The Department of Surgical Diseases and Urology, including Postgraduate Training Courses opened the new Skills Center equipped for practicing manual skills in endoscopic and thoracic surgery, which also has a classroom for acquiring theoretical knowledge. The Skills Center is located in the Omsk Emergency Hospital №2 and is generally intended for training of residents and doctors of surgical specialties from Omsk, Omsk Region, and other regions of Russia and neighboring countries.
OSMU allocated about 700 thousand rubles from extrabudgetary funds for the purchase of necessary equipment.
Prof. Anton Yu. TSUKANOV, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Surgical Diseases and Urology, including Postgraduate Training Courses, noted that modern technologies make it possible to visualize the most complex surgery, so future surgeons acquire manual skills using simulators and practice them until they become automatic. This will provide the higher level of training and raise the competence of young surgeons.
Prof. Anton Yu. TSUKANOV, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Surgical Diseases and Urology, including Postgraduate Training Courses, noted that modern technologies make it possible to visualize the most complex surgery, so future surgeons acquire manual skills using simulators and practice them until they become automatic. This will provide the higher level of training and raise the competence of young surgeons.
The Department has carried out postgraduate courses for advanced professional training and retraining for 26 years, and has implemented a lot of new things including distance learning, surgical master classes from the leading surgeons, and the last innovation – skills center. The project was approved and supported by the Administration of OSMU, Maria A. LIVZAN, Rector of OSMU, Andrey S. KOLCHIN, Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Education, and was implemented in close contact with the Omsk Emergency Hospital №2.
Visual simulators and laparoscopic boxes in the skills center are used to practice basic skills - control of the laparoscope and surgical tools, fixation and movement of objects, bilateral coordination, tying knots, surgical team integration, - all of these are basic skills of endoscopic manipulations useful for general surgeons, urologists, gynecologists, thoracic surgeons. Students work on simulators in teams of at least two people. On laparoscopic simulators, six trainees can simultaneously practice the skills of high-tech surgeries, and at the same time, another six people can train tying knots.
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