TRAINEE REP
BAPS Executive meeting
06/04/10 22:43
BAPS EXECUTIVE MEETING 24 April 2010 TRAINEES REPORT 
Trainee Rep report
06/04/10 22:39
TRAINEE REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
BAPS EXECUTIVE MARCH 2010, LONDON.
BAPS EXECUTIVE MARCH 2010, LONDON.
Report on BMA EWTD & Training Conference
06/04/10 22:33
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Annual Specialty Report from SAC
07/02/10 16:38
Joint Committee on Surgical Training - Review Period: August 2008 to July 2009
ANNUAL SPECIALTY REPORT
ANNUAL SPECIALTY REPORT
Graz 2009 Trainees Session Timetable
01/06/09 07:24
SAC meeting May 2009
26/05/09 23:27
Paediatric Surgery SAC Meeting 14th May 2009
Trainee Representative Report
Workforce
The EWTD continues to be problematic for paediatric surgery. It is increasingly unlikely that the government will allow significant derogation and personal opt outs are not a viable solution either to the training or workforce issues.
Trainee numbers have expanded in recent years, the impact of this is uncertain. There are concerns that it will lead to over training and the possibility of post-CCT unemployment. The high proportion of females trainees in paediatric surgery make the situation harder to predict, as does the current uncertainty over the future of GPS provision. There is no evidence that post-CCT unemployment is occurring in our specialty but the numbers of applicants for each consultant job has apparently increased in the recent past and this issue remains a cause for concern.
In Scotland, training numbers have been reduced across the board and the rest of the UK is likely to follow. In the long term it is probable that many non-training middle-grades will be required to cover on-call rotas while training appropriate numbers. In the meantime, the JCST’s recommendation that trainees at ST3 and above do not work night shifts will remain aspirational for paediatric surgery.
Training
PMETB have emphasised the importance of externality on ARCP/RITA panels. If you are concerned that an ARCP/RITA panel has no external panel member then you should raise this with you program director or, if you feel unable to do this, the SAC liaison member for your consortium.
Core surgical training has been extended to three years but some trainers feel they can deliver the curriculum and their trainees demonstrate the necessary competencies in two years. How this will be resolved is currently unclear.
Only those who have completed an eight-year training program in posts prospectively approved by PMETB can be awarded a CCT. Those who completed some alternative training can only be awarded a CESR as their route to the specialist register. This will mainly affect those who qualified overseas but may affect UK trainees as well. If any one is concerned about this they should contact their deanery or the SAC but the suffix on their training number shows what end point of training they should expect: Numbers ending XXX/C denote a trainee on route to a CCT, XXX/E denotes a CESR.
Recruitment
Paediatric surgery will change to a national selection process for ST3 posts in 2010, it had been planned for 2009 but the uncertainty as to the effect of run-through appointments at ST1 level in 2007 made it impossible to know how many posts would be available this Summer. Scotland has already, in effect, already run national selection and may join the rest of the UK in 2011. It is unknown how Northern Ireland will recruit.
The details are unclear but there will be a single advert and applications will be handled by one deanery. Applicants will be able to specify deaneries of interest to them. Interviews may be national or local but will in a standardised format. It is anticipated that the best candidates will be offered first choice of jobs. It is not yet known if LAT and ACL/F posts will be included and there may be one or more rounds of recruitment each year.
The advantages of a national process are several-fold: It is cheaper and more efficient for the deaneries, trainees will not have to complete many applications and will have offers of posts released in a coordinated fashion, avoiding the “stick or twist” dilemmas of the past. Appointable but unsuccessful candidates may be kept on a register and offered unfilled posts.
A personal specification has been drafted and will be publicised well in advance of advertising jobs in order to allow trainees time to prepare their CVs. It is very similar to the personal specification used to appoint to SpR posts on the Calman system. A significant change to previous personal specifications is the removal of a maximum amount of time spent in paediatric surgery prior to appointment at ST3. This is because of legal difficulties in stipulating maximum experiences and is awaiting final clarification.
The trainee representative was supportive of the principle of national selection in general and the proposals as they stand. It was emphasised strongly that trainees desire clarity of the process that will be used and the greatest anxieties are caused by uncertainty and the feeling that goal posts are being moved.
Iain Yardley
National Trainee Representative.
Trainee Representative Report
Workforce
The EWTD continues to be problematic for paediatric surgery. It is increasingly unlikely that the government will allow significant derogation and personal opt outs are not a viable solution either to the training or workforce issues.
Trainee numbers have expanded in recent years, the impact of this is uncertain. There are concerns that it will lead to over training and the possibility of post-CCT unemployment. The high proportion of females trainees in paediatric surgery make the situation harder to predict, as does the current uncertainty over the future of GPS provision. There is no evidence that post-CCT unemployment is occurring in our specialty but the numbers of applicants for each consultant job has apparently increased in the recent past and this issue remains a cause for concern.
In Scotland, training numbers have been reduced across the board and the rest of the UK is likely to follow. In the long term it is probable that many non-training middle-grades will be required to cover on-call rotas while training appropriate numbers. In the meantime, the JCST’s recommendation that trainees at ST3 and above do not work night shifts will remain aspirational for paediatric surgery.
Training
PMETB have emphasised the importance of externality on ARCP/RITA panels. If you are concerned that an ARCP/RITA panel has no external panel member then you should raise this with you program director or, if you feel unable to do this, the SAC liaison member for your consortium.
Core surgical training has been extended to three years but some trainers feel they can deliver the curriculum and their trainees demonstrate the necessary competencies in two years. How this will be resolved is currently unclear.
Only those who have completed an eight-year training program in posts prospectively approved by PMETB can be awarded a CCT. Those who completed some alternative training can only be awarded a CESR as their route to the specialist register. This will mainly affect those who qualified overseas but may affect UK trainees as well. If any one is concerned about this they should contact their deanery or the SAC but the suffix on their training number shows what end point of training they should expect: Numbers ending XXX/C denote a trainee on route to a CCT, XXX/E denotes a CESR.
Recruitment
Paediatric surgery will change to a national selection process for ST3 posts in 2010, it had been planned for 2009 but the uncertainty as to the effect of run-through appointments at ST1 level in 2007 made it impossible to know how many posts would be available this Summer. Scotland has already, in effect, already run national selection and may join the rest of the UK in 2011. It is unknown how Northern Ireland will recruit.
The details are unclear but there will be a single advert and applications will be handled by one deanery. Applicants will be able to specify deaneries of interest to them. Interviews may be national or local but will in a standardised format. It is anticipated that the best candidates will be offered first choice of jobs. It is not yet known if LAT and ACL/F posts will be included and there may be one or more rounds of recruitment each year.
The advantages of a national process are several-fold: It is cheaper and more efficient for the deaneries, trainees will not have to complete many applications and will have offers of posts released in a coordinated fashion, avoiding the “stick or twist” dilemmas of the past. Appointable but unsuccessful candidates may be kept on a register and offered unfilled posts.
A personal specification has been drafted and will be publicised well in advance of advertising jobs in order to allow trainees time to prepare their CVs. It is very similar to the personal specification used to appoint to SpR posts on the Calman system. A significant change to previous personal specifications is the removal of a maximum amount of time spent in paediatric surgery prior to appointment at ST3. This is because of legal difficulties in stipulating maximum experiences and is awaiting final clarification.
The trainee representative was supportive of the principle of national selection in general and the proposals as they stand. It was emphasised strongly that trainees desire clarity of the process that will be used and the greatest anxieties are caused by uncertainty and the feeling that goal posts are being moved.
Iain Yardley
National Trainee Representative.
Reports - BAPS Executive March 2009
30/03/09 23:35
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SAC Section- New!
03/03/09 23:35
A new section on SAC - Specialist Advisory Committee has been added which gives info about :
*The role of the SAC
*SAC liaison member
*Guidance on making a complaint about your training
View the section here.
*The role of the SAC
*SAC liaison member
*Guidance on making a complaint about your training
View the section here.
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