Higher specialist training in general surgery.

Should training in colposcopy be obligatory in higher specialist training in genitourinary medicine?

General Paediatric Surgery: A survey of Northern Ireland General Surgery Specialist Registrars

The response rate was 71% (n=25). Thirty-six percent (n=9) of specialist registrars had previous experience of specialist paediatric surgery. Operations trainees would offer if appointed to a DGH are reported in table 1. The age profiles of children with a minor head injury, appendicitis and an acute scrotum that trainees would be prepared to admit under their care or operate on are reported in...

A cross sectional study of surgical training among United Kingdom general practitioners with specialist interests in surgery

OBJECTIVES Increasing numbers of minor surgical procedures are being performed in the community. In the UK, general practitioners (family medicine physicians) with a specialist interest (GPwSI) in surgery frequently undertake them. This shift has caused decreases in available cases for junior surgeons to gain and consolidate operative skills. This study evaluated GPwSI's case-load, procedural t...

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery – Cardiothoracic Surgery

Reading this handbook of " Cardiothoracic " surgery, I am reminded of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch about the one legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan: " I love your right leg … I have nothing against your right leg … unfortunately neither do you! " Well, I have nothing against the cardiac surgery side of this book, it is excellent. Unfortunately the Thoracic component is almost...

Perceptions of the learning environment in higher specialist training of doctors: implications for recruitment and retention.

INTRODUCTION Career choice, sense of professional identity and career behaviour are influenced, subject to change and capable of development through interaction with the learning environment. In this paper workplace learning discourses are used to frame ongoing concerns associated with higher specialist training. Data from the first stage of a multimethods investigation into recruitment into an...