Basic Surgical Techniques

 An introduction to surgery and finally a peak at what goes on in the basement of the NET building. You will only have seven lectures in the first seven weeks and the practicals will be every two weeks. Each week will teach scrubbing in, knot tying, various sutures, laparoscopy and finally "surgery" to remove a nevus and spleen from a rat How to pass The lectures are terrible, everything you need to know is in the ebook on the institutes website Make sure you know the correct names of everything as well as the spelling Do not miss any of the practicals, each topic is only taught once and is essential for the final exam The best way to pass this exam is to get one of the eighteen exemptions that are given at the competitions There are 2 competitions during the semester Both will give nine exceptions each, the top three will get 5 the rest will 4
 * Sutures
 * Laparoscopy

The remaining nine from each competition will get an exception from that part of the final exam

There are two ways to get to the competition, cheat or actually be good and practice

To practise suturing get yourself a kit from the NET and a pork cut from any butcher and practice

For laparoscopy try manipulating objects with forceps while looking through a tablet camera, it's not perfect but it does help

The fastest people in laparoscopy are not necessary those who can manipulate the tools quickest but have a strategy that completes the task in the most efficient way possible

The exams
Midterms:
 * none Final
 * Entrance exam


 * Practical - several parts:
 * scrubbing in (pass or fail)
 * <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">knot tying
 * <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">suturing
 * <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">laparoscopy
 * <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">instrument identification
 * <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">theory topics

Difficulties
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">People will try to cheat any way to try and get to the competition <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">The Final exam contains lots of useless information that need to be learn, the oral part is especially useless, more like a history exam <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">The instrument identification can be difficult to do just from pictures, try to get an idea of the size of them relative to each other <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">The scrubbing in is a pass or fail part of the exam, remember to put your mask and hair net on before you ask for the gown and gloves <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">

<h2 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">Conclusion I really enjoyed the fact that this is a very practical course, I also think it give a good view into the very competitive world of surgery. This will not be for everyone but since it is not a regular as the other subject it will not have a huge effect on the other subjects