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May inform surgical training pathways for MRCS holders; leaves open need for outcome data on career impact.
Senior house officers with membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) who want to benefit from a structured research programme. It's popular among those hoping to do orthopaedics, plastic surgery, or general surgery. It is a full time 12 month taught programme consisting of a series of lectures for about two months, followed by laboratory based research for the remaining time. Most candidates do the course after completing their basic surgical rotation and MRCS and before applying for a specialist registrar post. To get experience of doing original research without having to worry about funding and grants. As it is for one year it is intensive, but the advantage is that you are out of mainstream surgery for only a year. The course starts in …
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Claire Middleton (2006) studied this question.
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