Miss Alexandra Cope completed her undergraduate training at St. Mary’s Hospital Paddington (Imperial College) in 2001 and started her surgical career at the Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford on their Basic Surgical Rotation passing her MRCS in 2004.
Miss Cope has worked in clinical NHS positions as well as academic University posts and has a Masters in Surgical Education. She has been an NIHR funded Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Miss Cope has a PhD from Imperial College London and a Post graduate Diploma in Coloproctology from the University of East Anglia.
Miss Cope served a full term as an elected member of the Association of Coloproctologists of Great Britain and Ireland on the Education and Training Committee and has hosted a number of Webinars on coloproctology.
Miss Cope is a full Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She has held an RCS Research Fellowship and was awarded the RCS Harry Morton travelling Fellowship allowing her to work at several prestigious medical education research centres in Canada including University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, Western University and McGill. She has set up and run a simulation program for Core Surgical Trainees in the Oxford Deanery and has appeared on a number of radio and television programs relating to medical simulation.
Miss Cope was a Royal College of Surgeons of England Lady Estelle Wolfson Emerging Leadership Fellow. She has undertaken a national Ethicon Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellowship at Newcastle University Teaching Hospitals. Her research is focussed upon surgical decision making and education. She is a current BDRF grant holder on a project investigating surgeons decisions regarding avoiding or defunctioning a rectal anastomosis and is a Principal Investigator for an NIHR research study. Her clinical interests are in minimal access colorectal cancer surgery as well as benign colonic and rectal conditions.
Miss Cope was appointed as a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in 2016. Miss Cope is the Training Program Director for Higher Surgical Trainees in General Surgery for Thames Valley over-seeing the training of senior residents at Oxford University Hospitals, Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, Milton Keynes NHS Trust, Royal Berkshire NHS Trust and Frimley Health. She is a Member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Miss Cope is a fully qualified open, laparoscopic and robotic surgeon using the Da Vinci XI system. She sees outpatients and provides diagnostics and inpatient care through the Parkside Suite at Frimley Park Hospital, Heatherwood Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital. She provides diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and proctoscopy. She is JAG accredited in colonoscopy and an accredited colonoscopy trainer.
Miss Cope is a Member of the British Hernia Society and submits her hernia outcome data to the national registry.
I provide personalised, compassionate care with attention to every detail, always putting you at the centre of everything I do.
Spontaneous splenic rupture as initial presentation of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Agarwal G, Moule S, Cope A, Maudgil D, Willan J. Br J Haematol. 2023 Jan;200(1):8. doi: 10.1111/bjh.18471. Epub 2022 Oct 3. PMID: 36190315.
Randell R, Honey S, Hindmarsh J, Alvarado N, Greenhalgh J, Pearman A, Long A, Cope A, Gill A, Gardner P, Kotze A, Wilkinson D, Jayne D, Croft J, Dowding D.Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2017 Jun.PMID: 28813131
Microanalysis of video from the operating room: an underused approach to patient safety research.
Bezemer J, Cope A, Korkiakangas T, Kress G, Murtagh G, Weldon SM, Kneebone R.BMJ Qual Saf. 2017 Jul;26(7):583-587. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005816. Epub 2016 Dec 9.PMID: 27940639
Ethical dilemmas and reflexivity in qualitative research.
Reid AM, Brown JM, Smith JM, Cope AC, Jamieson S.Perspect Med Educ. 2018 Apr;7(2):69-75. doi: 10.1007/s40037-018-0412-2.PMID: 29536374
Unconscious hegemonic research and evaluation of education interventions.
Cope AC.Med Educ. 2017 Apr;51(4):343-345. doi: 10.1111/medu.13252.PMID: 28299847
Cope A, Bezemer J, Mavroveli S, Kneebone R.Acad Med. 2017 Apr;92(4):544-549. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001454.PMID: 28351068
Are surgeons born or made? A comparison of personality traits and learning styles between surgical trainees and medical students
Preece RA, Cope AC
Journal of Surgical Education 2016 Sept-Oct; 73(5) 768-73
PMID 27184178
“You see?” – Teaching and learning how to interpret visual cues during surgery
Cope AC, Bezemer J, Kneebone R, Lingard L
Medical Education 2015 49 (11) 1103 – 1116
PMID 26494063
Making meaning from sensory cues in the operating room – an important content area of post-graduate surgical learning
Cope AC, Mavroveli S, Bezemer J, Hanna GB, Kneebone R
Academic Medicine 2015 Aug;90(8):1125-31.
PMID: 25922919
Surgical decision making in a teaching hospital: a linguistic analysis
Bezemer J, Murtagh G, Cope A, Kneebone R
ANZ Journal of Surgery 2014 Sep 2
PMID 25182451
Simulation: human factors scenario training
Cope A, Hettige R
ENT and Audiology News 2014 22 (6) 66 – 68
A growing abdominal problem – End Games
Kulkarni K, Lakhani N, Cope A, McGrath D
British Medical Journal 2013; 347; 4547
PMID 23918608
Holding the scalpel: achieving surgical care in a learning environment
J Bezemer J, Cope A, Kress G, Kneebone R
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 0891241613485905, first published on April 30, 2013 doi:10.1177/0891241613485905
Participation of surgical residents in operations
Bezemer J, Cope A, Faiz O, Kneebone R
World Journal Of Surgery 2012 36 (9) 2011 – 4
PMID 22653182
Do you have another Johan? Negotiating meaning in the operating theatre
Bezemer J, Cope A, Kress G, Kneebone R
Applied Linguistics Review 2011 (2) 313 – 334
“Scissors, please” Shared understanding in surgical activity
Bezemer J, Murtagh G, Cope A, Kress G, Kneebone R
Symbolic Interaction 2011 Vol.34 (3) 398 – 414
“Blowing up the barriers” exploring and validating a new approach to simulation
Kassab E, Kyaw Tun J, Arora S, King D, Ahmed K, Miskovic D, Cope A, Vadhwana B, Bello F, Sevdalis N, Kneebone R
Annals of Surgery Dec 254 (6) 1059 – 65
PMID 21738021
Raised BMI is an independent risk factor for groin surgical site infectons in patients undergoing varicose vein surgery
Yeung TM, Cope AC, Whittome N, Lintott P
American Journal of Infection Control 2008 March Letters to the Editor
PMID 18313519
Cervical fracture and cervical cord injury during anger management course
Mobasheri R, Cope A
Spinal Cord 2005 Jun; 43(6): 392 -3
PMID 15741981
Book chapters
Models of teaching and learning in the operating theatre
Cope AC, Bezemer J, Sutkin G
In Advancing Surgical Education: Theory, Evidence and Practice, to be published by Springer in 2017 Edited by Debra Nestel, Kirsten Dalrymple, John Paige, Rajesh Aggarwal
Learning in the Operating Theatre: A Social Semiotic Perspective
Jeff Bezemer, Gunther Kress, Alexandra Cope and Roger Kneebone
Chapter for: V. Cook, C. Daly, M. Newman in Work-Based Learning in Clinical Settings: Insights from Socio-cultural Perspectives London Ratcliffe Medical.