A Short Anaesthesia Course: A surgeon's experience

ABSTRACT

Quality patient care demands competent response by the Clinician to the needs of the patient in a variety of situations. In the same way; Quality Assurance in Surgery requires all practicing Surgeons to be acquainted with the Basic Anaesthetic Principles and Skills as part of the fundamentals of the holistic management of the patient; for the best quality of life after surgery. In this paper; a surgeon had three (3) months Apprenticeship in Anaesthesia and was empowered with the basic Principles and Skills in Safe Anaesthesia. She ultimately got trained and becomes a better and more competent clinical Surgeon. Introduction: Quality patient care demands competent response; by the clinician to the needs of the patient in various situations. Achievement of the best quality of life after surgery requires the surgeon to be conversant with the basic principles and skills of safe anaesthesia which are part of the fundamentals of holistic management of a patient. Unfortunately; training curricula for anaesthesia in Uganda medical Schools give brief exposure in Anaesthesia to both undergraduates and postgraduates. The consequences of this; is some deficiency in the management of the patient. The need to correct this cannot be over emphazed. For this reason; the presenter opted for the Short Course in Anaesthesia