Abstract
The Intercollegiate Basic Surgical Skills (BSS) course is approaching the end of a second decade of teaching and assessing basic skills for junior surgical trainees.1 BSS has rapidly become part of the fabric of UK and Irish surgical training and has gained wide recognition internationally, with versions being adopted in training schemes across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central America and the antipodes.2–5 Trainers see improvements in assisting and operating skills when trainees complete BSS and this has been confirmed by research.6–8
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