Yolanda Sola Gutierrez

• Employed in a permanent post as an autonomous Specialty Doctor in Trauma and Orthopaedics ( specialising in Hand Surgery) from Feb to 2012 until Dec 2022 when I terminated my contract due to relocating.
• My job involved daily clinics( trauma and elective) involving diagnosing, treatment and operative treatment of patient with Orthopaedic conditions.
• Weekly independent theatre sessions including the local anaesthetic list on a Friday where I used to perform between 20-22 procedures on a day. Performed over the last decade the biggest number of Carpal tunnel operations in my department.
• Regular ward rounds of inpatients.
• Active member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Leadership roles
• Regular teaching sessions of nurses, students and junior doctors.
• Appraiser
• Clinical and Educational Supervisor
• SAS Doctor representative Southern
• LNC representative

• Trauma and Orthopaedic Registrar in the Wessex Rotation.
• During that time I rotated in between different hospitals; Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Bournemouth and Poole NHS trust and Basingstoke (north Hampshire NHS Trust)
• As part of the registrar rotation I was involved in the day to day care of patients on the ward, assisting junior doctors as required.
• Theatre sessions weekly on a regular basis performing operations on my own and assisting more complex cases.
• Regular teaching sessions.
• Regular clinics (elective and fractures).
• On calls involving acute injuries and fractures, trauma calls, and other Orthopaedic emergencies.

_ As part of a surgical rotation to become a surgeon I was able to get experience in a range of specialities as part of my rotation.

These included:

- Emergency Department

- ITU

_ ENT

-Plastic Surgery

-General Surgery

-Trauma and Orthopaedics

As and SHO I was involved in the day to day care of patients on the ward, clinics and theatre treating and dealing with all the pathologies in the different specialties and treating any unexpected emergencies and complications.

Working as part of multidisciplinary teams gave me the leadership skills that I needed after to work as an independent surgeon being able to manage theatre teams of up to 20 people on a regular basis