MIS step by step: becoming experts.
The development of the intermediate course tries to go a step further, consolidating previously acquired skills, and deepening the mastery of movements and instruments, with exercises that pose new challenges.
Unlike the essential skills course that had been designed and thought of in the old paradigm of face-to-face courses, the intermediate course was designed for continuous training of at least 6 months, with more exercises, more variations in each exercise and with a new follow-up program that allows you to make the most of the trainer you purchased.
The path that we propose aims to achieve, through practice and discipline, having the skills that experts have before needing them in the exercise of the profession with patients.
The course has 2 stages:
Intensive Stage
The first month of training will be an intensive stage of four 3-hour weekly meetings with your instructor, where you will practice the intermediate exercises.
Follow-up stage
The 5-month period after this stage is the follow-up, through which we intend to reinforce training habits and continue to accompany you throughout this process. The ultimate goal of this process is to achieve the technical level of the experts in the execution of the exercises.
During this period there will be two online meetings, called reviews, in the fourth and sixth months. These meetings will have a similar format to the course meetings.
After each review every participant will receive a personalized report with the instructor’s observations and suggestions for keeping up with the training. The meetings will last 30-40 minutes per participant.
What will you learn in the online course?
1. How to set up your gym, use of instruments and ergonomics.
2. Knots and sutures.
3. Nissen gastric fundoplication.
4. Ovarian pathology.
During the meetings you will train the following exercises with your tutor:
• 3D transfer – Operating room setup.
• Dynamic transfer -Trombone.
• 3D Cut – Finding Nemo.
• The X challenge.
• Manipulation of long structures exercise – Pull the strings.
• Vertical suture: continuous suture, mesh placement and percutaneous transparietal stitches.
• Nissen gastric fundoplication.
• Ovarian pathology.
During the follow-up stage you will receive different lectures, bibliography, and tutorials on specific pathologies, so that you can continue training in your personal gym:
• Different operating room setups.
• Continuous suture.
• Tutorials for assembling biological tissue models.
• STRING technique for intestinal biopsy.
• Laparoscopic bowel anastomosis.
Who is it addressed to?
To those people who want to deepen their knowledge in MIS, who have knowledge of essential skills in Minimally Invasive Surgery by having completed the WT essential training course or another similar one, face-to-face or online.
Requirements and materials
You only need your MT Box trainer with instruments, a notebook or computer, a mobile device, and an Internet connection.
We send you your intermediate exercise kit when you purchase the course.
CONDITIONS TO TAKE THE INTERMEDIATE COURSE
1. Have some knowledge of essential skills in Minimally Invasive Surgery by having completed the WT essential training course or a similar one, face-to-face or online.
2. Have the ability to make intra and extracorporeal knots with minimal assistance. We consider a participant to have essential training if they are able to tie two intracorporeal knots within 15 minutes.
3. Have 5 mm laparoscopic material to take the virtual intermediate course. You must have: scissors, a grasper, a maryland and a needle forceps.
4. Have Internet, a computer and a mobile device (cell phone or tablet).
5. Physical space where you can organize your own personal gym, without sharing the meeting at the same time with another participant in the same room.
Intermediate Course Program
Intensive Stage: 5 meetings
Technical meeting:
• Verify the correct assembly and operation of the gym.
• Explain the use of the Google Classroom® virtual platform.
First meeting:
· How to set up your gym, use of instruments and ergonomics.
· 3D transfer exercise – Operating room setup
· Dynamic Transfer Exercise – Trombone
· 3D cutting exercise – Finding Nemo
· Manipulation of long structures exercise – Pull the strings
Second meeting:
• Positioning exercise and needle passage – The X challenge.
• Continuous suture exercise.
• Mesh placement exercise.
• Free edge suture exercise: percutaneous stitches.
Third meeting:
· Review of knots and sutures.
· Ovarian pathology.
Fourth meeting:
·Nissen gastric fundoplication.
Follow-up stage: monitored meetings in the fourth and sixth month.
Topics:
• Different operating room setups.
• Continuous suture.
• Tutorials for assembling biological tissue models.
• STRING technique for intestinal biopsy.
• Laparoscopic bowel anastomosis.
