Date    :  9th June (Monday) 2014, 10th June (Tuesday) 2014,
11th June (Wednesday) 2014, 12th June (Thursday) 2014, 13th June (Friday) 2014

Venue :  Medical and Surgical Skills Institute Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, GHANA

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 intending to pursue a career in surgery
• Certificate for portfolio from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Doctors Academy

Number of places: Strictly limited to 12 per course and, as such, will be offered on a 'first-come-first-served' basis.