Dear All,

At the recent BAPS educating and training committee meetingthe following points were raised that you might want to know about:

1.  e logbook – this is now live and we are all recommended to use it. You can find it at http://www.elogbook.org/ . ST trainees are required to use it as their logbook. Your trainers also need to sign up to the logbook as cases are only added when the trainer approves them. One of the incentives to participate in this process for trainers is that any case that they were the trainer for will be added to their own logbook, so the data will then be easily available for M&M, Audit etc.
   
   If you have any questions about the logbook, or there are operations you can't find, please email Miss Cusick directly on Eleri.Cusick@... . If anyone has emailed via the logbook she has dealt with these queries but can't get back to you directly because she doesn't get the address of the sender!
   
   
2. Training opportunities in South Africa: an offer has been made by the South African centres at BAPS International forum in Edinburgh for their units (Red Cross Tygerburg Durban and Johannesburg) to provide training posts for SpR's from the UK. Unfortunately, these posts are not funded but there is the possibility of applying for travelling fellowships (e.g. from Ethicon). Prospective PMETB approval would also be required.

3. Nottingham training meeting – excellent feedback, we all seemed to enjoy this meeting and there was a very strong indication that themed training days were most useful to trainees. This will be taken into account for future meetings.

4. Next training day – will be held at Chelsea on 6^th March 2008.

If there are any training issues that you would like me toraise at the next meeting, please email me.

Thanks,

Clare Rees.