Basic Surgical Skills Course - 23 May 2012

Venue:  Academic Centre, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, TS4 3BW

Registration fee:  £650 per delegate, including all course materials, lunch and refreshments

 

Course programme - day one

08.30   Registration and coffee

09.00   Introduction and statment of course learning outcomes

09.05   Gowning and gloving

09.25   Handling instruments

09.50   Knots

10.30   Mid morning coffee

10.45   Knots continued

11.45   Suturing techniques

13.00   Lunch and refreshments

13.45   Haemostasis

14.30   Tissue handling 1

15.45   Afternoon tea

16.00   Tissue handling 2

17.15   Discussion and feedback

 

Course programme - day two

08.30   Reprise of knot tying

09.00   Abdominal closure and drain insertion

10.00   Skin lesions and local anaesthetic techniques, cytology techniques and biopsy

11.00  Mid morning coffee

11.15   Tissue handling 3

13.00   Lunch and refreshments

13.45   Tissue handling 4

14.45   Electro-surgery

15.00   Afternoon tea

15.15   Wound management

17.00   Discussion and feedback

 

Course programme - day three

08.45   Introduction to generic endoscopic surgery

09.00   Box trainers 1

10.30   Mid morning coffee

10.45   Box trainers 2

12.00   Discussion and feedback

12.30   Close of course