General surgery trainee @MADEinHEENE | @OfficialUoM graduate | @ASiTofficial Council
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Rachel Khaw retweeted
🧵 Tips for Core Surgical Training 🧵
As promised heres my list of key tips for success with CST.
An important disclaimer, these are my views. It is by no means a guarantee or what the bosses expect. It’s simply my observations of what helped me.
Rachel Khaw retweeted
“No matter how technically competent or senior you are, if you abuse your position as a surgeon, you will have no place in our College.”
Today we introduce our new Code of Conduct. A crucial step in our journey to eradicate sexual misconduct.
➡️ rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-events…
ALT RCS England Code of Conduct cover
Rachel Khaw retweeted
We’re pleased to announce that ASiT’s Non-Financial Cost of Surgical Training report is now out 📝
🎯 With 459 respondents, this is the #biggest survey to date on the non-financial cost of surgical training in the UK, representing all surgical #specialties in all #deaneries across all #grades
Full report: tinyurl.com/ACOSTP1
👉 Key findings and recommendations from ASiT summarised ⬇️
🧵 1/9
Rachel Khaw retweeted
“Women surgeons are as good as men surgeons and nothing should stand in our way.”
Congratulations to Dame Averil Mansfield for receiving the Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement award.
ow.ly/RqWU50PUyBL
Rachel Khaw retweeted
🔥Have you read these 10 *brand new* randomised trials in surgery?🔥
💪@JJEarnshaw has been collating for 25 years; comments below are from him via @BJSAcademy
💪real-time list: bjsacademy.com/academy/scien…
🧵Expand your knowledge around a wide variety of surgical specialties below:
Rachel Khaw retweeted
This article is massively disingenuous, bordering on malicious. I’ll break it down step by step. Brace yourselves, it’s yet another 🧵1/?
Rachel Khaw retweeted
Approaching CCT?
Did you know if you've been LTFT as a Junior Doctor that you're entitled to start your consultant post at a higher point on the consultant pay scale
to help account for the time it's taken you to get there 👍
Rachel Khaw retweeted
We are delighted to show you the highlights from our 46th annual conference held from 4th - 6th March 2022 in Aberdeen.
Watch the full video here: ow.ly/u2j050IEjHV
Rachel Khaw retweeted
Huge congrats to the @EuroSurg #COMPASS collaborators🧭. Despite all the #covid19 disruption, it's fantastic to see at home in @BJSurgery!🤩
Do we need further guidance on patient selection @ESCP_studies or an educational intervention like @EagleEscp to #refrainfromdrains?🤔
We are thrilled to announce that COMPASS🧭has been published in the BJS! doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znac069
Drains are controversial in colorectal surgery: COMPASS explored the international variation in drain placement and the safety of this practice
Here is what we found: a🧵
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Rachel Khaw retweeted
On a survey of all male surgeons I know, a vast majority of them have partners who work part time:don’t work (I know some who’s partners do, but majority don’t)
Of female surgeons I know all their partners work full time
Let’s think about what this means for women in surgery?
Rachel Khaw retweeted
Sourcing supplies for so many courses was a tricky task. And with some delivery issues we ended up with quite a bit to spare. We therefore have found a local drop off point to ship supplies out to those in need following the activities in Ukraine @ASiTofficial #ASiT2022
Rachel Khaw retweeted
@ASiTofficial pre-conference lap skills course - @_joshuaclements rocking the lap suturing #ASIT2022
Rachel Khaw retweeted
"Outside to in, inside to out."
I'm going to need some loupes to help me with these vascular sutures in the @ASiTofficial vascular skills course.
#ASiT2022
Rachel Khaw retweeted
Laparoscopic skills with a range of devices and simulators at the Pre-Conference Course at @ASiTofficial #ASiT2022 #SurgicalTrainingEvolution
Rachel Khaw retweeted
How did #COVID affect death from postop pulmonary complications in elective cancer surgery?
Our @BJSurgery paper compares pre-pandemic (@STARSurguk @TASMANCollab #RECONaudit) & pandemic data (@CovidSurg) to find 3x⬆️ death, with >½ attributable to #COVID doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znab336
Rachel Khaw retweeted
Fantastic conference #ESDE with great presentations from @NOGUnewcastle from talents new and old @mike_md20 @RachelALYS @Pooja_Prasad29 Patrick McQ @Jane_de_P @JakubChmelo @ArulImmanuel
