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Laparoscopic Neutering And Beyond 2025

Royal Veterinary College

6 years ago

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Date: Sunday 25th May, 2025 - Friday 18th July, 2025
Start time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: £2599

Key Areas
Development of the unique set of psychomotor skills required for laparoscopic surgery
Practical hands-on experience of laparoscopic surgeries including neutering, gastropexy, liver biopsy, bile aspirate, abdominal exploration and gastrointestinal biopsies

Are you interested in adding laparoscopy to the services you can offer your patients?

Laparoscopy can be used in veterinary clinics to perform neutering, prophylactic gastropexy, abdominal organ biopsies and much more. Laparoscopy has proven benefits compared to conventional open surgery including: smaller surgical wounds, decreased pain, faster recovery to normal activities and improved outcomes.

Laparoscopy requires a unique psychomotor skill set including: video eye-hand coordination, instrument manipulation and adaptation to a 2-D monitor display. A great way to achieve laparoscopic competency is to practice in a controlled environment, outside the operating room, using computer simulators. This affords the opportunity for rapid and sustained skill acquisition in a safe, ethical and friendly environment. Such training will maximise your chances of success and reduce risk to your patients.

This is a 3-stage course

Stage 1: One day onsite Friday 2nd May at the Royal Free Medical Simulation Centre
Stage 2: Various dates in-between Tuesday 6th May to Friday 4th July at the Royal Free Simulation Centre
Stage 3: Two day onsite Thursday 10th and Friday 11th July at the RVC

This is a 3-stage onsite course run over a period of 3 months. The first stage is a one-day onsite course at the Royal Free Medical Simulation Centre. You will be introduced to state-of-the-art, virtual reality, high fidelity, laparoscopic computer simulators and also have the opportunity to practice using real laparoscopic instruments in training boxes.

The second stage is a laparoscopic psychomotor skills course, using computer simulators. This is completed over a 60-day period at the Royal Free Medical Simulation Centre. This will include an introductory session, 16 to 25 one-hour, self-directed, training sessions; 3 to 4 one-on-one formative assessments; and a final summative assessment. Please see below for more information.

The third stage includes a one-day lecture series in small animal laparoscopic surgery, complemented by one-day of on-site cadaver practicals at the RVC.

Why do this course?

This course is designed to launch your “key hole” surgery journey. You will develop the psychomotor skills for laparoscopic surgery using a computer simulator training programme, proven to be ‘the most effective method to acquire and retain long-term surgical skills’ (Dr Pasquale Berlingieri).

Who is it for?

Veterinarians

The Speakers

Please see the RVC's website for speaker details.

Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as

42 hours

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