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RCSEd Appoints New Trainees’ Representative Member of Council
Advocate for Anti-bullying Appointed to Key Role Influencing Future Surgeons at Britain's Oldest Surgical Royal College
- Published: 15 November 2018
Britain's oldest surgical Royal College, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), has elected Manchester-based surgical trainee Mr David Riding as its newest Trainees’ Representative Member of Council, the fifth person to hold this post. The role was introduced by the College in 2012 to give a voice to surgical trainees at the highest l…
Newcastle Hospitals Palliative Care and Transplant Teams Scoop National Award
A team specialising in palliative care for heart and lung transplant patients at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital has won the national award.
- Published: 12 November 2018
A team specialising in palliative care for heart and lung transplant patients at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital has won a national award. The Dundas Medal is awarded by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Scottish Charity PATCH (Palliation and The Caring Hospital) to reflect work done to improve the provision of palliative care for patien…
Are Aspiring Surgeons Losing their Dexterity Skills in the Digital Age?
World’s largest and oldest surgical college disagrees, with evidence gathered through its national undergraduate surgical skills competition and surgical skills courses
- Published: 1 November 2018
The BBC recently reported that medical students are ‘losing the dexterity to stitch patients’. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) has observed contrary evidence to this, through its wide-range of surgical skills engagement activities, in particular its national Student Surgical Skills Competition, taken at undergraduate level to sho…
Perioperative Practitioners – Driving Forward their Scope of Practice?
Are there limits to the scope of the perioperative practitioner’s professional practice in today’s surgical teams? That’s the key question for debate at this year’s annual Faculty of Perioperative Care conference taking place in Birmingham on 3 November
- Published: 26 October 2018
Are there limits to the scope of the perioperative practitioner’s professional practice in today’s surgical teams? That’s the key question for debate at this year’s annual Faculty of Perioperative Care conference taking place in Birmingham on 3 November, where over 80 delegates have already signed up and one of the two courses on offer is already f…
Indian Surgeon Cut Out for Leadership Role
First-Ever Indian Vice-President for UK’s oldest surgical Royal College
- Published: 13 September 2018
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh nominated Mr Pala Rajesh, a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon originally from Chennai in India, to serve a three-year term as Vice-President at the College. Mr Rajesh graduated from Madras Medical College in 1973, spending most of his career in Birmingham where he recently retired from his surgical position at H…
