Developing surgical skills in gynaecology and obstetrics

Obstetrics and gynaecology is a speciality that encompasses both medicine and surgery, which is one of the common reason people chooses to pursue this specialty. In the United Kingdom (UK), junior doctor can apply to specialty training programme after 2 years of working as foundation doctors. The training programme in the UK takes 7 year and throughout these 7 years, trainees are required to obtain competencies in different aspect of the specialty, including a list of procedures and operations that any obstetrician and gynaecologist is expected to be able to perform independently as a consultant.
Source: Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research