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Prehabilitation is a collection of methods that aims to improve outcomes in surgery by optimising the patient’s condition prior to their operation. Increasing surgical wait time has led to calls for a change in the perception of waiting lists to seeing them as ‘preparation lists’. Preparation is multifactorial, and one aspect of it is psychological prehabilitation.

Planning and implementing one of the new special interest areas (SIAs) available from the 2021 curriculum: a trainee’s and trainer’s perspective.

Let’s consider some real patients who were invited to prehabilitation (‘prehab’) clinic for colorectal cancer surgery (names anonymised).

"When I was first asked by the College to write a short article on the talk I had given earlier in the year on the history of medicine, I was initially hesitant for the simple reason that the subject was so vast to do justice to, and moreover that it had to be accessible to everyone."

‘May you live in interesting times’ has a heavy degree of irony at present. However, It is my honour to write my first piece as fifth dean of the Faculty and following our historic public statement, made in conjunction with the RCoA, of plans to start work to develop a UK College of Intensive Care Medicine.