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Educator Studio Sessions 2024
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CPD Points: This educational activity has been approved in the College's CPD program. Fellows who participate can claim one point per hour (maximum of two points), for those with a RACS CPD requirement this activity will be automatically uploaded to your record.
Thursday 15 August 2024
Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEST
Topic: Developing an objective assessment of performance for lumbar microdiscectomy: Delphi methodology
Presenter: Dr Ganesh Shiva
About the Topic:
Lumbar microdiscectomy is the most commonly performed spinal surgical procedure worldwide. It is an operation that every neurosurgical trainee in Australasia should be competent in by the completion of intermediate training. Despite a move towards competency based training, the availability of assessment tools for surgical operations is limited, and there is still significant subjectivity in the way in which competency is assessed. In other surgical specialties, and operations, when an assessment scale has been developed, objective feedback can be delivered and therefore performance improves. Therefore, we set about the task of developing an assessment scale for lumbar microdiscectomy.
About the Presenter:
Dr Shiva completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales and went on to attain his Master of Surgery at the University of Sydney. He recently completed his Neurosurgery Fellowship in 2021. He has achieved further subspecialty qualification in spine surgery through a 12-month Post Fellowship Education and Training (PFET) Program in Spinal Surgery at Liverpool Hospital under A/Prof Mark Sheridan. He is a visiting medical officer in Neurosurgery at Sydney Southwest Private Hospital, St George Private Hospital and Liverpool Hospital.
Dr Shiva was recently awarded the RACS Jenepher Martin Surgical Education Research Prize at the 2024 Annual Scientific Congress (ASC) in Ĺtautahi Christchurch.
Wednesday 11 September 2024
Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEST
Topic: Unaccredited Specialty Surgery ‘Training’, the impact of the ‘pre-SET’ years
Presenter: Associate Professor Caroline Dowling
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Wednesday 23 October 2024
Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEDT
Topic: Carbon neutral surgery - educating current and future surgeons on environmentally sustainable surgical care
Presenter: Dr Benjamin Dunne
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