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Education and Meeting Program Summary

Education & Meeting Program Summary 2021

Day

Time

Activity

Venue

Note

Monday

0700

General Surgery Registrar Network Education Program

SETs, Pre-SETs, JMOs and Students Welcome

Via Zoom across Network.

Weekly

Compulsory attendance for SETs and highly recommended for Pre-SETs to attend

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Monday

1800

HNE Basic Surgical Skills Course Network Education

Surgical Skills Training Room, Clinical Skills Training Centre

Monday’s or Wednesdays Fortnightly.

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Tuesday

0700

Colorectal MDT Meeting

Royal Newcastle Centre

Resource Room 2

Tuesdays Fortnightly

stephen.smith@health.nsw.gov.au

Tuesday

0700

Interventional Endoscopy Meeting

Royal Newcastle Centre

Resource Room

1st Tuesday of the month

Tuesday

0700

Trauma Research Meeting

Royal Newcastle Centre Resource Room 1

Weekly

zsolt.balogh@health.nsw.gov.au or

louise.abel@health.nsw.gov.au

Tuesday

0800

Journal Club, Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplant

L Block, John Hunter Hospital

Weekly

Tuesday

1200

Journal Club

(Trauma)

Royal Newcastle Centre Board Room, Level 3

Weekly

zsolt.balogh@health.nsw.gov.au or

louise.abel@health.nsw.gov.au

Tuesday

1900

Journal Club

(General Surgery)

Network Education

SETs, PGY3+ Pre-SETs welcome

External venue

x 4 per year (Mondays 7pm)

Dinner Meeting

david_burnett@bigpond.com or

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Wednesday

1700-1800

Surgery Research Meeting

SETs, Pre-SETs, JMOs Welcome

Via Zoom

Weekly

rosemary.carroll@health.nsw.gov.au or

stephen.smith@health.nsw.gov.au

Wednesday

1700

Endocrine Surgery MDT

2021 dates: 3/2, 3/3, 31/3, 28/4, 26/5, 23/6, 21/7, 18/8, 15/9, 13/10, 10/11, 8/12

Royal Newcastle Centre

Room 3125, Level 3, Board Room

Wednesdays monthly

suzanne.quayle@health.nsw.gov.au

Wednesday

1730

Thyroid Cancer MDT

Royal Newcastle Centre

Room 3125Level 3, Board Room

Wednesdays monthly

suzanne.quayle@health.nsw.gov.au

Wednesday

1730

Surgical Grand Rounds

SETs, Pre-SETs, JMOs welcome

Royal Newcastle Centre

Lecture Theatre Level 3

x 4 per year

SurgicalOutcomeImprovement@health.nsw.gov.au

Wednesday

1800

HNE Basic Surgical Skills Training Course

Network Education

SETs, Pre-SETs welcome

Surgical Skills Training Room, Clinical Skills Training Centre

Monday’s or Wednesday’s Fortnightly

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Wednesday

1800

Surgical Sciences GSSE Exam Preparation

Network Education

Pre-SETs and JMOs welcome

TBA

Fortnightly as required

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Thursday

0700

Surgical Audit / CME (General Surgery)

Royal Newcastle Centre, Conference Room 2

Thursdays weekly

HNELHD-SurgicalOutcomeImprovement@health.nsw.gov.au

Thursday

1900-2100

JMO Surgical Education

Network Education

Pre-SETs, JMOs and students welcome

Zoom

mark.e.fenton@gmail.com or Belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Friday

0700

Multidisciplinary Trauma Forum

Pre-SETs, JMOs and students welcome

Royal Newcastle Centre Conference Room 1

Fridays weekly

zsolt.balogh@health.nsw.gov.au or

louise.abel@health.nsw.gov.au

Friday

0700

0800

Prostate Cancer

GU Cancer

Royal Newcastle Centre

Conference Room 2

Fortnightly

amy.favero@health.nsw.gov.au

Friday

0715-0900

GI Cancer MDT (General Surgery)

Radiology Conference Room

Friday’s weekly

Friday

1300

Junior Bone School

Network Education

Pre-SETs, JMOs welcome

Resource Room 2, Royal Newcastle Centre

Friday’s weekly

karen.muller47@gmail.com or

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Saturday

 

Hunter Surgical Society

General Surgery, Acute Surgery and Oncology

Hunter Medical Research Institute, Kookaburra Circuit New Lambton Heights

Annual Meeting

President, Hunter Surgical Society

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Saturday

0900-1200

Laparoscopic Skills

Network Education

SETs, Pre-SETs welcome

Surgical Skills Training Room, Clinical Skills Training Room

x 3 Saturdays per year

Annual

 

Surgical Information / Orientation Evening

Network Education

SETs, Pre-SETs welcome

 

Contact Belinda Tuynman for further information

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Annual

 

Surgical Recruitment Evening

Pre-SETs welcome

 

Contact Belinda Tuynman for further information

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Annual

 

Interview Skills

General Surgery

Orthopaedics

Network Education

Pre-SETs welcome

 

Contact Belinda Tuynman for further information

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

Annual

 

HETI Golden Scalpel Games for Pre-SETs

 

Contact Belinda Tuynman for further information

belinda.tuynman@health.nsw.gov.au

General Surgery Registrar/SRMO Network Education Program (JMOs welcome also)

Every Monday 7.00am

Virtual across all Network sites ie Armidale, Belmont, Maitland, Tamworth, Taree, Mater, Gosford, Port Macquarie, Wyong.

HNE Basic Surgical Skills Course

These are practical education sessions conducted in Surgical Skills Training Room in the Clinical Skills Training Centre usually on a fortnightly basis.

Topics include:

  • Basic Instrumentation, suturing and knot tying
  • Laparoscopic skills
  • Tendon repair
  • Bowel anastomosis
  • Vascular anastomosis and vessel handling
  • Complex wound closure and simple flaps

In addition there are extra Laparoscopic Education sessions conducted on a Saturday three times per year.

Orthopaedics Junior Baby Bone School:

One hour weekly.  In person at host site and on zoom.

Surgical Sciences Education Sessions

As required.  Looks to be replaced by HETI Course in 2021 in preparation for October Exam. One and a half to two hours fortnightly. Virtual across Network. Recordings available via secure website. Conducted as per demand.

Surgical Information /Orientation Evening:

Annual event providing an opportunity for informal discussions between interns, residents, surgical SRMOs/unaccredited trainees, SETS, fellows and consultant surgeons.  Presentation by RACS SET Supervisor covering topics including pre-SET and getting onto SET; SET (General Surgery); post-fellowship training; research; and work-life balance.

Surgical Recruitment Evening

Annual evening to discuss recruitment for annual medical recruitment for local and external applicants.

Interview Skills

Annual event with Network Director of Surgical Training, Surgeons and SET Trainees

HETI Golden Scalpel Games

The HETI Golden Scalpel Games is an annual State wide surgical competition in which the six surgical training networks compete.

The morning is dedicated to student surgical games.

The afternoon is dedicated to the Surgical Skills Networks Golden Scalpel Games

Journal Club - General Surgery

Four evenings per year. 25-35 doctors attend. Surgeons, SET Trainees, Unaccredited Registrars and SRMOs.  Held as a dinner meeting

Research Meetings

Weekly.  SETs, Registrars/SRMOs and interested JMOs attend.  Network Director for Surgical Training.

JMO Surgical Education

These sessions are conducted by surgical registrar and are aimed at enhancing JMO knowledge and comfort in dealing with General Surgical patients. They are run in 10 week blocks aligning with JMO rotations.  Current General Surgery JMO’s, interested JMO’s, medical students and future General Surgery rotation JMO’s are all welcome to attend.  This is also an avenue for any potential questions regarding surgical patient management to be discussed outside of the time constraints of every day practice

Two topics per week will be discussed, with each session going from 7pm-9pm

Proposed topics are:

Tertiary Survey

Fluid management

Surgical Ward Rounding

Review of abdominal pain

Pre-operative patient management

Post- operative patient management

JMO Approach to the Operating Theatre

Diverticulitis

Small Bowel Obstruction

Night shift

Common JMO procedures (IVC, IDC, NGT)

Biliary pathology

UGI post-operative pathways

Colorectal Surgery post-operative pathways

PRB

Discharge Process

Imaging

Pancreatitis

Thyroid/Parathyroid

Hernias