Welcome to OSCAR

What is OSCAR?

A trainee-led group that can deliver bigger, better, and more meaningful audit and research projects than any of us could achieve on our own. Who can get involved? Everyone who wants to be involved can be: trainees, middle grades, coretrainees, medical students, even consultants; but it will always be trainee-led. Anyone who contributes any patient data to audit or research projects will be granted co-authorship.

Message from OSCAR

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the members of OSCAR executive committee , we would to welcome you to Oswestry / Stoke rotation. This rotation is a well-regarded historic rotation with great reputation both nationally and internationally. OSCAR is a research collaborative representative body newly formed by owestery rotation trainee and growing fast. This initiative is totally dependent on the essential contribution of its own members and trainee input in general.

This rotation has a renowned and well established historic theme of teaching that equip trainee with the knowledge and skills required to be a successful , prominent surgeons in their field and also pass their exit FRCS exam easily. On the other hand , as trainee we need to take the initiative and control of our training through active participation and planning. In our rotation , trainers are very supportive, approachable and always willing to guide and listen when needed.

At Owesetry rotation we have a coherent motivated bunch of trainee from different backgrounds and different skills that makes our rotation unique and rich in ideas. There are plenty of social activities and initiatives within the rotation that you may find useful.

If you come across any problem during your training OSCAR and the deanery will always be happy to listen and help when needed.

On behalf of the OSCAR committee we encourage you to get involve with us , share your ideas and make this training opportunity successful.

Wishing you all the success.

OSCAR Executive Committee

Why should you get involved?

The latest JCST T&O checklist for CCT mandates that we all need to meet the following criteria research criteria:

Trainees must also complete two of the following:

Higher degree completed at any time (MSc, MPhil, MD, PhD).
Authorship** in any position (including corporate or collaborative) of two PubMed cited papers relevant to the specialty, not including case reports.
A minimum of two presentations at national or international meetings.
Evidence of recruiting ≥5 patients into a research ethics committee approved study or ≥10 patients into a multi-centre observational study.

Advanced research evidence (These may be used as alternatives to the requirements in the list immediately above):

Membership of a trainee research collaborative demonstrated by either a committee role of ≥24 months or running a collaborative project on a steering group or as a local lead.
Membership of an NIHR portfolio study management group.
Co-applicant on a clinical trial grant application to a major funding body.

So, by working together and contributing patient data or serving on the committee of this collaborative, we can all meet our research needs much more easily than trying to do so alone.

How will this will work?

We have an executive committee that meets regularly, and anyone who wants can come to these meetings to contribute or observe. Anyone with an idea for an audit or research project can submit it to the committee and it will be considered for further development.

Selected projects are taken forward and everyone in the collaborative then works together to collect
the data.

We have only been going for about a year and have delivered some simple multi-centre audits. Ultimately, OSCAR will be designing and running multi-centre randomised controlled trials that have the potential to make meaningful differences to orthopaedic practice.

How can you get involved?

This sounds great, how can I get involved? Please email any of the committee or just talk to us at Friday teaching. Get in touch if you think you want to be involved at any level, whether simply contributing data or if you want to become a committee member yourself. This is everyone’s group and everyone has a voice.