Review of the week

Well, it's been a really busy week at the BAPRAS Summer Meeting in Oxford. The e-LPRAS project has been well-received by all those attendees who have dropped by the stand to talk to us. There  have also been discussions about the new ISCP curriculum for plastic surgery. We are confident that our material will continue to match the new curriculum. Completion of relevant e-LPRAS sessions will be excellent evidence that trainees are meeting the knowledge requirements of ISCP.

The really good news is that the sessions for Module 1 of the e-LPRAS project (Essentials of Plastic Surgery) have all been allocated to authors. We are therefore on schedule to be able to launch that module on line by the end of this year!

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help. As I said in my talk on e-learning at the meeting, the project will only be successful if we all feel ownership of it.

e-LPRAS at BAPRAS

It has been a fantastic week at the Summer BAPRAS meeting in Oxford. Steve and I have been manning the e-LPRAS stand in the exhibitors hall and we have been very excited by the interest of all plastic surgeons. We have also recruited a lot of new authors and potential authors. Module 1 now has only 4 sessions needing a content editor - so if you want to get involved before the end of this year, now is the time to get in touch.

The quality of the content being returned to us has far surpassed what we were hoping for. Steve is busy turning the content into a format that is engaging and interesting, using the best instructional and educational design principles. Although we have been sending authors a Powerpoint template, some have found it easier to write in Word and Steve has been just as successful in using this material.

We still hope to release the content for Module 1 (Essentials of Plastic Surgery) on-line before the end of the year. Watch this spot for more news!