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    The Silver Scalpel Award has proven that there are practising surgeons who are delivering excellence in training despite the introduction of the European Working Directive and Calman. Their energy and enthusiasm has not been dampened by the cited reasons for a reduction in the opportunity to learn. On the contrary, the short listed trainers for the Silver Scalpel Award have consistently and repeatedly demonstrated an outstanding ability to teach and train junior surgeons. They exhibit a strong sense of leadership by example. They seize every moment in the day and sometimes weekends to teach the holistics of surgical practice. They are clear in communicating goals but also very able to step back into a supervisory role and are prepared to learn that there is not just one way of doing things. These trainers are multi facetted and multi talented.

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    The Silver Scalpel Award has proven that there are practising surgeons who are delivering excellence in training despite the introduction of the European Working Directive and Calman. Their energy and enthusiasm has not been dampened by the cited reasons for a reduction in the opportunity to learn. On the contrary, the short listed trainers for the Silver Scalpel Award have consistently and repeatedly demonstrated an outstanding ability to teach and train junior surgeons. They exhibit a strong sense of leadership by example. They seize every moment in the day and sometimes weekends to teach the holistics of surgical practice. They are clear in communicating goals but also very able to step back into a supervisory role and are prepared to learn that there is not just one way of doing things. These trainers are multi facetted and multi talented.

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    The Silver Scalpel Award has proven that there are practising surgeons who are delivering excellence in training despite the introduction of the European Working Directive and Calman. Their energy and enthusiasm has not been dampened by the cited reasons for a reduction in the opportunity to learn. On the contrary, the short listed trainers for the Silver Scalpel Award have consistently and repeatedly demonstrated an outstanding ability to teach and train junior surgeons. They exhibit a strong sense of leadership by example. They seize every moment in the day and sometimes weekends to teach the holistics of surgical practice. They are clear in communicating goals but also very able to step back into a supervisory role and are prepared to learn that there is not just one way of doing things. These trainers are multi facetted and multi talented.

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    Silver Scalpel Award 2006

    The Silver Scalpel Award has proven that there are practising surgeons who are delivering excellence in training despite the introduction of the European Working Directive and Calman. Their energy and enthusiasm has not been dampened by the cited reasons for a reduction in the opportunity to learn. On the contrary, the short listed trainers for the Silver Scalpel Award have consistently and repeatedly demonstrated an outstanding ability to teach and train junior surgeons. They exhibit a strong sense of leadership by example. They seize every moment in the day and sometimes weekends to teach the holistics of surgical practice. They are clear in communicating goals but also very able to step back into a supervisory role and are prepared to learn that there is not just one way of doing things. These trainers are multi facetted and multi talented. The Silver Scalpel Award started six years ago and now has approval and support from all the Royal Colleges. There is an increasing realisation that it is the process of training and the trainer that are fundamental in ensuring that we have competent surgeons of the future. This Award is yet to be recognised in principal by other disciplines and is thus unique. We want to hear from you, the trainee, about any surgical trainer you feel deserves this prestigious Award. You never forget a good teacher because a good teacher inspires you to learn and to better yourself. The winner of the Silver Scalpel Award in previous years has always scored the highest mark on initial screening by your fellow trainees. Please take care therefore, to think about what you write and reflect on your trainers skills in respect to five categories: Leadership Resourcefulness Training Development Professionalism Communication It is clear the winners and short listed candidates of the Silver Scalpel Award, not only deliver excellence in training but also a first class service. The two go handin-hand and are not mutually exclusive. Good service enables good training and visa versa because together they culminate in a knowledge creating environment. David J. O Regan MBA MD FRCS C-Th Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Past President of ASiT

    The 2005 Winner Fiona MadcNeil Fiona MacNeill, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon worked at the Essex County Hospital and Colchester General Hospital and is now working at the Royal Marsden Hospital. She regards her trainees as friends and is described by all as an amazing woman. The adjective used was aspirational as everybody tried to aspire to be like her. She has a strong sense of duty to the team and the patient. She not only got the highest score on initial screening, she was the only surgeon to appear on all the short lists that were prepared by the Colleges and declared the winner without equivocation by the Chief Medical Officer.

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    A good teacher is easy to recognise but very hard to define. Your submission should indicate why your trainer deserves a Silver Scalpel Award with respect to five key competence areas: 1) Leadership 2) Resourcefulness 3) Training Development 4) Professionalism 5) Communication The scoring system has been developed with the help of the Education Department of the Royal College of Surgeons and Industrial Psychologists. Each competency is scored and the top six candidates are short listed. Letters are then sent to the chief executive and post-graduate dean to achieve 360 assessment. The nominated candidates are then visited by the presidents and ex-presidents of ASIT and BOTA. The responses from the interviews are collected in a standard format and presented to a second committee. It draws up a short list of three, which is then presented to the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson. The winner will be announced by February, 2007 and the Award will be presented at the AGM for the Association of Surgeons in Training.

    Send your nominations by 21 October 2006 (in typed format) to: Room 173, Level D, Jubilee Building, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George St, Leeds LS1 3EX

    Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland)

    Royal College of Surgeons (England)

    Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow)

    Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)

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