Advanced Miniature Access Surgery for Pediatric Surgeons
in Training: First-Year Fellows Course

First-Year Fellows Course — Ninth Annual
Held October 30-31, 2009  — Chicago, IL

The October course was the largest ever held in the program's 9-year history with 43 fellows from the US and Canada attending. As soon as we have a date for the coming year, we will post a "SAVE THE DATE" notice here.

Facilities:  The Northwestern Center for Advanced Surgical Education (N-CASE) is dedicated to education and research in minimally invasive surgery and development of new technology for training physicians. The goal of N-CASE can be stated as follows: "Safer surgery today, better surgery tomorrow."

N-CASE features a 5,200-square-foot education, research and training center. Several features of the N-CASE laboratory define a state-of-the-art education and research program, including an animate operating suite (for operations on large animals or cadavers), a MIS technical skills laboratory and a teleconference-capable classroom/auditorium. Research efforts at N-CASE focus on the acquisition of minimally invasive and basic surgical skills, analysis of patient outcomes, and the assessment of emerging technology in minimally invasive surgical procedures.

Course description: The course is designed to allow the participant who already possesses basic minimally invasive surgical skills (which have been developed during his/her general surgery residency) to progress to an understanding of the application of these skills for infants and children.

Course objectives:

• To describe important aspects of avoiding injury to other structures, positioning the patient and setting up the cases for an efficient operation.
• To discuss strategy to avoid complications of common minimally invasive surgical procedures in the pediatric patients.
• To gain knowledge of and skill in performing intracorporeal suturing and knot tying.
• To gain an understanding of the common pediatric surgical conditions in children that are very amenable to the minimally invasive approach and will hear from experts in the field about how they feel these operations can best be achieved.

Recommended arrival date:  Thursday, October 29, 2009.

Check-in:  Affinia Chicago Hotel  (Note:  Your course registration online will include the hotel reservation. Please do not make a separate reservation directly with the hotel.)

Program:  Friday, October 30, 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009:

5:30 p.m. - Recommended earliest departure time for flights out of Chicago

Registration closed

Note: All registrants must be first-year fellows in an RRC/ACGME approved fellowship in pediatric surgery. Do not delay registration. Space is limited to the first 34 registrants.

For additional information, please contact:

Sylene Calvacca
Course Coordinator
773.880.4340

or

Katherine A. Barsness, MD
Course Director

Find photos and brief bio sketches of the course director, host faculty and visiting faculty on page 2.

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