RACS Skills Training faculty are the backbone of surgical education, helping prepare the next generation of surgeons through hands-on teaching, mentorship and leadership. They play a vital role in delivering five key courses: ASSET, ATLS, CCrISP, CLEAR and TIPS. Together, these programs build technical expertise, trauma management capability, critical thinking, patient-centred communication and professional practice. 

Becoming a Skills Training instructor is more than a teaching opportunity. Faculty members develop their own educational and leadership skills, expand professional networks, earn CPD points, and collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

"It is a huge privilege to be able to help shape our future surgeons. Watching training doctors move from uncertainty and anxiety and then witnessing the lightbulb moment as they understand and grasp a skill is so rewarding. Every course I teach in I learn from them. Being able to see our future workforce become empowered is inspiring.”
Dr. Rosalynd Pochin FRACS, CCrISP and TIPS faculty

If you are passionate about education and committed to shaping the future of surgery, consider becoming a RACS Skills Training instructor and help inspire, teach and give back to the profession.

Find out more here.