Core Knowledge Training Days
Please keep reviewing this webpage for any changes in venues, dates and start times and training topics.
Participants: compulsory attendance at the five Core Knowledge Training Days over the two years of core training for all CTs. (Present CT2s and LATs are expected to attend at least two of the five days this year).
Availability: Each of the five Core Knowledge Training Days will be run every year. Available places will be for up to 45 trainees per training day (except Day 5 limited to 36 places).
Registration: via individual Event registration.
Objective: To provide education and knowledge acquisition for clinical topics and professional topics that reinforces the ISCP curriculum. These training days do not a comprehensively cover the ISCP curriculum but are there to encourage learning and provide an insight into areas of practice that trainees may not otherwise be exposed to, have training opportunities in, or have had no previous experience of.
Dates and Venues
Core Knowledge Training Day 1
Date; Friday 11th November 2011
Time; 8:30am to 5pm
Topics; Emergency Surgery (to include form the following topics; polytrauma, open fracture and compartment syndrome, vascular emergencies, soft tissue emergencies, urology emergencies, acute abdomen)
Venue; Redwood Education Centre, Gloucester Royal Infirmary, Gloucester
Directions
Convenor; Miss Caroline Rodd
Core Knowledge Training Day 2
Date; Friday 16th December
Time; 9am to 5pm
Topics; Burns, Neurosurgery, Plastics and Transplantation
Venue; Postgraduate Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Directions
Convenor; Mr Najib Kadi
Core Knowledge Training Day 3
Date; Friday 20th January 2012
Time; 9:30 am to 5pm
Topics; Palliative Care, Audit and Research, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Venue; Lecture Theatre, Regional Postgraduate Department, Bristol Dental Hospital, The Chapter House, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol BS1 2LY, UK (behind the Bristol Dental Hospital at UHBFT).
Directions
Convenor; Mr Rob Longman
Core Knowledge Training Day 4
Date: Friday 17th February 2012
Time; 9:30am to 4:30pm
Topics; Half day session on "Reducing Medical Errors"
Half day session on "Interview practice for ST3 recruitment round"
Venue; Blackwell Room and Interview Suite, Deanery House,
Unit D, Vantage Office Park,
Old Gloucester Road,
Hambrook,
Bristol BS16 1GW.
Convenor; Mr Mike Williamson and Myles Sinclair
Core Knowledge Training Day 5
Date; Friday 18th May 2012
Time; 9am to 5pm
Avaliability; Limited to 36 places
Topics; ‘Introduction to medical education- How to teach ‘
Preparation; All participants have to prepare a five minute presentation on a subject of their choice. The choice of subject is absolutely free except is not to be related to surgery or medicine in general. The use of powerpoint is not allowed and the only visual aid available for the talks is 1 piece of A1 paper (provided on the day).
Venue; Medical Education Centre (at Musgrove Academy), Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
Convenor; Mr James Coulston
Travel: No car-parking arrangements are provided at the venues. Most hospital venues and the Denaery have limited car-parking facilities. Good bus and train links are available across the Deanery region. Trainees are advised to plan their journeys to Core Knowledge Training Days in advance and if coming by car are advised to offer a lift to colleagues.
Attendance outcomes: A record of attendance will be kept by the Deanery. Attendance details are provided to your Programme Directors and will be assessed at the yearly ARCPs. Certificates will be provided for each training day to trainees, who attend, for their portfolio.
Trainee feedback: Trainees will be asked to provide anonymised feedback on each Core Knowledge Training Day. This is important for the School of Surgery to ensure that the standards of delivery and content of the teaching is maximized for Severn School of Surgery core trainees in the future.
Non-attendance: Failure to attend a module requires a trainee to complete an explanation form and is returnable to Chad Elliott at the School of Surgery.