The MOET Institute offers microsurgical and laparoscopic surgical training courses to surgeons in a wide variety of specialties. Precision suturing and knotting techniques are the focal points in both microsurgical and laparoscopic surgical curricula.
MOET training offers a personal tutorial approach that is individually paced and considers each participant’s experience, skill level, interests, and goals. Instructors assess the participant’s initial skill level and design a curriculum of exercises with increasing difficulty levels to enable the surgeon to gain competence in his or her desired goals. Instructors also continually monitor participants on a one-on-one basis and offer continuous feedback while allowing for learner-centered development and discovery. Class sizes are small—a maximum of three students are taught in each course.
Participants work at individual training stations with state-of-the-art clinical equipment and instrumentation. Progressively challenging training models include a variety of inanimate materials as well as animal organs and tissues. MOET also offers equipment for photo and video documentation of the participant’s work at MOET for personal use or for presentation and reporting purposes.
Topics include the following:
- Improvement of visual perception and eye-hand coordination
- Proper tissue-handling techniques
- Meticulous techniques for microsurgical anastomoses and laparoscopic suturing and intracorporeal knotting techniques
- Features of instrumentation, equipment, and sutures that affect performance and efficacy
- Optimization of the equipment settings and surgical field arrangement
- Application of ergonomic principles
- Establishment and reinforcement of good habits; correction of erroneous technique
- Strategies for implementation and troubleshooting
- A comprehensive approach to microsurgical or laparoscopic surgical skill development for both fundamental techniques as well as nuanced execution
- Fluently choreographed movements
- The Economy of Motion principle
- Ambidextrous techniques
- Established skills standards and self-evaluation methods
The ultimate goal for the surgeon is to demonstrate efficient, safe, and flawless technique as well as an elegant overall surgical approach.
Audience
Formal one-on-one training and small group classes are designed for:
- the clinician without previous microsurgical or laparoscopic surgical experience
- the clinician who is self-taught and wishes to have his techniques consolidated and updated, reducing the time and effort needed to adapt surgical skills for clinical use
- the clinician who has taken courses or has assisted and/or performed in clinical cases and wishes to:
- Refine surgical technique
- Improve efficiency and results
- Reduce operating time and fatigue
- the resident or fellow who wishes to become proficient for clinical and/or research applications
- the resident who wishes to apply for a fellowship that lists microsurgical or laparoscopic skills as a prerequisite
Objectives
To acquire knowledge of:
- Basic and/or advanced microsurgical or laparoscopic surgical principles and techniques
- Proper physical and mental approach to microsurgery or laparoscopy
To develop:
- Control, efficiency, and confidence when working under magnification
- Facility with instrumentation and the mechanics of the operating equipment
- Skill level to approach 100% technical patency
To increase proficiency in:
- eye-hand coordination
- needle handling
- atraumatic tissue dissection
- various anastomotic techniques
- comprehensive surgical strategy
To review:
- A historical perspective of magnified surgery
- Current clinical laparoscopic surgical or microsurgical applications and techniques
- Current obstacles, potential research, and applications
To register for courses, please go to our registration page to download an enrollment form. If you have any questions about the courses, please contact the administrator at [email protected].