Clinical Research Training Fellowships

University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Institute of Infection and Global Health

Location: University Campus (Year 1), Overseas (Years 2-4)

£31,838 - £56,312 pa

Ref: R-584933/WWW

Closing date for receipt of applications: Fri, 31 Jan 2022 17:00:00 GMT

We are recruiting for three Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowships titled Health Priorities in Resource Limited Settings for our 7th cohort intake, commencing 1 September 2014.

The duration of the clinical training fellowship will be for a maximum of 4 years, with the first year based in Liverpool completing an MRes, and most or all of the remaining 3 years completing a clinical research PhD based overseas in a lower middle income country (L-MIC), addressing a research question of relevance to local health needs.

To apply medical graduates must have passed the relevant exam for their specialty, e.g. MRCP, MRCS, MRCOphth etc. GPs are advised to contact the office to clarify their eligibility. It is anticipated that many applicants will have already commenced their specialist training, but this is not essential.

Download applicant information form

Download job description file

Commenting on these fellowships Mr. Tim Goodacre said:

"This is an excellent opportunity, and I'm sure the fellowships will be highly sought after & therefore competitive. However, it'd be superb if a young research interested plastic surgeon were to take up the challenge and have a good idea to present. I'm sure we should publicise the advert, and suggest that anyone interested (who of course would need to be in a position to move to Liverpool for a years MRes followed by 3 years off & on in a developing nation) could contact any of the BFIRST committee to chat about possible avenues for research if they need inspiration."

Association Of Breast Surgery Conference & AGM - Abstract Closing Date Approaching

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Association Of Breast Surgery Conference & AGM
19th & 20th May 2014
ACC Liverpool

Abstract submission for the ABS Conference & AGM 2014 is now open

To submit an abstract please click here

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday 16th December 2013 at 9am.

If you have a problem submitting an abstract ahead of the deadline please contact Lucy Davies at the ABS Office between 9am and 11am on Monday 16th December on 020 7869 6852 or by e-mail on [email protected] so that any issues can be resolved in time for your abstract to be included.

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY TRAINEE ASSOCIATION

SOTA is an association for surgical trainees. The association provides assistance during members' training and represents all branches of cancer surgery in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Benefits of becoming a member of SOTA include; • Free membership for the duration of training • Free annual trainee conference, with a generic cancer surgery focus • Free online subscription to the European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO) • Discounted fees to attend the BASO ~ ACS Scientific Conference • Opportunity to become a member of the SOTA committee

MEMBERSHIP IS FREE

Become a member of SOTA now!

BAAPS Trainee Membership

The Annual BAAPS membership fee for trainee members is to rise from January 2014 to £100.

However, we are pleased to announce that every trainee member of the BAAPS will now receive complimentary hard copies of The Gold Journal from ASAPS, along with online access to back copies.

In addition, trainee members will be able to register for BAAPS 2014 at the reduced rate of £100 per day.  New at the annual meeting next year is The Treatment Room - an area where companies will be demonstrating their products and offering free training in injectables.

Travel Fellowships worth £1000 are available solely to BAAPS trainee members - applications are now being taken for future projects.

Trainee members will continue to receive selected Newsletters from BAAPS along with access to the Member’s Area of the BAAPS website.

Please contact the BAAPS office at [email protected] for further information.

3rd European Symposium on Paediatric Hand Surgery and Rehablilitation

The British Society for Surgery of the Hand is delighted to host the 3rd European Symposium on Paediatric Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation. 

The meeting will be held at the Institute of Child Health in London on 13th & 14th January 2014.

The deadline for early registration is midnight on Sunday 15th December 2013. A late registration supplement of £75 will be payable after this date. I

An online registration form and further details are available here

RSM Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Section meeting - 22 January 2022

See the flyer below for the OMFS Section meeting at the RSM on 22/01/14

A5 flyer

ASiT Response to Shape of Training Review

The Association of Surgeons in Training have produced an excellent response to the Shape of Training Review which was published recently.

ASiT ShOT Response Final

ASiT Surgical Trainee Conference | Fri 28th - Sun 30th March 2014

**CLOSING DATE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: Midnight, Sunday 12th Jan 2014**

Nearly 800 delegates attended this year's Conference in Manchester - come along in 2014 to get ahead in your surgical training!

http://www.asit.org/events/conferences/2014

Highlights include:
- Submit research & audit abstracts for presentation
- Surgical trainee and medical student prizes
- Surgical career planning and advice
- Great value pre-conference educational courses
- Educational conference programme with expert guest speakers
- The famous ASiT Trainees’ Charity Gala Dinner party

The highest ranking abstracts accepted at the conference will be published in Elsevier’s International Journal of Surgery.

12 great value pre-conference courses on Friday 28 March 2022 including:

• SARS / BJS Research Skills for Surgeons
• Foundation Skills in Surgery
• Emergency Cross Cover Course
• Core Laparoscopic Skills
• Intermediate Laparoscopic Skills Course
• Foundation Skills in Orthopaedics Course
• Basic Skills in Vascular Surgery Course

For further info and enquires please contact: [email protected]

ASiT Website: http://www.asit.org/
ASiT Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASiTofficial

ASiT 2014 Meeting Flyer - V 2

Surgical Fellow Melbourne - Closes Today, Sunday 8/12/13!!

Position Title Surgical Fellow - Plastics

Employment Status Fixed-Term Part Time

Department Peter Mac

Geographical Location East Melbourne

Award Classification HM30

Hours Per Fortnight 53

 The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is Australia’s only public hospital solely dedicated to cancer and one of an elite group of hospitals worldwide to have its own integrated cancer research program and laboratories. 


The Cancer Surgery Department is a growing, academically based group of surgeons delivering surgical care to cancer patients. Surgeons carry out their work in a multi-disciplinary environment within a sub-specialty service dedicated to the management of melanoma, complex skin tumours, sarcoma, breast and head and neck reconstruction. 

With a special interest in Plastic surgery, you will act independently and also as part of a clinical team. You will be involved with teaching and supervision of trainees and will be actively involved in research.

You are a suitably qualified medical practitioner registrable with the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria and have a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons or equivalent. 

For further information in relation to this position, please contract Dr Angela Webb on 0401 003 905.


Selection Criteria Excellent skills and competencies as a clinician -Excellent communication skills with patients, their families and colleagues. •Registration with the Medical Practitioners Board of Australia. •Commitment to continuous quality improvement. •Teaching commitment and mentoring

Contact Person Shane Ryan

Closing Date 08/12/2021

More info here

RSM - Osteomyelitis and Periprosthetic Infections - Mr Henk Giele

See the flyer below for more details regarding the upcoming talk on Osteomyelitis and Periprosthetic Infections by Mr Henk Giele on Tuesday 10th December.

If you wish to submit a relevant case report contact Ibby Younis.
Include title, speaker, position, authors and institution. Presentations should be no longer than 3 minutes. 

Osteomyelitis and Periprosthetic Infections - Flyer

The Plasta Guide to Dublin

For many of you visiting Dublin next week for the BAPRAS/IAPS winter meeting this may be your first visit to Ireland.
Firstly, commiserations on having had such empty lives up to now.
Secondly, having spent 6 years missing out on an education whilst ostensibly being a medical student in Dublin allow me to guide you to some places worth visiting.

The predominance of pubs in this little potted tour really shouldn't be dwelt on too much.

There may be a little Plasta pub crawl on wednesday evening after the drinks reception (or warmup act as I like to think of it). Look out for the thirsty looking folk with a steely eyed focus on visiting some fine Dublin hostelries and do come along.



View PLASTA Guide to Dublin in a larger map

Canniesburn Courses 2014

Course Ad 2014 V2

Hand & Wrist Mini Fragment Fracture Fixation Workshops Feb 2014

Draft Flyer

Application 2

Breast TIG Fellowship Update

Dear Colleagues

As promised there has been considerable ongoing negotiation whilst the SAC in Plastic Surgery withdrew its support for the Breast Interface Group as a result of well documented grievances.

Today I met along with the following:-

Davinder Sandhu - Lead Postgraduate Dean for TIG fellowships
Graeme Perks - President BAPRAS
Kieran Horgan - President ABS
Sallie Nicholas - Lead for JCST
Anne Tansley - current Chair Breast TIG group
Chris Caddy - past Chair Breast TIG group
Gareth Griffiths - Chair General Surgery SAC

I am delighted to say that there was an extremely helpful and constructive dialogue.
To summarise:-

1) The recruitment round for the Breast fellowships will go ahead in 2014.

2) Three slots will be reserved for Plastic Surgery trainees, 3 slots for General Surgery trainees and 3 slots for those based on merit from either specialty in 2014.

3) BAPRAS and ABS will meet early in 2014 to discuss exactly what the NHS requires in terms of a Breast Surgeon and a Breast Surgery Unit. My line in the sand is that any Plastic Surgery trainee who does one of these fellowships must be eligible for any Oncoplastic Consultant post if not involving General Surgery on-call.

4) Once the above in (3) has been decided myself and Gareth Griffiths will set about getting a joint curriculum to be approved by the GMC

5) There will be much tighter entry and exit criteria for the fellowships that will be individualised to either specialty. PLASTA members must not think of this fellowship as a microsurgical finishing school as it most definitely will not be for that as it will be expected Plastic Surgery trainees will concentrate on ablative techniques/clinics. If you wish to bring your microsurgery skills to an expert level then you will need to do another fellowship for that.

6) To ease planning of fellowships from 2015 onwards there will be proleptic appointments at least a year in advance. The current system is designed for trainees to sit the exam at the start of ST7 to allow you 2 years to concentrate on whatever sub-specialty you seek to follow. There is then sufficient time for you to do a TIG fellowship, a further fellowship in microsurgery whether that be in the UK or abroad and still get all your CCT indicative logbook numbers. Please remember the TIG fellowship as long as you start it even one day before your CCT will then automatically put your CCT back to the end of your TIG fellowship i.e. you can effectively extend your training by one year.

7) There will be a portfolio station to take into account your achievements in Breast Surgery from 2014 onwards

8) There will be longlisting from 2014 onwards so as to ensure no-one slips through the net

9) There will be equality of questions between ablation and reconstruction from 2014 onwards - I personally will have a final say on the questions used to ensure fair play.

10) BAPRAS and ABS will set up early in 2014 a joint meeting for members of PLASTA and the Mammary Fold at which it will be discussed what is expected for these fellowships in terms of papers, presentations, research etc How the interview process will run and what is expected of you in the fellowships. Anyone considering applying in 2014 or even in the future must attend so as to get the best careers advice available.

The rest as they say is up to you as the trainees. The trainers have worked hard to get to this stage on your behalf.
I was ably assisted today by Chris Caddy, Steve McCulley, Iain MacKay, Joe O'Donoghue and Simon Wood for which I am most grateful. I am obviously not a Breast Surgeon but in the first instance I suggest any career advice as regards Breast Surgery should go through these 5 Consultants as they are intimately involved in the Breast TIG process and they are keen to assist.

I would be delighted to discuss at the BAPRAS meeting in Dublin if there was a need to do so but I cannot reiterate enough it is now time for Plastic Surgery trainees in the UK to step up to the plate and apply for these fellowships if they are to be taken seriously as Breast Surgeons of the future and indeed for Plastic Surgery to be even involved in the sub-specialty - in essence I am looking for the next generation of leaders within our specialty to ensure Plastic Surgery maintains a foothold in this fascinating sub-specialty.

For those of you more interested in Head & Neck no planned date for a meeting has yet been set but it is likely to be Jan/Feb 14 and I fully expect to have a similar positive outcome.

Regards

Aidan Fitzgerald

GUYS AND ST THOMAS’ HOSPITAL - CLINICAL FELLOW IN SKIN CANCER SURGERY

CLINICAL FELLOW IN SKIN CANCER SURGERY 
£30,002 - £47,175 p.a excl. of London Zone
Full-time, Fixed-term

2 posts

- 1 post starting 1st August 2014 until 31st July 2015 (12 months)
- 1 post starting 1st August 2015 until 31st July 2016 (12 months)

Applications are invited from individuals seeking specialist training in Skin cancer surgery as applied to Plastic surgery in the UK. The Plastic Surgery Department at Guy’s and St Thomas’ performs a wide range of resections and reconstructive procedures for skin cancers, including over 80 sentinel node biopsies per year. The workload principally involves wider excisions of skin cancers in all parts of the body, scalp, nose, ear, cheek and eyelid reconstructions following Mohs’ micrographic surgery, as well as axillary, groin and pelvic dissections. The management of the skin cancer patient from single T1 tumours to complex cases with recurrence or multiple co-morbidities will be an integral part of the training scheme, and exposure to all aspects of skin cancer treatment including non-surgical care. Opportunities exist to observe laser treatments, complex reconstruction for advanced skin cancers, neck dissections and free flap reconstructions. 

Fellowships are for one year, with the emphasis on clinical exposure to multi-disciplinary management. You will gain excellent training in both clinic and theatre, with the aim of training you to assess, perform and manage a range of skin cancers working alongside the department’s three skin cancer specialists. Fellows will need to complete one audit cycle every six months and be responsible for some training teaching of the junior members of the team and rotating medical students from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ medical school (usually 3). In addition, you will be expected to assist in the provision of the trauma service at St Thomas’ Hospital. Collaborations and research with the skin tumour labs and other national and international trials are also encouraged.

Due to the clinical demands of this post, it is ideally aimed at individuals who have completed their FRCS (Plast), or who are post-accreditation, but seeking further specialist training, and those working towards consultant posts. The aim is to provide the fellow with the leadership skills and knowledge that will allow them to be an integral member of a developing specialist skin multidisciplinary team. The post is recognised for training as part of the SPR Plastics training scheme by the UK Plastics SAC.

Further information can be obtained from either:

- Mrs Jenny Geh, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, 020 7188 5130
- Mr Ciaran Healy, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, 020 7188 5137
- Mr Alastair MacKenzie Ross, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, 020 7188 9861

For further information and to apply online, please go to http://jobs.gstt.nhs.uk/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Plastic_Surgery/Plastic_Surgery-v290248?ss=2&nc=48741384160265

Closing date: 24/11/2013, by midnight. 

Trainee Members for BFIRST committee

BFIRST (BRITISH FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY AND TRAINING) is seeking two trainee members for the above committee.
The committee seeks to provide co-ordinated plastic surgical aid to developing countries, in specific training surgeons abroad and through visiting fellowships to the UK, providing disaster relief and providing services in countries without plastic surgeons.

It is currently in the process of establishing a new charity, allied to BAPRAS, with the aim of raising funds for long-term projects.
The trainee members will be fully involved in the work of the committee.

If you are at least ST4 and are interested please send one page CV and 200 words statement on how you would contribute to the committee chair Ms. Barbara Jemec

Prof. Simon Kay at the RSM

There are still a few slots available for relevant case presentations at the RSM this coming Tuesday.

If interested email Ibby Younis 

Hand transplantation flyer.pdf

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Mr Graeme Perks, BAPRAS President, has pointed me in the direction of this fascinating piece by Colonel Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut, and suggested I share it with the Plasta community.

It's an excellent listen by the man responsible for this:




Listen in here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ffkf6

APTOS in Tiblisi

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress

RACS Annual Scientific Congress 

ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting

May 5 - 9, 2014

Sands Expo and Convention Center

Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

• Welcome
• Scientific Program
• Flights & Accommodation
• Venue & Destination
• Sponsorship & Exhibition

Welcome

ANZCA Welcome  |   ANZCA Committee  |   ANZCA Speakers

RACS Welcome    |   RACS Committee     |   RACS Visitors

Invitation from the Presidents and Dean

We are delighted to invite you to Singapore for the combined Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Annual Scientific Congress (ASC) and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM). This innovative meeting will explore the important theme ‘Working together for our patients’. The convenors and the organising committees have developed a remarkable scientific program to engage and involve you.

The organising committees from both Colleges have embraced the opportunity to work collaboratively to develop a meeting which allows surgeons, anaesthetists, pain medicine physicians and trainees to join together for both the academic and social programs, ensuring the 2014 ASM and ASC will be memorable meetings for all who attend.

The program includes joint plenaries, sessions of interest for both surgeons and anaesthetists, as well as over 40 joint concurrent sessions across both programs, many with participants from both Colleges, and the Faculty of Pain Medicine sharing their insights into clinical problems affecting all groups. The program will be enriched by leading speakers from Asia, Eurpore, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Hosted at an iconic Singapore venue, the Sands Expo and Convention Center, delegates will experience the highest level of Asian hospitality and appreciate the cosmopolitan atmosphere of this vibrant multicultural city. An impressive social program will be an opportunity for us to meet more informally as friends and colleagues and celebrate this unique meeting and venue. A combined Welcome Reception will open the meeting, and an extraordinary Gala Dinner will fittingly close it in spectacular style.

FPM Scientific Convenor Dr Lewis Holford has also developed an exciting program for the Faculty of Pain Medicine Refresher Course Day on Sunday, May 4. The theme of this meeting will be ‘Pain at the cutting edge: surgery and pain’.

Our thanks are extended to our colleagues in the healthcare industry for their generous support of both the ASM and ASC.

Congratulations to all Fellows and others who have dedicated their time and expertise for what promises to be an outstanding scientific meeting for both Colleges and the Faculty of Pain Medicine.

We look forward to welcoming you in spectacular Singapore from May 5 to 9, 2014 for this unique, memorable and collaborative meeting.

Associate Professor Michael Hollands	Dr Lindy Roberts	Associate Professor Brendan Moore
RACS President	ANZCA President	FPM Dean

• ANZCA Call for Abstracts
• RACS Call for Abstracts

Chang Gung Symposium in Reconstructive Surgery

https://sites.google.com/site/2014cgmcsrsv1/

Plasta Committee Positions Vacant

After two years of hard graft in the service of the Plasta committee a number of our committee members are stepping down.

Take a bow Deborah Foong, Daniel Saleh, Claudia Malic, and Robert Winterton!

This leaves us with 4 vacancies on the Plasta committee which we are looking to fill before our forthcoming AGM in Dublin.

Any trainee who holds an NTN may apply for these positions, with the exception of Exam Rep where the candidate must have an NTN and have been awarded FRCS(Plast).

The positions vacant are Secretary, ASiT Rep, Exam Rep, and a newly rebranded role as TIG/Fellowship Rep.

Any trainee interested in taking on these roles should let us know at [email protected] by Sunday 10th November.

Applicants should be willing to take on the roles for a 2 year period.

Brief outlines of the roles:

Secretary:

Should be primary point of contact with the Plasta committee. 

Engage in bulk of correspondence and regularly update website.

Also coordinate monthly email to members.

ASiT:

Liaise with ASiT and represent the views of Plasta on council of ASiT. Provide ASiT related updates to Plasta website and email.

TIG/Fellowship:

Liaise with BAPRAS SIG chairs and TIG members to ensure future direction of TIG fellowships optimal for plastics trainees.

Also begin to build a fellowship database on the Plasta website.

Exam Rep:

Represent Plasta at the Intercollegiate exam board meetings. Must hold FRCS(Plast).

Plasta AGM - Wednesday 27th November

The Plasta AGM will take place at lunchtime on Wednesday 27th November during the BAPRAS meeting in Dublin.

If any trainees have issues they would like discussed please contact us at [email protected]

We will publish a full agenda closer to the time of the meeting.

I would strongly encourage all trainees present to attend the AGM.

Shape of Training Review

The Shape of Training Review released it's vision for the future of medical training in the UK.
A truly dystopian future awaits us it seems!

Key messages in the report:

• Patients and the public need more doctors who are capable of providing general care in broad specialties across a range of different settings. This is being driven by a growing number of people with multiple co-morbidities, an ageing population, health inequalities and increasing patient expectations.
• We will continue to need doctors who are trained in more specialised areas to meet local patient and workforce needs.
• Postgraduate training needs to adapt to prepare medical graduates to deliver safe and effective general care in broad specialties.
• Medicine has to be a sustainable career with opportunities for doctors to change roles and specialties throughout their careers.
• Local workforce and patient needs should drive opportunities to train in new specialties or to credential in specific areas.
• Doctors in academic training pathways need a training structure that is flexible enough to allow them to move in and out of clinical training while meeting the competencies and standards of that training.
• Full registration should move to the point of graduation from medical school, provided there are measures in place to demonstrate graduates are fit to practise at the end of medical school. Patients’ interests must be considered first and foremost as part of this change.
• Implementation of the recommendations must be carefully planned on a UK-wide basis and phased in. This transition period will allow the stability of the overall system to be maintained while reforms are being made.
• A UK-wide Delivery Group should be formed immediately to oversee the implementation of the recommendations.

Shape_of_training_report_Final_Report.pdf_53900462.pdf

UPRAS 2013 - 6th Undergraduate Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Conference

POSTER UPRAS 2013.pdf

Important Information Regarding TIG Fellowships

Dear Colleagues,

There has been increasing concern and debate particularly within the Plastic Surgery community to the inequality of access for our trainees particularly to the Breast and H&N Interface fellowships. This has been compounded by the perceived ill-advised wisdom of our specialty training others with little in return.

As a result the JCST requested a review of the process . The review was discussed at a recent JCST meeting in Glasgow where 2 particular concerns were raised:-

a) The absence of a defined curriculum specific for the Interface fellowships in Breast and H&N. This is not acceptable to the GMC. Furthermore educationally it is illogical to train someone against which you have no benchmark.

b) There is also no 'mission statement' per se of exactly what we are trying to achieve as the end result, is it:-

i) All encompassing - full capability in ablation and reconstruction

ii) Ablation only

iii) Reconstruction only

iv) Some halfway house

The answer to (b) lies in workforce planning that is outwith the remit of the SAC but requires discussion between the appropriate professional associations and the 4 governments within the UK.

The SAC in Plastic Surgery has decided to no longer support further appointments to the Breast and H&N fellowships until both the curricula and workforce planning has been dealt with. The likelihood is therefore that appointments may very well be delayed beyond the normal timescale. I realise that this may frustrate trainees plans but in reality taking into account what has gone on in the past the number of our trainees who would have been successful in any case would have been a handful at most. This is an attempt to recalibrate the whole process and actually improve the chances for our trainees in the long term.

Thus I would be grateful that if you have trainees in ST6-8 considering Breast or H&N that they have a Plan B for 2014/5.

There is no change to the Hand, Cosmetic, Trauma, Skin, Laser and CL&P fellowships.

I can reassure all members of PLASTA that the decision to remove current support for the Breast and Head & Neck Interface Fellowships was not taken lightly by the SAC in Plastic Surgery. However that is not to say that we are not actively in discussions trying to remediate this situation for you with all parties concerned. We would hope to come back on stream with these fellowships as soon as possible once the concerns of the SAC have been appropriately aired, understood and dealt with. I hope to have these fellowships back on stream as soon as possible so as to disadvantage as few PLASTA members as possible

I am sorry that there has been some short term pain but this will be for the benefit of PLASTA members in the long term and importantly their future patients so please bear with me

I will of course keep you up to date with developments.

Aidan Fitzgerald

Chair, SAC in Plastic Surgery

Nottingham Hand Course

Our core skills in hand and forearm surgery is a highly-interactive course that is ideally structured to meet the training needs of the aspiring surgeon in the rapidly, evolving and complex area of hand surgery. Participants will learn the surgical techniques in dealing with hand trauma, with the emphasis on soft tissue injuries (including tendon, nerve and ligament injuries), bone fixation and administration of local anaesthetic blocks to the wrist and digits.

Format

Practical skills training using fresh-frozen hand with forearms, simulators, plastic bones and loupes/microscpes.

Key benefits

This course is designed to teach aspiring hand, orthopaedic & trauma and plastic surgeons, safe surgical techniques in dealing with hand trauma, with emphasis on soft tissue injuries and administration.

Day 1

Welcome from Mr AGP Perks (BAPRAS President, Head of Department)

Welcome from Mr IF Starley (Lead for Hand Surgery)

• Anaesthetics and soft tissue cover
• Applied anatomy and healing
• Local and regional blocks
• Compartment syndrome/fasciotomies
• Incision for common access and exposure
• Finger tip injuries and local flap reconstruction techniques
• Thumb and proximal digit injuries and local flap reconstruction techniques
• Hand and wrist

Day 2

• Nerve and bone
• Flexor tendon repair and rehabilitation
• Extensor tendon repair and rehabilitation
• Physiology of bone healing
• Fracture fixation - plate and screw fixation, K-wire fixation, interosseous wire fixation
• Fusion of DIPJ
• ± Dorsal hand flaps

Day 3

• Tendon, joints and ligaments
• Incision for access and decompression of nerves
• Nerve repair plus graft
• PIPJ hyperextension injury
• Thumb abduction injury
• Ulnar collateral injury
• ± Forearm flaps

Faculty, Organisation & Registration

Mr S Al-Benna, Mr C O'Boyle, Mr P Lim, Mr AGB Perks, Mr IF Starley

Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery

City Hospital Campus

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Hucknall Road

Nottingham NG5 1PB

Nottinghamshire

United Kingdom

E-mail              [email protected]

Tel                    0871 288 5135

Website          http://www.instituteofsurgery.org

 

Transport       Nottingham is easily accessible by train and plane (East Midlands Airport).

Registration fee includes     tea/coffee and training materials.

Certification   Upon successful completion of all requirements, as decided by the faculty, students receive the Certificate of Attendance.

CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW BURNS AND PLASTICS - MANCHESTER

A full time Clinical Research Fellow is required to join the Burns and Plastic Surgery Department at the new Manchester Children's Hospital commencing ASAP for a period of 2 to 3 Years. 

The salary for this post will be £30,002 to £39,693

The candidate will be expected to adopt a research project leading up to a higher degree and register with the University of Manchester. This post is initially available for a period of two years renewable depending on the higher degree for which the candidate has registered. This post would be ideal for a surgeon intending to pursue a career in Burns and Plastic Surgery. The research project will involve clinical/basic science research project on a burn injury related topic. 

In addition, the candidate will be required to participate in out-of-hours rota for the Burns and Plastic Surgery department at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital on a full shift system at the ST1-3 grade. 

The candidate will be expected to have obtained the membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in the UK and preferably have worked in a Burns and Plastic Surgery Department for at least 6 months prior to application for this post and must hold FRCS/MRCS.

For further enquires please contact Miss Shah, Consultant Plastic Surgeon on 0161 701 8140.

This post does not have educational approval from the Postgraduate Dean, but training will be provided in the same way as for other trainees at the same level. 

More info here