Paediatric surgery: trends in UK surgical trainees' operative experience

Higher surgical training in ophthalmology: trends in cumulative surgical experience 1993–2008

“…18 Conversely, a national survey of cumulative paediatric surgery experience among trainees between 1996 and 2004 found a modest increase in a surgical numbers being performed and did not endorse the view that surgical experience is declining. 19 These findings are consistent with a national survey in the United States, which have shown that reduction in working times did not affect cumulative surgical experience over the transition period to a shorter working week. 20 It has been suggested that changes in training, an expansion of the roles of paramedical staff and IT innovations may help to shore up critical training areas.…”

Training Tomorrow' Military Surgeons: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future

“…Reaction to these changes was mixed. Some welcomed the change and claimed improvements in training and patient care [27,28], although on review of the literature, they were somewhat outnumbered by those citing negative aspects of the alteration in specialist training across many specialties [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

James J Mason Brown memorial lecture

“…However, a recent analysis of UK surgical trainees operative experience by George Youngson concluded that the widely held perception that EWTD and reduced time in specialist training have been prejudicial to the acquisition of clinical and operative competencies was in fact not based on reality and suggested to the contrary that perhaps, because of increased supervised delegation, the volume of training operations is being preserved and that operative training is now better supervised than ever before! [13] How are we going to secure paediatric surgical training in the future? First, we need to ensure that undergraduates are aware of paediatric surgery as a specialty.…”