BOA Session
Session Title: Developing your career as an SAS surgeon
Session Description: For surgeons who are not on the traditional training pathway, the process of career progression can be less obvious, and can face unexpected challenges. However, an increasing number of SAS doctors are making the most of the growing range of opportunities open to them.
More than ever, there are opportunities to progress into a variety of domains, demonstrating the ability of SAS doctors to be leaders in their fields. Developing your skills (and CV) can be crucial for career progression into autonomous practice (such as the specialist grade), to follow the portfolio pathway, or to develop a fulfilling range of special interests. As SAS doctors become leaders in a variety of fields, there are a huge range of career opportunities open to SAS surgeons, and old narratives about the limitations of SAS roles are being challenged. For many, understanding these first steps into broader career development can open up a world of possibilities beyond their initial horizons.
Also, come to the launch of the BOA’s progress tracking tools to help you keep track of your evidence collection for the T&O Portfolio Pathway (TOPP) and the Specialist grade, utilising the guidance from the SAC and British Medical Association.
**Don’t forget about the SAS/LED networking lunch and the T&O Portfolio pathway session later in the same day**
Speakers:
Catherine Diver (Deputy SAS subdean for the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh SASLC Committee Member, and ENT SAS Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast)
Julie Craig (BOA Education and Careers Committee SAS Representative, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh T&O Surgical Specialty Board Member, and Orthopaedic Specialty Doctor, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast)
Akshdeep Bawa (BOA Council SAS Representative, Consultant Foot and Ankle surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals
Agenda:
10:30 - 11:00 Autonomous practice as an SAS surgeon Catherine Diver
11:00 - 11:30 Developing your SAS career: finding the right strings to your bow Julie Craig
11:30 - 12:00 Introducing the BOA’s new 'TOPP progress tracker' and 'Specialist grade competency matrix' Akshdeep Bawa and Julie Craig
Julie Craig is the SAS representative on the BOA education & careers committee.
She works as an Orthopaedic Specialty Doctor in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
Julie graduated from Queen’s University in Belfast, and has since completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Education at Queen’s University, and a Master’s degree in Orthopaedic Engineering from Cardiff University. She is now an undergraduate educational lead for fractures for Queen’s University Belfast.
She teaches quality improvement and leadership skills to doctors in the Belfast Trust as part of the QI faculty.
Julie has a special interest in clinical data analysis and project design and is the Belfast Trust’s specialty improvement lead for their fracture inpatient database. She is also the Northern Ireland representative on the NHFD advisory group and a member of the RCP’s FFFAP committee.
Julie’s publications include peer-reviewed journals and chapter contributions to a trauma and orthopaedic nursing textbook. She has received prizes for Best Presentation at the British Trauma Society, Best Abstract at the Irish Hip Fracture Database Annual Meeting, the Bone and Joint Journal Prize, and a “highlight paper” at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association.
