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We'll give it a couple of minutes because we've only got 20 people and give them a bit of time to join. Yes, maybe we'll get a start, start now and then more people can join as we go through it. So, hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our talk today. Um I just want to introduce our speaker today. Who's Doctor Pratt, a consultant anesthetist in Salford. He's a college tutor and training program director for the Northwest and a current Royal College of Anesthetist Regional Advisor. Um And he'll be doing a talk today about a career on anesthetics, which I'm sure is very relevant for all medical students and anyone looking to do anesthetics is a career. Um Just a heads up, follow us on our me page for more um talks and if you complete the feedback form at the end, you'll be able to receive your certificate. So just going to hand over to Dr Pratt now, who's gonna do our talk tonight? Thank you very much and just let me get my side up. Ok. Um I can't uh see you on now cos I'm sharing my whole screen. So if there's any issues with you not being able to hear me or if anybody wants to ask any questions, do feel free to just shout up. Uh So I can hear you if I don't hear anything, I'll assume everything's ok. Um, so first of all, thanks very much for the invitation to come and talk to you, er, all tonight. Um, as you've heard, uh my name's Oliver Pratt. I'm a consultant anesthetist in Salford Royal Hospital, which is part of the Northern Care Alliance Foundation Trust just north of Manchester. Um, I've been in various educational and training roles over the year uh over the years. Um, and I am currently the Royal College of Anesthetists, Regional Advisor for North West England, for the Northwest School of Anesthesia. Er, that means effectively that I'm the, the college's representative in the Northwest and it's my role to make sure that in the anesthetics training program, uh that we are doing things according to the college of anesthetist regulations and, and curriculum and things like that. Um, when I got asked to talk, er, er, I give a talk to the, er, to the, um, Medical School Anesthesia Society, I had a little think about what I thought might be a useful talk to do. I've actually had a look through some of the talks that you've had in the past that I've been very impressed by the, the detail and the clinical stuff that you've, you've been through. Um, and certainly far more, er, anesthetics, er, education than I ever got as a medical student. But what I kind of thought I would do is a bit more of a general overview and I hope you don't find it too basic. I hope I'm not telling you things that you already know. But my feeling when I started doing anesthetics was, I didn't really know what anesthetists did. I didn't understand who anesthetists were, what they did in the hospital and why. And when I found out and the more I found out the more I thought that sounds great. I think I'd really quite be interested in doing that sort of that sort of career. So I think this, this diagram which has been hanging around for a while now, kind of sums it up. It's a sort of mixture of, uh, you know, you have moments of excitement, you have a reasonably good lifestyle and most people don't really know what you do. So, somewhere between spy Sommelier and sofa. Which kind of, yeah, II can, I can live with that? I think my plan for the next, er, er, sort of half an hour, 40 minutes or so is to go through these things. So I thought I'd start by telling you how I ended up being an anesthetist. Um, and then I thought I'd tell you a little bit about what anesthetists do and some of that you're gonna know already because of the things that the talks that you've already had and the fact that you're, you're here in an anesthetic society. So, I apologies if there's a little bit of, uh, you know, teaching your grandmother to soak eggs in that bit, but it, hopefully you'll find something interesting and then a little bit about what can anesthetists do. So, what do anesthetist do and what can, so what are your options within a career in anesthesia? And then I'm going to talk a little bit about how you would become an anesthetist and how you get trained as an anesthetist. And I'll give you some tips. Hopefully, as medical students, what you can do if you think a career in anesthetics might do, that's my email address. Um If you would like if questions that I don't get a chance to answer tonight, feel free to, to drop me an email. I'm on a week off at the moment. So I won't be looking at my emails until next week. But uh if you don't mind, waiting until next week, do feel free to drop me a line if there are any questions. So how did I get to be at? I um I went to medical school a long time ago now, 1989 which is probably before most of you were born. Um I went to medical school in Newcastle and I went to Newcastle because I liked Northumberland and I fancied being a rural gpi like the countryside. I like the outdoors. And I thought a rural GP in Northumberland was the career that I had for me, which is a slightly different career to the one I've ended up with, which is a consultant, anesthetist and regional advisor in a teaching hospital just outside Manchester. So, how did I get there? Well, first of all, I went to medical school, as I say, and we didn't do any anesthetics. I think probably I had maybe two lectures cos I can remember Professor Hull at the time, I remember him being in the lecture theater and talking, but I couldn't tell you what the lectures were on. And we maybe had two lectures in five years about anesthetics. So I left medical school not really knowing anything about what anesthetists did. I did my house jobs as they were called then. And that was six months medicine and six month surgery. And in both of those, I came across anesthetists a little bit. So when I was a medic, when people were getting very sick, they got taken off to the intensive care unit and the anesthetists seemed to look after them, which I found a bit odd because a lot of anesthetists just put people to sleep for operations. And then obviously, when I was doing my surgical house jobs, the anesthetists were people that came around the ward in the morning and told us off for not taking the bloods in time for the surgical patients who were booked on that day's list. But then I went on to my idea of GP training, you could join a vocational training scheme for general practice, which is like the general practice speciality training. That's the, it was a three year program and you had to do four hospital jobs for six months each and then a year of general practice. But if you could get those jobs without joining the scheme, you were able to count the jobs towards a GP training. And that's what I decided I would do. So I was going to do my own scheme as we used to call it. So I got myself a job doing six months of medicine again as an sho where I was doing a lot of on call work. And then I followed on with a job in A&E. Um, some of you may have worked in A&E emergency medicine when I was in emergency medicine. Initially, when I started, I was scared of everything and everything was very exciting and a bit stressful. After a, maybe a month or two, I liked majors and results, but I didn't like minors. And then after about four months, I liked RSO, but I didn't like majors and I didn't like minors. And really what I was finding I was interested in was the people who were really sick and the people who were really sick, I found it quite interesting looking after them and treating them or trying to start to treat them. And I found it all very exciting. But every time we got an interesting patient, these dudes came down from theater in pajamas and they took the patients away from us and I had to go back to minors and look at people with ankle injuries and rashes and.