Stephen Crockett - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Foundation Hospital Trust, Lister Hospital

Working as a core surgical trainee at Lister Hospital has been a great experience. It is a centre with a large plastics, urology and orthopaedics unit, with an ever increasing general surgery and vascular service which means that you see a huge range of interesting elective and emergency work. There are a number of very good trainers who are supportive and provide trainees with exposure to different operative techniques, and work towards more independent operating. It is definitely a place where the more you put into your work, the more you will get out of it, and thus it has been extremely rewarding. As a trainee, you get a lot of responsibilities, and these have really prepared me well for attending further registrar training in vascular surgery.