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Skills Training

The Skills Training Department conduct the following courses for College trainees and other medical specialities:

• EMST - Early Management of Severe Trauma
  Mandatory for Surgical Trainees and available to other medical specialities
  
  
• CCrISP - Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient
  Mandatory for Surgical Trainees and available to other medical specialities
  
  
• ASSET - Australian and New Zealand Surgical Skills Education and Training
  Mandatory for Surgical Trainees and available to other medical specialities
  
  
• CLEAR - Critical Literature Evaluation and Research
  Mandatory for Surgical Trainees in General / Urology / Orthopaedic (NZ only) and available to other medical specialties
  
  
• Statistics for Surgeons Workshop
  Computer-based workshop; available to Trainees, Fellows and other medical specialties (not mandatory)
  

Trainees are required to complete three skills courses during the Surgical Education and Training program:

• ASSET course
• CCrISP course
• EMST course
• CLEAR course (General / Urology / Orthopaedic Trainees [NZ only])

Click here (  pdf) to download an outline of when trainees are required to complete each course.

These intensive short courses provide trainees with the opportunity to undertake hands-on practice by offering a high tutor to participant ratio. Trainees are provided with comprehensive course manuals outlining the theoretical basis and practical applications used throughout the courses. Evaluation is by continual subjective assessment with components of more formal assessment of performance at skills stations.

ASSET and CCrISP preference forms and course dates will be posted to all Surgical Trainees who have not completed a course in the November before they commence training. The EMST Office contact second year trainees around the same time with a course allocation.

Positions on these courses are automatically quarantined each year for surgical trainees who have not completed a course. Once a position has been quarantined, it is the trainee's responsibility to ensure that they attend the course, as only one position can be quarantined per course for each student.

For further details regarding placements, please contact the Skills Training Department.