Dear Trainer, welcome to our first Trainers eZine
 

Welcome to our first Trainers eZine. The formation of the RCSI Faculty of Surgical Trainers is a very important development for us and we are grateful for the commitment from our Chair, Ms Bridget Egan and all members of the Faculty Committee. The impact of COVID 19 on surgical training has been very significant. It has not affected all trainees and all specialties in the same way. In some cases trainees were redeployed to other services, others only saw emergency surgery and others attended private hospital sector. However, as always, Irish Surgical trainers remained committed to training and supporting their trainees. Trainers innovated with local online teaching, specialties re-organised and identified high quality webinars to support all. We are grateful for the flexibility and patience shown by all our trainers in adapting to new processes but at the same time upholding high quality and standards.

 

At the moment, the RCSI, through the National Clinical Programmes (Surgery, T&O, Emergency Medicine) is engaged with the HSE in the reinstatement of surgical services. We face many uncertainties on the exact structure of surgical services and we envisage that we will have to work very hard with local trainers to optimise surgical training and balance it with the huge unmet service need that has built up over the last few months.  RCSI will need your advice, guidance and leadership in the delivery of the training curriculae in new and unfamiliar formats. The team in Surgical Affairs will work with you to develop a suite of education resources, material and courses in the coming months. I just want to acknowledge my team in surgical affairs who have tirelessly maintained their commitment to RCSI and surgical training, The teams across education & training, administration, IT and quality assurance have just been wonderful.

 

I hope you find this e-zine useful and see it as a way of signposting important information to support your role as a Surgical Trainers. I wish you and your families and colleagues good health and as always, if you have any queries, comments or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact myself or anyone in the team in surgical affairs.

 

With kind regards

 

Kieran.

 
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