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.