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🧵for new residents and students: Over the last year, I've done 9 threads on different suture materials. Included here are links to each of these. I'll leave this 'pinned' for now. They are: Prolene, silk, Vicryl, PDS, Ethibond, Nylon, Monocryl, Chromic, and barbed sutures.

Join us tomorrow morning for Breakfast Academy at #ASGBI2024 ⭐️ST3 National Selection ⭐️FRCS Vivas ⭐️Careers in transplant Set your alarms ⏰

🧵 showing just *some* of the things that surgical trainees going to the #ASGBI2024 can sign up to practice on (for free), mostly in real tissue models. Here is a trainee doing a vascular patch graft on a pig aorta that will then made pulsatile to check for leaks. (1/ )

Busy morning at the #ASGBI2024 Training village….! ASGBI Visit Belfast

The legends that are Ron Barbosa MD FACS & Koch (Michael Okocha) #ASGBI2024 ASGBI

Chesterfield reunion with Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS & Mr Tim White teaching small bowel anastomosis ASGBI #ASGBI2024

Fantastic to have Heston and the David Nott Foundation running an abdominal trauma workshop at #ASGBI2024 ASGBI

Laparoscopic repair of a perf DU✅ CR resection ✅ splenectomy ✅ Massive thanks from ASGBI to our SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! faculty and Adam Peckham-Cooper #ASGBI2024

With as much sincerity as one can muster on social media, I have to say that meeting Ammar Darwish was the highest honor & a true pleasure. The David Nott Foundation is a beacon of hope in a messy world. Stay tuned to BehindTheKnife for a conversation with this hero.

Another plug for our abdo wall training survey please 🙏🏽 Your responses will hopefully allow us to assess where the training gaps are. bit.ly/AWRsurvey #ASGBI2024 #AWR ASGBI

Thanks to everyone at ASGBI for a wonderful congress #ASGBI2024 Visit Belfast

Horus has unironically shared this poem as an example of a good reflection and I genuinely do not know if it’s satire

Neoadjuvant treatment of colorectal cancer comprehensive review ➡️doi.org/10.1093/bjsope… Neoadjuvant treatment for colon and rectal cancer continues to evolve. This comprehensive review summarizes the current guidance for neoadjuvant treatment and the promising avenues for

🧵announcing the first Ron Barbosa MD FACS *prospective* study. In this experiment we will examine 10 different sutures in a chicken model to determine which ones will remain intact longer than the current UK government. 🇬🇧 The methods will be briefly described here. ⬇️ (1/)

Achieved fame at last! I’m on an episode of BehindTheKnife! I was even allowed to say “Dominate the Day” at the end. Thanks to everyone at BTK. Such a lovely group of people. open.spotify.com/episode/0fgqrc…

General Surgery Selection 2025! Select your future colleagues at *in person* shortlisting 27/28 Jan – register at: bit.ly/48uJQGW, and by volunteering to interview 17-19 March – register at: bit.ly/3NKSfw6 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh The Royal College of Surgeons of England Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow CoPSS ASGBI NHS England Workforce, Training and Education

Thanks to our speakers Nick Watson and Alan Askari for an informative and insightful webinar on ST3 selection😉 Faiza H Soomro Michael Wong Pin down all the key dates🗓️🚨, and Good luck to all ST3 candidates going for interviews in 2025!

Are you a practicing consultant keen to get involved in helping to shape our profession? Can you assist with the 2025 General Surgery ST3 national selection? There are opportunities to participate in both the shortlisting days (in person) and interviews (remote) and you can

With the ASGBI meeting taking place in Edinburgh, it is prudent to revisit my previous 🧵on the deaths in the movie 'Braveheart'. As you may recall, the goal was to estimate how many deaths were preventable if trauma surgical care was available in Scotland at the time. (1/)

🚨 More big news! 🚨 We’re delighted to welcome Mr Nick Watson as the new ASGBI Director of Education and Training! A Consultant Surgeon and experienced national leader in surgical education, Nick brings expertise from his roles with the General Surgery SAC (Vice Chair from