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Vasudev Zaver @VasudevZaver

👨🏽‍⚕️ @58society ST5 | 📑 @asitofficial Executive Council Alumnus | 🦴 @bota_uk Council Alumnus

Joined June 2020
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Vasudev Zaver@VasudevZaver
30 Jan 2025
vasudevzaver.com/2025/01/29/… By far my most honest and introspective post yet.. #Blog

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It was an icy cold winter morning, frost shimmering on hedgerows and driveways, concealing the hazardous black ice that lay underneath. I tried to mount my bike to ride up the hill but to no avail;…

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Just published! Check out the latest article from the Orthopaedics Online - I completed 80 arthroplasty operations! Here is my experience of the learning curve by Vasudev Zaver, ST6 Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery Registrar. The article highlights the challenges orthopaedic trainees face in reaching the required 80 arthroplasty operations during training. Vasudev reflects on his personal training journey, describing the steep learning curve and offering advice on preparation, persistence, and skill development in hip and knee replacement surgery. Read it here: bit.ly/4rtQDIH @VasudevZaver
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ARE YOU A FOUNDATION DOCTOR? ✅ Here's exactly how you can level up right now! 🔗 lnkd.in/eJSc8nUk If you found this useful, share it with your friends and colleagues to help them too! 🔥 What's your favourite tip that's helped you over the years? #medtwitter
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📆 Best of luck to everyone starting a new rotation today! 🤝🏽 Remember, it's ok to feel a bit anxious or unsettled, make sure you keep talking to colleagues, friends, and family. It can be nerve wracking at first but hang in there, stay safe, and you'll do great! #medtwitter
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📆 As changeover approaches this week, it's very normal to feel apprehensive. 🔗 I want to share my candid experience of starting registrar training to hopefully show that you don't have to be perfect before you've even started! vasudevzaver.com/2024/03/07/… vasudevzaver.com/2021/08/03/…
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📆 DEAR FOUNDATION DOCTORS As changeover approaches, it's completely ok to feel apprehensive. Foundation training is tough and I can definitely relate to feeling anxious in the run up! Here are my tips on how to approach FT and maximise your experience: vasudevzaver.com/2024/03/07/…

Dear Foundation Training: My Top Tips for Foundation Training

Dear Foundation Training.I hope this finds you well. You were a really tough cookie to contend with. There were times where I thought we were getting along swimmingly, both in harmony. I understood…

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📆 It's changeover week! It's so normal to feel apprehensive when stepping into a new role and I can definitely relate to feeling anxious in the run up. Let's normalise having conversations about challenging times, successes, and the reality of our work: vasudevzaver.com/2024/03/07/…

Start Acting Like a Registrar

📆 As changeover approaches this week, it’s very normal to feel apprehensive. 😵‍💫 Stepping up to registrar training is a whirlwind of an experience and understandably anxiety inducing. ✋🏽 Gone…

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🦿 A few tips from my own hindsight that I hope come in handy! Full article 🔗: vasudevzaver.com/2025/07/21/… Or follow 🔗 in bio! #orthopaedicsurgery #surgery #medicine
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✅ I'm over the moon to have successfully achieved and exceeded the T&O SAC milestone of 80 arthroplasty operations! 🔗 I've thus documented my experience and some "things I wish I knew", in case it can help someone else going through a similar process! vasudevzaver.com/2025/07/21/…

I Completed 80 Arthroplasty Operations! My Experience of the Learning Curve

Learning how to perform an arthroplasty (a joint replacement) is a mandated part of the Trauma & Orthopaedic (T&O) Surgery national curriculum. As it stands, the T&O Specialty Advisory …

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Want to level up your conference game? Here's a live walk through of how I plan ahead and how YOU can do exactly the same. Follow the link for the full article to discover more: vasudevzaver.com/2025/06/25/… 🆓 Includes a FREE downloadable PDF conference toolkit - grab yours now!
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I attended the Great North Debate yesterday, having had it highly recommended to me. It was brilliant, packed full of updates and cutting edge practice, there was a constant provision of educational value for everyone present! Looking forward to next year! #orthopaedicsurgery
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📆 Conference season is well underway and it's time to level up! 📋 Here's my top tips guide on how to maximise your opportunities and make the experience as worthwhile as possible including a free downloadable checklist to help prep! Check it out here: vasudevzaver.com/2025/02/26/…

Ace the Medical Conference: Top Tips to Maximise your Experience

As you can see, a conference, by way of convention, is a gathering of people who share a similar interest. This inherently offers a multitude of opportunities because the raison d’être for th…

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On the long journey back to Liverpool after a brilliant day in Brighton attending the @OR_UK paediatric trauma course! Great faculty and well paced covering all the essentials, not to mention a conference room with a view! 🌊 #OrthopaedicSurgery
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Such a fantastic, career changing opportunity that I would thoroughly recommend! Still miss you guys @ASiTofficial !
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🌟 ASiT Council Recruitment 2025 🌟 🗣 Applications to #TeamASiT are now OPEN! Become part of the largest surgical trainees’ association and help us promote #excellence in surgical training. If you’re passionate about: 🚀 Delivering surgical training at the #highest ⬆️ standards 🚀 Representing the #voice of surgical trainees in ALL #grades and ALL #specialties ♾ 🚀 Mentoring the next #generation of surgeons 🧗‍♂️ 🚀 Organising surgical #education events locally and nationally 👩🏽‍🏫 🚀 Networking and forming #lifelong friendships and working relationships …then ASiT is the place for YOU! 🚨 Apply by 11 June 2025 at tinyurl.com/ACMR25 We look forward to welcoming you at your first Council meeting! 🤞
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13 May 2025
🚨 NHS England & GIRFT Launch National Guide for Robotic-Assisted Surgery (RAS)👇 gettingitrightfirsttime.co.u… ✅Recommendations on 🤖training pathways ✅Standardised Implementation ✅Evaluation Framework: Incorporating insights from NICE’s early value assessment @Dukes_Club @ACPGBI

Robotic-assisted surgery - Getting It Right First Time - GIRFT

Robotic-assisted Surgery GIRFT and NHS England are developing a structured framework and guidance to support the adoption and implementation of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) in the NHS. Robotic-as...

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📚 It's MRCS Part B season... 😱 Which means revision but also stress and anxiety! 🙇🏽 I remember when I sat the exam, I felt exactly the same. ✍🏽 I wrote about how I felt at the time to try and capture the moment... 🤝🏾Hope it helps and best of luck! vasudevzaver.com/2021/09/30/…
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🤖 It can be exciting to see new technology arrive in the NHS. But how can you maximise your experience as an assistant or as a surgeon in training? 👇🏽I've developed a guide for the @JNJMedTechUKIr VELYS Robot to help you level up your skills in theatre: vasudevzaver.com/2025/05/12/…

The VELYS Robotic-Assisted Arthroplasty Solution: A Guide for Trainees and Assistants

The VELYSTM Robotic-Assisted Solution for Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) burst onto the market in 2021, muscling in with various other robots on the market including the already well known Stryker M…

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🚨 NEW POST ALERT! 🚨 Why “Deloading” is the Next Big Thing You Need to Try. Last week, I started my Monday with no coffee, no work, and no gym. It was amazing and completely intentional. And here is exactly why I did it: vasudevzaver.com/2025/05/07/…

Why “Deloading” is the Next Big Thing You Need to Try

We’re seemingly in the midst of a “hustle culture” storm, and it’s becoming increasingly ludicrous. Who can wake up the earliest, who can sleep the least, who can work the l…

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🏫 Such a great time at @stockportgs this afternoon speaking to the aspiring medical students! 👨🏽‍🎓 Amazing to be a part of such an enthusiastic Q&A session with some really insightful questions from the pupils at SGS. 🙏🏽 Thank you for the kind invitation! #ucas #medicalschool
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📆 Congratulations to those of you who successfully landed an interview for the 2025 CST cohort! This is a really big achievement 👏🏽 Here's a free insight into my experience of the CST interview and how I felt undergoing this challenging process! 🔗 vasudevzaver.com/2020/11/29/…

Applying to Core Surgical Training: My Experience

It’s that time of year again where doctors complete their applications on Oriel to embark upon the arduous process to get into surgical training. Applying to surgical training is arguably one…

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If you found this article useful then make sure to also check out my Top 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before My CST Interview! #CoreSurgicalTraining #CST #InterviewPrep #Top5 🔗vasudevzaver.com/2021/02/21/…

My Top 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before My CST Interview

Over the past few weeks, emails have been sent out and the next wave of prospective Core Surgical Trainees have been offered the opportunity to interview for a place on the UK Core Surgical Trainin…

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Kick-starting today at @HETTShow North in Manchester! Interesting insights already, great to see such strong innovation in healthcare in the North of England! #healthtech #innovation
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