Hands on BSS - Basic Surgical Skills delivered at Inovus Medical’s Global Education, Research and Innovation Centre

Course description

Develop core surgical skills with this 1-day hands-on course, ideal for surgical trainees and healthcare professionals seeking to build confidence in essential surgical techniques. Combining practical training, expert demonstrations, and reflective performance analysis, this course equips you with foundational skills crucial for surgical practice.

Prepare with pre-course e-learning modules on suturing techniques, hand-tying, suture types, and local anaesthetic principles to ensure you hit the ground running on the day.

On the day:

Module 1: 

Master basic suturing techniques, practicing interrupted and continuous closures on skin pads with video feedback.

Module 2: 

Perfect hand-tying techniques using knot-tying jigs and apply them in simulated depth closures.

Module 3: 

Progress to advanced suturing, including subcuticular, mattress, haemostatic techniques, and drain securing.

Module 4: 

Practice procedural skills with excision of a skin lesion and closure, integrating local anaesthetic administration and surgical principles.

Module 5: 

Gain experience with the incision and drainage of an abscess and the excision of a sebaceous cyst, focusing on precision and safe dissection.

Module 6: 

Implement your suturing skills and tackle a tendon repair using the modified Kessler technique, closing the epitendon with finesse.

With activities recorded for performance reflection via Totum software, delegates will receive structured feedback to refine and enhance their skills.

Learning outcomes

• To understand the principles of wound healing
• To understand the commonly used surgical instruments and sutures
• To understand the principles of local anaesthetic and administration and demonstrate this in the context of basic surgical procedures
• To understand, practice and demonstrate the incision of skin
• To understand, practice and demonstrate basic suturing of an incision
• To understand, practice and demonstrate suturing techniques including: interrupted, continuous, subcuticular, vertical mattress, horizontal mattress, haemostatic
• To understand, practice and demonstrate instrument tying
• To understand, practice and demonstrate hand tying
• To understand, practice and demonstrate the excision of a skin lesion
• To understand, practice and demonstrate the incision and drainage of an abscess
• To understand, practice and demonstrate the excision of a sebaceous cyst
• To understand, practice and demonstrate a tendon repair
   

Learn. Practice. Reflect. Excel

Resources:

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All of our courses are held at the Inovus Medical, Global Education, Research and Innovation Centre at Glass Futures, St Helens Linkway, St Helens WA9 5DT, United Kingdom