Younger Fellows Forum

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The 2025 Younger Fellows Forum (YFF) will take place from 30 April–2 May 2025 in Sydney, Australia. The theme is Innovation, Precision, Excellence.

The 2025 YFF will be 43 years since the first Forum in 1982. The concept introduced in 1980 by Prof Richard Bennett, was to acknowledge and encourage the contribution of Younger Fellows to the College. This event selects twenty emerging leaders who are RACS Fellows within their first ten years of Fellowship, from all disciplines of surgery.

The YFF aims to develop leadership and performance skills for new consultants to thrive within surgical workforce and become leaders within their communities. The 2025 YFF will focus on innovations for surgery and improving personal performance to achieve excellence. We have partnered with leaders within the industry to discuss our future moving forward.

The 3-day forum allows new Fellows of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons to share ideas and experiences while discussing and debating current issues affecting surgical practice. It will be a space to explore the structure and workings of the College. The workshops will also provide an opportunity to contribute to College discourse and priorities. The venue will be at a retreat place, not far from Sydney International Conference Centre to allow the delegates to get away and to focus on this event.  

If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to email us at [email protected].