Why do you want to do this course?
- Want to work in emergency medicine
- Enjoy the broad range of acute medicine it involves
- Only course in emergency medicine
- Clinical placement based year
- QIP will allow me to influence the care delivered and get experience in this process which will be good for my future practice
- Integrate in ED team
What is unique about this course?
- Only emergency medicine course
- QIP good oppourtunity to influence patient care
- Optional modules cover topics that wouldn’t be able to study elsewhere e.g. emergency paeds
- Community nature of the course, birmingham very impersonal, will be able to meet course leads, live together in big house
What could you add to the group?
Academically
-Had good experience working in teams for the wilderness medicine and windsurfing commitee
-Approachable, people would be able to come to me with problems
-Good problem solver
Socially
-Good to live with around the house
-Happy to try new activities
-Could take everyone climbing and get involved with what other people were doing
What do you want to get out of the course?
- Oppourtunity to publish QIP and improve patient care in the emergency department.
- Integrate in a team and improve my understanding of what it is like to work in emergency medicine
- Oppourtunity to present at conferences
- Learn to perform skills that I couldn’t do in medical school curriculum e.g. reducing shoulder dislocations
- Develop confidence dealing with acutely unwell patients for being a junior doctor
What are your QIP ideas?
Time to analgesia in extremity fractures
-Better access for triage nurses to administer analgesia.
-Nurses educated that oral medications have low risk of aspiration if patients require sedation for reduction of the fracture.
-Doing a QI project on it should draw attention and hence improve care
Overcrowding in ED:
-Staff pointed it out that its harder to provide good care
-Either reduce overcrowding by identifying bottlenecks
-Or improve care when staff are short on time etc.
What audit are you doing?
Looking at management of suspected scaphoid fractures
Patients that do not have signs of fracture on x ray should be followed up on MRI
Looking at number of people followed up
