6th Annual Research, Audit and Quality Improvement Training and Prize Day

Category: Training - School of Surgery

Date: September 26th 2014 9:00am until 5:00pm

Location: Engineers' House, The Promenade, Clifton Down, Bristol, Avon BS8 3NB

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(Brought to you by the Severn School of Surgery in association with the Bristol Surgical Trials Centre)

 

Dear Severn Surgical Trainees,

You are invited to register for, and submit an abstract to, the 6th Annual Surgical Research, Audit and Quality Improvement Day on Friday, 26th September at Engineers’ House in Clifton. This is organised by the Centre for Surgical Research, led by Jane Blazeby, and supported by the Deanery.

This unique event will provide you expert training in presentation skills as well as giving you the opportunity to present your own work with the possibility of winning substantial amounts of extra study leave allowance.

Please see the information below on how to register and submit an abstract. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event.

 

Barry G Main
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

 

A quick guide to the information below:

  • Registration is required. If you would like to attend/enter the competition, please email your name, job title and email address to kate.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
  • Your abstracts should be submitted to Mr. Sean Strong at Sean.Strong@bristol.ac.uk
  • The deadline for abstract submission is the 18th of July, 2014.
  • Winners will be announced at the annual School of Surgery Dinner at Bordeaux Quay (which follows the competition).

 

Date/Venue

Date: Friday, 26th September 2014 (9am to 5pm)
Venue: Engineers’ House, The Promenade, Clifton Down, Bristol, BS8 3NB

 

Registration

Places are limited and registration is required. If you would like to attend/enter the competition, please email your name, job title and email address to kate.taylor@bristol.ac.uk

 

Programme

Morning session:

Learn how to design and deliver inspirational talks from paediatric surgeon and presentation expert, Mr Ross Fisher (http://about.me/ffolliet)

Afternoon session:

An opportunity for Severn surgical trainees to present their work to their peers and trainees with the opportunity to win up to £1000 in extra study leave budget.

 

Details of how to prepare and submit abstracts

The submission categories are as follows;

1. Research abstracts (£1000 of additional study budget)

2. Audit abstracts (£500 of additional study budget)

3. Quality improvement abstracts (£250 of additional study budget)

Please submit your abstracts in TWO formats with one including all details, and the second omitting authorship and institution information (to allow for anonymised marking).

1. Title of project.

2. Authors with presenting author underlined and responsible author highlighted in bold.

3. Details of the department from where the work originated.

4. Structured within 250 words or less (see below).

Research abstracts. Abstracts should take this format: ‘Introduction and aim, methods, results, conclusion and interpretation.' Please also submit evidence of research ethics approval or justification for absence (from the ethics committee). Abstracts submitted without this evidence will be rejected.

Audit abstracts. Abstracts should take this format: Audit standard and aim, methods, results, conclusion and clinical relevance’. Please also submit evidence of audit registration in the appropriate NHS Trust. Abstracts submitted without this evidence will be rejected.

Quality or service improvement abstracts. Abstracts should take this format: ‘Context, problem, assessment of problem and analysis of causes, intervention, strategy for change, measures for improvement, effects of change and lessons learnt.’ Quality improvement projects do not compare practice to current standards (audit), and do not involve interventions or measuring outcomes that are not routine practice (research). Quality improvement is about reliably applying evidence based medicine to routine clinical care. This should be achieved by applying quality improvement methodology i.e. small cycle tests of change (PDSA cycles) aiming for 95% reliability which ultimately bring about an improvement in patient safety or quality of clinical care.

 

The deadline for abstract submission is the 18th of July, 2014.

Abstracts should be submitted to Mr Sean Strong at Sean.Strong@bristol.ac.uk (please contact directly if further details are required.)

 

Trainees successfully submitting an abstract AND who attend the whole day will receive a complementary ticket to the annual dinner at Bordeaux Quay in Bristol on the 26th of September, 2014. Prize winners will be announced at the dinner.

 

Good luck!