If the candidate is accepted, COMASUL assists him or her until he or she obtains his or her FMH title, and ensures an efficient distribution of assistants between the university and peripheral hospitals in French-speaking Switzerland. A number of our MAs also move to Berne. A total of around 16, anaesthetic procedures are performed, including 1, obstetric analgesia procedures. The Preoperative Evaluation Unit carries out over 7, pre-anaesthetic consultations.
The SAR also carries out around 8, acute analgesia consultations a year and almost 5, chronic analgesia consultations. It plays an active role in the decision-making processes of a number of multi-disciplinary groups, including the resuscitation team, the colorectal, thoracic and gynaecological ERAS team, and the heart team. The SAR is also very active in the field of training. It offers a multimodal range of courses, including.
A hour on-call service at the Sion site gives our MAs intense and varied clinical exposure. MAs work under supervision adapted to their development. They share on-call responsibility with a team consisting of 1 senior physician and two nurse-anaesthetists. This is a real opportunity to develop teamwork skills. To carry out these various tasks, the department has the following full-time equivalents:. In general, twelve training places are occupied by candidates for training in anaesthesiology.
We recommend 2 to 3 years' training in our establishment, with a 6-month rotation in intensive care. Since , there has also been the possibility of a 1-year rotation at the Pain Clinic to learn chronic pain management techniques. Four month places are reserved for ADs from other disciplines, generally 1 place for intensive care and 3 places for emergency. For emergency ADs, a pathway has been created in to coordinate the month rotas in intensive care, emergency and anaesthesia.
This solid anaesthetic versatility is developed in a climate of high psychological security. Assistants and senior registrars are subject to labour laws. We comply with the limit of 50 weekly working hours, usually distributed over a month. Generally, this involves 4 nights on-call per month. On other days, assistant doctors are involved in the elective surgical programme. In order to take advantage of the specific features of the different sites, they can do service in both the Sierre and Martigny hospitals.
