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Key Skills for Laparoscopic Surgery Course

Dundee

View bottom of page for information on booking this course online or registering your interest to be contacted by e-mail the next time this course is running. If experiencing difficulty please contact -

Cuschieri Skills Unit

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/surgicalskills/

+441382645857

SHO, SPR1-2 upwards

Mainly practical experiential learning with short seminars, discussion, practical assessment and e-learning.

This is a newly-developed, intensive, two-day course focusing on the key skills required for safe laparoscopic surgical practice. The course has been carefully designed and tailored to minimise time spent on didactic teaching and to maximise hands-on experience whilst in the Cuschieri Skills Centre. The course is equally suitable for the junior surgeon starting out in minimal access surgery and for the more senior surgeon who is either new to laparoscopy or wishes to refresh his or her key skills. Innovative on-line learning material provided in advance of the course maximises the time spent in the teaching laboratory. Training will be provided on synthetic and tissue models as well as on state-of-the-art LapSim virtual reality laparoscopic trainers. Expert question-and-answer sessions led by Consultants specialising in laparoscopic surgery will offer participants the opportunity to discuss issues of interest to them in more depth. Day one of the course will take the participant, in a highly structured way, through the key skills of camera and scope manipulation, abdominal access, insufflation, and ergonomics. Practical exercises are provided in sharp and blunt dissection, clip application, electrosurgery, looping, tissue extraction, and port site closure. The second day includes a brief presentation of two edited procedures carried out by Prof Sir Alfred Cuschieri and a number of individual operative procedures that participants carry out in the laboratory. These include diagnostic laparoscopy, laparoscopic appendicectomy, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. There is also the opportunity to review your knowledge and skills in a brief Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Participants will receive a certificate on completion of teh course.

Dr Benjie Tang

On completion of Key Skills in Laparoscopic Surgery you should: Be able to prepare a laparoscopic stack for use and show competency in the use of the insufflator, camera controls, light source, and associated equipment Be able to properly hold, operate, and manipulate the laparoscopic camera and angled endoscope Be able to insert ports to obtain good ergonomics for the chosen procedure Be able to safely perform sharp and blunt dissection Be competent in the correct and safe application of clips Understand the key principles of electrosurgery especially as they relate to its use in MAS Be able to properly deploy an endoloop Be competent in the use of the pledget, tissue extraction, and port site closure Have a systematic method for performing a diagnostic laparoscopy Apply the component skills taught in this course to various procedures including laparoscopic appendicectomy and cholecystectomy

October 2010

When	21 October 2010 to 22 October 2010
Event	Key Skills for Laparoscopic Surgery Course
Location	Dundee
Contact	http://www.dundee.ac.uk/surgicalskills/
Availability	places may be available
Links	more info..

November 2010

When	25 November 2010 to 26 November 2010
Event	Key Skills for Laparoscopic Surgery Course
Location	Dundee
Contact	http://www.dundee.ac.uk/surgicalskills/
Availability	places may be available
Links	more info..

Additional information is available by visiting http://www.dundee.ac.uk/surgicalskills Please note that the course is held in the Cuschieri Skills unit, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee

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Key Skills for Laparoscopic Surgery Course

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