The MSA
"Lam Tee Dee Roi Uc
Mah, Sam Tee Kye Moi Lee"*
(If you feed the children with a spoon, they will never learn to
use the chopsticks)
The Liverpool School of Anaesthesia was instituted in early 1997 by the then Regional Adviser, Dr Raymond Ahearn, with the initial brief to provide a co-ordinated teaching programme for Specialist Registrars in the Mersey Deanery preparing for the Final FRCA examination. In 1998, discussions with the Postgraduate Dean, Dr Trevor Bayley, led to the innovative decision by the latter to arrange funding for the renamed Mersey School of Anaesthesia. In late 2000, the Board of the School decided that henceforth the school was to be known as the Mersey School of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine.
With the institution of the Mersey Deanery Postgraduate School of Anaesthesia, established April 2006 in accord with MMC and the recommendation of COPMED, to avoid confusion and at the request of the Postgraduate Dean, the extant Mersey School of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine (MSAPM), established February 1997, has agreed to a Change of Name. Henceforth, the Mersey School of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine (MSAPM) becomes the Mersey Series Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine (MSAPM). The new MSAPM will continue to organise courses for the Primary & Final FRCA Examinations as it has been done by the old MSAPM over the last nine years and the MSAPM account will continue to be held as an NHS Charitable Account by the Cardiothoracic Centre NHS Trust.
In effect, the only change is that, in the title, ‘School’ becomes ‘Series’. It is hoped that so small a change will hardly be noticed and will be to no effect other than to maintain the very excellent relationship the old MSAPM has enjoyed with the Mersey Deanery.
As from July 1 st 2008, in anticipation of future developments, the MSAPM will henceforth be recognised by the acronym MSA.
Enquiries/Comments concerning this Website should be addressed to Dr Konstantin Levshankov
Communication with the MSA
Electronic Mail
For a variety of reasons, most of which will be due to
the idiosyncrasies of the respective Trust Information Systems,
it is not always easy to contact the Office of the Mersey School
by email but this route has to be recommended as first move.
Postal Mail
Failure to make contact by email, it is recommended that
a second recourse should be by Postal Mail at the appropriate
address as shown.
MSA
Clinical Sciences Centre
Aintree Hospitals
Liverpool L9 7AL
Telephone
Telephoning is not encouraged as:-
* The lines are not always attended.
* Recorded messages are not as distinct as is needed.
* When attended, the lines are very busy.
* If contact is made, much time is spent checking records and
exchanging details.
* There is no reliable mechanism for maintaining a record of any
conversation.
The Director
David Gray may be contacted at:
The MSA Office
The Clinical Sciences
Building,
Aintree Hospitals,
Liverpool L9 7AL
Correspondents requiring a prompt response are asked to write clearly and to include email address & home telephone number.