Education
Currently recruiting
The 7th Scandinavian Advanced Obstetric Anesthesia Training Program 2022-2024.
An advanced education program for specialists in anesthesiology, with a special interest in obstetric anesthesia, from the five Nordic countries.
The program lasts two years and consists of:
- Clinical training, working in one or two departments of anesthesia, at least one with a special division for obstetric anesthesia
- Four SSAI courses in various Nordic countries and participation in the SSAI Congress 2024
- A four-week exchange program in a foreign country
- Research project
Preliminary course dates:
- Uppsala 3-6 October 2022
- OAA in London 7-9 Nov 2022
- Copenhagen 7-10 May 2023
- Norway/Finland 2023/24
- 5th SSAI Congress, Oulu, Finland, 2024
After fulfilling the Advanced Education Program, the candidate will be awarded a SSAI Diploma in Obstetric Anaesthesia.
Application deadline: 1 May 2022
Program start: 1 September 2022
Documents
How to apply
You need to fill out
- application with info and signature
- contract with signatures of applicant AND the chair of the host clinic
These need to be scanned to pdfs and sent by email to:
Obstetric Anaesthesia Programme Chairman
Kim Ekelund
Department of Anaesthesiology
Juliane Marie Centre
Rigshospitalet
Blegdamsvej 3
2100 København Ø.
Denmark
Email: kim.ekelund@regionh.dk
Obstetric Anaesthesia Working group
- Dr. Johanna Sarvela: Johanna.Sarvela@hus.fi, Finland
- Dr. Antii Väänänen: antti.vaananen@hus.fi, Finland
- Dr. Lone Fuhrmann: lone.fuhrmann@regionh.dk, Denmark
- Dr. Kim Ekelund: kim.ekelund@regionh.dk, Denmark
- Dr. Sigurbjörg Skarphéðinsdóttir: sigskarp@landspitali.is, Iceland
- Dr. Ólöf Viktorsdóttir: olofvik@landspitali.is, Iceland
- Dr. Joanna Haynes: joanna.claire.haynes@sus.no, Norway
- Dr. Elin Bjørnestad: elin.bjornestad@helse-bergen.no, Norway
- Dr Anette Hein: anette.hein@regionstockholm.se, Sweden
- Dr. Susanne Ledin Eriksson: susanne.ledin.eriksson@regiongavleborg.se, Sweden
Information on the currently running SSAI – Obstetric Anaesthesia Programme VI
- 1st Course: Flúðir, Iceland, September 2019
Course responsibility: Sigurbjörg Skarphéðinsdóttir: sigskarp@landspitali.is, Iceland - 2nd course London, England: 4-7 November 2019
The group will atttend the OAA “Three day course on Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia.”
Course responsibility: Dr. Elin Bjørnestad: elin.bjornestad@helse-bergen.no - 3rd Course Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 May and 12 Oct 2021
Course responsibility: Dr. Kim Ekelund: kim.ekelund@regionh.dk - 4th Course Helsinki, Finland 2021, 1-4 Feb 2022
Course responsibility: johanna.sarvela@hus.fi - SSAI Congress Oslo, Norway, 7-10 Jun 2022
Course responsibility: Dr. Elin Bjørnestad: bjornestad@helse-bergen.no and Dr. Joanna Haynes: joanna.claire.haynes@sus.no, Norway
Aim: To present the research projects done in the Programme as poster abstracts