Get Involved With RCS Activities
| College role or activity | Further details | Contact |
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| Cardiothoracic surgery specialty Update | We are recruiting new advisors for the Cardiothoracic Surgery Specialty Update. Fellows and members from all career grades can apply, we aim to represent members at all levels so that the content is relevant to everyone. | updates@rcseng.ac.uk |
| 2020 challenge events | A sporting challenge could not only help you to improve your fitness, the money you will raise will help us maintain and improve surgical care for patients through our state of the art training and pioneering research. If you would like to take part in a new challenge in 2020, have a look at our calendar of challenge events and opportunities. | fundraising@rcseng.ac.uk |
| Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology volunteers | We are looking for experts to volunteer their time to help select specimens for display in the new Wellcome Anatomy and Pathology Museum. The area will be open to trainees, members and other medical and allied health professionals for use in study and teaching. It will display specimens from the museum anatomy and pathology collections, including potted fluid preserved prosections, plastinated prosections, corrosions casts and skeletal material. The anatomy and pathology teaching museum is currently closed until 2021. | museums@rcseng.ac.uk |
| Regional Director | We are currently recruiting Regional Directors to act as our lead representatives for local members. If you are based in the East of England, North East London, North West, Kent and Surrey, we want to hear from you. Apply before Friday 13 March 2020. | jcowling@rcseng.ac.uk Outreach Manager (South) |
| Judges needed for the Are you cut out for it? Surgical skills final | We are looking for T&O, Plastic and General surgeons to judge the top CT2 pairs from each UK region as they go head to head in the final of our national Surgical skills competition on Saturday 14 March in London. If you are interested, please contact us to get involved. | jcowling@rcseng.ac.uk Outreach Manager (South) |
| Fellowships, awards and grants | We offer a wide range of research fellowships, awards, grants and lectureships to support all career stages, from medical students through to consultants working in university departments and hospitals throughout the UK and abroad, enhancing our surgical research aims and ambitions. | research@rcseng.ac.uk |
| Education Faculty | Education course faculty take part in teaching courses, and their contributions and feedback are used to develop and update the courses. |
020 7869 6300 |
| College Assessor | RCS assessors of the Advisory Appointments Committee play an important role in ensuring the fair and transparent appointment of consultants. | 020 7405 3474 collegereps@rcseng.ac.uk |
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Course Director |
The course directors take responsibility for the running of courses in collaboration with the education teams. |
020 7869 6300 |
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Publications article author or peer reviewer |
RCS welcomes contributions for its key journals, Bulletin, Annals and FDJ |
020 7869 6167 020 7869 6167 |
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Surgical Tutor |
Being a Surgical Tutor includes providing information and advice for those interested in a career in surgery. |
020 7869 6205 |
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Volunteers for careers events |
RCS opportunities in surgery team and the Hunterian Museum support a series of events that promote surgical careers. These can involve making presentations and teaching suturing to students. |
020 7869 6217 020 8969 6560 |
| Clinical Leads | Clinical leads are seconded from their NHS trust to undertake a quality improvement and faculty coordination role for a portfolio of courses, or manage a specific project based around a portfolio or area of expertise. |
020 7869 6300 |
| Lay Trustee | Lay members of the Board of Trustees are responsible for ensuring that RCS complies with its governing documents, charity law, company law, HMRC regulations, accounting standards, employment law and any other relevant legislation and/or regulations. |
Elizabeth Anderson: |
| Regional Specialty Professional Adviser | Regional Specialty Professional
Advisers (RSPAs) provide specialty advice to
the Regional Directors concerning delivery of surgical
services to support local projects reflecting RCS priorities.
They also consider and approve consultant job descriptions. |
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| Hunterian Museum volunteers | The Hunterian Museum is currently closed until 2021. We will be renewing our volunteer programme alongside the redevelopment of the new museum. Please contact us to register an interest in future involvement. |
020 7869 6560 |
| Make a Charitable Donation | RCS is very grateful to all of our charitable donors and sponsors, as without their continued support this work would not be possible. | fundraising@rcseng.ac.uk |