Trainee surgeons want JCST fee to be covered by royal colleges

Abstract

The Association of Surgeons in Training has called for the UK royal surgical colleges to incorporate the cost of the Joint Committee on Surgical Training fee into their membership fees. In a letter the association has asked the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England to make the change. The Joint Committee on Surgical Training advises the four surgical royal colleges of the UK and Ireland on all matters relating to surgical training. Surgical trainees pay the fee to …