Workshop
CTEC’s Core Skills: Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery is a cadaveric and animal tissue workshop aimed at providing Unaccredited Registrars, Junior SET Trainees in General Surgery and Junior GSET Trainees with greater knowledge and increased skills in techniques in anastomosis and laparoscopic colorectal surgery. This workshop is offered on a biennial basis and will next be offered in 2026.
Suitable for: Unaccredited Registrars, Junior SET Trainees in General Surgery and Junior GSET Trainees. IMGs under supervision or progressing to an alternative pathway to FRACS., It is recommended participants have laparoscopic and suturing experience. This workshop is not suitable for Junior Doctors below the level of Unaccredited Registrar.
Dates
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About
It is highly recommended for participants to have laparoscopic and suturing experience, and as such the workshop is not suitable for junior doctors below the level of Unaccredited Registrar.
This workshop aims to provide participants the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of more complex procedures in colorectal surgery, consolidated by practical benchtop and cadaveric sessions in laparoscopic colorectal surgical techniques and procedures.
This educational activity will provide experience in procedures that participants may have received little exposure to in the clinical setting.
Workshop Content
- MORNING SESSION -
Presentation Sessions
- Anastomotic principles - sutured anastomosis; stapled anastomosis and anastomotic leak and risk factors
- Appendicectomy - techniques and complications
- Right hemicolectomy - techniques and complications
Demonstration and Practical Sessions
- Demonstration - Bench Top Stapling
- Principles of stapling and end to end anastomosis
Practical Session Utilising Animal Tissue - Open Exercises Bench Top
- Small bowel anastomosis, hand sewn and stapled
- End to end colon anastomosis
- AFTERNOON SESSION -
Practical Session - Cadaveric Laparoscopic Procedural Exercises
- Appendicectomy
- Stapled caecectomy
- Right hemi mobilisation
Registrants wishing to consolidate their experience prior to the workshop are welcome to contact CTEC to organise free practical sessions in CTEC's Research and Skills Practice Room. Please contact the Senior Course Coordinator for further information.
2024 Fee
WA Participant: $1030
Non-WA Participant: $1250
Theatre Nurses: Free of charge
COVID-19 Information for Workshop Participants
Workshop content, date and convenors may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.
Convenors
Accreditations or CPD Approvals
Attaining 8 hours of Continuing Professional Development. Reaccreditation with the AMA's CPD Home will be sought for 2026.
Testimonials
"I feel like a better junior doctor having done this course. "
"The faculty were very supportive and made the workshop very enjoyable. "
"I now understand dissection planes better and that it's not as easy as they make it look. "
- 2024 Workshop Participants
Venue
CTEC
The University of Western Australia
Entrance No. 2 Hackett Drive
CRAWLEY WA 6009
For more information contact
John Linehan
CTEC Senior Course Coordinator
T +61 8 6488 8049
E john.linehan@uwa.edu.au
CTEC acknowledges the support of the following:
