Alexander Phillips and David O’Regan have been appointed as deputy directors for FST. Alexander Phillips, a consultant oesophagogastric surgeon at the Northern Oesophagogastric Cancer unit in Newcastle, carried out his surgical training in the North East of England and Oxford deanery. He has a keen interest in surgical education, particularly educ…
Highlights from the 2016 FST conference 'Training by Numbers: Competency vs Time in Surgical Training' are now available along with a review of the event. The conference examined competency-based training in surgery, exploring concepts through state-of-the-art presentations from the world’s leading experts in surgical education and training, and th…
Interview feature With competency vs time on the agenda for this year's conference, FST speaks to Touch Surgery’s Andre Chow about what the ground-breaking application means for both trainees and trainers What is Touch Surgery?Essentially, it's a completely mobile-based platform that empowers and connects the global surgical community, allowing…
Applications are now invited for the joint FST / ASME small educational research grants from surgical trainees and consultants. The small research grants are intended to support evaluation or research into surgical education and training. Projects should either lead directly to improvements in surgical training practice or increase our understandi…
The FST’s Surgical Director, Craig McIlhenny has written an opinion piece on modern surgical training for the autumn edition of Urology News. Highlighting the challenges faced by those trying to provide excellent training to new generations of surgeons, Mr McIlhenny said “There is no acknowledgement of the work we put in to deliver high quality tr…
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