BASIC SURGICAL SKILLS COURSE

Venue: Laboratory for Clinical Skills & Simulation, Medical School, University of Cyprus

COURSE PROGRAMME
Day 1
Time Topic Location

08:30 Registration and faculty meeting Reception and seminar room

09:00 Introduction Seminar room

Wet lab
Gowning & Gloving
demo
practice
Wet lab
Handling instruments demo
practice
Wet lab
Knots - Reef knot, instrument tie Assessment demo
practice
11:00 Coffee Break
Wet lab
Knots - Surgeons knot, tie at depth Assessment demo
practice
Wet lab
Suturing - Needle manipulation and driving, interrupted, demo
subcuticular, vertical mattress Assessment practice
13:00 Lunch Break
Skin lesions and LA techniques - Skin lesions, sebaceous Wet lab
13:30 cyst
(demo and practice)
15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Diathermy (practical & seminar) Wet lab

(structured practice)
16:30 Question and answer session Seminar room
 Day 2

Time Topic Location

09:00 Skills consolidation/OSAT Wet lab

(practice & assessment)

Abdominal incision and closure Wet lab

(demo and practice)
11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Haemostasis - ligation in continuity', pedicle ligation,

transfixation Wet lab
(demo and practice)
End to end bowel anastomosis - interrupted, instrument tied Wet lab
knots (demo and practice)

13:30 Question and answer session, certification Seminar room

Course Moderators
• Dr Evaggelia Gougoudi (Head of Laboratory for Clinical Skills & Simulation)
• Dr Nikolaos Gouvas (Assist. Prof. of Surgery)

Course Faculty
• Dr Nikoletta Dimitriou (Lecturer of Surgery, General & Colorectal Surgeon)
• Dr Chrysanthos Georgiou (Head of Surgical Department, General, Trauma &
Colorectal Surgeon)
• Dr Evaggelia Gougoudi (Head of Laboratory for Clinical Skills & Simulation,
Paediatric Surgeon)
• Dr Nikolaos Gouvas (Assist. Prof of Surgery, General & Colorectal Surgeon)
• Dr Dionysios Koufoudakis (General, Trauma & Breast Surgeon)
• Dr Christos Thrasyvoulou (General Surgeon)
• Dr Anneza Yiallourou (Assist. Prof. of Surgery, Breast Surgeon)