Surgical training topics

Direct Observation of Procedural Skills in Surgery - Surgical DOPS

Submitted by srrpenna on Thu, 2008-07-24 20:30.
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As part of new modernising medical careers in United Kingdom new surgical curriculum is being developed. Detailed curriculum can be found at Intercollegiate surgical curriculum project. I am going to write about various aspects of this new surgical training scheme.

Part of new curriculum is development of various forms of assessments. These assessments will supplement exams for trainees. One of these is Surgical DOPS - or Direct Observation of Procedural Skills.

OCAP - Orthopaedic Competence Assessment Project

Submitted by srrpenna on Sat, 2006-05-27 07:00.
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http://www.ocap.org.uk/

Updated principles of selection to surgical training

Submitted by srrpenna on Mon, 2006-05-08 07:00.
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from ISCP Website

Principles:

1. Selection from F2 will be into surgery (themed and generic programmes) will be denoted by an NTN (S) surgery .
2. Numbers in ST1 will equal numbers required in ST2 onwards across all specialties .