TY - JOUR T1 - Non-Fellowship regional anesthesia training and assessment: an international Delphi study on a consensus curriculum JF - Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine JO - Reg Anesth Pain Med DO - 10.1136/rapm-2021-102934 SP - rapm-2021-102934 AU - Alwin Chuan AU - Bahaven Jeyaratnam AU - Shah Fathil AU - Leonardo HC Ferraro AU - Aneet Kessow AU - Yean Chin Lim AU - Michael J O’Rourke AU - Vrushali Ponde AU - Julien Raft AU - Arthur Segurado AU - Suwimon Tangwiwat AU - Alexandra Torborg AU - Lloyd Turbitt AU - Andrew K Lansdown AU - Edward R Mariano AU - Colin JL McCartney AU - Alan JR Macfarlane AU - Louis YH Mok AU - Steven L Orebaugh AU - Amit Pawa AU - Santhanam Suresh AU - J Balavenkat Subramanian AU - Thomas Volk AU - Glenn Woodworth AU - Reva Ramlogan A2 - , Y1 - 2021/07/19 UR - http://rapm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/18/rapm-2021-102934.abstract N2 - Background and objectives While there are several published recommendations and guidelines for trainees undertaking subspecialty Fellowships in regional anesthesia, a similar document describing a core regional anesthesia curriculum for non-fellowship trainees is less well defined. We aimed to produce an international consensus for the training and teaching of regional anesthesia that is applicable for the majority of worldwide anesthesiologists.Methods This anonymous, electronic Delphi study was conducted over two rounds and distributed to current and immediate past (within 5 years) directors of regional anesthesia training worldwide. The steering committee formulated an initial list of items covering nerve block techniques, learning objectives and skills assessment and volume of practice, relevant to a non-fellowship regional anesthesia curriculum. Participants scored these items in order of importance using a 10-point Likert scale, with free-text feedback. Strong consensus items were defined as highest importance (score ≥8) by ≥70% of all participants.Results 469 participants/586 invitations (80.0% response) scored in round 1, and 402/469 participants (85.7% response) scored in round 2. Participants represented 66 countries. Strong consensus was reached for 8 core peripheral and neuraxial blocks and 17 items describing learning objectives and skills assessment. Volume of practice for peripheral blocks was uniformly 16–20 blocks per anatomical region, while ≥50 neuraxial blocks were considered minimum.Conclusions This international consensus study provides specific information for designing a non-fellowship regional anesthesia curriculum. Implementation of a standardized curriculum has benefits for patient care through improving quality of training and quality of nerve blocks.Data are available upon reasonable request ER -