Events

A one-day foundation course introducing trainees to the principles of robotic-assisted surgery within the contemporary multi-platform robotic environment, with focused practical exposure to the Cornerstone Sentire Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) System. Delegates will learn platform-independent principles of safe robotic surgery, theatre workflow, human factors and emergency procedures, while gaining hands-on familiarity with the Sentire system, including docking, system components and fundamental console skills. This course is aimed at early years Surgical Trainees (CT1-CT2/ST1-ST6)

This course is aimed at ST3-ST8 level trainees and subspecialty (skull base and cerebrovascular) fellows. Teaching of the approaches are tailored to the specific needs and experience of the individual trainee. This workshop is co-organised by the east and west of Scotland training programs. The program includes complex surgical procedures which cannot be performed by trainees without prior cadaveric exposure. It covers the whole armamentarium of intracranial approaches and provides fundamental insight to very complex procedures. The focus is on enabling trainees to safely approach superficial and deep seated vascular and benign intracranial lesions arising from or being in proximity to the cranial vault or skull base. Trainees will gain a heightened appreciation of the critical structures encountered through these approaches.

This 2 day course is an interactive, case-based set of workshops of neuroradiological imaging. Each delegate is provided with a radiology workstation which contains a database of imaging viewed on a software that simulates how a clinician would view images at work. Each workshop is jointly taught by a Neuroradiologist and Neurosurgeon with discussion centered around the interpretation and diagnosis of neuroradiological pathology, core to neurosurgery followed by correlation of the imaging to the neurosurgical approach. During the workshops, there will be teaching on the application of the different types of imaging modalities and basic applied physics to enhance the learning experience and understanding. Learning points will be reinforced with bite size presentations during the sessions. There is no didactic lecture based teaching. Neurosurgical Trainees ST1-ST6

Presentations and debates by leading speakers in the field of Neuromodulation updating all on recent research and developments. The conference aims to bring together neuromodulators (consultants and trainees) as well as scientists.