Dear All
Please see below a couple more projects from BOTA, great audit and some prizes to be won!
Would be great to get more people from EoE involved in these and they an easy win for your CV/ARCP.
Thanks Ross
BOTA Census 2016 – http://www.bota.org.uk/bota-census-2016/
Are you happy with your training? What would you change to make your training experience better? Are you getting sufficiently high quality training opportunities?
In order for us, as trainees, to be empowered to improve T&O training, we need evidence of how we feel about the current status quo; to this end, BOTA are launching The BOTA Census. It is a survey like no other. Unlike the GMC Trainee Survey and the JCST trainee survey, we do not ask for any personal information that can identify you. We provide complete anonymity, to say what you really think about the important issues relating to training. This is a unique opportunity to share how you honestly feel about everything, from operative experience to the ARCP process.
The BOTA Census is highly detailed and probes the major issues relating to our professional lives. In order for trainees to shed light on what is working well and what needs to change, we need your participation. It takes 20 minutes or less to complete and we promise you that real change will be canvassed for once the results are collated.
If that still oesn’t convince you to fill it in, there’s more! All those that complete The BOTA Census will be entered into a prize draw. The prize is to have your FRCS (Tr & Orth) paid for by BOTA (or monetary equivalent, if you prefer).
The deadline to complete The BOTA Census is 1st September at 23:59.POTS Audit – http://www.bota.org.uk/bota-bone-paediatric-orthopaedic-trauma-snapshot-pots/
With the roaring success of the BONE / BOTA Lost Tribe audit project (221 collaborators in 101 hospitals), BOTA is launching our 2nd national audit project, the Paediatric Orthopaedic Trauma Snapshot (POTS). POTS aims to identify what paediatric Orthopaedic trauma is treated surgically in the UK over the course of a week, and audit the surgical management of paediatric supracondylar fractures of the distal humerus.
Like the Lost Tribe project, which will be presented at the BOA Congress (podium), SICOT conference (poster), and about to be submitted for publication (with all collaborators as named co-first authors!), the POTS audit project will also run on an equal equity basis. That means that if you participate in the project and submit data, you will be a named co-first author on any presentations and publications that inevitably result from such a large multi-centre study. Additionally, like The Lost Tribe audit project, we have made the data collection extremely simple.
BOTA/Elsevier Essay Prize – deadline End of August 2016
Please see flyer attached: this year’s title is ‘The Future of Trauma Care’. In conjunction with ‘Orthopaedics and Trauma’ Journal, 1st prize will be £100 worth of Elsevier book vouchers, a year’s free subscription to the journal and the essay will be published in the journal too.
BOTA and Orthopaedics and Trauma Trainee Essay Prize 2016.pdf