The Current Standard of Foot and Ankle Fellowship in the UK

Highlights • Detailed definition of current standard of training in Foot & Ankle Surgery during Fellowship in the UK. • Evidence from data in the study to base a recommendation for the acceptable standard for a F&A Fellowship. • Fellows are overall satisfied. • Fellows receive a broad experi...

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Published in:Foot and ankle surgery 2018-12, Vol.24 (6), p.514-516
Main Authors: Brown, R, Akimau, P, Hsuan, J, Williams, T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ankle
Fellowships
Fellowships and Scholarships - standards
Foot
Foot & Ankle
Humans
Operative experience
Orthopedics
Orthopedics - education
Orthopedics - standards
Surgical education
Surveys and Questionnaires
Training
United Kingdom
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Summary:Highlights • Detailed definition of current standard of training in Foot & Ankle Surgery during Fellowship in the UK. • Evidence from data in the study to base a recommendation for the acceptable standard for a F&A Fellowship. • Fellows are overall satisfied. • Fellows receive a broad experience of different areas of F&A surgery. • Fellows are actively involved in Education. • Fellows are being under utilised in F&A research. • F&A Surgical Education is the first orthopaedic sub-specialty to review the quality of their Fellowships in an attempt to bring this final essential stage of training up to a uniform standard and then to start to raise that standard.
ISSN:1268-7731
1460-9584
DOI:10.1016/j.fas.2017.06.001