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RIBEIRO, Alvin
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St. Kitts
General Surgery, England
1974
Biography 2018
Following my graduation in 1974 I did my internship in P.O.S. General Hospital Trinidad as well as SHO posts in Surgery. At this point, I had decided I wanted to do surgery so I travelled to Edinburgh Scotland with my family (wife Angela and our first daughter, Annelise) in August 1976.
I spent four years in another beautiful country in the Lothian region. The family grew with the addition of a son, Anthony, and a second daughter, Nadia.
I was lucky to meet my mentor Mr. D.A.D. Macleod FRCS (Edinburgh) who arranged my surgical training in Scotland. This started as a SHO rotation followed by a two year Registrar surgical rotation in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Hospital and Bangour General Hospital in the West Lothian region in Scotland. Both Hospitals have been replaced by new hospitals.
I passed my surgical fellowship in June 1980 (FRCS Edinburgh).
We decided to return to Trinidad in October 1980 with my family which included my wife and three children and not to my beautiful island of St. Kitts.
I worked as senior registrar in Orthopedics with a Mr L. Fung FRCS who was a meticulous surgeon with a postop infection rate virtually nil. My experience was mainly trauma.
In April 1988, I decided to return to the U.K,. but this time we decided to settle in England. We would be nearer to family on both sides.
With advice from Donald Macleod, I entered the field of Accident and Emergency Medicine. I started as a registrar in the Hospital of St. Cross Rugby Warwickshire. I have lived in Rugby with my family and worked at St. Cross Hospital and the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire until I retired early in September 2006.
I assisted my wife Angela in her Care Home up until July 2016. We now live a quiet life in Rugby Warwickshire.