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Cobb RA, Baigrie RJ, Harris P, et al. What constitutes general surgical training? Evidence from the log books of trainees in one district general hospital. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1994;76(3):117-20
Cobb, R. A., Baigrie, R. J., Harris, P., Harries, P. G., Shaper, K., Fox, A., & Riad, A. (1994). What constitutes general surgical training? Evidence from the log books of trainees in one district general hospital. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 76(3), 117-20.
Cobb, R A, et al. "What constitutes general surgical training? Evidence from the log books of trainees in one district general hospital." Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England vol. 76,3 (1994): 117-20.
Cobb RA, Baigrie RJ, Harris P, Harries PG, Shaper K, Fox A, Riad A. What constitutes general surgical training? Evidence from the log books of trainees in one district general hospital. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1994 May;76(3):117-20. PMID: 8017828.
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Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1994 May;76(3):117-20.

What constitutes general surgical training? Evidence from the log books of trainees in one district general hospital.

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

R A Cobb, R J Baigrie, P Harris, P G Harries, K Shaper, A Fox, A Riad

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  1. Northampton General Hospital.

PMID: 8017828

Abstract

It is accepted wisdom that surgical expertise in the UK is achieved by virtue of long service, and perhaps not enough genuine training. The average age at appointment to consultant posts in general surgery has risen from 37.0 years in 1978 to 38.0 in 1992. This message has reached the politicians who run the Health Service: at the Association of Surgeons in Training Annual General Meeting in September 1991 Mrs Virginia Bottomley said 'A complaint often made to me is that trainees, particularly surgical trainees, in the UK are over-experienced but under-trained'. Training posts acquire a reputation (good or bad) based on word of mouth, pass rate in examinations, and success in placing trainees into higher grades. Little is known about the relationship between training and operative experience. Log books have been introduced as a compulsory requirement for the Clinical Surgery in General and Intercollegiate Specialty Examinations. This report aims to define the operative experience of trainees at a District General Hospital by analysis of data obtained from their log books. This information has been used to calculate trainee workload in terms of intermediate equivalents (IE) and service equivalent value (SEV).

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