The posts available for election include:

• Secretary
• Abdominal Wall representative
• Advanced cancer and peritoneal malignancy representative
• Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) representative
• Education and Training representative
• Emergency General Surgery (EGS) representative
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Intestinal Failure (IF) representative
• JAG and Colonoscopy representative
• Research and Audit representative
• The Pelvic Floor Society representative
• Procotology representative
• Webmaster and Social Media Representative

Applications for more than one post are acceptable. All applications will be anonymised and put to the membership to vote after 2/10/2024. Voting will remain open until 16/10/2024 midnight.

To be eligible, applicants must be:

• Training grade doctor
• Dukes’ Club / ACPGBI Associate Member

To apply, please send the following details to president@thedukesclub.org.uk

• Name, ACPGBI Membership number, contact details including email & phone number

• 200-word anonymous personal statement. This should include your vision for the role and may include skills, attributes, previous experience, etc.

All applications will be reviewed centrally by the Dukes’ Club Secretary to ensure adherence to requirements. Applications will be anonymised by removal of all personal identifiers (name, email address, ACPGBI membership number).

For any further enquiries please email c.el-sayed@nhs.net.

We are accepting applications for The Dukes’ Club for the following roles:

• Abdominal Wall Representative
• Advanced Cancer & Peritoneal Malignancy Representative
• Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) Representative
• Education & Training Representative
• Emergency General Surgery Representative
• JAG & Colonoscopy (Endoscopy) Representative
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease & Intestinal Failure Representative
• Research & Audit Representative
• Robotics Representative
• The Pelvic Floor Society Representative
• Proctology Representative
• Secretary
• Webmaster and social media

The generic and specific responsibilities of each role are outlined in the role specific documents and Constitution found at https://www.thedukesclub.org.uk/about/constitution/

In brief, each role is held for 1 year and the successful applicant will be expected to engage with The Dukes’ Club and relevant ACPGBI/external organisation committees to further interests of colorectal trainees in the UK and Ireland.

Criteria

• Training grade doctor
• Dukes’ Club / ACPGBI Associate Member

To apply, please send the following details to president@thedukesclub.org.uk

• Name, ACPGBI Membership number, contact details including email & phone number
• 200-word anonymous personal This should include your vision for the role and may include skills, attributes, previous experience, etc.

Review Process

All applications will be reviewed centrally by the Dukes’ Club Secretary to ensure adherence to requirements. Applications will be anonymised by removal of all personal identifiers (name, email address, ACPGBI membership number). Anonymised applications will be put to an online vote of all current Dukes’ Club members from 2nd October – 8th October 2023. Successful applicants will be informed thereafter.

Imperial College, London.

The closing date is 11 August 2022

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3 funded PhDs in colorectal surgery are coming up at Imperial College, London starting in April – projects in colorectal cancer, microbiome and pelvic floor.

On calls in general surgery at Charing Cross Hospital.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/MED02852/clinical-research-fellow-x-3

For questions about the job, contact:

As events continue to unfold in the conflict in Ukraine, we would like to express our support for those affected by the crisis. Further information and support can be found at:

• RCSEd and AoMRC Statement on the Ukraine Crisis and its impact on healthcare workers
• Royal College of Surgeons of England message of solidarity to the people of Ukraine
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Statement on Ukraine
• A message to all Ukrainian health and care staff in the UK from Secretary of State

Our website’s Covid 19 section also has signposts to wellbeing support.

The paper is available to view here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/codi.15584

Abstract

Colorectal surgeons across the UK currently undertake a large proportion of routine diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy in most NHS Trusts. Meanwhile, the new UK General Surgical curriculum now includes an indicative requirement of 200 diagnostic colonoscopies for surgical trainees who have declared a colorectal subspecialty interest (hereafter termed ‘colorectal trainees’), indicating the JCST’s (Joint Committee on Surgical Training) commitment to colonoscopy training. However, several studies have reported a marked deficiency in colonoscopy training opportunities and accreditation for surgical trainees compared with gastroenterology trainees.

Please provide your nomination details here by 28 February 2021

A narrative of the contributions of 30 of these extraordinary surgeons will be released every day from March 2021

The Dukes’ Club Weekend 2020

We have provisionally rearranged the Annual Dukes’ Club Weekend to the 27-29th November 2020 at the Nottingham Belfry Hotel. All refunds for the April weekend have been processed through Eventbrite.

We will continue to monitor the evolving situation with regards to Coronavirus COVID-19 and will continue to work with and seek guidance from the ACPGBI council.

We have decided to permanently move the Annual Dukes’ Weekend to a winter event to better align ourselves strategically with other courses and conferences which may be of value and interest to our members.

The Dukes’ Club Executive Committee

The tenure of the current committee will be extended by 6 months to November 2020. Miss Deena Harji will formally hand over to Mr Peter Vaughan-Shaw in November 2020. A new committee will be elected in keeping with our constitution in November 2020 and will be in post till November 2021.

Dukes/Intuitive Robotic Travelling Fellowships

Given the recent limitations on international travel we will not be offering the Dukes/Intuitive Robotic Travelling Fellowships until the restrictions on travel are lifted.

The Dukes’ Club Virtual Educational Strategy

The Dukes’ Club is committed to delivering high quality educational content to all its members. We will be launching our virtual educational strategy in June 2020 to deliver high quality, online, interactive educational content to our members.

We would like to thank the ACPGBI, our sponsors, faculty members for The Dukes’ Club weekend and The Dukes’ Club 2019/20 executive committee for their support and commitment during these uncertain times. We would encourage our trainees to stand together in our collective response to this unprecedented situation. We will continue to work with our collaborative partners, including ACPGBI and ASiT on ensuring the most up to date information is available to our trainees.

Miss Deena Harji, President
Mr Peter Vaughan-Shaw, Vice President
Mr Henry Ferguson, Past President