🗓️ Workshop Schedule
Day 1 – Foundations of Surgical Suturing
📅 Date: 09/04/2025 (Wednesday)
🕒 Time: 15:30 – 18:30
📍 Location: CMN_1/DD/16
👨🏫 Instructors:
Julia Opania,
Mohamad N. Kouja,
Karolina Maliszewska
Theory (20 min):
- Importance of surgical suturing in wound healing
- Overview of suture materials: Absorbable vs. Non-absorbable
- Needle types: Shapes, sizes, and applications
- Principles of aseptic technique in surgery
Practical (2.5h):
- Aseptic technique: Washing, gowning, gloving
- Handling surgical instruments (needle holders, forceps, scissors, etc.)
- Practicing simple interrupted sutures on simulated skin pads
- Interactive learning with active corrections
Day 2 – Precision in Suturing: Techniques & Applications
📅 Date: 14/04/2025 (Monday)
🕒 Time: 15:30 – 18:30
📍 Location: CMN_2/DD/05-A
👨🏫 Instructors:
Ghany Nasrullah,
Amritanshu Sinha,
Muhammed Burhan Nouri,
Albertyna Sagan
- Suture planning: Benefits and limitations
- Types of surgical knots
- Mattress sutures (vertical & horizontal)
- Continuous simple & intradermal sutures
- Knot-tying techniques
Day 3 – Advanced Suturing & Hemostasis
📅 Date: 06/05/2025 (Tuesday)
🕒 Time: 15:30 – 18:30
📍 Location: CMN_1/DD/16 (TBC)
👨🏫 Instructors:
Dunya Al Hachami,
Weronika Rymon,
Christian Salvesen,
Muhammed Burhan Nouri
- Principles of deep tissue closure
- Purse-string and locking sutures
- Hemostasis: Mechanical, thermal, chemical
- Locking sutures
- Pressure/corner stitches
- Z-W plasty
- Ligature tying & vessel tension techniques
Day 4 – Surgical Knots & Layered Closure
📅 Date: 13/05/2025 (Tuesday)
🕒 Time: 15:30 – 18:30
📍 Location: CMN_1/DD/16 (TBC)
👨🏫 Instructors:
Nikolaos Vasilas,
Amritanshu Sinha,
Mohamed Elrafie,
Yosias Woldetsadik
- Layered wound closure: All tissue planes
- Differentiating physiological vs. pathological tissue
- Knot-tying obstacle course (depth, wet gloves, etc.)
- Layered closure on models
- Recap of Days 1–3
Day 5 – Burns and Wound Management
📅 Date: 20/05/2025 (Tuesday)
🕒 Time: 15:30 – 18:30
📍 Location: CMN_1/DD/16 (TBC)
👨🏫 Instructors:
Nikolaos Vasilas,
Christian Salvesen,
Amritanshu Sinha,
Yosias Woldetsadik
- Incision types (basics)
- Wound management: Dressings & prophylaxis
- ABCs of burn wound care
- Dressing application
- Drainage placement & tying
- Incision techniques
- Final skill recap
Day 6 – Final Assessment & Certification
📅 Date: 23/05/2025 (Friday)
🕒 Time: 15:30 – 18:30
📍 Location: CMN_1/DD/16 (TBC)
📌 Final skills evaluation & certificate issuance
⚠️ Mandatory attendance for certification!
Basic Surgical Skills – Workshop Series
This six-day workshop series is designed for students eager to learn and refine fundamental surgical skills. Organized by students with the guidance of Dr. Michalina Ciosek, the series emphasizes hands-on training and clinical readiness.
Event Coordinator: Nikolaos Vasilas
Participants: Only 12 spots available
Eligibility: Open to 3rd- and 4th-year medical students (ED & PD)
Participation Requirement: Attendance at all six workshops is mandatory to receive certification.
Workshop Objectives
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✔️ Hands-on training in fundamental suturing techniques
✔️ Developing proficiency in instrument handling, tissue approximation, and wound closure
✔️ Understanding principles of hemostasis, tissue recognition, and decision-making
✔️ Preparing students to assist effectively in the operating room (OR)
Evaluation & Certification
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📌 Participants will be assessed through practical skill evaluations
📌 A certificate of completion will be awarded upon successful demonstration of proficiency
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