Acute Surgical Unit receives NSLHD Quality Improvement Award.

The Acute Surgical Unit (ASU) at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) was the “Local Solutions”  winner in the 2019 Northern Sydney Local Health District Quality and Improvement Awards for the project titled —  ‘Better managing gastrointestinal surgery”. Congratulations to Olivia Kirkland and team. Prior to the establishment of the ASU, the large number of emergency …

International Clinical Trials Day @RNSH2019

The SERT Institute was a sponsor of the RNSH 2019 Clinical trials day. The Department of Surgery was well represented. Special thanks go to Linda Pallot (RNSH Vascular, Surgery) and Rebeka Tenant (Manager, Research Strategy and Partnerships, NSLHD).  [ngg src=”galleries” display=”pro_mosaic”] 

The history of surgical teaching at the University of Sydney

The first medical students entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1883.  At this time, Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart (1856–1920), a 26-year-old recent graduate of the University of Edinburgh, was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology and charged with organising the surgical teaching program.  As it is today, surgery was a …

Reshaping the critical role of surgeons in oncology research

In a recent paper published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, an international team of prominent surgeons examined the barriers to conducting research faced by contemporary trainees and practising surgeons. “Over the past decade … concerns have been raised about a global decline in the number of surgeons performing basic science research alongside clinical activity – so-called …