Teaching

• Since 1994 I have been the Surgical Skills Tutor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• In this capacity I have written and developed the mandatory intercollegiate Basic Surgical Skills Course that is now run in about 40 different centres in the UK and throughout the world. This is now in its 3rd Edition.
• I have also developed the Specialist Registrar Skills Course in General Surgery which introduces SpRs to Core Skills in general surgery
• With the assistance of Professor Aluwihare of Sri Lanka I have developed a modular teaching resource for developing countries entitled Introduction to Surgical Skills. This was funded by the Commonwealth of Learning and is now available in 19 different countries including Africa and Asia.
• I have convened and taught on regular surgical skills courses in the UK and am on the Board for the International Workshop for Gastrointestinal Surgery in Davos, Switzerland. I have convened similar workshops and courses in Singapore, Hongkong, Kuala Lumpar, Perth (Australia), Jakarta, Leiden, Johannesberg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Barbados and Lusaka.
• I have been visiting professor to Singapore, Hongkong, Perth Australia for the purposes of teaching both undergraduates and postgraduates.
• I have published several teaching books and over 200 teaching articles in Hospital Update and Surgery
• I previously taught anatomy at Downing and Corpus Christie Colleges in Cambridge, and have continued an interest in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and lecturing