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Glasgow Royal Infirmary - General Surgery

Individual placement description
Placement:

General Surgery
Year:

F1
Region:

West
Hospital(s):

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Main duties of placement:

Duties include ward round and ward care responsibilities involving surgical emergency patients, acutely unwell or post-op patients in HDU and patients under the care of elective surgery teams for one of the surgical subspecialties at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Typical work pattern:

Full shift, early or late and Hospital at Night Team.
Learning opportunities:

Formal weekly hospital teaching session for FY1 doctors. Specialty meetings weekly as well as mortality meetings monthly and hospital meetings. Wide access to internet and therefore e-learning. Demanding post with many opportunities to learn during clinical care.
Teaching:
  • Formal weekly FY1 teaching programme on Thursdays from 12:30 to 13:30 at Postgraduate Centre.
  • Weekly ward-based Pharmacy teaching on Fridays at 12 noon.
  • All teams are involved in research and audit and each team has a separate MDT weekly.
  • There is a surgical mortality meeting monthly and hospital meeting weekly.
Unique selling points:

Busy city-centre teaching hospital serving north and east Glasgow. All trainees are closely supervised. Most consultant teams do at least one ward round daily and often two. Emergency receiving is consultant-led, with senior trainees living in at night and actively involved in patient care.

Tertiary gastrointestinal surgery practice by 16 consultant GI surgeons covering oesophago-gastric, HPB and colorectal surgery.

At present all the FY1s undertake a 2-3 week rotation to Urology.
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.

This page was last updated on: 06.03.2025 at 16.18