Surgical trainer roles should be reserved for the best consultants, college says

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Only the best consultants should take up surgical trainer roles, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has said, as it launched a set of standards for consultant surgical trainers across the UK, developed by its Faculty of Surgical Training. Many aspects of the current surgical training system were outdated and must be changed to safeguard standards and ensure the safety of patients, the college said. Speaking to The BMJ , Craig McIlhenny, the faculty’s surgical director, said, “Training at the moment by surgeons and for surgeons is really a default position. When you become …