Career Story: ICM and ECMO

Dr Richard Porter
ICM and ECMO consultant

I am an ECMO specialist working at The Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.

I am dual specialty qualified intensivist with anaesthesia. I stopped anaesthetic work to become a Medical Examiner as I felt the frequency of anaesthetic sessions I was doing was too low and it was difficult to maintain CPD across multiple specialties. 

My current job plan is 12 PAs with seven PAs of ECMO and ICM, 1 PA for Medical Examiner work, 2.5 for Deputy Clinical Director work and 1.5 for SPA.

I enjoy the non-clinical challenges presented by my other roles and finds the seven PAs good from a clinical perspective as it is enough to allow ongoing skill maintenance and development, but not too onerous.

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