What is the status of surgical number requirements for trainees in Ophthalmic Specialist Training?
The surgical numbers mentioned in the study guide and the Guide to the Delivery of OST are indicative minimum numbers for trainees to achieve during OST. As such they are intended to give some idea of how many cases the average trainee is likely to need to do to achieve an acceptable standard of surgery. Some trainees may learn quicker and some may be slower, and no-one will suffer by doing more! Competence should be judged on a triangulated basis, taking into account sequential OSATS assessments, audit (very important), supervisors’ reports and logbook (including case-mix).
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