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I decided to pursue my interest in the teaching of surgical skills to Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctors. This was important to me because this was the level at which I was working, and I was keen to find the best and easiest way to acquire surgical skills to help me on the way to becoming an ENT surgeon. I discussed this with my mentor, a foundation training programme director who was also a surgical consultant, and we came up with a curriculum of work‐based assessments that, we felt, would prepare FY1 doctors for surgical training as well as allow them to enjoy their surgical FY rotations.

With the idea formed, it was important to recruit team members with expertise and reach that I lacked. I created a PowerPoint presentation with the idea and pitched it to colleagues at my level with greater statistics and recruitment expertise than I, as well as my former professor of surgery, all of whom I found to be receptive. The paper was later published, with data from across the UK and Ireland, which would not have been possible if working without collaboration.