SAGES offers a series of courses on advanced laparoscopic procedures and techniques. The topics are selected by SAGES Resident Education committee to address the breadth of interests of SAGES Candidate members. Upcoming courses will give general surgery residents exposure in foregut, solid organ, colon, bariatric and hernia surgery. The faculty will discuss indications and surgical techniques of those subspecialties. In addition to classroom didactics, each course involves an extensive laboratory experience.
SAGES resident course faculty includes many of the most experienced and respected endoscopic surgeons in the world. Tuition for residents will be free and includes hotel & meals.
Program Directors are invited to designate a surgical resident to participate in each course. Residents must be PGY 4 or 5 and must be a SAGES Candidate member to be accepted into Advanced Courses. For more information on Candidate membership, please use this link.
If you are a resident and interested in attending one of our courses, please contact your Program Director.
We believe that the ongoing series of courses are a stimulating and productive way to further expose surgical trainees to the techniques of endoscopic surgery, to standardize their knowledge base in the area, and to provide strong educational support for the endoscopic resident education programs.
Schedule of Advanced Laparoscopy Workshops:
Course announcements for all SAGES resident courses will send to all Program Directors and Residency Coordinators once the registration is available. Each program selects the resident to attend the course. In order to provide equitable service to all residency programs, each program will register only one resident per course.
2017 Resident Course (*Canadian Residents only)
Advanced Colorectal Course
November 9-10 (Thursday-Friday)
Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR)
London, Ontario, Canada
*Sponsored by Ethicon Endo-Surgery Canada
Advanced Upper GI/Bariatric Course
December 7-8 (Thursday-Friday)
Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR)
London, Ontario, Canada
*Sponsored by Ethicon Endo-Surgery Canada
Questions:
Please email vanessa@sages.org
