Date: 10 December

Duration: 7 hours

CPD Credits: 7.5

Location: RCSI, Dublin

 

Summary

This course is perfect for doctors starting their training in laparoscopic surgery. This is a hands-on course in which you receive expert formative feedback while practicing your skills on bespoke low- and high- fidelity models. Expert laparoscopic consultants will also guide you through performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on an animal liver-gallbladder model. 

Suitable for: SHOs in general surgery, colorectal surgery, urology, obstetrics, and gynaecology.

Learning outcomes

• Practice in laparoscopic set-up, camera and stacks
• Increased knowledge in the selection and safe placement of a port
• Improvement in your camera navigation skills
• Improvement in your instrument-handling skills
• Improvement in your depth of perception and dissection skills
• Familiarisation with the steps and haptic feedback of performing a simulated laparoscopic cholecystectomy

In this practical course we will use a combination of synthetic and animal tissue (porcine)

 

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