THE CONCEPT OF SURGICAL ASSESSMENT: PART 1-INTRODUCTION

  • Okoro, T
  • Sirianni, C
  • Brigden, D

  • Wales Clinical Academic Trainee, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Bangor University

    CT1, Department of Surgery, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl

    Director of Learning and Teaching, School of Medical Sciences, Bangor University

Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 92(9):p 322-323, 2010. | DOI: 10.1308/147363510X527664

Assessing competency in surgery is an age-old tradition. In the infancy of surgical practice the issue of competency in surgical skills was addressed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, one of the oldest surgical organisations.Competency in surgical skills has taken on an added urgency in contemporary practice because of several high-profile public enquiries into underperforming surgeons, such as the Bristol children's heart surgery affair in the UK,the paediatric cardiac surgery programme at Winnipeg Children's Hospital, Canada,and the Bundaberg Hospital affair in Australia.

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