Taught Courses and Workshops
A number of Taught Courses and Workshops will be offered throughout the meeting.
A Course Fee will be charged for attendance on these Courses in addition to the Conference Registration Fee applicable. Numbers are strictly limited and places will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
The Fight Against Surgical Site Infection
2.00pm - 5.30pm, Wednesday 13th May 2009
Maximum 100 delegates
Course Fee: Delegates charged a refundable £50 deposit
Sponsored by ETHICON Products
Repeated:
2.00pm - 5.00pm, Thursday 14th May 2009
Maximum 85 delegates
With the current cost of Surgical Site Infections in the UK estimated at £758,000,000 per annum and rising, this taught course addresses the highly topical issue of how we can reduce the risk of infection. Professor David Leaper, Visiting Professor at the Department of Wound Healing, Cardiff University, will chair this session outlining the National Institute of Clinical Evidence Guidelines on Surgical Site Infection and the recent ASGBI HAI Consensus Conference. Dr Jacqui Reilly, Consultant Epidemiologist/Head of Group, Health Protection Scotland will present on the prevalence and surveillance of SSI in the UK and Andrew McBain, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester will outline how biofilms form and what measures can be taken to prevent their formation in the fight against SSI.
If you are interested in the issue of Surgical Site Infection and how you can work to reduce the risk of infection in your practice, this course is ideal for you.
Laparoscopic Access - a safe entry technique and overcoming complications
11.00am – 12.00pm, Thursday 14th May 2009
Maximum 50 delegates
Course Fee: Delegates charged a refundable £50 deposit
Sponsored by Ethicon Endo-Surgery
30 years of laparoscopic surgery and the injury rate from primary port insertion is still approximately 3 in 1000. Moreover, 50% of laparoscopic injuries still occur during access. In this course, aimed at surgical trainees, delegates will learn more about the 4 basic techniques: Hassan, Verses needle, Direct, and Optically-guided entry methods. Guidance will be provided on safer entry, the potential complications - how to spot & deal with them, and the legal stand point.
British Journal of Surgery: How to Write a Clinical Paper
2.00pm – 5.00pm, Thursday 14th May 2009
Maximum 50 delegates
Course Fee: £50 if registering to attend the Congress, £100 if not.
Headed by the Editors of the BJS
Designed to help you get your work into print. It is not an attempt to cover every aspect of writing, nor is it possible to go into detail of the pros and cons of different types of study design or data interpretation. Instead, this course focuses on those basic skills common to all published work that can make the difference between acceptance and rejection.
The course is designed to be interactive and is divided into short interactive sections, each consisting of one or more brief tutorials, a series of related tasks, small group discussion and a review. Many of the text examples included have been taken from papers published in the British Journal of Surgery over the past few years.
Advanced PowerPoint
9.00am – 12.30pm, Friday 15th May 2009
Maximum 15 delegates
Course Fee: £50 if registering to attend the Congress, £100 if not.
Delegates are required to provide their own laptop with Microsoft Office 2003 and PowerPoint 2003 installed.
Sponsored by SLA Associates
James Lovell and his team have been providing superb AV services for the Association’s Congress for many years and this is your chance to learn the tricks of the trade from some of the experts in the business. This practical course offers a brief refresher of basic PowerPoint before exploring more advanced PowerPoint options, such as embedding and translating videos and sound inserts into AV presentations, advanced animation, etc. Suitable for any-one with a basic knowledge of PowerPoint.