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Training standards for Surgeons
Information about the booklet 'Becoming a competent and proficient surgeon: Training Standards for the Nine RACS Competencies'.
Overview
The booklet has been developed to provide a guide for trainees and their supervisors as to the stage a trainee has reached for any one of the competencies. The framework is structured around each of the RACS competencies:
- Medical Expertise
- Judgement - Clinical Decision Making
- Technical Expertise
- Professionalism and Ethics
- Health Advocacy
- Communication
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Management and Leadership
- Scholarship and Teaching
The framework describing standards for competency acquisition is intended for use:
- by supervisors as a guide to assist them in more clearly identifying the strengths and weakness of their trainees and their progress
- by trainees as a self-assessment guide in monitoring their own progress and identifying any area (or areas) in which they need to improve
- by training boards as a guide to assist them in their decision making about the progress of each individual trainee in their training program, and
- as a framework around which assessment processes and tools can be evaluated and/or designed to ensure closer alignment between assessment processes and program requirements.
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