COVID

Important to improve how COVID has positively impacted your training.

Negative impact:

• Reduced operating (how have you made up for this? What are your plans to minimise impact?)
• Reduced elective exposure, clinics/theatre. Talk about how you have made up for this e.g. self arranged to attend clean sites.
• Cancellation of teaching (talk about other educational opportunities e.g. podcasts, journals, webinars/virtual teaching).
• Cancellation of in person conferences (talk about how you attended virtual conferences)

Postive impact:

• Redeployed and therefore improved communication with other teams
• Learnt other skills outside of the operating theatre
• Time for other activities e.g. research, teaching, mentorship.

Important to consider:

Patients on waiting list:

• Need access to analgesia and physiotherapy
• Need to prioritise

Increasing capacity:

• Private operating network
• Attend extra theatre sessions
• Increase theatre efficiency, have you done an audit?
• GIRFT – High volume low complexity initiative