RACS ASC 2026

Research Papers

Scientific Session

Scientific Session

3:30 pm

02 May 2026

Meeting Room M9

Disciplines

Surgical Education

Chairs

Professor And Lt. Col. Steven Jeffery
Medical Director of Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres
United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Session Program

3:30 pm

Balancing Training Quality and Well-Being in Part-Time General Surgery Training Pathways

Dr Tess Howard (Victoria)

3:42 pm

Surgical Subspecialty Interest, Early Exposure, Mentorship, and Barriers among Australian and New Zealand Medical Students - Preliminary Results from an ANZ Survey

Mr Daksh Tyagi (ACT)

3:54 pm

From Simulation to Scalpel: The Evolution of Microsurgical Training and Simulation

Dr Nikita Bhatt (VIC)

4:06 pm

Online work based assessments for Otolaryngology trainees. For better or worse?

Dr Alice Stringer (Aotearoa New Zealand)

4:18 pm

Rural General Surgical Education in Australia: Current Practice and Evidence Gaps

Dr Baneen Alrubayi (VIC)

4:30 pm

Development of a Novel Low-Cost, Readily Accessible Simulator for Training Grommet Insertion

Dr Telvinderjit Singh Harbhajan Singh (NT)

4:42 pm

A narrative review of mandatory research during specialty training: Opportunity for parallel frameworks

Dr Nicholas McIntosh (Auckland)

4:54 pm

Perioperative Outcomes in Breast Surgery, A Comparison of Trainee and Consultant Primary Operators

Dr Chaithanya Jeganathan (WA)

5:06 pm

Early Post-operative Safety Through a Structured Educational Intervention for Junior Doctors: A Translational Simulation Model

Dr Akash Patel (Victoria)

5:18 pm

Implementing competency-based training with graduated autonomy in a regional general surgery unit

Dr Zainab Naseem (VIC)

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