Good luck to everyone going up for the CST Interviews over the next two weeks. From all the portfolios I've seen, you have such good prospects: application numbers mean you have a 2:1 shot. But you're not just aiming to get a post, you're aiming to rank, as high as you can, so you can get the region you want.
Keep calm, try and engage eye contact just as you would in any conversational situation (always a bit weird when you're talking to someone and they are staring at the wall behind you). And don't forget to blink (again, weird when people don't).
Think of your responses as having a beginning, middle & end. Bit like musical phrasing. Monotonous rambling kills interest, much better to have a direction. Practice: asks friends to video you answering a question, it can be illuminating.
Your portfolios are an amazing record of your hard work and industry. The interviewers have 10 minutes to go through the whole lot. So think of that one thing, or things, you don't want to leave the room without making sure the interviewers have seen. That closed loop audit, that service improvement project you had, that poster presentation: draw it to their attention. Inevitably, things in the back 1/3rd of your portfolio can't get looked at as forensically as the stuff at the front, because of the time pressures.
#PinkWednesday
We did our bit: thanks @unclehester for roping in passers-by into the spirit of the day, celebrating the part women play in the NHS (and not, as @thesundaytimes published, bringing about its downfall)
LETB Visit 26th February
Surgery, Anaesthetics & Medicine are the subjects of a Deanery Visit (now known as Local Education &Training Board) on Friday February 26th.
This Visit has been triggered by the results of last year's @gmcuk GMC National Trainee Survey. Surgery will be looked at by the Core Surgery Programme Director Miss Elizabeth Sharp @HEKSSspeciality
All surgical trainees, CST and HSTs will need to be available between 11 and 12 for an informal discussion with Miss Sharp. I will circulate this information to your departments but you should make preparations to be available. This is your opportunity to share what's good or less than good about your training experience @ASPHFT and what might improve it.
To my dwindling band of Educational Supervisors: it would be tremendously helpful if as many of you as possible could also attend. We all know the hurdles we face finding the time & summoning the energy to train in the current climate - and the acknowledgment, let alone recognition we get for it. Help me make the case for improving the quality and quantity of surgical education @ASPHFT and celebrating the great trainers we have here.
Surgeon Fundraiser of the Week
Max Fax surgeon Alex Creedon is this week sporting half a beard for the Stroke Association @thestrokeassoc
https://www.justgiving.com/alex-creedon
Forthcoming Attractions
Some interesting events coming up @RoySocMed (including the Trauma Symposium starring @ASPHFT surgeons) and @RCSnews
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