The Silver Scalpel is awarded to a consultant trainer for their outstanding contributions to surgical training, as voted for by trainees. Each year, the prize winner is celebrated at a ceremony and dinner at the Royal College of Surgeons.

This year's winner is Prof Paul Ridgway, a consultant upper GI, HPB and General Surgeon at Tallaght University Hospital. He is an associate professor at Trinity College Dublin and has a research interest in performance in Surgery.

This podcast was recorded during the ISTG Charter Week session on fellowship updates.

The Irish Surgical Training Group have collaborated with RCSI to create a new bursary for post-CCST trainees embarking on fellowship. Find more details here
https://istg.ie/home/fellowship-grant/

Ms Helen Mohan (@HelenMohan1) is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the Director of Research at the International Medical Robotics Academy (IMRA).

Ms Mohan is the 2021 RCSI PROGRESS fellowship recipient and completed an advanced cancer fellowship in pelvic exenteration, peritoneal disease and robotic surgery at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne, followed by a further colorectal clinical and academic fellowship at Austin Health, Melbourne.

PROGRESS Women in Surgery Fellowship
https://www.rcsi.com/surgery/training/fellowship-opportunities/progress-women-in-surgery-fellowship

Mr Michael Flanagan (ST7 General and Colorectal Surgery) and Mr Robert O’Connell (ST HPB/General Surgery) took part in the Atlantic Surgical Leadership Exchange Programme 2023/2024. They recount their experiences in Vietnam at the Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam in Trauma, Colorectal and Hepatobiliary surgery.

Atlantic Surgical Leadership Exchange Programme
https://www.rcsi.com/surgery/global-surgery/education

This episode was recorded with Professor Calvin Coffey at the Sylvester O'Halloran perioperative symposium in Limerick in March 2024.

The Sylvester O'Halloran symposium was founded in 1992 and is an important date in the calendar for Irish and International surgical research.

Read more about Prof Calvin Coffey and the Sylvester O'Halloran meeting here

https://www.ul.ie/hri/person/hri-member/prof-calvin-coffey

https://soh.isrs.ie/?page_id=1064