Upcoming events
AUCA - Advanced Urinary Catheterisation Academy (2 August 2024)
Overview: For doctors and nurses who are already familiar with standard urethral catheterisation but wish to enhance and expand their ability to handle difficult male urethral catheterisation cases with confidence.
The 4 hour hands-on training session provides 1:1 instruction with expert trainers and repeated practice on a dummy to become confident in advanced catheterisation techniques.
Aims:
1. Understand the aim of a safe male urethral catheterisation algorithm
2. Recognise when standard Foley catheter placement should be abandoned
3. Practice second-line catheterisation techniques on dummy
4. Identify patients who require Urology specialist input
Healthcare professionals enrolling for this course are already familiar with standard urethral catheterisation.
Date: 2 August 2024 (1.30pm)
Location: The UCH Education Centre, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG
Fees: £299
Website: https://auca.arlo.co
Newcastle STC - Robotic Abdominal Wall Hernia Intermediate Cadaveric Dissection Course (16 October 2024
Overview: The course is designed to facilitate the surgeon with didactic and hands on cadaveric training experience. Conducted by a faculty of experienced surgeons, this is an intensive one day course of lectures, debate, exchange and practical hands on experience on General Surgical procedures of the Abdominal Wall using an Intuitive Da Vinci Robot.
Aims:
- Understand the endoscopic anatomy of the anterior abdominal wall
- Gain knowledge and hands-on experience of robotic dissection and repair for inguinal and midline hernias
- Ultrasound-guided Botox administration
Target Audience: Senior Trainees (ST7 and above) and Colorectal Consultants
Date: 16 October 2024
Venue: Newcastle Surgical Training Centre, Freeman Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Contact: For more info and to book email kamrun.nahar4@nhs.net
Website: https://nstcsurg.org/
Newcastle STC - Robotic Urology Course (24-25 October 2024)
Overview: This course is designed to facilitate the surgeon with didactic and hands-on cadaveric training experience. Conducted by a faculty of experienced surgeons, this is an intensive two day course of lectures, debate, exchange and practical hands-on experience on procedures using the da Vinci Robot.
Aims:
- To become familiar with the function and operation of the da Vinci Surgical System, the ergonomics and the available robotic instrumentation
- To learn robotic tissue dissection techniques using monopolar, bipolar, harmonic and plasma kinetic energy in robotic surgery
- To understand the selection process for patient position, da Vinci surgical team position and robotic surgical approaches
Target Audience: Consultants and advanced trainees
Date: 24-25 October 2024
Venue: Newcastle Surgical Training Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Contact: For more info and to book email kamrun.nahar4@nhs.net
Website: https://nstcsurg.org/
Orthopaedic Evaluation of X-Rays Course (various dates)
Overview: This course provides the basic knowledge on x-ray interpretation from an orthopaedic point of view to avoid missed diagnosis. It goes over commonly missed symptoms and signs and teaches how to avoid as well as provide schemes for different radiographs interpretations.
Date: 31 July 2024
Location: Education Centre, Morriston Hospital, Swansea
Fees: £60
The Royal College of Surgeons of England provides a quality mark for educational events by accrediting external providers and their educational portfolio, accrediting individual courses and awarding CPD points to non-accredited educational events. There are a number of ways you can search for a suitable event:
- The list of our accredited courses.
- External websites of our accredited centres.
- The non-accredited events awarded CPD points.