Surgical Skills for Students and Health Professionals
This hands-on, one-day course is designed for medical students preparing to embark on a surgical career, and health professionals in roles relating to surgery (see Suitability section below).
Taught in a practical workshop format, this course will teach you how to perform basic surgical procedures in a safe environment, working with jigs and animal or synthetic tissue.
With feedback from faculty, you will develop essential surgical skills such as gowning and gloving, skin preparation and draping, suturing techniques and knot tying.
Completing the Surgical Skills for Students and Health Professionals course entitles medical students, foundation and core trainees to 12 months complimentary Affiliate Membership. After completing your post-course evaluation, apply for membership as normal and the cost will be removed from your basket.
RCS membership entitles you to a 10% discount on this course at partner centres. Find out if you're eligible to join or transfer.
To see a list of our current Surgical Skills for Students and Health Professionals course centres please click here (correct as of May 2020).
Suture practice kit
Limbs and Things are offering a 10% discount on their Suture Tutor kit to SSSHP participants. This kit is designed for you to practise your knotting and suturing skills at home and consolidate what you learn on the course.
Find out more about the kit here.
- £99.00
- 1 day
- 6.00 CPD Points
Suitability
This course is aimed at medical students and any health professional who is required to work in an operating theatre environment or carry out basic knotting and suturing, such as Operating Department Practitioners, Surgical First Assistants, Physician Associates and Cardiac Physiologists. It may also be useful for allied health professionals who are considering moving into a career relating to surgery.
Learning Outcomes
Following the course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a safe set of aseptic skills
- Recognise the function, and demonstrate the safe handling, of a basic set of instruments
- Tie a safe and secure knot
- Close a wound safely and appropriately
- Demonstrate safe and appropriate tissue handling
- Identify principles for the safe use of local anaesthetic
Format
Additional Information
Course content
Activities include:
- surgical handwashing
- gowning and double-gloving
- skin preparation and draping
- tying a variety of surgical knots
- handling key surgical instruments
- interrupted, mattress and subcuticular suturing
- local anaesthetic techniques
- excision of skin lesion
- excision of sebaceous cyst
Course materials
As part of the course, you will receive:
- one years’ access to course videos on the virtual learning environment;
- companion handbook with step-by-step instructions for all the skills taught on the course, sections on theatre environment and etiquette, and reflective activities.
- certificate of attendance.
Take a look at a sample Surgical Skills for Students and Health Professionals programme
10% discount on this course for RCS Affiliates and Associates
Affiliates and Associates benefit from a 10% discount on this course when held at our Partner centres.
Your discount will be applied automatically when booking.
Booking Options
Approved Regional Courses
18
Nov
2023
Here is an overview of the programme
£125
Pricing notes:
Full price: £125
Course Fees:
Please note, we require full payment upon booking. Take a look at the cancellation policy first.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Location:
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHULL
HU3 2JZ
United Kingdom
janine.peck1@nhs.net
01482 816672
Instructions:
Ms J Peck, janine.peck1@nhs.net, 01482 816672 View in Google MapsBooking details
Pricing notes:
Full price: £125
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Royal College Of Surgeons Courses
12
Apr
2023
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from £99.00
Pricing notes:
Full price: £99.00
RCS Affiliates: £89.10
Course Fees:
Please note, we require full payment upon booking. Take a look at the cancellation policy first.
LONDON, United Kingdom
Location:
RCS - Bjorn Saven Centre for Surgical Education35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
LONDON
WC2A 3PE
United Kingdom
education@rcseng.ac.uk
020 7869 6300 View in Google Maps
| Medical student place |
£99.00 RCS Affiliates: £89.10 |
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| Standard place |
£249.00 RCS Affiliates: £224.10 RCS England Surgical Associates: £224.10 |
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20
May
2023
Here is an overview of the programme
from £99.00
Pricing notes:
Full price: £99.00
RCS Affiliates: £89.10
Course Fees:
Please note, we require full payment upon booking. Take a look at the cancellation policy first.
LONDON, United Kingdom
Location:
RCS - Bjorn Saven Centre for Surgical Education35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
LONDON
WC2A 3PE
United Kingdom
education@rcseng.ac.uk
020 7869 6300 View in Google Maps
Book online
Book online
26
May
2023
Here is an overview of the programme
from £99.00
Pricing notes:
Full price: £99.00
RCS Affiliates: £89.10
Course Fees:
Please note, we require full payment upon booking. Take a look at the cancellation policy first.
LONDON, United Kingdom
Location:
RCS - Bjorn Saven Centre for Surgical Education35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
LONDON
WC2A 3PE
United Kingdom
education@rcseng.ac.uk
020 7869 6300 View in Google Maps
| Medical student place |
£99.00 RCS Affiliates: £89.10 |
Book Now |
| Standard place |
£249.00 RCS Affiliates: £224.10 RCS England Surgical Associates: £224.10 |
Book Now |
Book online
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Further information and queries
You can get in touch with us by emailing education@rcseng.ac.uk
We will endeavour to reply to you as soon as possible. Usually this is within a couple of days. Please note we do not work weekends.
Phone us
Call 020 7869 6300 to talk with a member of our team.
We are available to answer calls during our working hours of 8.30am–5:00pm, Monday–Friday and there is a voicemail outside this time.