Ithihad Mushrat

Key Clinical Skills Leadership & Problem-Solving

• Acute and chronic hepatology management, including liver failure and transplant care.
• Handling medical emergencies (GI bleeding, sepsis, encephalopathy, cardiac arrests).
• Procedural skills: cannulation, ABGs, ascitic taps, and lumbar punctures.
• Leading acute interventions and coordinating multidisciplinary care.
• Managing deteriorating patients with timely escalation.
• Effective teamwork with consultants, nurses, and junior doctors.
• Strong decision-making under pressure in high-acuity settings.

Key Clinical Skills Leadership & Problem-Solving

• Managing neurosurgical emergencies (traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, spinal cord compression).
• Acute neurology and post-operative care, including ICP monitoring and seizure management.
• Procedural skills: EVD management, ventriculoperitoneal shunt assessments.
• Coordinating perioperative care with neurosurgeons, anesthetists, and ICU teams.
• Rapid assessment and escalation of deteriorating neurosurgical patients.
• Effective decision-making in high-pressure settings.
• Team collaboration with surgical teams, radiologists, and intensivists.

General Surgery:
- Examine surgical candidates in admissions unit
- Manage unwell patients with surgical complications whilst working efficiently and communicating, (and in some cases leading) a multidisciplinary team to deliver care

Acute medicine:
- Clerking and initiating management in patients being referred to the medical team.
- Working within (and at times leading) a multidisciplinary team to carry out advanced life support, and manage the deteriorating unwell patient.
- Communicate effectively between specialty teams to hand over patients care
- Teach medical students during normal working days about the role of a junior doctor and common challenges in Acute medicine

Psychiatry:
- Assess and initiate management (with appropriate supervision) to patients with deteriorating mental health
- Carried our physical health clinic for our psychiatry caseload and coordinated care between our service and General practitioners.