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Lelwala

 

Samantha Kumara Wijaya

 

180A, Richmond Hill Road, Galle,

Sri Lanka

 

0094 912225534; 0094 773420512

 

lelwala@hotmail.com

 

Male

 

11.02.1965

 

Sri Lankan

 

Married with two children.

 

 

Registration in GMC, UK

Registration Number: 6057782

 

Registration in Sri Lanka Medical Council Registration No: 10688

 

MBBS (faculty of Medicine University of Colombo)

 

MS (Surgery) University of Colombo

 

FRCSEd (General Surgery)

 

 

 

Present post:

 

Consultant General Surgeon

District General Hospital, Nawalapitiya.

 

Duration:     

From 15th May 2007 to date  

 

Previous Appointments:

 

 

Title of post

 

 

Dates on which post

Began and Ended

 

 

Specialty

 

Name and location of hospital

Consultant General Surgeon

01.10.2005 to

14.05.2007

General Surgery & Trauma Surgery

Accident & Emergency department, National Hospital, Sri Lanka.

Staff Grade Surgeon

01.11.2004 to

30.09.2005

General Surgery & Laparoscopic Surgery (Upper GI)

Torbay Hospital, Newton Road, Torquay, TQ2 7AA, UK

Specialist Registrar

01.10.2003 to

05.10.2004

General Surgery & Colorectal Surgery

Princess of Wales Hospital, Coity Road, Bridgend, CF31 1RQ, UK

Senior Registrar

25.07.2003 to

30.09.2003

General Surgery

General Hospital Chilaw, Sri Lanka

Senior Registrar

01.04.2001 to

24.07.2003

General Surgery

Teaching Hospital Karapitiya,         Sri Lanka

Registrar

01.06.1999   to 

31.03.2001

Orthopaedic Surgery

National Hospital Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.05.1999   to 31.05.1999

Intensive Care

National Hospital Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.03.1999   to 30.04.1999

Cardiothoracic Surgery

National Hospital Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.01.1999   to 28.02.1999

Paediatric Surgery

Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.11.1998   to 31.12.1998

Oncosurgery

National Cancer Institute, Maharagama, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.05.1998   to 31.10.1998

Orthopaedic Surgery

National Hospital Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.04.1998   to 30.04.1998

Genitourinary Surgery

National Hospital Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.02.1998   to 31.03.1998

Trauma Surgery

National Hospital Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.11.1997   to 31.01.1998

Neurosurgery

National Hospital Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Registrar

01.05.1997   to 31.10.1997

General Surgery

Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Colombo North, Sri Lanka

Registrar

01.05.1996   to 30.04.1997

General Surgery

Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Galle, Sri Lanka.

SHO

26.06.1995   to 30.04.1996

General Surgery

Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Galle, Sri Lanka.

SHO

 

26.04.1994   to 25.06.1995

General Surgery

General Hospital, Matara, Sri Lanka

Intern House Officer

26.10.1993   to 25.04.1994

General Medicine

Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Galle, Sri Lanka

 

Intern House Officer

 

26.04.1993   to 25.10.1993

 

General Surgery

 

Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Galle, Sri Lanka

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching:

 

Undergraduate:      In-ward teaching has been done in group classes and teaching ward-rounds. For students preparing for the final MBBS examination, weekly ward classes were done. 

 

Postgraduate:         For registrars, SHOs, and Intern House Officers, case discussions, clinical presentations, and teaching ward rounds have been carried out. I assisted them in performing surgical operations.

 

Nurses:                     Guidelines were given to nurses in delivering preoperative & postoperative care to surgical patients.

 

 

Courses and workshops attended:

 

1.                        International surgical Congress held in 

              Kandy in 1996

 

2.                        Surgical skills workshop conducted by the PGIM

 

3.                        Surgical skills workshop conducted by the PGIM

 

4.                        Annual sessions of college of surgeons at Trans Asia

              Hotel in 2000

 

5.            Participate in Clinical Meetings, Morbidity & Mortality

Conferences in the hospital

 

                                    6.            Teaching sessions conducted for specialist registrars

                                   

                                    7.            Laparoscopic cholecystectomy course

 

Audit & Research:

I have actively participated in conducting clinical audit in surgical units, where it is a routine. In journal club meetings, I have done presentations regularly. I am seeking the opportunity to be involved in a research project.

1.      Audit on “bicycle spoke injury in children”

2.      Audit on post-thyroidectomy stitch abscesses

Professional Membership:

 

1.                  Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

 

2.                  Member, College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka.

 

3.         Member, Association of General Surgeons of Sri Lanka

 

Future Aims & Objectives:

 

                             I have great ambition to settle in Australia and to work as a part of a surgical team where I could make a significant contribution. I have special interests in laparoscopic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery and thyroid surgery.

 

Interests and activities:

 

I have sound knowledge of handling following computer packages.

·        Windows XP

·        Microsoft Office XP

·        Internet Explorer

I am skilled at Desktop computer assembling. When there is free time I play the guitar, listen to music, surf the Internet, and do some out door activities such as cycling, playing cricket and badminton.