Surgical workshops

Project categories:

Title:

The International School of Experimental Microsurgery

Abbreviation:

ISEM

Skip endless, tedious, theoretical classes; come and see the world from a different perspective: through the surgical microscope. This is the best chance for medical students to develop skills that are both useful and mandatory for a future resident/surgeon whose practice includes microsurgery or for someone who flirts with research that includes experimental surgery. This summer project offers a relaxed, yet professional working atmosphere, that will allow students to fulfill their educational goals but also to get to know other colleagues from international medical centers, to work as a team, to build long-lasting friendships, that will eventually lead to greater affiliation between universities and why not, to setting the foundation for future national and international projects.Click here to see ISEM's Facebook page Click here to see our Facebook page and thus, more details regarding our activity.

Subjects:

• Anatomy bases of animals used in experimental research
• Anesthetic techniques
• Drug administration methods
• Biological sample collection
• Preservation and monitoring of experimental animals
• Ethics, Statistics and Research
• Microsurgery basics

surgical microscope
special microsurgery instruments
microsurgical knots
microsurgical sutures – Sun Lee disc

• Vascular and nerve anastomosis on biological material

Methodology:

• hands on - microsurgical experience
• research steps - Why? When? How?
• more than 30 hours of working under surgical microscope
• best chance for students to try microsurgery
This course consists of 5 modules (1 module per day) with a duration of approximately 6 hours per module. The modules start on Monday and finish on Sunday (with one day consisting of social program only). Each module has a theoretical part assisted by SSCR trainers and medical doctors. The trainers will provide additional information to the presentations and will engage with the participants in discussions on the given topic. The theoretical part of the course is accompanied by a practical part consisting in demonstrations performed by the main trainer/doctor at a central desk. Each student will be given a surgical kit. The trainers sit among the students, they supervise and help participants in making the surgical maneuvers designed and explained by the main trainer/doctor.

Project categories:

Surgical workshops

Surgical - Multidisciplinary

Camps

Multidisciplinary camps

Title:

The International School of Advanced Surgical Skills

Abbreviation:

ISASS

This summer school will enable participants:to study and acquire advanced surgical skills in various surgical specialties, evaluate their workmanship and decide whether they will settle upon a surgical career, engage in a future residency program well prepared, both in a theoretical and a practical manner This project also aims to create: a relaxed but in the same time professional working atmosphere, that would allow the students to fulfill their educational goals as well as to get to know other colleagues from various medical centers to learn to work as a team and to build friendships.All of these objectives would eventually lead to better relationships between universities and set the foundation for future national and international projects.Click here to see ISASS' Facebook page Click here to see our Facebook page and thus, more details regarding our activity.

Subjects:

• Principles of asepsis and antisepsis used in the operating room; knot tying and types of sutures;
• The surgical instruments and their use, focusing on the specific ones for different surgical specialties;
• Plastic and reconstructive surgery skills (multiple skin flap techniques, tendon reconstruction);
• Vascular surgical skills (notions of vascular suture, arterial anastomosis and reconstruction);
• Digestive surgical skills (intestinal anastomosis-multiple types and techniques);
• Laparoscopic surgical skills (including performing a cholecystectomy on experimental swine liver);
• Skills pertaining to urology (partial nephrectomy, ureteral anastomosis and ureteral reimplantation);
• Common maneuvers (urethral catheterization, nasogastric catheterization, rectal and vaginal examination) performed on mannequins.

Methodology:

This course consists of 7 modules (1 module per day) with the duration of approximately 7 hours per day. The modules start on Saturday – the 13th of July 2019 and end on the following Friday – the 19th of July 2019. Each module has a theoretical part assisted by SSCR trainers and medical doctors. The trainers will provide additional information to the presentations and will engage with the participants in discussions on the given topic.The theoretical part of the course is accompanied by a practical part consisting in demonstrations performed by the main trainer at the central desk, whose instructions are followed step by step by the participants working at their tables. The demonstrations carried out by the main trainer are filmed and presented in real time.Given the fact that surgery involves teamwork, the 24 participants are arranged in pairs at the 12 work tables. Each student will be given a surgical kit as well as a trainer which will sit among the students, supervising and helping participants in making the surgical maneuvers designed and explained by the main trainer. Each technique is repeated until all students get accustomed to it and only afterwards is the next one presented.

Project categories:

Surgical workshops

Surgical - Elementary

Title:

Basic Surgical Skills

Abbreviation:

BSS

The purpose of this workshop is to give medical students from the III-VI years and residents, the opportunity to perfect their gestures and surgical maneuvers and also enrich their theoretical and practical knowledge.

Subjects:

Principles of asepsis and antisepsis;
Basic surgical instruments kit;
Surgical knots;
Wound management;
Types of sutures;
Hemostasis;
Intestinal resection and anastomosis;
Vascular resection and anastomosis;
Laparoscopic simulation;
Bandages and wound dressing.

Methodology:

The workshop has a theoretical component and an important practical one. The theoretical component is held by a team of students and organizers, in the form of PowerPoint presentations which contain well-structured information with explanatory pictures. The practical component will take the form of a succession of demonstrations conducted by the main instructor, whose indications will be followed step by step by the participants at their work desks. At the end of the workshop the students will take an evaluation in order to assess their knowledge and they will be graded. These grades, although important to the people who organized the workshop, are purely informative, and they will not appear on the diploma given to each student at the end of the workshop.