15 Hours Hands-on Laparoscopic workshop Canberra

Two-Day Dry Lab Format 11th & 12th of August 2018

BACKGROUND

Training in laparoscopy remains a challenge in the gynaecologic environment. Due to increasing time constraints, cost, stress and ethicolegal considerations, the modern operating room is no longer an ideal learning environment. Indeed, laparoscopic surgical training is poorly suited to the historic mentor/trainee model of ‘see one, assist one and do one’ (Stolzenburg et al, 2007). It appears more suited to a paradigm of ‘simulating as many as it takes to be credentialed before doing as many as is necessary to be competent’ (Abbott, 2015). As such, it is recommended that gynaecologist in training should learn conventional laparoscopic techniques and procedures in a simulated environment prior to transferring their gained experience into daily practice and live laparoscopic procedures.

Our hands-on dry lab laparoscopic workshop, therefore, aims to provide gynaecology trainees and residents, fellows and practising physicians an opportunity to learn and/or update their fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery in a consistent, scientifically accepted format.

WORKSHOP FORMAT

Our hands-on dry lab laparoscopic workshop utilizes a curriculum with cognitive, psychomotor and procedural components. The course combines didactic lectures with an activity-based curriculum that focuses on the fundamentals of basic and advanced laparoscopic surgical skills.

Course activities will focus on eye-hand coordination, two-handed manoeuvres, surgeon/assistant coordinated manoeuvres and proficiencies in suturing and knotting techniques. The course uses the physical stimulator box trainers with laparoscopic instruments similar to those used in live laparoscopy and also expose participants to the different types of laparoscopic equipment.