ASiT / BOTA Foundation Skills in Surgery Course

This Course will be held at the Hull City Hall Conference Venue

ASiT/BOTA Foundation Skills in Surgery Course

Friday 12 March 2010

Cost: £40 for ASiT Members (plus conference registration)
Includes lunch, coffees and evening drinks reception in Ferens Art Gallery

This course can be booked through the on-line conference registration system

This popular one-day course will equip senior medical student and junior doctors with many of the fundamental techniques required for success the early years of surgery. 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 - 1 x general, 1 x T&O)
1300-1345 - Lunch
1345-1615 - PRACTICAL 2 (reverse of 2 groups)
1615-1700 - Communication and Leadership
1700-1715 - Close and Feedback
1730-1900 - Free drinks reception and canapés at Ferens Art Gallery, with a welcome from the Lord Mayor and string quartet

General Practical Skills Sessions:

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 Skills Sessions:

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

For further information please contact: info@asit.org