Skills Courses

Management of Surgical Emergencies Course

Eligibility

  • SET4+ Trainees in the General Surgery SET Program
  • International Medical Graduates.
  • Consultants

The Management of Surgical Emergencies course aims to assist SET4+ Trainees, IMGs, and Consultants to:

  • Make better decisions, negotiate dilemmas, and manage distractors in emergency surgery
  • Reduce error
  • Achieve better outcomes
  • Work more effectively within a team
  • Improve situational awareness
  • Provide strategies for getting out of trouble
  • Assist with Fellowship Exam preparation

Run over two full days, MOSES involves a variety of teaching methods including core lectures, skills stations, and group discussions. The course focuses on assessment and decision making skills for emergency situations, within the peri-operative period covering, but not limited to, the following:

  1. Upper Gastro Intestinal Bleed/ Gastro Intestinal Bleed
  2. Gastrectomy
  3. Bowel Obstruction
  4. Abdominal Emergency
  5. Post Thyroidectomy Bleed
  6. Laparotomy
  7. Complications after rectal surgery
  8. Intestinal Obstruction
  9. Soft Tissue Infection

With a high ration of faculty to a low ratio of participants, MOSES will offer you an excellent opportunity to develop strategy and problem solving skills for commonly encountered surgical emergencies in a small team environment, with senior General Surgical Consultants. MOSES is aimed at International Medical Graduates and senior SET Trainees, particularly Trainees and IMGs who are contemplating their Fellowship exam, and post Fellowship General Surgical Fellows/Consultants.

What's being said about MOSES? 

“MOSES is likely to become the gold standard approach to emergency surgery. It is an excellent two day course …
I would highly commend this course to other trainees."

"Impressive - so much more than I was anticipating, and i was expecting a lot!.  MOSES is timely and novel, and will change the way surgical practice takes place, a frame in which to fit our experience and a justification for the competencies"
 
 "A very good course - thank you all for sharing your own experiences of impairment or getting help from others.  As our mentors, it reminds us that we will all at some point be impaired, have complications, and need the help of others.  Makes it more acceptable..."

2024 Courses

MARCH - BRISBANE 

  • Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 March
  • Venue TBC

OCTOBER - ADELAIDE

  • Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 October (just before GSA ASM)
  • Venue TBC

Registration

Online registration will open at AEDT 16:00 (please note this is daylight savings time) on Tuesday 16 January 2024. Please visit the 'Events Calendar' by year, month to complete an online registration at the time of registration opening.

Please note, due to course popularity, the only way you can secure a place is to register as-soon-as or as-close-to online registration opening. We are unable to waitlist or hold places, regardless of where you are at in your training.

 

 
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