Matt Dunstan

How do trainees prepare for operating and improve theatre learning experiences? Identify learning resources, be aware of situational barriers to mental readiness and prepare as a team. Our poster share.medall.org/posters/9b4644… @ASiTofficial #excellinginadversity #ASiT2021 @timbocop

@MarcosKostalas @TorbaySDevonNHS Congratulations Marcos! See you at the course in a few weeks!

Proud to be starting as a substantive Consultant with the South Devon UGI unit at the amazing @TorbaySDevonNHS Let’s go!

🚨Reminder for UGI & Gen Surg trainees 🧑‍⚕️👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ who have been involved in benign hiatal surgery: We’re conducting a <5 minute survey into trainees’ knowledge of Vagus Nerve injuries to improve training in this area💡Please take part & share! 📲forms.gle/1m8rpC29wAYuyB… #SoMe4Surgery

📣 Calling UGI & Gen Surg trainees 🧑‍⚕️👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ Have you been involved in benign hiatal surgery? We’re conducting a <5 minute survey in to trainees’ knowledge of Vagus Nerve injuries to improve training in this area💡Please take part & share! 📲 forms.gle/1m8rpC29wAYuyB… #SoMe4Surgery

@LiangRhea @timbocop Thank you! Hopefully more to come!

@DunstanMatt @timbocop This is a wonderful thesis up to page 36... where it just becomes even more wonderful😍. This is the sort of #qualitative research that really advances surgery, and the theoretical lens is <chef's kiss> 😘

📢 Calling surgical trainees and trainers: how do you prepare to get the most out of operative training experiences? We are pleased to present our work on how General Surgical trainees prepare for operating. Share your thoughts! dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.… @timbocop #SoMe4Surgery

@timbocop At my university it was a core skill tested in final year OSCE. We learnt on models, with additional teaching provided by the Surgical Society.

Quick survey: when do your students (or when did you) learn suturing in medicine? And also, how?

Nearly 900K elective training cases lost to #COVID19. We need 75.5K EXTRA training cases ABOVE normal training activity EVERY MONTH to recover in 12 months or 37.3K extra every month for a 24/12 recovery #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow

How do you prepare for operating? How can you maximise theatre training opportunities? Prepare to learn and learn to prepare: Check out the new @JCST_Surgery recommendations and education checklist bit.ly/2QRPsam #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow #SoMe4Surgery

There is no operation that a trainee cannot do at least part of. #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow bit.ly/2QRPsam @ASiTofficial @bota_uk @RCSEd @RCSnews @rcpsglasgow @RCSI_Irl

@Georgia_Layton @KSSResearch @ASiTofficial @SurgicalEmotion @Surgeons_UK @SurgicalPerform

We're looking for surgical trainees, trainers, junior & senior representatives from @NHS_HealthEdEng/@asgbi/@JCST_Surgery/@RCSEdFST/@RCSnews /@RCSEd/@rcpsglasgow & any stakeholder in trainee well-being to join us in this Delphi study.

@NabilahMayat When I did my GP placement in final year at Med School we were advised to spend a day at a local funeral directors. The staff were excellent and helped me feel more at ease with caring for the deceased. Consider arranging this if you can.

Is Death Confirmation an F1 thing... How do you even do that for the first ever time... Feel like I would just get super freaked out tbh Imagine their family, their whole life-Nope I don't know how I would do it. Never seen a pt. death/CPR, F1 gonna have a lot of shockers...

Curriculum 2021 webinar training for trainees currently underway. Look out for more sessions coming soon @ASiTofficial @bota_uk

@deepamusafir1 I feel it is due to other conflicting factors such as organisational pressures & pressures on theatre team members. Some trainers set an expectation at the team brief of what the trainee will be doing which helps foster a training environment #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow

Most of my fellow consultants recognise this to be true. So why don't we follow it more?

“Surgical prowess does not mean finishing a list early - it means finishing efficiently, including training - it is about working better and training better in the time we have” - @svig2 discussing surgical training in the Covid era @ASiTofficial #excellinginadversity #ASiT2021

Important update from the JCIE on Section 2 examinations - read it here: bit.ly/3uxnUXi @ASiTofficial @bota_uk @RCSEd @RCSnews @rcpsglasgow @RCSI_Irl

Free to access in BJS' January issue: Transanal total mesorectal excision: the race to the bottom ow.ly/aF3c30ruyjX @AmyLightnerMD @bplwijn @des_winter @ksoreide @MalinASund @evanscolorectal @robhinchliffe1 @young_bjs

@RCSEd @KSSResearch @Shirley106Chan Examples are: Undermining other colleagues, rudeness: particularly on the phone, not listening: especially to patients, shirking responsibility: eg. refusing to see referrals, and most importantly: not apologising when we do the above. Any more I’m missing?

@RCSEd Excellent article @KSSResearch @Shirley106Chan Particularly the idea of matching trainers & trainees & the idea that trainers too can be fallible. Important to remember not only positive role modelling (described here), but negative role modelling, which may be more powerful 1/2

Director of the FST, Mr David O’Regan, has written a new blog post entitled ‘Attributes of the trainee mirrored by the trainer’. Read here: ow.ly/kU3V50COhwL