Minimal Access Surgery: aMAS Bariatric

Contact Course

The three-day contact course is aimed at providing practical knowledge about everything that one needs to know about minimal access hernia surgery. This is achieved by way of 50% of time spent on panel discussions, live surgical demonstrations and 50% time on hands on training including dry and simulation laboratory.

Day 2: ASC

Day 3: ASC

Observership program

Observership include short 3-day period of attachment with the respective speciality unit to witness live surgeries and ward rounds of various surgeries as per availability in the respective speciality.

Mentorship program

Mentorship involve a much longer 3-week period of clinical attachment to the speciality unit with possibilities of surgeon shadowing through managing outpatient/inpatient services and assisting procedures/surgeries.

Objective Assessment Module

Objective clinical assessment remains the most replicable and standardised scoring system to evaluate the candidates’ knowledge and skills. This is achieved through the following methods in aMAS Bariatric courses.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

Online lectures are assessed by way of Multiple Choice Questions at the end of each lectures. 10 random questions will be asked once the lecture is complete. The candidate will be appearing for the questions and should score 50% to move on to next lecture.

Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

Skills and technique assessment will be done through OSCE at the end of the contact course. Each student will be performing various tasks like dissection, suturing, stapling, steps of bariatric procedures, etc. which we objectively assessed through scoring key. The number of stations will vary between 8 and 12. At the end of the examination, a cumulative score of 50% will be required to clear the assessment.