WELSH INTENSIVE CARE SOCIETY AUDIT & RESEARCH TRAINEES
WICSART
WHO ARE WE?
Founded in 2022 and launched at the National Research Collaborative Meeting, March 2023
We are a small group of Intensive Care Specialty Registrars, who strive to:
--> Foster connections between hospitals in Wales and across the UK
--> Collaborate with other UK research networks and transform local projects into projects at scale
--> Drive forward opportunities for ICM resident doctors and ICM-affiliated clinicians to be involved in national data capture, research and quality improvement.
AWARDS & GRANTS
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1ST PRIZE PRESENTATION WITS CONFERENCE 2024
We won first prize presentation at the Welsh Intensive Care Trainee Society 2024 Conference for our high impact project, for such wide reach and significant involvement across Wales, having facilitated teams across fourteen hospital sites, recruiting a total of 51 site leads and over 120 collaborators.
TRAINEES TRANSFORMING TRAINING GRANT 2023
We were successful in our application for a ‘Trainees Transforming Training’ grant, a Health Education in Wales incentive, which allowed us to present our work at the Association of Anaesthetists trainee conference in Glasgow and the State of the Art conference in Birmingham in 2024.
IMPACT OF NETWORK
We are incredibly proud to have achieved a wide reach since 2023.
We have worked hard to create high quality opportunities for ICM residents and support both local and UK wide projects.
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We have facilitated teams across fourteen hospital sites, recruiting over 50 site leads and over 120 collaborators.
Summary of
Network Activity
Projects include; Achieving Comprehensive Co-ordination in Organ DonaCon (ACCORD), Identification of Difficult Airways in Critical Care units (ID-ACCT) and National Evaluation of the provision of Critical Care ECHOcardiography in Shock (NEAT-ECHO). We are currently collaborating with the Welsh Audit and Research Engagement Network (WAAREN) for the Retrospective Evaluation of Post-operative Alternatives to Critical Care (REPACC) project.
NEWS: COMMITTEE MEMBER CHANGES
Updated: February 2025
CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS
A warm welcome to two newest committee members
Dr Gwen Howe, ICM / Anaesthesia Stage 2 Resident
Dr James Ainsworth, ICM Stage 1 Resident
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They join:
Dr Hattie White, ACCS Anaesthesia Resident
Dr Graham Picton, ICM Stage 2 Resident
Dr Esther Godfrey, ICM / Anaesthesia Stage 3 Resident
Dr Sarah Elgarf, ICM / Anaesthesia Stage 3 Resident
who have served as committee members over the past 2 years.​ Welcome both, thanks for joining the team!
SO MANY THANKS GOES TO:
Dr Lenny Ivatt and Dr Brigitte Baxter, who have recently completed their training, congratulations both on your award of CCT!
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Thank you for being founding members of WICSART, for your abundant enthusiasm and knowledge you have both brought over the past 2 years since we were established.
GET IN TOUCH!
If you are a Welsh intensive care medicine resident, or aspiring to be, with a budding research or QI question please do let us know. We would love to hear from you.
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If you are part of another network, either within ICM or in another specialty and you have a project which might benefit from multi-site data capture, WICSART may be able to support, so please do get in touch and open a dialogue with us.
Similarly if you are thinking of setting up a intensive care medicine RRN in your region, we would love to hear from you and share experiences.
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