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RCSEd Keeps Ahead of Times with Launch of New International Postgraduate Deanery
Advancing Global Surgical Excellence
- Published: 3 June 2019
RCSEd on 31 May 2019 welcomed College Council Members to Birmingham to launch the UK’s first International Postgraduate Deanery (IPD). The principle focus of the IPD is high quality training and patient safety. The College will use their global network and local expertise to give international medical graduates (IMGs) the chance to spend up to two…
Edinburgh Hospitality Funds Next Generation of Rwandan Surgeons
Surgeons Quarter, an organisation that puts its profits into advancing surgical standards worldwide has partnered with the Rwandan Surgical Society (RSS) and Harvard University to put an end to the country’s surgical crisis.
- Published: 21 May 2019
Surgeons Quarter, an organisation that puts its profits into advancing surgical standards worldwide has partnered with the Rwandan Surgical Society (RSS) and Harvard University to put an end to the country’s surgical crisis. In Rwanda, there is an urgent need for more trained surgeons with just 150 specialist surgeons, physicians, anaesthetists an…
RCSEd supports national campaign to raise awareness of fatigue among healthcare staff
RCSEd announce official endorsement of the Association of Anaesthetists national Fight Fatigue campaign
- Published: 16 April 2019
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) has announced official endorsement of the national Fight Fatigue campaign, a joint initiative of the Association of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the impact of fatigue and shift work on our NHS w…
UK health organisations launch an anti-bullying and undermining resource
RCSEd join forces to address bullying and undermining in the workplace
- Published: 4 April 2019
A new resource that brings together the range of work being conducted across the medical professions to eradicate workplace bullying is being launched by a coalition of leading health organisations today. Over a quarter of NHS staff in England experienced bullying by a colleague in the last year, and research estimates that it costs the health ser…
RCSEd Says Lack of Care for Young Medics Symptomatic of Wider Problem
- Published: 30 March 2019
Responding to the publication of a series of accounts that detail the lack of care and regard the NHS has for young medics, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) President Professor Michael Griffin OBE, said: “We are grateful for Doctor Poole’s work to highlight how the NHS takes trainees for granted. The case studies she presents are n…
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