ISTG Careers Day and Aspiring Surgeons Research Symposium took place on November 9th 2024 in a packed College Hall at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. The wide variety of talks from the Training Programme Directors touched on all subspecialities and aspects of surgical training in Ireland. The ISTG committee would like to give a
Silver Scalpel Award 2023
Congratulations to Mr. Denis Collins, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital on being awarded the ISTG 2023 Silver Scalpel Award. The award is approaching its third decade, and is a longstanding event in the Irish surgical training calendar. Each year, the trainee body nominate and vote for a consultant trainer in recognition of their
Congratulations to Our Careers Day 2022 Prize Winners!
Careers Day 2022 is officially over. A huge congratulations to our Prize Winners – Kaylem Feeney, for his excellent oral presentation “Outcomes following Tibiotalocalcaneal Arthrodesis with a Posterior Offset Intramedullary Hindfoot Arthodesis Nail” and Gráinne Keehan for her poster on “A Single Centre Experience of Infective Endocarditis during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. A massive thank you
ISTG 2022/23 – Upcoming roles & responsibilities
The following roles are available for the 2022/2023 ISTG committee. If you are interested in applying for any of these roles, please forward a personal statement as to why you are suitable for the role to info@ISTG.ie. Please make sure to mention the role for which you are applying, and we look forward to hearing
President’s Update – 14th December 2021
Presidents Update 14th December, 2021 Dear Trainees and Trainers, As we approach the halfway mark for the academic year, I would like to provide an update of the activities of the ISTG committee to date and outline our plans for the year ahead. Our annual Careers Day and Aspiring Surgeon Research Symposium took place virtually