BOA Session
Session Title: Return to Work
Session Description: This session will include: Discussions, Clinical Refreshers, Sawbones.
Session Agenda
14.45 - 15:00: Introductions
Background to SuppoRTT and tips to manage returning to work
15:00 - 16:00: Discussion - Concerns and Experiences including:
- Trauma re familiarisation
16:00 - 16:15: Mock Trauma Meeting
- One aspect that you are looking forward to when you return to work
- The thing/s you are ‘dreading’
- How you are planning to ease your return and strategies to overcome difficulties
- If you have returned to training previously, any tips you’d like to share with the group
Supported by
Many thanks to Synthes for supporting this workshop by supplying the trauma kit and saw bones.
Shirley Chan is a General and Colorectal Surgeon at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Kent. She is Return to Training and Trainee Support lead for Kent, Surrey & Sussex School of Surgery, an examiner for Intercollegiate MRCS and Member of the General Surgery SAC. She has been running the T&O Return to Training workshop since 2019. In 2024, this became a national workshop in association with the BOA and RCS Grassroots scheme.
