Surgical Trainee Clinical Activity Analysis

Permanent staff working in the T&O department were included in the final analysis, excluding those doctors providing cross-cover from other specialities for on-call sessions, and locum doctors whom work a variable number of sessions (Fig. 2). Core Surgical Trainees’ clinical activity categories was compared to non-core surgical trainees in two cohort groups (Table 2). Median, 10th and 90th centile values were used for descriptive statistics due to the skewness of this non-parametric data. Using SPSS v22 software (IBM, Armonk, USA), independent samples median test was used to determine statistical significance between these two groups for each clinical activity category. For comparison between CST doctors and non-CST doctors, regarding training versus non-training activities, Chi-squared test was used. A significance level of <0.05 was set.Fig. 2

Flowchart demonstrating Cohort groups, split into Core surgical trainees, non-core surgical Trainees, and non-permanent doctors. CT1 = Core trainee year 1, CT2 = Core trainee year 2, CT3 = Core trainee year 3, ST1 = Specialist trainee year 1, ST2, = Specialist trainee year 2, ST3 = Specialist trainee year 3, FY1 = Foundation doctor year 1, FY2 = Foundation doctor year 2, LAT = Locum appointment for training, LAS = Locum appointment for service, TGD = Trust grade doctor, GPT = General practice trainee, NST = Other non-surgical trainee, AHP = Allied healthcare professional, CDF = Clinical development fellow, RF = Research fellow, LOC = Locum doctor, CC = Cross-cover doctor