Workshop
CTEC’s The Cutting Edge: Introductory GP Wound Suturing is a highly practical workshop aiming to introduce the GP, Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Nurse and Paramedic to the fundamental knowledge and techniques required for patient assessment, suturing and knot tying skills.
Suitable for: General Practitioners, GP Registrars, GP Trainees, Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Department Nurses and Paramedics
Dates
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About
This workshop is of particular relevance for GPs, Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Department Nurses and Paramedics with limited clinical exposure to minor surgical techniques and those wishing to consolidate experience. It is strongly recommended as a foundation suturing workshop for GPs wishing to attend CTEC’s The Cutting Edge: Managing Skin and Soft Tissue Injuries workshop.
The Cutting Edge: Introductory GP Wound Suturing workshop features a combination of didactic sessions, demonstrations and hands-on sessions utilising animal tissue and other simulation models. It includes a one hour free practice session.
Workshop Content
Demonstration and Practical Sessions:
- Instrument choice and handling
- Knot tying
- Suture choice
- Needle safety
- Suture material
- Needle holders
- Simple suturing
- Mattress suture
- Making an incision
- Planning and excision
- Subcuticular suture
- Aberdeen knot
- Excising a skin lesion
Workshop presentations:
- General principles
- Assessment of patient
- Should you suture?
- Assessment of wound
Training Grants:
The Australian Government is offering training grants of $2000 per day to rural and remote procedural and emergency medicine GPs to maintain their respective skills.
Reapproval for this educational activity or a 1 Day Rural Procedural Grant in Surgery will be sought for the 2023-2025 Triennium.
For further information about the grants contact:
RACGP National Rural Faculty
1800 636 764
rural.procedural.grants@racgp.org.au
Workshop Inclusions
- Simulation models
- Didactic sessions
- All meals and refreshments
- Limited places to maximise practical learning time
2023 Fee
WA GP, GP Registrar and Trainee, Nurse Practitioner, ED Nurse and Paramedic: $800
Non-WA GP, GP Registrar and Trainee, Nurse Practitioner, ED Nurse and Paramedic: $1145
CTEC PPE & COVID-19 Lab Safety Workshop Strategy
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
This workshop is an approved activity in the RACGP CPD Program for the 2023-2025 Triennium. It is approved for 2 hours in Educational Activities and 6.5 hours in Reviewing Performance. Approval in ACRRM's CPD Program is pending.
Testimonials
"(That the workshop was) mostly practical was excellent and the amount of 'free' time for lengthy practice and envision was excellent. The facilitators were amazing and entirely helpful and delightful. "
"Absolutely the most supportive, credible and likeable facilitators I've seen on any course. "
"A more practical skill requires somewhat more practical hands-on than theory and that is what was delivered very well on this course. "
- Past Workshop Participants
Venue
CTEC
The University of Western Australia
Entrance No.2
Hackett Drive, Crawley
Perth, Western Australia
For more information contact
John Linehan
Senior Course Coordinator
T +61 8 6488 8049
E john.linehan@uwa.edu.au
CTEC acknowledges the support of the following:
