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Role of educational supervisors

What a Core Surgical trainee can expect of you

As an Assigned Educational Supervisor (AES) the CST trainees can expect you will:

  • Ensure they have a departmental induction
  • Together with you, construct a learning agreement at the start of their placement
  • Have regular, on average 2 weekly, meetings with feedback documented on ISCP
  • Have interim and final meetings with you
  • Provide them with their final report
  • Ensure skills clubs are run regularly and check on their progress with the Portable Laparoscopic Simulators
  • Provide careers guidance
  • Escalate issues or doctors in difficulty to the TPD

 

Requirements for Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Project (ISCP) and Annual reviews of Competence and Progression (ARCP):

  • A minimum of 40 WBAs and 50% to be consultant validated. These need to be accrued at a rate of 1 per week; 40 WBAs validated over a short period of time before ARCP will not be acceptable. WBAs linked to topics to demonstrate broad coverage of the core curriculum
  • Multisource Feedback for every post (i.e. Two if trainees are in two 6 month posts, one for a 12 month post)
  • Separate comments from Clinical Supervisor/s (CS; trainees can nominate up to 7 on ISCP) and a completed Learning Agreement including Final Report from their Assigned Educational Supervisor; the AES can also be a CS and make comment about their clinical performance but trainees must also have separate comment by a different trainer so we get a broader assessment of their abilities.
  • An elogbook on ISCP which is up to date (around 200 procedures per year)
  • Current CV
  • Photograph on ISCP
  • SOAR declaration signed off
  • Absence record completed and uploaded
  • GMC Trainee survey completed and uploaded
  • Part A MRCS achieved by end of CT1 (if trainees have failed twice they will need to contact us ASAP) and result uploaded to ISCP
  • Attend 70% of the teaching sessions; evidence of attendance uploaded to ISCP
  • At least one audit/research project per year
  • Before ARCP we will assess trainees’ performance on 6 fixed tasks on the Portable Laparoscopic Simulators to ensure they have attained a good standard


Trainee progression

To allow a trainee to progress, they must meet the requirements for Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Project (ISCP) and complete Annual reviews of Competence and Progression (ARCP). 

In order to meet these requirements a trainee must:

  • Have a minimum of 40 WBAs and 50% to be consultant validated. These need to be accrued at a rate of 1 per week; 40 WBAs validated over a short period of time before the ARCP will not be acceptable. WBAs should be linked to topics to demonstrate broad coverage of the core curriculum.
  • Obtain feedback from multiple sources for every post. They must have two if you they are in 6 month posts, and one if they are in a 12 month post.
  • Have comments from different Clinical Supervisors (CS) of which a trainee can nominate up to 7 on ISCP.
  • Have a completed Learning Agreement including Final Report from their Assigned Educational Supervisor (AES). The AES can also be a CS and make comment about clinical performance, however, they must also have separate comment by a different trainer so we get a broader assessment of abilities.
  • Complete and keep up to date an elogbook on ISCP with around 200 procedures per year.
  • Have a current CV.
  • Upload their photograph on ISCP.
  • Have SOAR declaration signed off.
  • Upload a complete absence record.
  • Complete and upload General Medical Council (GMC) Trainee survey.
  • Achieve Part A MRCS by end of CT1 and upload the result to ISCP.
  • Attend 70% of the teaching sessions with evidence of attendance uploaded to ISCP.
  • Complete at least one audit or research project per year.
  • Achieve a good standard of performance on 6 fixed tasks using the Portable Laparoscopic Simulators.  This needs to be assessed before the ARCP.


This page was last updated on: 21.07.2022 at 13.29


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