RCSEd & Vascutek Cardiothoracic Surgery Placements for Undergraduates
Cardiothoracic surgery is one of the smallest surgical specialties but offers some of the most exciting and varied opportunities in which to practice medicine and surgery. With support from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), placements are being offered to a small number of senior medical students at UK universities to work under the supervision of consultant surgeons at James Cook Hospital in Middlesborough, Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, University Hospitals Bristol and other UK cardiothoracic centers.
The placements offer students supervised time in the operating theatre and the opportunity to shadow the day-to-day activities of trainees, consultants and allied clinicians and professionals in the department.
Successful students will have the opportunity to shadow their supporting consultant and allied clinicians within a cardiothoracic surgery department during patient clinics, ward rounds and in the operating theatre. Students will undergo a brief induction at the beginning of the placement.
Students will complete the placement with a signed logbook record (using the Surgical eLogbook) detailing their time spent in the operating theatre and if completed satisfactorily they will also receive a certificate of completion of the placement and a letter of reference from the consultant surgeon they have been attached to.
Attachments are short (generally two weeks) and are designed to be intensive. They aim to give students a real taste of what it is like to train and then practice in a modern heart or lung surgery team. Our participating hospitals include opportunities to see the whole range of cardiothoracic surgery, from adult and congenital heart surgery through thoracic surgical oncology and transplantation for heart or lung failure.
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