Course in basic surgical skills

The Department of Surgery is holding the first ever Basic Surgical Skills course in Malta at the Medical School, Guardamangia, between tomorrow and Wednesday; it will be attended by 14 participants.

The three-day course is the first step towards enabling doctors to qualify as surgeons. It covers a range of skills and techniques required for open surgery, dealing with trauma and orthopaedics as well as minimal access surgery. The local co-ordinator is Professor Godfrey LaFerla, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. Charles Borg Galea is providing local technical support.

The Basic Surgical Skills course is being undertaken in conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The visiting Faculty team includes Christopher Morran, Andrew Ogden and Paul Teenan as consultant surgeons and Robert McAnnany as the technical officer.

A course dinner will be held on the final evening, where participants and tutors get the chance to meet each other informally. At the end of the dinner the successful participants will be awarded their certification.

This event has been sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Professional Export through their local representatives, A.M. Mangion.