Advanced Endometriosis Excision Training Course
September 22, 2024
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
All Hands-0n Advanced Training Course in Endometriosis Surgery
Rationale for this course: the excision of endometriosis (not surface ablative) is increasingly recognized as standard of care. For both DIE and for superficial peritoneal disease, removal of it is curative. The necessary laparoscopic skills for performing such radical excisional procedures include hemostasis, fine dissection, sharp excision of deeply invasive disease into bowel, bladder and ureter with requisite defect repair and integrity testing, as well as other non-Gyn specific procedures including cystoscopic stent placement, transanal stapling and even bowel resection and re-anastomosis.
This 9 hr CME and MOC IV accredited all hands-on training course (each attendee having their own station) is focused on radical surgical skill development leveraging highest fidelity real tissue surgical simulation models, close supervised deliberate practice, and full surgeon engagement in highly realistic simulation.
Intended Audience: Gynecologic surgeons desiring skill advancement in the surgical excisional treatment of Stages I-IV endometriosis.
Course limited to 10 attendees.
Course Venue: Clark Lecture Hall, Mount Auburn Hospital. 330 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Course Date: Sunday September 22, 2024. 8am-5pm
Follows the 2nd Annual Endometriosis Care Conference at Mount Auburn Saturday September 21 – 830a – 130p. Conference included in the course fee.
Instructors:
Mr. Barry Whitlow – Endometriosis Surgeon, Director ICENI Center, Colchester, England
Dr. Malcolm Mackenzie – Endometriosis Surgeon, Director Endometriosis Care Center at Mount Auburn Hospital
Course Schedule Sunday September 23, 2024:
8a-12nn – Hands on skills development:
Geometric principles of laparoscopic suturing and knot-tying
Application of Electrosurgical energy to tissue dissection, ureterolysis
Cystoscopy and stent placement
Dry lab suturing, knot-tying with application to bladder, bowel and vaginal defect closure with integrity testing of rectum and bladder
12nn-1p – Lunchpail lecture on Endometriosis: changes of paradigms
1p-5p – Application of skills to Stage IV endometriosis
Wet lab Radical Excision of superficial peritoneal endometriosis
Wet Lab Excision of DIE of bladder, rectum, ureter, including disc excision using transanal stapling