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Royal Alexandra Hospital - General Surgery

Individual placement description
Placement:

General Surgery
Year:

F1
Region:

East
Hospital(s):

Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley
Main duties of placement:

Ward-based clinical cover including elective and emergency admissions, ward rounds, dealing with acutely unwell patients and outpatient pre-admission assessment medicals for elective admissions.
Typical work pattern:

In the 4 month block, you are placed with your designated team half the time, the other half on cover for the acute surgical receiving ward, A&E (dealing with acute surgical admissions), late shift cover and nights. You spend (usually) one week covering FY1 duties at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Learning opportunities:
  • Informal ward-based teaching including teaching of skills and procedures.
  • Monthly departmental Morbidity and Mortality and Audit meetings.
  • Weekly MDT meetings for each subspecialty.
  • A journal club is organised by specialty trainees.
Teaching:

Mandatory FY1 teaching programme covering the foundation programme syllabus. There are hospital postgraduate meetings at least monthly.
Unique selling points:

Busy district general hospital with colorectal, upper GI, breast and urology subspecialties. Team-based but rotate around different shift patterns so a wide range of subspecialties encountered.
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 16.22