Surgical Skills for Students and Health Professionals Course (Nov 26, 2025)

Surgical Skills for Students and Health Professionals Course is organized by The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) of England and will be held on Nov 26, 2025 at Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) of England - Bjorn Saven Centre for Surgical Education, London, England, United Kingdom.

Description:
This hands-on, one-day course is designed for medical students preparing to embark on a surgical career, and health professionals working in surgical teams.

Taught in a practical workshop format, this course will teach you how to perform basic surgical skills in a safe environment, working with jigs and animal or synthetic tissue.

Learning Outcomes:
Following the course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate a safe set of aseptic skills
• Recognise the function, and demonstrate the safe handling, of a basic set of instruments
• Tie a safe and secure knot
• Close a wound safely and appropriately
• Demonstrate safe and appropriate tissue handling
• Identify principles for the safe use of local anaesthetic

Course Content: 
Activities include:

• surgical handwashing
• gowning and double-gloving
• skin preparation and draping
• tying a variety of surgical knots
• handling basic surgical instruments
• interrupted, mattress and subcuticular suturing
• application of local anaesthetic
• excision of skin lesion
• excision of sebaceous cyst