Description:
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.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completion of the course, the participant 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
- Appreciate the safe use of local anaesthesia
- 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 essential steps to debride a traumatic wound effectively
- Perform basic techniques used for laparoscopy
- Understand the principles of using diathermy safely.
FEATURES AND 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 medical students and foundation year doctors intending to pursue a career in surgery
- Certificate for portfolio from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
This course will serve as a solid foundation when undertaking the Basic Surgical Skills Course (
https://ubis.rcsed.ac.uk/courses/coursedetails.aspx?courseId=1), a pre-requisite for all core surgical trainees appearing for the MRCS examination.
Number of places: Strictly limited to 18 and, as such, will be offered on a 'first-come-first-served' basis.
