Training Orthopaedic Educational Supervisors (TOES)

Next Course Dates

Date: Friday 19th September 2025 
Location: BOA Annual Congress, Liverpool.

Booking opens shortly. 

Course Summary 

No more box ticking and number crunching. Life for you, as a trainer should be better and richer from August 2021. All the curriculum work over the last 3 years is coming to fruition.  It will address concerns expressed by many trainers about the over refined structure of ISCP: of tick boxes and forms. Our trainees need to acquire professional judgement, insight, leadership, and the ability to work with others, alongside the operative skills required to be a safe surgeon. The new updated curriculum should help us do this more effectively.  This half-day programme is designed to help Educational Supervisors make the necessary changes work for them and their trainees.

Course structure

We will use:

• A learning log distributed through email with feedback from the moderator and cohort colleagues, to achieve learning outcomes through a set of screencasts and activities you complete at your own pace.*
• Zoom for one 2-hour live session for teaching simulations with feedback, and discussions.  

The total amount of time required to complete the course will be around 9 hours.

*Participants should complete the BOA TOES course within 6 weeks of the start date. 

Learning outcomes

At the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

• Summarise changes to the T&O curriculum and how these will affect you
• Make the best use of assessment tools including the Multi Consultant Report
• Integrate the new Capabilities in Practice and Generic Professional Capabilities
• Plan how to conduct or contribute to a Multi Consultant Report (MCR)
• Make best use of their trainer portfolio
• Use assessment of reflective writing to maximise trainee progress

The programme will be facilitated by Emma Reay. 

Testimonials

• I'd go so far as to say that this is far superior to the more traditional course with face-to-face contact time. I think you've done an outstanding job. 
• Really enjoyed the course. I don't know how you manage it all.
• Will recommend highly to colleagues.
• A really good way of maintaining CPD while away.
• I have found the course to be excellent & I've been extolling it's merits to all who will listen! 
• Virtual is the way forward, this helps to work around ones own schedule and be safe.