Reporting Information
| date_range Date | 28th October 2017 29th October 2017 |
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| location_city Venue | International Institute for Medical Education Doctors Academy St Michael's Centre 54 Cardiff Road Llandaff Cardiff CF5 2YJ |
| Course Fee | £75.00 |
| Closing Date | Places will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis and therefore we are unable to provide a precise closing date. |
| event_seat No of Places Available | 20 |
| Dress code | Professional/Semi-formal. |
This one day Consultant-led course is specifically aimed at providing medical students in their clinical years and junior doctors with a structured programme to learn basic surgical skills and techniques that are common to all surgical practices. The course will use animal tissue and simulation techniques to teach the participants a variety of surgical skills and techniques.
Format and Objectives:
This is a practical course delivered using a series of tutor demonstrations and hands-on sessions where you will work on animal tissue. You will be tutored and supervised by Consultant Surgeons from various disciplines.
On completion of the course, you should be able to: Demonstrate safe practice when gowning and gloving. Handle commonly used surgical instruments in a safe and effective manner. Create secure 'Reef' and 'Surgeons' knots. Pick up and safely drive a needle through tissue with accurate bite placement. Perform an interrupted suture to close a wound. Demonstrate the steps for excising a skin lesion under local anaesthesia. Excise a sebaceous cyst. Drain a superficial abscess. Perform the steps to debride a traumatic wound. Perform basic techniques used for endoscopy. Explain the principles of using safe diathermy.
Features & Highlights:
- Tutored and supervised by Consultant Surgeons from various disciplines.
- Practical course with a high tutor-to-participant ratio.
- Delivered using a series of tutor demonstrations and hands-on sessions where participants work on animal tissue.
- An official course of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh specifically aimed at junior doctors intending to pursue a career in surgery.
- Certificate for portfolio from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Doctors Academy.
On completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate safe practice when gowning and gloving.
- Handle commonly used surgical instruments in a safe and effective manner.
- Create secure 'Reef' and 'Surgeons' knots.
- Pick up and safely drive a needle through tissue with accurate bite placement.
- Perform an interrupted suture to close a wound.
- Demonstrate the steps for excising a skin lesion under local anaesthesia.
- Excise a sebaceous cyst.
- Drain a superficial abscess.
- Perform the steps to debride a traumatic wound.
- Perform basic techniques used for laparoscopy.
- Explain the principles of using safe diathermy.
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| Account Name | Doctors Academy |
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| Sort code | 20-18-17 |
| Account Number | 50671673 |
| Name of Bank | Barclays Bank, 121 Queen Street, Cardiff CF10 1SG, United Kingdom |
| If you are making a payment to our account from outside the UK, your bank will ask for our IBAN and Swift Code | IBAN: GB49 BARC 2018 1750 6716 73 SWIFT CODE: BARCGB22 |