ASiT Silver Scalpel Award 2012

Swann-Morton have again Sponsored this years Silver Scalpel Award to be presented at the 2012 Congress of the Association of Surgeons in Training to be held  at Cardiff City Hall from the 23rd -25th March inclusive.

Six Silver Scalpel nominees have now been independently selected by a panel of trainees according to a template developed by Mr David O'Regan, Past President of ASiT. There have been a record number of 29 applicants - all of whom showed fantastic standards of surgical training and humbling levels of commitment.
 
Interviews will be undertaken by pairs of ASiT Council members of a different speciality interest and not having been trained personally by them - with findings sent again for independent adjudication involving all 4 President's of the Royal Surgical Colleges and the Chief Medical Officer.
 
For the first time all shortlisted Silver Scalpel Award nominees have been invited to the ASiT 2012 Conference in Cardiff. The winner will be announced at the Silver Scalpel Award ceremony during the Gala dinner on the 24th of March 2012.

Further Information

Please contact info@asit.org for further information on the SSA.

More information on the background to this award can be read in the recent article in Surgeons' News from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh:

http://archive2.surgeonsnews.info/content/content.aspx?ID=802