Surgical Skills
All courses are designed for surgeons in training and qualified to address the core issues -related to surgical practice and research through group work and on course assignments. The various workshops and their modules can be tailored to run over 1-3 days according to the level required by the participants.
Basic Skills Module
Course objectives
- Learn safe operating techniques
- Perform gowning and gloving
- Understand principles of instrument and tissue handling
- Perform different types of knots and sutures
Anastomosis Skills Module
Course objectives
- Understand principles of safe and sound anastomosis
- Perform different types of hand-sawn bowel anastomosis
- Perform different types of vascular anastomosis
- Examine the different types of staplers
- Learn the different types of stapled anastomosis
Minimum Access Surgery Module
Course objectives
- Understand principles and components of safe laparoscopy
- Understand methods of induction and maintenance
- Acquire manipulation, clipping, ligation and suturing skills
Essential Surgical Skills Course
Course objectives
- The above modules can be integrated into a single three day course