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ANNUAl CONfErENCEDOI: 10.1308/003588413X13643054410106

Association o Sugeons in

Taining annua coneence a epot

Ed fitzgead past president of the Association of Surgeons in Training and conference organiser

On the weeend o 57 Api,

ove 700 sugica tainees

om acoss the Uk gatheed

in Mancheste o the annua

Association o Sugeons in Taining

(ASiT) coneence.

In acked conference halls and eeting

roos, toics including siulation,

iroving eergency and urgent care

and roviding safe eergency cross-cover were discussed and deated.

There were also the usual oortunities

to question royal college residents

and other surgical leaders, lus 13

re-conference courses to irove

surgical skills.

With the ucoing ulication of

individual consultant outcoes fro nine

surgical audits and registries, there was

anxiety aong trainees that, as of June,

training oortunities in the oerating

theatre could deteriorate as consultants

ay e discouraged fro delegating

ore colex cases.

There was also a sense of widesread

uncertainty regarding the role and

function of Health Education England

(HEE) and Local Education and Training

boards (LETbs), and how this would

affect training delivery.

It was taken as read that the Euroean

Working Tie Regulations (EWTR)

have, and continue to, ioverish

surgical training.

WITH THE

UpCOmING

pUbLICATION

OF OUTCOmES,

THERE WAS

ANXIETY AmONG

TRAINEES THAT

TRAINING

OppORTUNITIES

IN THEATRE

COULD

DETERIORATE AS

CONSULTANTS

mAY bE

DISCOURAGED

FROm

DELEGATINGmORE COmpLEX

CASES.

Trainees resolutely acceted that coing

into the oerating theatre on their days

off was ar for the course.

Yet any stressed that this sense of

accetance should not curtail efforts to

reduce the iact of EWTR.

Trainees and consultants ust continue

to ush for an agreeent etween

the social partners, and exibilityvia the junior doctors and consultants

contract.

Trainees were encouraged to axiise

all availale training oortunities,

and any of the seakers rearked

on their ride and satisfaction at

eing asked to address such a large

grou of dedicated, atient-centred

individuals who are coitted

to their own rofessional develoent.

At the eeting Andrew beaish,

Secialty Registrar in General Surgery,

was elected president of ASiT for

20132014.

The winner of the 2013s Silver Scalel

Award for excellence in surgical training

was Clive Heworth, Consultant General

and Colorectal Surgeon at Queens

Hosital, Essex.

The next ASiT conference will

e held in belfast in march 2014.

For ore inforation, lease visit

www.asit.org or follow @A SiTofcial

on Twitter.

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