Members in Scotland
Dear ASGBI Member
Clinical Excellence Awards – 2011 round – Scotland
I write to let you know the process that ASGBI will be adopting for the 2011 Clinical Excellence Awards round. We will follow the same process as last year, with one or two developments in line with the SACDA recommendations for good practice and the aspirations of the ASGBI for its members and constituent specialties.
Although the submission of applications without reference to a nominating body is perfectly valid, the SACDA encourages support from colleges and specialty associations in addition to the employing Trusts. It needs this information, conveyed via an overall ranking order plus accompanying supporting citations, to ensure a balanced and fair decision. Your SACDA Application Forms need to be emailed as an attachment to ASGBI at smercer@asgbi.org.uk to reach us no later than 9.00am on Monday 23rd August 2010. Any applications received after this time will not be considered by the ASGBI Nominations Committee.
As for last year, the responsibility for the submission of the application to SACDA will rest firmly with the applicant. The SACDA deadline has not yet been finalised, but it is likely to be towards the end of January 2011. Details of how to apply can be found at http://www.sacda.scot.nhs.uk.
As usual, SACDA is likely to publish the successful applicants in the autumn, well after the Association and Colleges’ process are under way. This means that those who applied last year will have to submit an updated CV on last year’s form to the Associations and Colleges, without knowing whether they have been successful or otherwise for the current year. We will check, however, that successful applicants are sifted from the final ranked recommendations before we send them to the SACDA.
The ASGBI Nominations Committee Meeting will take place on Monday 6th September 2010 and our ranking/scores will be disseminated to the Colleges and other relevant professional bodies as well as directly to the SACDA. To ensure that achievements are not overlooked it is essential that applications are reviewed by as many relevant organisations as possible. This ensures that good applications do not fail for want of an effective advocate, and also that there is a good degree of consistency in the information that the national awards committee eventually receives.
The Association is registered as a Specialty Society and under the current rules can submit 1 nomination for the A+ Award, 1 for A and 2 for B. The Association committee comprises of representatives from our constituent specialty associations.
A few other important points from previous experience, which may be helpful to those compiling their applications for submission:
- It is pivotal that there are no large gaps in the form. I have no inside knowledge of next year’s form, but the headings contained within it will form the basis of the scoring exercise carried out independently by the committee members. Try to apportion achievements across all the sections. I appreciate that it can be difficult but duplication of information across these headings does not go down well and conversely blank spaces do not help committee members to support you.
- Please consult the SACDA website and follow the instructions carefully. Be accurate and do not over or understate your achievements.
- It is an open process, so why not ask a suitable colleague to review your CV for mistakes, omissions and improvements?
- As for job applications, anything that enables the reader to glean the information easily from the form will be helpful. Bullet pointed, succinct sentences where possible are one way of achieving this.
Yours sincerely,
Denis Wilkins
Chairman of the ASGBI Nominations Committee
Please click on the link below to view the PowerPoint presentation that Mr Denis Wilkins gave at the ASGBI International Surgical Congress 2010.
Clinical Excellence Awards Presentation 2010 - DW
Please click on the link below to download the SACDA Application forms for the 2011 awards round.
SACDA CV Form
N.B. Please use last year’s SACDA form for the purpose of applying for support from ASGBI as the 2011 awards round form is not yet available.