Viking Surgeons Association - Thriving and Surviving in Remote and Rural General Surgery

26^th January 2021

Overview

The Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare have partnered with the Viking Surgeons Association (VSA) to deliver a series of webinars focused on Rural Surgery, this webinar will present the following topics;

• Training implications
• Keeping up to date
• Accommodating different managerial structures and clinical teams
• Opening up opportunities for overseas work

Following part one, the webinar will continue with panel discussions, taking questions on;

• Preparing for a career in Rural General Surgery
• Keeping up with current practice in different specialties
• Operating on friends, people close to you and relatives
• Coping with specific stresses and the benefits of networking
• Education of children
• Employment of partner
• Living with the 'Goldfish bowl phenomenon’
• Dealing with complications

Panellists

• Alan Grant (Chair)
  Consultant General Surgeon, Clinical director for Surgery, Anaesthesia and Critical care.

• Simon Cole
  Consultant Surgeon

• David Sedgwick
  Consultant Surgeon

• Kenneth Walker
  Colorectal Surgeon and Associate Postgraduate Dean in Inverness

• Beatrix Weber
  General, remote and rural surgeon

• Stuart Fergusson
  Colorectal and General Surgeon

CPD

1 Hour

Registered attendees who connect for the full duration of the live webinar and have completed the post-event survey will be entitled to receive a CPD certificate. CPD certificates will be sent to the email address used to register for the webinar. We aim to send CPD certificates within 21 days of broadcast.

Recording

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