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Faculty members and their interests
MR MUHAMMAD NADEEM
CHIEF COURSE COORDINATOR
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation NHS Trust
General & Breast Surgeon
MBBS, FCPS (Surgery), FRCS (Glasgow),
MSc (Cardiff University), FRCS (Gen. Surgery)
Advanced Diploma in Leadership and Management.
SPECIAL INTERESTS
1. Critical Care
2. Academic reading and foundation topics
3. Breast- malignant, hereditary, recon and trials
MR SANJAY V JOSHI
PRINCIPAL COURSE COORDINATOR
MBBS, MS, MSc, FRCSEd, FRCS (UGI)
General and UGI Surgeon
Tunbridge Wells Hospital Kent UK
SPECIAL INTERESTS
1. Upper GI
2. HPB
3. Virtual Clinicals and Examiners’ Drill
4. Telementoring
MR IAN ROBERTSON
FRCS and CCST Gen Surg (SI Vascular) 2018
Fellow in Renal Transplantation, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Attended course in April 2018 prior to exam in May and it was the single most important factor in helping me pass. Easily the best course (of three) I attended.
SPECIAL INTERESTS
1. Vascular Surgery
2. Academic reading
3. Telementoring
MR MALLIKARJUN SAJJANSHETTY
MBBS, MS, FCRS (Gen Surg & Endocrine)
SPECIAL INTERESTS
1. Endocrine
2. Breast
3. Vascular
4. Academic Reading
Mr RISHabha SHARMA
FOUNDER, CONVENOR & WEB HOST
MBBS, MS, DNB, FRCS Edin, ECFMG, FRCS (Gen Surg)
Clinical Fellow Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
SPECIAL INTERESTS
1. Breast- benign, malignant, preventative and survivorship
2. Holistic Learning
3. Deep Learning/ Achilles Heel Topics
4. Academic Reading
5. Telementoring
6. Examiners' Drill
7. Virtual Clinical
MR MUHAMMED ALWAHID
MBChB, MRCS Glasgow, FRCSEd, Diploma in Postgraduate Teaching,
Honorary Clinical Lecturer university of Dundee
During my preparation for Part II FRCS exam and attended few courses and I found this is the most helpful course and I’m really great-full for the faculty and for this reason I decided to join them and this was great opportunity to take part in helping others. I passed my exam in my first attempt and I really think this course has helped me in achieving this.
SPECIAL INTERESTS
1. Colorectal, Trauam, Critical Care & Emergency Surgery
2. Telementoring
3. Examiners’ Drill
4. Course Content Editing
Mr Tou Pin Chang
PhD, FRCS (Gen Surg)
ST8 Colorectal and General Surgery
The Royal Marsden Hospital, London
The FRCS (Gen Surg) exam is all about delivering an effective and convincing oration of our thought processes and clinical judgements to a panel of Consultant colleagues. To execute that performance, it requires a lot of viva practice with constructive feedback and camaraderie among like-minded peri-CCT colleagues. The Phoenix FRCS Course, brilliantly designed as it is, provided exactly just that! I attended this course in April 2019 and it was the single most important factor that enabled me to pass at the first attempt.
Special interests:
1. Colorectal Surgery
2. Emergency and General Surgery
3. Academic Reading
4. Presentation skills
MR Sudeendra DoddI
MSc (MIS), FRCS
Consultant Emergency, Breast and Endocrine surgeon
Kings College NHS Foundation Trust
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer ,Kings College Medical School
I got to know about the Phoenix FRCS course from Rishabha Sharma. I met him at a CCrISP course where both of us were faculty observers. I found Rishabha to be very passionate about the FRCS course, and I found the format that he described very interesting. He invited me to the August course held in Kent. I wish I had done this course all those years ago when I was battling with the exam! Then I would have passed in the first shot. What struck me was that it was very hands-on- the focus is on practice and more practice. This is what is precisely needed.
I asked a cross-section of the candidates, and they all found it very useful including people who had already been to other FRCS exam courses. This philosophy of ' practice practice ' does not end with the course. The faculty offer skype sessions to the candidates to consolidate their gain. The structure of the course is beneficial for both - the Domestic Intercollegiate exam and the international FRCS.
Having recognized that more surgeons would appear for the international FRCS and to benefit this group, the faculty are also deliberating to expand it overseas. One possible venue would be the Middle East and India.
Mr Sudeendra Doddi
MSc, FRCS
Mr Ahmad Mirza, M.D.
Co-founder & Overseas Faculty
I met Mr Sharma and Mr Nadeem while attending the Alpine Course in January 2017 in Les Arcs, France. It was that meeting that made a strong bond between us and we conceptualized that in future we will find a way to help others through the very last examination of their career. After that, we appeared in the Intercollegiate FRCS examinations and passed it. We got together in Manchester and organised the first course. We shared our learning curve with the participants with short tutorials, mock vivas and visual presentations while preparing for the examination. To our tremendous surprise, the results from the first course were excellent. Another course further followed this, and the rest is all history. I completed my CCT in HPB and general surgery and proceeded to the USA for two years of Abdominal Transplant and HPB fellowship and aiming to return to the UK mid-summer 2020.
Mr Rajesh Shetty
DNB(Gen.Surg),FRCS(Ed.),FRCS(Gen.),
ASTS(USA)
Locum Consultant General Surgeon
Salford Royal Hospital
I have been associated with the Phoenix course since April 2018,and have been fascinated by the passion of Rish Sharma and his colleagues,Ahmad,Nadeem and Sanjay,in running and improvising this course at a maniac four monthly interval religiously since its inception.The success of the candidates in the exit FRCS exams speaks volumes about the effectivenes this course.
I love academics and have taught and examined undergraduates and postgraduate in surgery at the prestigious Christian Medical College ,Vellore,India.
I aim to deliver focused viva practice to all candidates on this course.
Mr Umesh Parampalli
MS, MCh(MIS), FRCS
Consultant Upper GI Surgeon, Medway Hospital
Honorary Bariatric Consultant, St Peter's Hospital
I have been associated with the Phoenix course for the last 2 years now. Me and Mr Sanjay Joshi wanted to utilise our exam preparation to help prospective FRCS candidates, the Phoenix course envisaged by Rish made this possible. The uniqueness of this course is its valuable clinical and viva practice which is very essential and is popular as per our feedbacks.
I completed my higher surgical training from the KSS Deanery, I have spent over 3 years in bariatric training including one post CCT fellowship. I have spent 2 years in resection upper GI surgery in my training as well. My contribution towards this course are in the field of:
Oesophago-gastric resection surgery.
Benign upper GI including Bariatric Surgery.
Hepatobiliary surgery.
Upper GI emergencies.
Academic viva.