INTRODUCTORY UPPER GIT ENDOSCOPY WORKSHOP – Friday 20th October 2023
Event Description
Introductory
Upper GIT
Endoscopy Workshop
This introductory workshop has been running for over ten years, now partnering with Tecmed, the Red Cross Hospital Skills Lab team and the GSH Upper GI Surgery Unit and is aimed at the novice/beginner wanting to improve proficiency of scope handling and consumables before starting formal endoscopy training. It includes a morning of interactive lectures on anatomy, common pathology, cleaning of scopes, sedation, diathermy, practical tips when starting upper endoscopy, followed by an afternoon of practical experience including scope care, negotiating the porcine model, biopsy, foreign body retrieval, haemostatic clip application, variceal band ligation, injecting, snaring and hot polypectomy plus placement of a PEG. The course is accredited for 7 CPD points.
Venue: Red Cross Children’s Hospital Skills Lab, Cape Town
Date: Friday 20th October 2023
Registration fee: R2400
More information: galya.chinnery@uct.ac.za Bookings: melissa.mohamed@uct.ac.za
Supported by an educational grant from the Gastro Foundation of South Africa
