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This intensive two-day course equips you with the core laparoscopic skills and theoretical knowledge essential across multiple surgical disciplines. What to expect: Additional benefits:
This hands-on, one-day course is designed for medical students preparing for a surgical career and health professionals working within surgical teams.Delivered in a practical workshop format, the course provides a safe environment to develop basic surgical skills using jigs, animal tissue, or synthetic materials.With expert faculty feedback, you will gain essential skills, including: Exclusive Membership...
This hands-on, two-day course is designed to enhance your laparoscopic surgery skills, including suturing and knot tying.Through a series of intensive and highly interactive workshops, delivered by experienced faculty, you will have multiple opportunities to practise and refine advanced laparoscopic techniques, such as: RCS England members (excluding affiliate and surgical care team members) are eligible...
The Basic Surgical Skills course is your foundation for mastering essential surgical techniques, setting you on the path to a successful surgical career. Over two intensive days, you’ll gain hands-on experience in: These fundamental skills will enhance your confidence in theatre, helping you make the most of every surgical opportunity as you progress towards your...
This dynamic two-day course provides you with the confidence and expertise to manage deteriorating surgical patients effectively. Using a systematic approach, you will learn how to reduce risks, apply multidisciplinary strategies, and deliver life-saving care to critically ill patients.Course highlights: This course is accredited for 15 CPD points.
The ENT Emergency Skills for Trainees course aims to enhance the confidence and knowledge of trainee medical professionals regularly or occasionally involved with ENT pathologies. It will provide a comprehensive overview of common emergency ENT conditions in patients who present to primary or secondary care.The course features hands-on, practical teaching with a high faculty-to-learner ratio,...
This intensive two-day course, led by expert faculty, equips you with the skills and confidence to make life-saving surgical decisions and perform damage control in high-pressure trauma and emergency settings.Course highlights: RCS England members receive a 10% discount at partner centres.
This intensive two-day course, led by expert faculty, equips you with the skills and confidence to make life-saving surgical decisions and perform damage control in high-pressure trauma and emergency settings.Course highlights: RCS England members receive a 10% discount at partner centres.
During your foundation training, you will frequently encounter acutely unwell patients. This course equips you with a structured assessment approach to initiate appropriate early management, going beyond the standard ‘ABCDE’ approach.Designed to introduce you to the management of critically ill or deteriorating patients on the wards or high dependency unit (HDU), the course highlights the...
This CPD-accredited training is tailored for healthcare professionals aiming to carry out non-therapeutic male infant circumcision in a safe, ethical, and professional manner. Emphasising high-quality care for both children and their families, the course offers a balanced blend of theoretical instruction, practical experience, and ongoing post-course mentorship.What You Will Learn:
This is an advanced hands-on endoscopic ear surgery dissection course using fresh frozen cadaveric specimens.The course is suitable for consultants and senior otolaryngology trainees and will be delivered by international and national experts.Live dissection demonstrations will be undertaken by the faculty in all aspects of endoscopic ear surgery. There will be a variety of lectures...
The course gives hands-on refresher training for consultants and senior trainees in ENT emergencies that occur in areas outside their sub-specialty using fresh frozen cadavers. Non-consultant career grade doctors might also wish to register.The course will be modular covering the specific procedures noted below. Participants would be expected to cover 2 modules or all 3...
This intensive two-day course equips you with the knowledge and techniques to manage a wide range of emergency on-call trauma scenarios.What to expect: RCS England members receive a 10% discount at partner centres.
This one-day course is designed for junior doctors (CST1 or equivalent) interested in General Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Urology, and Gynaecology.The course aims to familiarise delegates with the equipment and instruments used in laparoscopic surgery. Participants will have the opportunity to simulate the manipulation of objects within a laparoscopic environment and practice simulated operations using a...
This is the sixth edition of the Intercollegiate course, spanning two days, designed for trainees preparing for a surgical career and gearing up for basic surgical examinations. Junior trainees are expected to master a range of fundamental surgical skills before embarking on specialty surgical training. These proficiencies are evaluated at the MRCS Part B OSCE...
This intensive two-day course, led by expert faculty, equips you with the skills and confidence to make life-saving surgical decisions and perform damage control in high-pressure trauma and emergency settings.Course highlights: RCS England members receive a 10% discount at partner centres.
In a time where foundation and core training jobs are full to the brim with ward work and service provision, it can be difficult to hone your surgical skills and gain the experience you need for your higher speciality or CST applications.
The remedy for this? Book some study leave, take some bleep-free time for yourself, and get on a surgical skills course.
So what types of surgical skills courses are available for doctors in the UK?
Are you a GP who has to see patients coming with cuts and bruises frequently? Or are you a physician, but still need to know your way around with a needle? Then a basic surgical skills course would be just for you.
These courses are for junior doctors new to the field of surgery and non-surgical personnel who are involved in invasive procedures, such as interventional radiologists, cardiologists, and gastroenterologists. Over the course of 1-2 days, you can brush up on your surgical skills and familiarise yourself with some of the latest techniques.
This course will cover some of the following aspects:
This course is designed for surgeons and gynaecologists who are new to laparoscopy. This course will benefit you even if you have done laparoscopic surgery previously but feel like you’ve lost touch and want to hone your laparoscopic skills. It is also recommended for physician associates and nurse practitioners involved in laparoscopic surgery.
Topics covered in this course include:
Suturing is part and parcel of a surgeon’s job. But even our colleagues from the medicine and emergency departments need to know the basics.
This is a basic surgical skills workshop for you to improve your suturing skills. New suturing techniques are developed day by day that allow surgeons to ensure tissue strength while minimising complications and improving cosmetic outcomes.
Learn the basics to add that essential touch to your resume including:
You don’t have to be a surgeon to practise surgery! Minor surgery needs minimum facilities and anaesthesia, and by taking a minor surgery course, you should be able to tackle minor ops successfully at your practice.
This is a chance for general practitioners, GP trainees, physician associates, nurse practitioners, and anyone in medicine to brush up on their surgical skills and build confidence.
Some of the minor surgery types you could be introduced to include, but are not limited to:
Of course, new orthopaedic surgeons and emergency medicine specialists who’ll be doing casting on a daily basis can attend a casting course to brush up on their skills.
You could also consider a casting course if you’re a general practitioner, physician associate, and nurse practitioner as well since you will are likely to take care of patients recovering from fractures.
You will get an overview of the following aspects:
You might wonder what’s the need for a joint injection course. But if you think for a minute, you will realise that all specialities like rheumatology, orthopaedics, anaesthesia, and even general practice will have to perform joint injections at one point or another.
This is an opportunity for you to learn the correct techniques to do it with minimal pain to the patients and good disease outcomes.
You may use the skills gained at this joint injection course in the intra-articular injection of:
We recommend a cadaveric course for senior trainees like registrars. It will provide you with a chance to practise complex surgical procedures on cadavers, such as specially embalmed thiel cadavers, so you can appreciate the real anatomy of the human body.
This cadaveric course presents an exclusive opportunity for a limited number of participants to hone their surgical skills.
Advanced surgical operations you may be exposed to during the course include:
Robotic surgery is the next big thing in surgery, known for its minimally invasive approach, precision, and low complication rate. Senior registrars and consultants interested in learning to operate using the da Vinci robot and similar techniques can participate in this course.
Through simulations and cadaveric operations, the course will allow you to start from scratch and build a good foundation in this new approach to surgery.
Robotic surgery procedures that might be learned include,