Trainee Section
Ran Wei is a ST8 in South West London with an interest in Knee Surgery. He is currently the President of BOTA and represents trainees on a number of issues, including diversity and inclusion in T&O surgery.
The future of orthopaedic training: diversity and education Ran Wei, Kathryn Dayananda and Oliver Adebayo
Kathryn Dayananda is a Specialty Trainee on the Welsh rotation currently working in Cardiff. She was elected this year as the Women in Surgery Representative for BOTA in 2019. Kathryn’s experiences working abroad and her ambition to be a representative voice for all has led to her involvement with the BOA D&I Strategy Group as well as with BHS Culture Working Group.
Oliver Adebayo is an ST5 trainee on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital rotation in North, East and Central London Deanery. He is currently the BOTA webmaster. He has a passion for global surgery and is a founding member and on the committee for the Global Anaesthesia, Surgical and Obstetric Collaboration, a trainee advocacy group for global surgery since 2015. He has a MSc from Imperial in Surgical Innovation and has a keen interest in quality improvement, education, digital transformation and clinical UX.
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Over the last few years, BOTA have utilised our flagship session at the BOA Annual Congress to tackle issues such as bullying in surgical training, barriers to surgical training and the attributes of excellent surgical trainers. The success of our sessions has relied on engaging content as well as its interactive delivery. It was clear from our first BOTA Committee meeting in January 2020 that our main focus this year would be Culture and Diversity / Inclusion in T&O training.
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e assumed that our biggest challenge would be to create engaging and thought-provoking content. What we had not anticipated was a global pandemic. Needless to say, the decision to deliver BOA’s Annual Congress over a virtual platform resulted in a few sleepless nights. This new mode of delivery made gauging audience engagement extremely difficult. In a bid to overcome this we employed the Q&A function of the GoToWebinar platform as well as social media channels. We titled the session ‘The Future of Orthopaedic Training: Diversity & Education’. The Committee unanimously agreed that both culture and diversity / inclusion as well as simulation in T&O education were important areas to explore, irrespective of, but especially in the wake of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
We aimed to cultivate discussions regarding these important issues both during and after our session. Our team utilised Twitter (#FutureOfOrthopaedics) to achieve this. A recording of the session has been made available by the BOA for viewing on their website at: https://www.boa.ac.uk/liverecordings. Please check it out if you were unable to attend the live session, using the QR code reader.
