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2004 Learning Center
Thursday - Saturday, April 1, 2, 3, 2004
Hours of Operation:
Thursday, April 1 -- 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Friday, April 2 -- 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Saturday, April 3 -- 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The Learning Center is a group of educational “classrooms” designed to tutor meeting attendees on specific content areas. Attendees select the station topics they are interested in learning more about. Then, station coordinators offer instruction to small groups and target the level of instruction to the attendees needs. Attendees choose which stations best suit their learning goals and visit the station as long as they would like.
New this year, in order for every participant to fully experience each station, the Learning Center ‘Fast Pass’ will guarantee individual Learning Station appointments. Again this year, we will be collecting outcomes data in the Learning Center through either written questionnaires or skills assessment scores. Attendees may then compare their scores with benchmark data of all other Learning Center participants.
Who Should Participate:
- Surgeons and Surgical Residents of any skill level looking to improve their skill or knowledge on one or more of the topics below;
- Surgeon educators who would like to learn more about educational tools and methods;
- Nurses and GI assistants interested in minimally invasive surgery.
Basic Cognitive Laparoscopic Information
Coordinator: Blair Jobe, MD
Attendees will be introduced to the basics of laparoscopic surgery through
a series of topic-focused computer-based didactic sessions. Participants
will take a five question pre- and post-test, which will be scored
and compared with other participants.
Objectives:
- To understand the basic physiological concepts behind minimally invasive surgery.
- To provide direct feedback of participant knowledge base for a given laparoscopic topic before and after didactic instruction.
Communication and Information Technology in Surgery
Coordinator: Gretchen
Purcell, MD
This station will offer guidance for how to integrate the Internet into the
surgeon’s daily struggle to keep up with surgical
literature. Learners will be given a brief presentation of the tools
available, then a short quiz to evaluate what they just learned.
Objectives:
- To become familiar with journal searching and storage programs
- To become familiar with PDA uses for surgeons.
New Technologies for Learning
Coordinator: Daniel Scott, MD, Shishir Maithel,
MD, C. Daniel Smith, MD
This new 2004 station will familiarize participants with the Computer
Enhanced Laparoscopic Training Simulator (CELTS) and MIST VR simulators.
Several investigators have demonstrated improvement for surgeon OR performance
after short intervals of training on simulators. Participants will have the
opportunity to use both laparoscopic trainers
and compare their baseline skills to that of an expert performance reference
measure. A printed report of each performance on both simulators will be
provided.
Objectives:
- Practice laparoscopic skills on two different simulators
- To assess task performance relative to an expert performance
- Provide immediate feedback on performance after
task completion
Evolving Technologies for Tissue Approximation
Coordinator: Kenric M. Murayama, MD, Dmitry Oleynikov, MD
This new 2004 station
will feature today’s newest approaches to close
wounds, anastomose viscera, etc. Whether this is accomplished
glued, sodered, sealed, welded, or stapled,
participants will learn new techniques and engineering limitations. Participants
will compare bursting strengths. “Price is
Right” format will have all participants guess
and learn approximate cost of each technology they employ.
Objectives:
- To learn different technologies available to achieve tissue approximation
- To become familiar with relative cost of new technologies
Flexible Endoscopy
Coordinator: Brian Dunkin, MD
The Simbionix GI Mentor is one of most advanced virtual reality flexible
endoscopy trainers in the world. This station will
give participants the opportunity to learn a therapeutic flexible endoscopy
procedure
using this device. Each participant will have the choice of performing
an upper endoscopic procedure to stop bleeding or lower endoscopy for snare
polypectomy. And new for 2004, video stations featuring common endoscopy
procedures will be added to this station.
Objectives:
- To teach basic techniques of managing upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
- To teach the technique of snare polypectomy.
Suturing
Coordinator: Zoltan Szabo, PhD
Intense hands-on suturing including intracorporeal
techniques demonstrated with instantaneous feedback. Laparoscopic tissue
handling and complex suturing maneuvers are also
demonstrated. And for 2004, the newest iterations of laparoscopic suturing
trainers will be available for all to try.
Objectives:
- To learn tips on how to suture laparoscopic in an inanimate environment.
- To learn to tie an interacorporeal square knot and to place a stitch and tie a square knot.
Ultrasound
Coordinator: Paul Hansen, MD
This station will focus on ultrasound techniques and applications. Participants
will utilize the latest ultrasound technology on live models. The instructors
will demonstrate
and help the
participant do surface ultrasound on models and use
the latest laparoscopic
probes to practice guided biopsies on inanimate models.
Objectives:
- Teach basic techniques of surface ultrasound.
- Teach basic technique of laparoscopic ultrasound guided biopsy.
- Familiarize participants with normal / abnormal ultrasound images of the Common Bile Duct
Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration
Coordinator: Mark Watson, MD, Leo
Villegas, MD
Having learned how to identify common bile duct stones with laparoscopic
ultrasonography, participants will next learn how to remove them laparoscopically.
Using validated
models, and today’s
newest equipment including cystic duct dilators, baskets, and flexible
choledochoscopes, participants will be familiarized with a sequential and
systematic approach to retrieving CBD stones. Though a new 2004 station,
this topic remains
front and center
in MIS for most
surgeons, and will be learned through systematic
hands-on training.
Objectives:
- Learn what equipment is necessary/preferred to explore the common bile duct
- Learn a series of steps by which to perform exploration systematically
- Achieve identification and recovery of CBD stones using simulator models.
Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
Coordinator: Ben Schneider, MD
Many believe that unfamiliarity with normal pelvic anatomy has slowed adoption
of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. This station utilizes an interactive
CD, videotape procedure and pelvic model to allow surgeons the cognitive
and skill set required for safe performance of a TEP repair.
Objectives:
- To learn normal anatomic relationships
- Practice mesh deployment and securing techniques
Procedure Videos
Coordinator: Horacio Asbun, MD
This station will present basic anatomy and short videos such as laparoscopic
fundoplication, inguinal hernia repair, roux-en-y gastric bypass and right
colectomy. New
for 2004, this program
will highlight SAGES TOP 14 Videos
and other video clips from the SAGES
Library. To supplement
videos, participants will have access to SAGES web
quizzes related to these topics
to emphasize
the teaching points.
Objectives:
- To become familiar with the indications and techniques for the surgical procedures demonstrated in the videos
- To learn how to access SAGES web quizzes for ongoing independent learning
SAGES gratefully acknowledges educational grants from the following
companies in support of this event:
Aloka
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
Stryker Endoscopy
Contributions In-Kind:
Karl Storz Endoscopy
For more information, please contact SAGES
Phone (310) 437-0544, ext. 108
Fax (310) 437-0585
Email: registration@sages.org
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