Laparoscopic Training Board

An astronomer in training doesn’t fly a space station at his first lesson. Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit, and the second space station ever visited by a human crew.  Skylab’s demise was an international media event, with merchandising, wagering on time and place of re-entry and nightly news reports. And so it goes for surgeons who wants to learn laparoscopy on their patients. To learn such complex surgical skills, it’s safer and more effective to practice first on a simulator, tissue model and animal.

Prof. Mishra performing Laparoscopic Surgery

In a new study, researchers at many centres has found that a complete laparoscopic skills training curriculum based entirely in the laboratory enables residents surgeon and gynaecologists to master their skills outside of the operating room.

“With the mandated reduction of work hours last year, the use of laparoscopic skills training in the highly specialized laboratory has become a greater necessity in ensuring the quality minimal access surgical education of residents,” said Prof. R.K. Mishra professor of Minimal Access Surgery at TGO University School of Modern Medicine and a Laparoscopic  surgeon at World Laparoscopy Hospital, Gurgaon. 

In Last few year,  many organization of world mandates capped the resident’s work week at 80 hours, reducing the amount of time spent learning in the operating room and in the hospital treating patients. To ensure that residents still gain the necessary skills in laboratory invironment. Laparoscopic educators have had to adapt teaching methods and are increasingly turning to virtual and laboratory training techniques. World Laparoscopy Hospital at Gurgaon, India is only institute which is fully dedicated for laparoscopic training and considered as world’s most popular institute for laparoscopic training where more than 3000 surgeons and gynecologists from 108 contries has been trained. The detail about this institute training program can be learned at http://www.laparoscopyhospital.com/SERV01.HTM

Laparoscopy has become a valuable alternative to open surgery, laparoscopic surgery requires a great deal of practice to develop the requisite skills. During traditional open surgery, the surgeon works directly on an organ or part of the body. But with laparoscopic surgery, everything on a television monitor. It takes getting used to, especially to develop the necessary hand/eye coordination.

The objective of training program of Laparoscopy Hospital is to conduct a regular basic and advanced laparoscopic training curriculum to be used in the training of surgical residents in the laboratory invironment followed by exposure in operation theatre.

In one of the study conducted at Laparoscopy Hospital, New Delhi, fifty surgical residents participated in a progressive laparoscopic training curriculum, learning everything from basic skills like grasping to more advanced skills like tying sutures and removing organs. Following completion, residents evaluated the curriculum and when they were compared with the consultant surgeons there was a trmendous difference in the skill. The exposure in the lab eliminates much of the initial learning curve that was once overcome in the operating room on patients.

Laparoscopy Hospital is expanding its current minimal access surgical skills laboratory and putting the finishing touches on a new clinical simulation lab. The facility will allow medical students, residents and practicing physicians to hone both their clinical judgment and their technical skills by practicing on sophisticated clinical simulators as well as real clinical environment.

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