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A Chorley based surgical teaching programme has been named the best in the UK by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board.
The North West Higher Surgical Trainee Teaching Programme, which is led by Mr Muntzer Mughal, Consultant General and Gastrointestinal Surgeon at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been awarded the accolade after a national survey of trainees in 2009.
The programme, which is designed around the general surgery curriculum and is geared towards preparing higher surgical trainees for their final exams,
is based in the Trust’s Education Centre at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. The Centre is currently undergoing a £2.5 million re-development to provide a ‘state-of-the-art’ education and training facility.
Mr Mughal said: “I am delighted that the North West Higher Surgical Trainee Teaching Programme has been named the best in the country. It is a pleasure and a privilege to help train tomorrow’s surgeons.”
He added: “I would like to thank the organisations which regularly contribute to our courses.”
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