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The Professional Development Program for Fellows aims to support surgeons in aspects of their professional life, encouraging professional growth and workplace performance. Life long learning through professional development can improve our capabilities and help us to realise our full potential as surgeons as well as individuals.

The workshops and courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited and incorporate one or more of the surgical competencies detailed in the Standards and Protocols section. The activities below are grouped by competency.

You can also search for activities by date and view Active learning with your peers (PDF 1.60MB), the professional development activities booklet. (Please be advised dates for workshop are subject to change please refer to web page for updated dates).

All activities are CPD accredited and reflect the College guidelines for Surgical Competence and Performance.

 

Technical Expertise

• Acute Neurotrauma Management (Rural) eLearning Module (members only; login required)

Judgement and Decision Making

• Clinical Decision Making - A Complex Competency

Professionalism

• Combined Meeting of AOA/RACS/AMLC includes AMA Guidelines: Difficult Cases.
• Multi Source Feedback (members only; login required)
• Operating With Respect eLearning module (members only; login required)
• Operating with Respect face to face course

Health Advocacy

• Australian Indigenous Health and Cultural Learning eLearning Module (members only; login required)
• Network for Indigenous, Cultural and Health Education (NICHE) Portal (no login required)
• Intercultural Learning for Medical Specialists eLearning Module (members only; login required)

Communication

• Process Communication Model: Seminar 1
• Process Communication Model: Seminar 2

Collaboration and Teamwork

• Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS)
• Safer Australian Surgical Teamwork (SAST)

Management and Leadership

• Bioethics Forum
• Surgeons As Leaders in Everyday Practice
  
• Younger Fellows Forum
• Preparation for Practice

Scholarship and Teaching

• Foundation Skills for Surgical Educators
• Supervisors and Trainers for SET (SAT SET) Face-to-Face
• Supervisors and Trainers for SET (SAT SET) eLearning Module (members only; login required)
• SET Selection Interviewer Training (SET SIT) (members only; login required)
• Clinical Assessors for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) eLearning Module (members only; login required)
• Keeping Trainees on Track Face-to-Face
• Keeping Trainees on Track eLearning Module (members only; login required)
• The Academy of Surgical Educators Forum
• The Academy Educator Studio Sessions
• CLEAR Course for Consultants
• Graduate Programs in Surgical Education

Other courses and resources

• Standards of Performance (members only; login required)
• Surgical Career Transitions: a guide to opportunities and challenges
• eLearning courses
• Courses and activities accredited by RACS
• Courses and activities approved by RACS
• Courses for trainees

Contact

For more information or if you have suggestions for innovation or comments about the program, contact the Department of Professional Development:

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
College of Surgeons' Gardens
250-290 Spring Street
East Melbourne VIC 3002 Australia

Telephone: +61 3 9249 1106
Fax: +61 3 9276 7412
Email: PDactivities@surgeons.org