Basic Orthopaedic Procedural Skills Course

• Overview
• Programme
• Fees
• Location

• Please Note

  This course is fully booked. You may add yourself to the waiting list using the button to the right, and if a place becomes available someone from the Education team will be in touch.

  By attending this course you will learn the principles of skin suturing, plastering, digital nerve blocks, joint aspiration, emergency fracture treatment and spinal immobilisation.

  This course will:

  • Introduce basic procedural skills applicable for junior doctors completing orthopaedic placements or involved in the emergency treatment of orthopaedic patients
  • Introduce basic knowledge and fundamental principles required to perform each skill
  • Allow practice and guidance of each skill in a simulated, safe environment
  • Improve understanding and confidence with these procedures

  The course is taught by an experienced faculty including:

  • Hannah Bradman (course convenor) - Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar
  • Andrew Marsh (course convenor) - Orthopaedic Senior Trauma Fellow
  • Steph Spence - Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar
  • Liz Crighton - Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar

  This course is suitable for:

  • All Foundation Doctors
  • GPSTs
  • Orthopaedic ST1s
  • Emergency Medicine junior doctors
  • Senior medical students

  Suitable for:

  • Medical Student
  • Surgical Foundation Trainees
  • Surgical Core Trainees
  • Surgical Specialty Trainees

• 18 April
  08:30-08:45

  Registration

  18 April
  08:45-09:00

  Introduction

  18 April
  09:00-10:00

  Session 1: Plastering - below elbow

  18 April
  10:00-11:10

  Session 2: Plastering - below knee

  18 April
  11:10-11:30

  Morning break

  18 April
  11:30-12:20

  Session 3: Skin suturing

  18 April
  12:20-13:20

  Session 4: Joint aspiration

  18 April
  13:20-14:00

  Lunch

  18 April
  14:00-15:00

  Session 5: Local anaesthetics and digital nerve block administration

  18 April
  15:00-15:15

  Afternoon break

  18 April
  15:15-16:30

  Session 6: Fracture management and spinal injuries

  18 April
  16:30-17:00

  Closing remarks, questions, and feedback

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• Category	Product	Amount
  Member	Registrations	£90
  Student	Registrations	£81
  Non-Member	Registrations	£90

• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

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