Specialty Skills in Emergency Surgery and Trauma (SSET)

This two-day course provides knowledge and techniques to manage a wide variety of emergency on-call trauma situations. Led by expert faculty with a high faculty-to-participant ratio, the course is taught through a mix of lectures, practical skills workshops, and pre-course e-learning. Participants will use animal tissue to practise a range of vascular, abdominal, and thoracic operative procedures including thoracotomy and damage control surgery bowel resection.

The course is mapped to the ISCP syllabus and covers emergency surgery resuscitation, peritonitis, vascular emergencies, damage control surgery, pancreatitis, damage control resuscitation, upper and lower GI bleeds, and wound infection management.

Learning outcomes enable participants to describe and apply the RRIM approach (Recognition, Resuscitation, Investigation, and Management) to emergency surgery patients, outline principles of damage control resuscitation in trauma, discuss teamwork and communication in emergency care, and apply surgical skills to common emergency conditions, vascular emergencies, and thoracic/abdominal trauma.

RCS England members receive a 10% discount on this course (worth £89.90 off the standard £899 price). The course counts towards 3 PGCert in Surgery credits.

• Pre-course e-learning modules
• Practical skills station workshops using animal (porcine) models
• Lectures and case-based discussions
• High faculty-to-participant ratio
• 13.50 CPD points