RCSEd has joined forces with Toffeln, a global provider of surgical and medical products, to offer trainees and early-career consultant surgeons an exciting new travelling fellowship opportunity. This programme provides a short-term surgical training experience that involves learning novel techniques or observing surgical practice in a centre of surgical excellence internationally or within the UK. This new partnership will promote higher standards of surgical care and education.
The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage an apprenticeship-style training programme by sending trainees to international and UK-based centres of excellence to acquire new skills and surgical care strategies that can be implemented in the National Health Service (NHS). By funding training opportunities like this, the College supports its Members and Fellows to gain skills in a surgical speciality they hope to train in and to gain experience they would otherwise not have locally. With such skill acquisition, the RCSEd Toffeln Fellows will naturally support improvements in NHS by spreading good practices and importing innovative ideas and best practices to their local healthcare systems.
The President of the College, Professor Rowan Parks, is delighted to see the establishment of the RCSEd Toffeln Travelling Fellowship:
It will provide invaluable opportunities for our trainee surgeons to gain invaluable experience and expertise. We are proud to collaborate with Toffeln to offer this fellowship, which will undoubtedly contribute to the continued advancement of surgical care and education.
Mr Ben Turner, the Managing Director at ToffeIn, is fully committed to improving healthcare:
We believe that supporting our trainee surgeons will make a real difference. We are thrilled about the possibilities that this fellowship will bring to the surgical community and are excited to welcome the first RCSEd Toffeln Travelling Fellows who will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to the NHS.
Mr Siong-Seng Liau, RCSEd Honorary Treasurer and Council Member, agrees:
This is a unique partnership between the College and industry, where we harness our mutual aims of promoting higher standards of surgical care in the UK by supporting these travelling fellowships. In time, these fellowships will serve to bring back new surgical innovations, enhance the standards of surgical care, and import best practices to the UK NHS.
Find out more about the RCSEd ToffeIn Travelling Fellowship here.
