Surgery

Surgery

The Surgery elearning course maps to the UK’s Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme, covers topics such as peri-operative care and organ/tissue transplantation. The learning sessions include a number of interactive features, such as video/audio clips and animations, to help reinforce learning.

Features

• Relevant to early years surgical trainees across the world
• Written by experts from The Royal College of Surgeons
• Highly interactive content, with videos, animations and questions

Content

Perioperative care:

• Pre-operative assessment in general and the care of patients with specific conditions, such as diabetes, renal failure and common endocrine disorders
• Intra-operative care and management of patients, including safe positioning, fluid management, tourniquet use and the role of radiation, together with safety-related issues, such as sharps management, infection control, and incision and closure
• Post-operative monitoring, wound management, management of complications, record keeping and nutritional support

Transplantation:

• Principles of transplant immunology and immunosuppression
• Tissue donation, procurement and whole organ transplantation

Basic Science:

• Importance of homeostatic control
• Abdominal viscera: appendix
• Development embryology of heart and great vessels
• Upper limb: upper arm
• Abdominal viscera: large intestine
• Lower limb: foot (part A)
• Autonomic nervous system (part A)
• Autonomic nervous system (part B)
• Abdominal viscera biliary anatomy

Basic Surgical Skills:

• Wound management
• Incision and closure of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Certificate

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