Webinar: Transitioning to the Specialty Doctor role 

Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors play a very important role in the NHS. As part of our commitment to support SAS doctors, Dr Vinita Shekar, specialty doctor and RCS council member, will be chairing this free webinar designed to provide guidance to junior trainees in their transition to become specialty doctors.

The panel will be providing information on:
• contracts and job planning;
• applying for specialist registration via Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) route;
• appraisals;
• what a clinical lead and a specialty doctor can expect from each other;
• support and study funds;
• using Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme (ISCP).

Tune into our webinar to help you maximise your potential and exceed in your future career as a specialty doctor.

Don’t miss the opportunity to ask the panel your own questions at the end of the webinar in a Q&A session. 

This webinar is part of our webinar series, all of our past webinars are available to watch online. This is one of the many webinar topics requested by our members and social media followers. If you have any suggestions for future webinar topics please get in touch. 

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Visit our surgical care team hub

Over the last year, we have developed new guidance and an associate membership scheme so that we can better patient care and ultimately benefit the whole surgical team.

Our surgical care team hub seeks to guide you through the various posts in the team and to provide insight and access to our wide range of resources and development opportunities.

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Not a member? Join as an associate member today! 

Joining as an associate member of the RCS will enable you to join a growing professional community of more than 25,000 surgeons and trainees across the UK and internationally. We value your input and opinions and want to work with you to shape the RCS and ultimately be the home of surgery. 

Free webinars like this are one of our many associate membership benefits. You could receive access to careers advice, case studies and resources, 10% discount on a range of education courses, plus many more opportunities to develop and grow within your career. Find out more and join today to receive a 50% discounted membership rate.

Speakers to be announced.