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Annual Meeting 2017

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Time to Train

4 October 2017
The Studio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham

How do we ensure time for training? During this conference we explored how we can ensure that trainers have the time to train properly, looking at how you can secure training time in your job plan and how to make the most of that time. It looked at how further professionalisation of the trainer role can be achieved through projects such as the Improving Surgical Training project and a move towards competency based training.

Speakers included: Ms Stella Vig, Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Chair of the Core Surgical Training Committee; and Mr Dermot O’Riordan, Consultant Surgeon and previous CEO of West Suffolk Trust; Professor Jon Lund, Chair of the SAC in General Surgery

Workshop sessions included:

Winners of the joint ASME / FST Research Grants were also presented.

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Conference Highlights

How do we ensure time for training? During this conference we explored how we can ensure that trainers have the time to train properly, looking at how you can secure training time in your job plan and how to make the most of that time. It looked at how further professionalisation of the trainer role can be achieved through projects such as the Improving Surgical Training project and a move towards competency based training.


 Video Lectures

Click on the links below to watch individual lectures.

Welcome Professor Michael Lavelle-Jones

Time for Training: The Management View Dermot O’Riordan, Chief Clinical Information Officer at West Suffolk NHS

Time for Training: The Trainer’s View Stella Vig, Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon at Croydon University Hospital

Time for Training: The Trainee’s View Helen Mohan, ASIT President

Keynote: David Wilkinson Post Graduate Dean in Yorkshire and the Humber

Improving Surgical Training: The SAC View Professor Jon Lund, Chair of the SAC in General Surgery

Improving Surgical Training: The Educationist View Professor Jen Cleland, Director of the Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation (CHERI)

Improving Surgical Training: FST View Craig McIlhenny, FST Director

Workshops Mark Coleman and Andy Miller: Improving Training in Theatre

Panel Discussion 1

Panel Discussion 2

Research Session 1 Sotiris Papaspyros

Research Session 2 Joshil Lodhia

Research Session 3 Ronnie Davies

Research Session 4 Hannah Sevenoaks

Research Session 5 Chris Brown

Research Session 6 Alexander Walker

Research Session 7 Edward Noon

Prizes

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