RTS 2025

02/10/2024

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 Research Training Symposium (RTS). The conference was a full day of research education and training attended by over 60 resident doctors.

There was a real focus on displaying the excellent resident led research in anaesthesia across the Peninsula. The academic clinical fellows presented work covering projects from post op Delirium (Dr Sabrina Stewart), data science in healthcare (Dr Nick Aveyard) and medical education (Dr Will Hughes). Two projects had been nationally funded by the NIAA and adopted into the NIHR Portfolio; the Plymfit Study, a project looking at integrating smartwatches into the perioperative workflow (Dr Alex Hunter) and Sabrina’s delirium work.

Dr Jez Fabes outlined the various pathways into research and research training, followed by two guest speakers, both anaesthetic residents, who presented their doctoral fellowship work. Dr Todd Leckie (University Hospitals Sussex) discussed his research on heat illness in marathon runners, while Dr Sandy Jackson (University Hospitals Southampton) introduced CIPHER‑HPI, a project applying machine learning to predict perioperative outcomes.

SAP, ‘Sustainable Anaesthesia in Peninsula’ also chaired a session where we heard from Dr Natalie Smith about her involvement with the NOBLE trial (aiming to evidence base the decommission of piped nitrous oxide). We also had excellent presentations from sustainability projects across the Peninsula (Dr. Lucas De Carvalho) and beyond (Dr Jack Dryburgh-Jones). SAP have launched their “Pollinator” which is, in essence, a recipe book to share learning on sustainability projects across trusts.