Competancies

Question 1

What are the 10 competencies?

Answer 1

Judgement 
Medical expertise
Technical expertise 
Communication 
Collaboration
Leadership
Professionalism
Health advocacy
Cultural sensitivity
Scholarship and teaching

Question 2

What’s clinical judgement?

Answer 2

Appropriate, well considered plans that are patient centred

Question 3

What’s medical expertise?

Answer 3

Breadth and depth of clinical knowledge for surgical conditions and perioperative care

Question 4

What’s technical expertise?

Answer 4

Excellence in operating ability.

Continual improvement and refinement of technical skill

Question 5

What’s communication?

Answer 5

Clear, concise communication.
Patient centred discussions.
Effective closed loop communication in teams.
Clear, calm and composed under pressure.
Actively listening and facilitating exchange of ideas

Question 6

What’s collaboration?

Answer 6

Working well within teams to achieve unified goals, creating shared mental models for individual and all patients. Caring for all team members.

Being respectful, professional, supportive and approachable.

Listening to and considering different opinions. Effective conflict resolution.

Question 7

What’s the leadership competancy

Answer 7

Models good leadership,
sets goals and effective strategy to achieve these.

Delegates appropriately. Has alternative plans to counter challenges.

Invests in team members and works to develop individual skills and attributes.

Question 8

Professionalism

Answer 8

Timely, organised, respectful and kind. Clear communication, works as an effective team member and leader. Is approachable.

Question 9

Health advocacy

Answer 9

Empowers patients to improve health in surgical domains and beyond.

Engages with wider medical community to improve patient care.

Facilitates preventable medicine.

Supports wider health infrastructure and policy.

Question 10

Cultural sensitivity

Answer 10

Is aware of broad and differing cultural needs, expectations and norms. Respects differences in different patient groups.

Engages with cultural liaison officer to support care of varied patient groups.

Willingness to learn about and teach team to use appropriate practise for specific conditions in specific cultural groups.

Question 11

Scholarship and teaching

Answer 11

Continually strives for improvement in ones medical and technical expertise and clinical judgement. Fosters a culture of teaching in daily practise and engages in teaching beyond daily practise