Consultant Intensivist Transition Course
This course for senior trainees explores the challenges and rewards of non-clinical consultant work and aims to equip attendees with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to ease the transition to Consultant life.
The UK Consultant Intensivist Transition (CIT) course will be held in Cardiff on the 15 & 16 May 2025.
This course is designed for senior trainees, CESR candidates and Consultants in the first 2 years following CCT. It explores the challenges and rewards of non-clinical consultant work and aims to equip attendees with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to ease the transition to Consultant life.
This course has a limited number of places available, with a high faculty: delegate ratio to maximise opportunity for learning. We are lucky to welcome an experienced and four nation faculty for the delivery of sessions.
Location: Cardiff
Fee: £400, £470
Programme
Day 1: Learning about self and others
| Time | Session Title & description | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| 0900 | Registration. Coffee | |
| 09.30 | Welcome | Dr Sara Cook |
| 10.20 | “The Education Bit” | Dr Sara Cook |
| 10.30 | What does success look like? | |
| 11.20 | Morning Break | |
| 11.40 | What is your leadership style? | Dr James Day |
| 12.30 | Defining your clinical leadership style | |
| 13.20 | Lunch | |
| 14.10 | Conflict Management | |
| 15.00 | Negotiation | |
| 15.50 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16.10 | When things don’t go well | |
| 17.00 | Close of Day One |
Day 2: Learning about systems
| 09.00 |
Welcome Back Housekeeping |
Dr Sara Cook |
|---|---|---|
| 09.10 |
Organisational Culture What is the NHS? How do we set appropriate tone and culture |
|
| 10.00 |
Managing Meetings Meetings culture, how to get the most out of them, how to say no |
James Day |
| 10.50 | Morning break | |
| 11.10 | Sustaining change in the NHS | |
| 12.00 |
Performance Management How to ensure your own performance, how performance is monitored, how performance is supported |
Dr Jack Parry-Jones |
| 12.50 | Lunch | |
| 13.40 | Legal & Ethical considerations and dilemmas | |
| 14.30 | Human Factors | |
| 15.20 | Afternoon Break | |
| 15.40 | Quick Fire Q&A session | All Faculty |
| 16.30 | Closing Thoughts & Reflecting on “what is success” | |
| 17.00 | Close of course |