Hands On Courses

I. BASIC LAPAROSCOPY AND THORACOSCOPY

- Basic laparoscopic skills, suturing and knotting, dissections

II. ENDOSCOPY AND ENDOSCOPIC INTERVENTIONS

- Upper GI endoscopy for diagnosis
- Interventions; foreign body extraction, biopsy and PEG insertion

III. BRONCHOSCOPY, MANAGEMENT OF DIFFICULT AIRWAY, TRACHEOSTOMY

- Rigid and flexible diagnostic bronchoscopy
- Foreign body extraction
- Tracheostomy insertion

IV. MOTILITY AND PH-MONITORING

- High resolution manometry
- PH metry and impedance
- Capsule endoscopy

V. FIBEROPTIC EVALUATION OF SWALLOWING (FEES)

- Evaluation, assessment

VI. US-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS

- US- Guided chest tube insertion

VII. ROBOTIC SURGERY

- Basic robotic skills