boa training
Wickford
The first BOA Training and Education Strategy document was published in 2012. It
set out an action centred approach to development work across four community
domains and eleven projects. A year later we have taken the opportunity to
refresh the strategy in the light of work completed, and some new initiatives
reflecting the ever changing dynamic of surgical training and education. The BOA
focuses its training and education resources on: Development of the T&O
specialty training curriculum. Construction and delivery of an annual trainee
instructional course, geared to a four year FRCS (Tr and Orth) cycle. Awards of
fellowships and prizes. CESR courses for SAS surgeons aspiring to gain entry to
the specialist register. Delivery of training the trainer and educational
supervisor instructional courses. Delivery of MSK clinical assessment skills
courses for those in Core Training. Revalidation of all T&O surgeons through our
annual Congress with a series of clinical and other instructional content geared
to a five year cycle. The development of our e-learning capability for both
specialty training and broader revalidation purposes. The need for continuing
pace The shape and diversity of the healthcare work force is evolving rapidly:
all elements are doing more with less in order to contain NHS expenditure at a
sustainable level. T&O in particular faces a unique set of challenges and the
BOA has developed an action plan through which to address them: full details are
contained in our Practice Strategy. Focused on high quality care for patients
against the backdrop of a 15% and growing capacity gap in elective orthopaedics,
the action plan highlights the need for better patient pathways, enhanced
implant surveillance, strong partnerships between providers of acute care,
multidisciplinary teams working seamlessly across the primary and secondary care
divide, and clinical culture change within the T&O community. All this needs to
be instilled in surgeons from the outset of their careers, and the challenge for
the BOA as a Surgical Specialty Association is to identify, recruit, educate and
nurture the best talent from medical schools and throughout their formative and
specialty training in order to create sufficient: High quality T&O capacity with
surgical capability in depth to meet future demand. Future clinical academic
capacity to sustain the UK’s T&O research capability. The rationale for this is
set out in the BOA Research Strategy In addition, we need to: Care better for
our patients throughout their treatment pathways by engaging effectively and
productively with General Practitioners, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
with an interest in orthopaedics. Accordingly we continue to broaden the scope
of our training and education work. This will be essential if we are to
encompass more fully the needs of the T&O community and the wider
musculoskeletal multi-disciplinary team. Achieving this through an action
centred, project based approach to Training and Education .
