Abstract Free Papers: Education & Innovative Techniques for Learning

4.30pm – 6pm BST, 23 September 2026 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Room: Abstract & Innovation Theatre

Free Paper

Chair: Anna Chapman and Cronan Kerin

• 16:35 - 16:42  Ghazal Hodhody - The CANDY Course – Communication and Non-technical Development in children and young people (231)
   
• 16:43 - 16:50  Meg Baker - Rethinking 'good' in Surgical Training (463)
   
• 16:51 - 16:58  Robert Winstanley - ‘My Stomach Dropped’: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Adverse Events and UK Trauma & Orthopaedic Trainees (544)
   
• 16:59 - 16:06  Ranya Kumar - The OPERATE Study: Operative Exposure and Procedural Competence in UK Core Surgical Training (2013–2024) (787)
   
• 16:07 - 17:14  Jonathan Hobby - How are hand surgeons trained across Europe; what is the ideal program? (951)
   
• 16:15 - 17:22  Ivy Kuo - The Bones of Professionalism Laid Bare: A Phenomenological Exploration of Professionalism in UK Orthopaedic Training (1109)
   
• 17:23 - 17:30  Matthew Bellamy - Undergraduate Medical Education in the UK Does Not Prepare Doctors for Musculoskeletal Care: a National Cross-Sectional Study (TENDON Study) (1128)

Speakers

Anna Chapman

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire

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Cronan Kerin

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals

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Anna Chapman

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire

Anna Chapman is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire, with a specialist interest in Foot and Ankle surgery.

She qualified from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals School of Medicine in London and completed her Orthopaedic training on the Warwick rotation. She undertook Fellowship training in Bournemouth and Bristol, and was appointed as a Consultant in 2012. She completed a Masters Degree in Medical Education at the University of Warwick in 2010 and continues to pursue her interest in all things educational.

Anna is currently the Lead Training Programme Director for the West Midlands and is the Portfolio Pathway Lead for the T&O Specialist Advisory Committee. She has served two terms on the BOFAS Education Committee (2015-2023) and a term as BOFAS EDI Lead (2023-2025). She is currently the Chair of the BOFAS Education Committee. 

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Cronan Kerin

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals

I am the current Chair of the T&O SAC