New year... SAME old me
Weekly Update 20/01/2025-25/01/2025
Dearest Gentle Readers (Yes, I may have been a little late to the "Bridgerton" party—don’t judge me - also can y'all really say that you are gentle ... or dear? Just kidding, don't report me to HR),
I am typing this in the comfort of the anaesthesia tea room at Kalafong, facing the goldenrod feature wall💛😆.
As we kick off 2025, we’re excited to share that our team is growing! We’ve welcomed several new contributors who will be joining us, so you can expect a wider range of updates moving forward. If you’ve ever thought about contributing as an author, feel free to reach out to me—Jeremy—anytime!
With the changes taking place in our department, I also want to highlight some new team members who will be joining us this February. Please join me in welcoming them with the same warmth and guidance that was shown to us when we first settled into this department. After all, we spend countless hours together—building a bond that, let’s face it, might just qualify as trauma bonding.
Looking forward to a fantastic year ahead with all of you!
Academic programming
Just a new year's refresher regarding the different academic scheduling.
FCA 1 candidates will be notified regarding different tutorials via the FCA 1 WhatsApp group. Tutorials generally are on Friday afternoons. Please make sure that if you are writing that you are on the group for communications.
FCA 2 candidates are urged to join the FCA 2 group. It is recommended for candidates who have obtained FCA 1 to join this group for part 2 tutorials and academic teaching
Breakfast club and Coffee club
An initiative to walk through and develop critical thinking skills hosted by Drs Kalipa and Naidoo respectively. This takes place before the morning meeting approx 06:30 in the morning in the seminar room at Steve Biko
Call roster
Our call rosters in our department are structured predominantly as First, Second and Third on calls - with the fourth on call standby for emergencies where the first three are unavailable to come in. Kalafong rosters occasionally only having two on call per shift. First on call doctors may need to restructure teams as necessary during the night shift. After all it is a team orientated shift.
The consultants responsible for call rosters:
Steve Biko Academic Hospital
Dr Nolu Mlabateki: [email protected]
Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital
Dr Dawid van der Merwe: [email protected]
Leave
Please don't forget to submit your leave forms to our consultants overseeing leave.😄 Please remember to request leave in time and submit z1a form for leave taken.
Steve Biko Academic Hospital
Dr Aggie Morosi: [email protected]
Link for the Roster (live)
Please see the above link for the live roster for leave planning.
Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital
Dr Mariana Voigt: [email protected]
Friday 24th January
Please note that this is an extraction from the current roster as it stands and may be subjected to changes.
DA tutorial
Anaesthesia emergencies
FCA 1
Endocrine physiology: hypothalamic-pituitary axis, thyroid and growth hormone
UP Social WhatsApp group
If you have any interest to join our UP WhatsApp group please join using the button below!
New changes to the newsletter
We have managed to source some new and exciting fresh blood into the publishing team.
We can expect a new category of posts which may be independent or integrated into our weekly updates as they come! Please watch this space.
We have invited Dr Reinecke and Dr Powell to join our team for the updates. Dr Bhabha is still around, and has promised to perhaps drop and update every now and then telling us about how things go down Jozi style.
All the feels - Spotify playlist 😄
Something to read
samantha.smith12hsc.wvu.edu
Freshly minted ATOTW article published on the 14th Jan
All of us have done paediatric cases. This article touches on Ped-PADSS (Pediatric-Post-Anesthetic Discharge Scoring System) and Aldrete scoring. Looking more into potential complications and discharge from PACU.
