>CYBER-BASED EDUCATION AND DISTANT LEARNING

BASIC LAPAROSCOPIC SKILLS & SUTURING

Course Objectives 

  • Enhance the proficiency of the non-dominant hand to improve the participant's overall laparoscopic surgical skills
  • Gain exposure to drills that enhance bimanual dexterity, depth compensation, and accuracy in the laparoscopic environment
  • Receive suturing training that will increase participant's skill and confidence to permit subsequent cases to be done more efficiently and effectively
  • Receive an objective evaluation of participant's skill in the laparoscopic environment

Typical Course Agenda

DAY ONE
8:00-8:30 Breakfast/Registration
8:30-9:00 Welcome/Introduction
9:00-9:15 Pre-tutorial Suturing Trial
9:15-9:30 Pre-tutorial Cognitive Test
9:30-10:15 Computer-Based Tutorial: The Art of Laparoscopic Suturing
 - Dexterity Drills
 - Equipment
 - Strategy of Positioning
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:30 Dexterity Drills
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Completion of Dexterity Drills
3:30-4:30 Intracorporeal Suturing Lecture
  
DAY TWO
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30 Review of Intracorporeal Suturing
9:30-10:00 Participant Demonstration of Intracorporeal Suturing
10:00-10:45 Post-tutorial Suturing Trial
10:45-11:15 Post-tutorial Cognitive Test
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:30 Suturing
1:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Completion of All Exercises
3:00-4:00 Awards Ceremony

All participants much stay the duration of the course.

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