Surgical Skills Training Programme

Date: 06/09/2024

Time: 0900 – 1700

Venue:

Anatomy Skills Lab, Department of Anatomy; Sunderland University

Lead:

Prof. Debs Patten

Topic: Clinical Anatomy Teaching (cadaver / virtual dissection table)

  • Head and Neck
  • Upper limb
  • Thorax
  • Abdomen
  • Pelvis
  • Lower limb

 


Date: 18/10/2024

Time: 0900 – 1700

Venue:

Education Centre, Darlington hospital,  County Durham and Darlington Trust

Lead:

Mr Suresh Thomas 

Topic: below

  • Skin tumours
  • Burns and their management
  • Consent
  • Generalism in surgery
  • Principles of endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery
  • Delerium and the elderly surgical patient
  • Hand trauma/brachial plexus injury

 


Date: 20/11/2024

Time: 0900 – 1630

Venue:

TBC

Lead:

Mr Michael Carr

Topic: Human Factors

 

 Dec 2024 – Jan 2025 Sessions TBC


Date: 13/02/2025

Time: 0900 – 1600

Venue:

Training Room 5, Education Centre, Freeman Hospital

Lead:

Mr Arjun Nambiar

Topic: below

  • Transplantation
  • Pancreatitis
  • Epistaxis and its management
  • Disorders of coagulation
  • Disorders of growth, differentiation & tumour formation
  • Dialysis/CVVH
  • Testicular scrotal disorders

 


Date: 13/03/2025

Time: 0900 – 1600

Venue:

Lecture theatre, Mirfield Centre, University Hospital of North Tees

Lead:

Mr Peshang Abdulhannan

Topic: below

  • Benign Breast Disease
  • Breast Cancer
  • Management of postop pain & problems
  • Parathyroid disease and calcium homeostasis
  • Shock
  • Peptic ulcer disease

 


Apr – July 2025 sessions TBC

 

 

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