Dear All Surgical Trainees,
After last year’s success, the School of Surgery would again like to recognise a Severn Deanery Consultant Surgeon as ‘Trainer of the Year’. We will be using the selection methodology provided by the Silver Scalpel, which is a national award. This process is rigorous and fair and we have promised to follow it carefully. It starts by asking any trainee to make a nomination and to include 100-150 words of “reflective writing” in EACH of the following categories:
1. Leadership skills
2. Resourcefulness
3. Training and Development
4. Professionalism
5. Communication skills
6. Other supporting comments
All submissions are scored by a team of trainees and each shortlisted nominee will be interviewed, again by trainees, in their place of work together with a nominated peer, a sister, and a current trainee. This team is being organised by Natalie Blencowe on behalf of the School of Surgery.
All nominated trainers have to be working in one of the Severn Deanery Hospitals. Please email your submission to Chad Elliott, chad.elliott@southwest.nhs.uk, by 9.00am, Monday 2nd July. We plan to present the Trainer of the Year Award at the Severn School of Surgery Annual Dinner on Thursday 20th September.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss Natalie Blencowe, Chair of the Trainer of the Year Selection Committee
Professor Richard Canter, Associate Dean and Head of the Severn Postgraduate School of Surgery