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LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY AND BILIARY TRACT SURGERY ENHANCEMENT COURSE

Physicians that have a documented or perceived quality assurance problem with minimally invasive procedures should not experience disciplinary action without having available a remedial education option.  Concerns are primarily related to the laparoscopic cholecystectomy and common bile duct injuries, but other procedures emerging procedures such as the laparoscopic nissen fundoplication have quality concerns as well.

At AMTI an innovative objective based skill and clinical judgment maturation program, which was started by Dr. Rosser while at Yale Laparoscopy, provides a solid foundation for decrease the risk of committing injurious complications.

The skill component used the internationally renowned "Top Gun Laparoscopic Skill Boot Camp."  This training program has been repeatedly featured at the American College of Surgeons, articles the Archive in Surgery, Scientific American, and CBS News.  A micellular operative technique instructional strategy establishes procedural tendencies that avoid trouble.

Operative technique and decision making is then challenged by Objective Based Clinical Competency Evaluation Scenarious (OCCES).  This modern knowledge transfer tactic uses digitized video of actual clinical cases with anatomic, instrument selection, technique challenges that all have to be answered instantly with an interactive keypad system.  This places the participant in a simulated real-time clinical situation where they are challenged to make a decision.  Based on the number of questions answered right and wrong, the participant is given a percentage score that can be compared to their peers or used as a yardstick to evaluate their progress.

This course is five days long with a small class size (5 person limit) that assures a large amount of intimate attention.  Global pricing includes hotel accommodations, meals and entertainment.  This unique course offers a 21st Century solution to a monumental problem that is continuing to grow.

This course also expands surgeons' procedural options by exposing them to laparoscopic common bile duct explorations, in addition to suturing and anastomotic techniques.  This will provide the ultimate safety net for patient quality assurance with the establishment of these options to the surgeons' armamentarium.  This is the standard in open surgical procedures, and should be the standard in a minimally invasive setting.  At the end of the course, the surgeon will have accumulated a mass of objective based data which confirms the establishment of enhanced skill and judgment capabilities.