Uob Surgery

FALCON is the NIHR Unit on Global Surgery's first international RCT. It will be testing interventions to reduce wound infection in abdominal surgery.
FALCON has now completed regulatory processes in the UK and we're now working with our partners across 10+ low- and middle-income countries (including Rwanda, Mexico, Ghana, Pakistan, and South Africa) to secure national approvals and get the trial started!

The NIHR Unit on Global Surgery's low/middle income country (LMIC) collaborators scoped and long listed 12 potential research + 12 potential guideline topics for future studies.
Our online voting platform is now open to all LMIC clinicians to take part in short listing the most important topics to collaboratively take forward for development.
Thank you to everyone who has already contributed to prioritising our future research activities - we have had responses from 48 countr...ies! If you haven't done so yet, please help make sure that your country is represented, by completing our survey at: https://bistc.redcap.bham.ac.uk/surveys/? s=WNAH8EF3LX
Thank you for your support!
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The GlobalSurg - The Global Surgical Outcomes Project and NIHR Unit on Global Surgery at the Universities of Birmingham and Edinburgh recently published their most recent international cohort study in Lancet Infectious Disease. A total of 1800 collaborators in 343 centres across 66 countries contributed, with everyone listed as a PubMed citable coauthor: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29452 941
GlobalSurg's next study has just launched. This is looking at the quality of c...olon, gastric, and breast cancer surgery globally. Any hospital in the world is welcome to participate. Data collection is over any 4 week period in April-October 2018.
The protocol is online: http://globalsurg.org/globalsurg-3-protoc ol-project-docume…/
You can find your country lead here: http://globalsurg.org/local-leads-contact / If your country does not yet have a country lead for this project, please get in touch with GlobalSurg!
Further details on how to get involved on the GlobalSurg website: http://globalsurg.org/projects/cohort-stu dies/globalsurg-3/
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Our GlobalSurg - The Global Surgical Outcomes Project study has been published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases today! Congratulations to Ewen Harrison's team in Edinburgh and our collaborative co-authors across the world who have contributed to this important study!
The GlobalSurg-2 study found that people having surgery in low income countries are more likely to develop an infection than those in wealthier nations, have higher antibiotic use and are more likely to be infec...ted with antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Read the full article at: http://www.thelancet.com/…/PIIS1473-309 9(18)30118-X/fulltext
We've had widespread media coverage already including the Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, and BBC - it's great to see global surgery in the spotlight!
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A fantastic Junior Clinical Fellow in Sarcoma Surgery post has been advertised at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the UK's largest sarcoma units.
Interest is invited from individuals at post-FY or post-CT level, with outstanding clinical, operative, and research opportunities available. Please contact Mr Anant Desai (anant.desai@uhb.nhs.uk) for further details.

Our General Surgery Academic Clinical Fellowship at College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham is advertised online on Oriel!
This is a fantastic opportunity to combine core surgical training, with academic training in a general surgery unit with high impact clinical and translational research programmes.
Full job description available on Oriel.
... Please feel free to get in touch if you would like to know more!
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Are you interested in developing #colorectalsurgery devices? If so, take a look at our fully funded PhD studentship at College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham!
Expressions of interest are invited from surgical registrars or senior surgical core trainees for a fully funded PhD studentship within the Academic Department of Surgery at the University of Birmingham. During this 3 year project the PhD student will develop a new device for use in colorectal ...surgery, taking it through design and approvals stages before completing a first-in-man clinical study.
The studentship is funded by an National Institute for Health Research project grant and attracts a full basic clinical salary. The post is available now, and the successful applicant must be in post by April 2018. For further details, please contact Mr Thomas Pinkney, Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery: Thomas.Pinkney@uhb.nhs.uk.
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The next National Research Collaborative Meeting is being held in Birmingham City Centre on 30 Nov 2017, co-hosted by the West Midlands Research Collaborative and STARSurg - Student Audit & Research in Surgery.
All specialties and grades, including medical students are welcome.
The meeting will be free to attend.
... Register for programme and ticket updates at: http://tiny.cc/nrcm
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/634015976 807951/
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Great opportunity for anyone interested in surgery who has completed the Foundation Programme or Core Surgical Training to join our Sarcoma Team as a Junior Clinical Fellow. No specific surgical experience needed. Fantastic training opportunities available. Contact Anant Desai (Anant.Desai@uhb.nhs.uk) or apply online: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/…/57a698908ff76 1b09bdd5330c4d2a393/…

STARSurg - Student Audit & Research in Surgery's DISCOVER study: Obesity and overweight is associated with higher complication rates after surgery for GI and liver malignancy; however, there is no significant difference seen in benign disease
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d…/10.10 02/bjs.10203/abstract

Report in Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology:
The UK's surgical trainee collaboratives have outperformed the NIHR CRN, with 99% (238 of 241) surgical units having participated in at least one trainee collaborative study.
In future can collaboratives work more closely with the CRNs to ensure all patients are able to participate in research?
... http://www.thelancet.com/…/PIIS2468-125 3(17)30033-X/fulltext
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The latest Globalsurg - The Global Surgical Outcomes Project paper in BMJ Global Health has identified a x7 higher risk of death for children who undergo emergency surgery in low income countries compared to high income countries.
Read the full study results online: http://gh.bmj.com/content/1/4/e000091
... Great work supported by UoB Surgery at College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
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Right Iliac Fossa Pain Treatment (RIFT) is the latest study run by the West Midlands Research Collaborative. They are looking for regional leads, local leads and collaborators across the UK.
Do you want to be involved in a national study looking at the management of RIF pain and appendicitis in adults and children?
If you are interested, please email RIFTstudy@gmail.com or visit http://wmresearch.org.uk

Data from the CholeS-WMRC national prospective study across 166 centres has been used for an economic analysis in the British Journal of Surgery.
Emergency cholecystectomy is less costly and more effective than delayed cholecystectomy.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.100 2/bjs.10317/full

CholeS - collaborative study led by Ewen Griffiths, Ravi Vohra, Paul Marriott and the West Midlands Research Collaborative.
National prospective cohort of almost 9000 cholecystectomies across 166 centres.
Findings published in Europe's top surgical journal British Journal of Surgery, with all collaborators included as co-authors.
... The article recommends that repeat acute admissions without prompt surgery should be avoided...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27561 954
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If you are a ST3/4 surgery trainee looking for a basic science PhD, then get in touch with us to find out about opportunities to join our soft tissue sarcoma research team!
College of Medical and Dental Sciences | University of Birmingham Medical School

We have advertised for an ACF in General Surgery and an ACF in Otolaryngology, both starting in August 2017 at the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham. These are fantastic opportunities to join dynamic and high impact surgical units as a junior surgical trainee. The application deadline is 7 November 2016. Job descriptions are available on the Oriel application system. For further information please see the NIHR website (http://www.nihr.ac.uk/fun…/academic-cl inical-fellowships.htm) or message us!

Birmingham trainees' letter on importance of pan-European surgical collaboration was published in The Lancet this week: http://www.thelancet.com/…/PIIS0140-673 6(16)31151-5/fulltext