is on the level of training and competencies with a prescribed number of outcomes for various procedures at different levels of training.
Monitored rotations organised in core modalities throughout the four-year training period.
Junior registrars: (YR 1&2) Trainees require additional support and direct supervision.
Senior registrars (YR3&4) Trainee requires very little or no senior supervision and can practice independently:
Mock examinations before final examinations.
(Monitored Attendance 80%).
EXIT examination: Part 2 CMSA Anaesthesiology examination (FCA):
The final Assessment will consist of a written, oral, practical and clinical parts conducted by the College of Medicine South Africa (CMSA) (as stipulated by the HPCSA 2011) as the National Exit Examination. The practical and clinical part of the Assessment may take any format as determined by the CMSA. |
