Career Story: ICM and Respiratory Medicine
I am a consultant in Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
My job plan consists of 10 PAs total DCC with two PAs of this in Respiratory Medicine, paid for by critical care.
My two PAs in Respiratory Medicine are done as a job share with a less than full-time (LTFT) colleague to cover 17-18 weeks respiratory wards, incorporating time in outpatient clinics and his respiratory special interests (the Home/Chronic Respiratory Failure service and Respiratory High Care services).
All of my out-of-hours time is in ICU as annualisation which means I cannot do Resp Med or GIM on-calls.
I would make the point that annualisation is key in terms of spreading your on-call commitments/time between specialties and that it is essential to ensure that you have appropriate SPA time to deal with two specialties.
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