The Cutting Edge: Essential Surgical Skills | CTEC

The Clinical Training and Evaluation Centre’s (CTEC) Cutting Edge: Essential Surgical Skills workshop aims to assist the GP and nurse practitioner in attaining an improved level of competence in the techniques required for minor surgery. It focuses on the most commonly performed procedures. Safety is emphasised as well as the acquisition of one sound technique in each skill area. It features a combination of didactic sessions and hands-on sessions utilising animal tissue and other simulation models.

This workshop is of particular relevance for rural GPs and nurse practitioners, and to those seeking to refresh procedural skills and to update knowledge.

Workshop content

Demonstration and practical sessions:

• Diathermy set up (demonstration)
• Instrumentation – choice, handling and safety
• Knot tying, sutures, suturing techniques and suture removal
• Traumatic wounds
• Planning the excision, including sebaceous cysts and mucous membrane wounds
• Punch, incision and excision biopsies

Workshop presentations:

Consent procedure

• Understanding wound healing – revision session
• Haemostasis
• Local anaesthesia
• Complications

Suitable for: General practitioners, GP registrars, GP trainees and nurse practitioners

Cost: 
WA GPs, GP registrars and nurse practitioners – $970
Non-WA GPs, GP registrars and nurse practitioners – $1,170

Accreditation: Approved by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners as a CPD Accredited Activity (40 points) in the 2020-2022 Triennium. Accredited by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine for 4 Educational Activity and 5 Performance Review PDP Units and 5 MOPS points. It is approved for the One Day Rural Procedural Grants Program – Emergency or Surgery component.

Participants should contact their relevant college to ascertain their eligibility for the grant prior to attending.

Length: Full Day

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