Supervisor Support Hub

We appreciate and value the work you do in educating and training our future surgeons.  These pages have been put together to assist you to find resources to help you do this important work. There is access to important policy documents related to SET training, College contact numbers should you have a specific question, information regarding professional development for Supervisors, and links to resources to assist you.

We are committed to making these pages useful for supervisors so if you have any suggestions for additional content please contact the RACS Principal Educator, Debbie Paltridge at Deborah.Paltridge@surgeons.org.

We recognise the value of the work supervisors undertake. A significant amount of the education points available can be claimed for your role, teaching (20 points) and supervising (15 points). If you combine this with your Journal Reading (30 points) this is the quota met for Maintenance of Knowledge and Skills (category 3). We will populate your participation in Supervising activities on your behalf into your CPD record.

We also acknowledge in 2020 supervisors spent a significant amount of time in COVID meetings, therefore we have added a COVID meeting activity, of 10 hours in Clinical Governance (Category 2), which meets this requirement.

RACS provides a suite of professional development courses for our supervisors. Access Supervisor specific professional development opportunities.

At times as a supervisor you may want to access support for trainees outside your organisation. RACS has partnered with Converge International to provide confidential support to surgeons and their immediate family members. Find out more.