ASiT/BOTA Foundation Skills in Surgery Course
7 March 2008
£60 (plus conference registration)
This course will equip young doctors pursuing a career in surgery with many of the fundamental techniques required for success the early years. Topics include sterile technique and gloving, safe surgical practice, suturing, knot-tying, applying a plaster and many more.
Using sound educational principles, this course will address the Knowledge, Clinical Skills, Technical Skills, and Professional Skills required in the early years of Surgical Specialist Training (as linked to the ISCP curriculum), yet will also provide transferable skills for those with an interest in General Practice, A&E, Obs&Gynae, and Anaesthesia.
We will demonstrate how through this course you can begin to attain and relate the competencies that you need to progress your training in Surgery.
This course is essential for trainees wishing to set themselves apart from the crowd, and will provide an ideal talking point for future selection into Surgery...
Provisional Timetable:
0800-0830 - Coffee and registration
0830-0845 - Welcome and Faculty Introduction
0845-0930 - Medical Records and Operative Notes
0930-0945 - SPI & SBAR - what do they mean?
0945-1015 - Sutures, Drains and Instruments
1015-1030 - Coffee
1030-1300 - PRACTICAL 1 (divide into 2 groups - 1xgeneral, 1xT&O)
1300-1345 - Lunch
1345-1615 - PRACTICAL 2 (reverse of 2 groups)
1615-1700 - Communication and Leadership
1700-1715 - Close and Feedback
General Practical:
Section 1- Sterile Preparation, Local Anaesthetic Infiltration, and Skin Wound Closure
Section 2 - Use of Drains, tying drains and knots, drainage of abscesses
Section 3 - Excision of Simple Subcutaneous lesions
T&O Practical:
Section 1 - Principles of Conservative Fracture management and
application of POPs
Section 2 - Principles of Internal fixation and use of screws
Section 3 - Management of Fractured Neck of Femur and DHS
This course is kindly supported by:
Further Information
Please email conference2008@asit.org.