Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - General Surgery (2024) - based in the Breast Unit

Individual placement description

General Surgery

F2

North

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

The post holder will be working for 4 months in the Breast Unit at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary which is a tertiary regional centre. They will be responsible for day to day running of the ward rounds, admission, investigation and management of all Breast surgical patients. The post holder is also expected to cover breast clinics and theatre sessions and attend the weekly MDT. 

During the 4 months the post holder will be working only in the breast unit with no on-call commitments with general surgery and no after-hours commitments. This will ensure enough time to get exposure to breast surgery as a speciality and potential career choice and also will enable the post holder to work more on the assigned projects they need for the academic part of the job.

Formal (protected) F2 teaching, ward-based teaching and weekly MDT.

Also Foundation Doctors will have exposure to the one stop breast clinics and theatre sessions.

All Foundation Doctors are encouraged to undertake either an audit or research project in the Unit and should  contact the department to discuss things further before starting the attachment for potential projects. This can be considered your research project for the academic part. 

As above.

As a tertiary unit the post holder will be exposed to a wide range of breast, oncoplastic and reconstructive procedures. There is close working relation with the plastic surgery department and many cases are done jointly.

The Breast unit runs a Bi-Monthly educational meeting. Foundation Doctors interested in a further career in surgery are encouraged to undertake either an audit or a project aiming for presentation/publication.

The Breast Unit has excellent Academic Profile.