Laparoscopic skills course
The conference this year will feature our first laparoscopic skills course on Friday 17th March 2006.
This is an opportunity for trainees to receive instruction in all major aspects of laparoscopic technique, including basic manipulation and dissection, suturing and stapling, for both upper, and lower GI surgery.
This innovative and specially designed course aims to provide the essential laparoscopic skills required for Senior House Officers and Specialist Registrars, in the early years of their training.
The laparoscopic skills course will take place in the RCSEd state-of-the-art laparoscopic simulation labs.
Course Director
- Mr Muntzer Mughal
(Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon, Member of General Surgery SAC, Court of Examiners RCSEng, and Silver Scalpel Award Nominee)
Faculty
- Mr Sean Woodcok (Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon - North Tyneside)
- Mr Dominic Slade (Post Fellowship Colorectal SpR & ASiT Secretary)
- Mr Mike Jarrett (President Duke's Club & Colorectal Trainee)
- Mr Yuk Man Kan (Association of Laparoscopic Surgery Rep & Upper GI Trainee)
Others to be confirmed.
Detail
- £240, to include registration for the ASiT conference and attendance at the Gala Dinner on Saturday 18th March in the Balmoral Hotel
- the course will be limited to 25 places and will be allocated on a first come-first served basis of payment
- this heavily subsidised course also includes course manual and can be claimed from Study Leave Budgets
- certificate of attendance and completion will be provided
Venue
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 3 Hill Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9DS
Programme
| 08.30 - 09.30 | Registration | |
09.00 - 09.10 |
Introduction | |
| 09.10 - 09.45 | Setting for advanced laparoscopic surgery | Resources Dedicated theatre Equipment |
| 09.45 - 10.30 | Techniques | Ports Suturing Retractors Dissection Staplers Prostheses |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Simulator practice | |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch and simulator practice | |
| 13.30 - 14.00 | The difficult cholecystectomy | |
| 14.00 - 14.20 | Diagnostic/staging laparoscopy
Appendicectomy |
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| 14.20 - 15.00 | Hernia Repair | Inguinal TEP/TAP Ventral/umbilical Incisional |
| 15.00 - 15.45 | Upper GI surgery | Fundoplication Hellers myotomy Splenectomy Bariatrics |
| 15.45 - 16.00 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Colorectal surgery | Right hemicolectomy |
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Horizon Scanning | |
| 17.00 | Close of course |
Further Information
Please email conference2006@asit.org. Registration will open shortly.