AUGIS member, Tim Underwood, has achieved the notable accolade of becoming the first surgeon to be awarded an Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship by Cancer Research UK. Tim, Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the University of Southampton, trained in London and Read on! →
The BJS Speaker at the Cork meeting in September will be Professor Richard Van Hillegersberg from the University Medical Centre Utrecht. Professor Nigel Heaton, Head of Liver Transplantation at King’s College Hospital and Professor John Reynolds, Professor of Clinical Surgery Read on! →
AUGIS members should start to plan their to journey to Cork for the 20th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting which will be be held at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork from 21 – 22 September. Take a look at the Microsite for more information. Registration is open and we are happy Read on! →
In conjunction with the RCS (Eng), AUGIS has developed guidelines for commissioning services for gallstone and reflux diseases and these were reviewed in the last year. Their aim is to indicate to Commissioners how high-quality services should be configured. Clinical Read on! →
Congratulations to Olga Tucker (lead), Jonathan Weblin, David McWilliams, Laura Nicholson, Peter Nightingale and Abigail Evans with their trial ‘Prehabilitation and rehabilitation in patients undergoing oesophagectomy or total gastectromy – the POGO trial’ which won the very popular Dragon’s Den at Read on! →
All applicants must complete and submit the 2017 AUGIS Travel Fellowship Application Form covering in full the following criteria: Applicant must be an AUGIS/BOMSS Trainee Member (or newly appointed consultant) Detailed plan and purpose of travel / visit Acquisition of skills and Read on! →
An updated AUGIS ‘Provision of Services’ document is now finished and can be seen here – http://www.augis.org/augis-guidelines/ Much hard work has gone into this document and, for the first time, it describes the required Standards of Care for all forms of Upper Read on! →
The Price Thomas Travelling Fellowship, awarded by the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, has opened. This prestigious bursary is open to surgical trainees at ST7 or more senior by May 2017 and to Consultants within 10 years of Read on! →
An upper gastrointestinal fellow position is available in Australia. Trainees will be involved in benign and malignant work as well as trauma work. The position will primarily be at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre but will cross over to both the Read on! →
Registration is open for the 19th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting which will take place at the Royal Armouries Leeds from 22 – 23 September. Delegates can also register for the AUGIS Surgical Training Day on Wednesday, 21 September at St James’ University Hospital. Registration for the Annual Scientific Meeting is for the two Read on! →
