Role of educational supervisors

What a Core Surgical trainee can expect of you

As an Assigned Educational Supervisor (AES) the CST trainees can expect you will:

• Ensure they have a departmental induction
• Together with you, construct a learning agreement at the start of their placement
• Have regular, on average 2 weekly, meetings with feedback documented on ISCP
• Have interim and final meetings with you
• Provide them with their final report
• Ensure skills clubs are run regularly and check on their progress with the Portable Laparoscopic Simulators
• Provide careers guidance
• Escalate issues or doctors in difficulty to the TPD

Requirements for Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Project (ISCP) and Annual reviews of Competence and Progression (ARCP):

• A minimum of 40 WBAs and 50% to be consultant validated. These need to be accrued at a rate of 1 per week; 40 WBAs validated over a short period of time before ARCP will not be acceptable. WBAs linked to topics to demonstrate broad coverage of the core curriculum
• Multisource Feedback for every post (i.e. Two if trainees are in two 6 month posts, one for a 12 month post)
• Separate comments from Clinical Supervisor/s (CS; trainees can nominate up to 7 on ISCP) and a completed Learning Agreement including Final Report from their Assigned Educational Supervisor; the AES can also be a CS and make comment about their clinical performance but trainees must also have separate comment by a different trainer so we get a broader assessment of their abilities.
• An elogbook on ISCP which is up to date (around 200 procedures per year)
• Current CV
• Photograph on ISCP
• SOAR declaration signed off
• Absence record completed and uploaded
• GMC Trainee survey completed and uploaded
• Part A MRCS achieved by end of CT1 (if trainees have failed twice they will need to contact us ASAP) and result uploaded to ISCP
• Attend 70% of the teaching sessions; evidence of attendance uploaded to ISCP
• At least one audit/research project per year
• Before ARCP we will assess trainees’ performance on 6 fixed tasks on the Portable Laparoscopic Simulators to ensure they have attained a good standard

Trainee progression

To allow a trainee to progress, they must meet the requirements for Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Project (ISCP) and complete Annual reviews of Competence and Progression (ARCP). 

In order to meet these requirements a trainee must:

• Have a minimum of 40 WBAs and 50% to be consultant validated. These need to be accrued at a rate of 1 per week; 40 WBAs validated over a short period of time before the ARCP will not be acceptable. WBAs should be linked to topics to demonstrate broad coverage of the core curriculum.
• Obtain feedback from multiple sources for every post. They must have two if you they are in 6 month posts, and one if they are in a 12 month post.
• Have comments from different Clinical Supervisors (CS) of which a trainee can nominate up to 7 on ISCP.
• Have a completed Learning Agreement including Final Report from their Assigned Educational Supervisor (AES). The AES can also be a CS and make comment about clinical performance, however, they must also have separate comment by a different trainer so we get a broader assessment of abilities.
• Complete and keep up to date an elogbook on ISCP with around 200 procedures per year.
• Have a current CV.
• Upload their photograph on ISCP.
• Have SOAR declaration signed off.
• Upload a complete absence record.
• Complete and upload General Medical Council (GMC) Trainee survey.
• Achieve Part A MRCS by end of CT1 and upload the result to ISCP.
• Attend 70% of the teaching sessions with evidence of attendance uploaded to ISCP.
• Complete at least one audit or research project per year.
• Achieve a good standard of performance on 6 fixed tasks using the Portable Laparoscopic Simulators.  This needs to be assessed before the ARCP.

This page was last updated on: 21.07.2022 at 13.29