Consultant general/colorectal surgeon with a special interest in pelvic floor disorders & IBD. All tweets in a personal capacity. #ILookLikeASurgeon
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Alison McCoubrey retweeted
📢 Consultants wanted for the MAPPING Study 📢
Researchers at the University of Glasgow are exploring how personality traits and attitudes to risk influence decision-making in emergency general surgery.
They are looking for consultant surgeons involved in emergency general surgery to complete a survey exploring decision-making through hypothetical emergency surgical scenarios.
In addition, they wish to recruit anaesthetists, intensivists and geriatricians to compare differences in decision-making between specialties.
The survey is split into two parts and takes approximately 30 - 40 minutes in total. It includes:
✏️ A personality and risk-attitude questionnaire
🩺 Specialty-relevant hypothetical emergency surgical scenarios
Participants receive their own personalised personality profile after completing Part 1 and collaborative authorship will be offered to eligible contributors who complete the survey.
Survey closes on 31st October 2026.
Complete here - uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/…
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Join us on 1st October in Belfast or online for an informative, practical and interactive session designed to help surgeons better understand and navigate the medicolegal landscape.
Free for all to attend, you can find out more and register here - events.asgbi.org.uk/asgbieve…
@SpenceGary @carsonmcdowell
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
British Society of Gastroenterology and Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland position on tranexamic acid in upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding - Trudgill - 2026 - Colorectal Disease - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Surgery is a "wicked" environment: feedback is delayed, noisy, and often biased. My essay on why experience doesn't always equal mastery, and how to learn when the feedback loops are broken.
leezhaomd.org/post/the-wicke…
#MedTwitter #Surgery #MedEd
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
🎥 What a day! From packed sessions to surgical debates, elevator pitches to world-leading scientific content — #ESCP25 came alive at #Tripartite 🇫🇷
A huge thank you to all our speakers, attendees & sponsors who made it unforgettable.
☝️ Catch the best bits in our Day 1 highlight reel.
We’re just getting started — see you tomorrow.
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Thanks to everyone who's completed this! Sadly, we don't have a single respondent from Northern Ireland - would be nice to have views of clinicians from across the UK. If you know any NI-based IBD physician/surgeon/CNS, please share. Will close study on 31.7.25
Need another 15-20 response. Please complete & share if you have any experience in treating IBD as a surgeon/gastroenterologist/IBD CNS or post CCT Fellow:
shorturl.at/s82Wj
@ShahidaDin1 @BritSocGastro @ACPGBI @CrohnsColitisR @CrohnsColitisUK @Dukes_Club @EBRIC_Study
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Dr Clare McNaught has been elected as the new President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Dr McNaught will become the College's first ever female President in the College's 520-year history, and will succeed Professor Rowan Parks.
Read more: bit.ly/44kf55F
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Our team at Belfast City Hospital Theatres carried out the first robotic operation for general surgery yesterday.
Congratulations to the colorectal team on a successful day in theatres for the robotic assisted procedure.
ALT The colorectal team in the operating theatre at Belfast City Hospital.
ALT A doctor operating the robot - Da Vinci XI surgical system.
ALT The team at Belfast City Hospital Theatres in their scrubs smiling to camera.
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Brilliant morning at the NT Colorectal cancer health & wellbeing event @NHSCTrust @macmillancancer @CancerFocusNI @bowelcanceruk @actioncancer @mckee_joanne @alison_doc
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Kristen Bell just sang a "Frozen" parody while a montage of every SAG Award nominee's first acting gig appeared on screen
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
✨Surgical Skills Course✨
🗓️ Saturday 11th January 2025
⏰ 08:45-15:00
📍 Quality Improvement and Innovation Centre (QIIC) - Ulster Hospital
Will cover surgical etiquette, suturing skills, laparoscopic skills, urology tips & more.
Tickets will be released Wed. 18th Dec. 19:00
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
The current best practice is to clip right colon polypectomy >20mm to reduce delayed bleeding. This is one of my favorite tools , @bostonsci Mantis Clip, performing clip-and-drag button closure technique (widest part first to make 2 smaller defects).
#GITwitter
It’s an unpopular opinion to hold these days but I absolutely agree with this. I don’t presume to call my patients by their first name either.
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
ESGE guidelines on the management of lower GI bleeding 🩸
📸: thieme-connect.de/products/e…
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Why is it so hard to let go at the natural end of life?
My article in The Sunday Post looks at why trying to prolong living, however well intentioned, can actually just prolong dying.
The antidote to our fears is found in realism, honesty and openness.
#FirstDoNoHarm
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
Surgeons are too hard on ourselves, it’s okay to not be ‘perfect’. Inspiring talk by Bob Baigrie. @ACPGBI @EYCN_ACP #EYCN #ACPGBI2024
Alison McCoubrey retweeted
However cynical and hard bitten you are, impossible not to feel something joyful when Coldplay plays with Michael J Fox at Glastonbury
