Undergraduate

Skills in peri-operative and critical care are crucial to all doctors. We provide teaching across the whole undergraduate MBChB programme. This is usually in two dedicated clinical attachments – Perioperative and Critical Care in Year 3 and the Acute and Critical Care Assistantship in Year 5. This teaching is delivered by both clinical academics and NHS staff and encompasses clinical attachments, lectures, tutorials and simulation. We also permeate all other years of teaching with inclusion of Peri-operative, Pain and Critical Care within the Case Based Learning (CBL) curriculum. Members of our group facilitate these sessions across the programme from Year 1 to Year 5. Dr Ben Gibbison leads the peri-operative and critical care theme in the Medical Undergraduate curriculum and can be contacted here.

We also teach for undergraduate science students and intercalating medics in Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience in pain, somato-sensation, sleep and autonomic control.  We encourage both clinical and non-clinical student engagement with research through project placements for and vacation studentships including as part of the INSPIRE scheme. 

Postgraduate

We are committed to training the next generation of clinical academics in Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care. We currently have trainees undertaking research work from bench to bedside in all areas across the academic clinical training pathway (link to the academic trainee page on the ACCS website). This ranges from Specialised Foundation Programme doctors to NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows (ACFs) and Academic Clinical Lecturers (ACLs).  We have an excellent track-record of converting ACFs into externally funded PhDs (Wellcome Trust, MRC, NIHR and British Heart Foundation) and then into clinical lectureships. This programme is led by Prof. Tony Pickering.  We also encourage and support clinical trainees to participate in research through the activities of the Severn Trainee Anaesthetic Research group (STAR).