EDUCATIONAL METHODS

The former involves stone extraction with ex-vivo and live-animal models using choledochoscopes, interpretation of cholangiogram, basketing, primary closure/T-tube placement, while the latter involve live-animal and cadaver training using laparoscope and robotics.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔ To provide the basic knowledge required for clinical applications
✔ To describe all the basic principles (instruments, materials, equipments) and present the most used basic laparoscopic techniques
✔ Hands-on training sessions to learn or improve performance of basic technical tasks in laparoscopic surgery such as intra-corporeal suturing and knots tying techniques, two-hands coordination for dissection, safe use of energy in laparoscopy
✔ To describe results and potential complications of laparoscopic procedures

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

▶ Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
▶ Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations
▶ Hands-on practice on live animals for four afternoon provide adequate exposure to all aspects of digestive surgery.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Surgeons who wish to gain comprehensive knowledge on all aspects of digestive surgery, including HPB, colorectal, Hernia, Upper GI, and Endocrine. And to learn or improve technical skills in one short but intensive course

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course each student should be able to:
▶ Safety introduce and pick up a 3/8ths curved needle in an appropriate position to make a bite through tissue
▶ Handle the needle to quickly adjust to desired angles
▶ Pass a needle and suture through tissues at suitable depth, angle, and distance for interrupted and continuous suturing
▶ Tie a safe laparoscopic Surgeon's knot
▶ Create a laparoscopic tumbled square knot
▶ Demonstrate continuous suturing, maintaining tension and completing the suture line safely
▶ Be able to apply the techniques to various clinical situateions, such as bariatric surgery, hepato pancreasbiliary surgery, or colorectal surgery

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

Didactic lectures, hands-on training on dry box on suturing models, ex vivo tissues.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Anyone interested to improve their laparoscoipc suturing skills.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

▶To prepare the residents ready for safe practice of laparoscopic surgery.
▶To describe and understand the equipments, tools, energy, and pneumoperioneum
▶To present the fundamentals of laparoscopic 
techniques. 

▶Practical training sessions to learn or improve the performance of basic techniques in laparoscopic surgery, such as intra-corporeal suturing and tying techniques of nots, coordinating both hands for dissection and safe energy use in laparoscopy. 

▶To describe the results and potential complications of laparoscopic procedures.

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

▶Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants. 

▶Live and pre-recorded surgical video demonstrations
▶Hands-on practice with expert guidance on simulators, ex-vivo models, live-animals

TARGET AUDIENCE

Surgeons in training who wish to solidify knowledge on basic principles and theories behind laparoscopic surgery, including instrumentation, ergonomics, technical skills, on comprehensive but fundamental fields such as emergency, pediatric, endoscopy, biliary, trauma surgery.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

To provide introduction of laparoscopic pancreatic surgery
To cover varies surgical procedures of minimally invasive pancreatic surgery
To provide hand on session to improve surgical techniques in laparoscopic pancreatic surgery through the practice on porcine models with expert proctor

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔ To cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery
✔ To provide introduction of laparoscopic biliary, liver and pancreatic resection
✔ To provide hand on session improve skills in laparoscopic biliary, liver and pancreatic surgery through the practice on pig models under expert tutorials

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

▶ Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
▶ Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations
▶ Hands-on training both cadaver and live tissue (mini-pigs) in experimental lab

TARGET AUDIENCE

Laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

▶To discuss the indications and contraindications of CBD exploration
▶To demonstrate various techniques of CBD exploration, with videos, live-surgery, and hands-on practice
▶To familiarise each participant with the manipulation of choledochoscope, including insertion, basketing, transcyctis, trans-choledochotomy
▶To practice on live-tissue CBD exploration techniques, hepaticojejunostomy, choledochotomy

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

► Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
► Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations
► Hands-on Practice on Live Animal

TARGET AUDIENCE

General Surgeons
Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔困難氣道處置流程的應用
✔體驗給氧技術的真實回饋
✔加強並精熟直接式及影像式喉頭鏡的技巧
✔學習進階氣道技術，影像式插管探條及支氣管鏡插管
✔超音波在氣道處置的進階應用

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

✔1:2 講師學員比1:4 臨床大體學員比
✔利用動物模組及臨床大體精進外科氣道技術

TARGET AUDIENCE

▶本課程設計的對象為對氣道處理已有部分經驗的急重症醫師。

COURSE OBJECTIVES

To cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in morbid obesity surgery
To provide indications for surgical treatment and discuss operative complications
To highlight technicalities of surgical interventions through the broadcasting of live procedures
To allow real time discussion between the operators and the surgeon trainees
To provide hands-on sessions improve skills in laparoscopic surgery through the practice on
　　　　　　live tissue under experts’ tutorials
To describe postoperative clinical results and practical applications of evidence-based
　　clinical medicine

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
　　　　Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations

COURSE OBJECTIVES

▶To cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in morbid obesity surgery
▶To provide indications for surgical treatment and discuss operative complications
▶To highlight technicalities of surgical interventions through the broadcasting of live procedures
▶To allow real time discussion between the operators and the surgeon trainees
▶To provide hands-on sessions improve skills in laparoscopic surgery through the practice on live tissue under experts’ tutorials
▶To describe postoperative clinical results and practical applications of evidence-based clinical medicine

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

▶Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations

TARGET AUDIENCE

Digestive surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔To provide the basic skills required for good progress in clinical laparoscopic practice
✔To describe the technical steps which are used for advanced laparoscopic procedures
✔To describe results and potential complications, and how to prevent them.
✔To practice on both pelvic trainer and live tissue in order to give the participants the technical capacity to improve their practice

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

► Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
► Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations

TARGET AUDIENCE

Laparoscopic gynecological surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

- to cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in pediatric surgery
- to provide indications for surgical treatment and discuss operative complications
- to highlight technicalities of surgical interventions through the broadcasting of videos
- to allow discussion between the experts and the surgeon trainees
- to provide hands-on sessions to improve skills in laparoscopic surgery through practice on live tissue under expert tutorial
- to describe postoperative clinical results and practical applications of evidence-based clinical medicine

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

- Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
- Hands-on training on live tissue (mini-pigs) in experimental lab

TARGET AUDIENCE

Pediatric surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Provide the knowledge required to integrate EUS into clinical practice.
• Identify different materials and systems used for different Therapeutic EUS procedures.
• Identify pathological endoscopic ultrasound images like submucosal tumors, lymph nodes, different fluid collections, common bile duct dilatation and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation.
• Understand the real clinical settings of therapeutic endosonography with new linear echoendoscopic equipment, settings like elastography, contrastenhanced imaging techniques, harmonics and high-resolution Doppler images.
• Address the indications, techniques and results of the most common procedures in Therapeutic EUS including radiofrequency ablation.
• Present the fundamental technical requirements of EUS.
• Describe potential pitfalls and complications of EUS.
• Perform experimental Therapeutic EUS as vascular embolization with glue injection to introduce endoscopic ultrasound in minimally invasive therapies

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

• TEUS hands-on training on live tissue simulated models with echoendoscopy stations with scanner, C-ARM and latest generation MRI scanner used as therapeutic imaging modalities.
• More than 3 hours of live transmissions from the experimental imaging platform.
• Interactive theoretical and video sessions between Faculty and course participants, with conference on hot topics.
• Difficult clinical case discussions with presentations from the participants

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔ To cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in Upper GI surgery
✔ To provide skill basis in laparoscopic gastric and esophageal surgery
✔ To provide hand’s on session to improve skills in laparoscopic Upper GI surgery through the practice on pig models under expert tutorials

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

▶ Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
▶ Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations
▶ Hands-on training on live tissue (mini-pigs) in experimental lab
▶ Optional Hands-on Practice on Cadaver Model

TARGET AUDIENCE

Laparoscopic digestive surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔ To cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in colorectal surgery
✔ To provide indications for surgical treatment and discuss operative complications
✔ To highlight technicalities of surgical interventions through the broadcasting of live procedures
✔ To allow real time discussion between the operators and the surgeon trainees
✔ To provide hands-on sessions improve skills in laparoscopic surgery through the practice on live tissue, and also to provide an optional cadaver training for TaTME under experts’ guidance.
✔ To describe postoperative clinical results and practical applications of evidence-based clinical medicine

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

▶ Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
▶ Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations
▶ Hands-on Practice on Live Animal
▶ Optional Hands-on Practice on Cadaver Model for TaTME

TARGET AUDIENCE

General Surgeons
Colorectal Surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔ To provide an overview of the complex anatomy of the skull base
✔ To cover a broad spectrum of the skull base approaches and describe the technical steps of each specific approach
✔ To discuss indications of skull base approaches and surgical strategies
✔ To provide hands-on session on cadaveric specimens and improve skills
✔ To become more familiar with endoscopic endonasal approaches
✔ To understand the rationale and challenge of endoscopic endonasal approaches to the skull base
✔ To allow discussion between expert in the field of skull base surgery and trainees

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

▶ Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants.
▶ Practical training on anatomical specimen

TARGET AUDIENCE

This workshop is intended for neurosurgeons, ENT to learn and practice the technical skills

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This program has been designed as a structured and systematic introduction to best established international hernia surgery practices that exist today.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔To present operative techniques by live operative demonstrations from expert centers
✔To describe common laparoscopic urological techniques and operative procedures
✔To describe outcomes and potential complications of laparoscopic procedures
✔Hands-on training sessions to improve technical performance in laparoscopic urological surgery

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

►Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants.
►Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations
►Hands-on Practice on Live Animal
►Optional Hands-on Practice on Cadaver Model for Radical prostatectomy + lymph node dissection +Radical nehrectomy

TARGET AUDIENCE

Laparoscopic urological surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To address the indications, techniques and results of the most common procedures in abdominal percutaneous intervention
• To provide the knowledge required for integrating percutaneous intervention in clinical practice
• To present the fundamental technical requirements of percutaneous intervention
• To describe potential pitfalls and complications of percutaneous surgical procedures
• To provide hands-on training to initiate participants into the practice of percutaneous surgery and/or enhance their expertise in this field
• To start the practice of endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound in minimally invasive therapies

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

• Interactive theoretical and video sessions
• Clinical case discussions
• Live and pre-recorded demonstrations
• Hands-on sessions on live tissue, simulators and phantoms

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is designed for surgeons, radiologists and any physician specialists involved in image-guided interventions. These healthcare professionals are committed to providing patients with the best, least invasive treatment appropriate for their condition

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔ Structured anatomic preparation, each step referring to clearly defined anatomical landmarks, after concise lectures and master dissection.
✔ Training places for dissection are very well-equipped with HD-videoendoscopy, a large variety of microsurgical instruments, shaver and navigation.
✔ Intensive supervision with at least one experienced supervisor for two dissection places.
✔ Specific adjunctive course material like access to essential videoclips of all important surgical steps as well as accompanying hand-outs are inclusive.

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

Each complete, nature-identical anatomical specimen is subjected to preparation by two participants.

TARGET AUDIENCE

ENT professionals

COURSE OBJECTIVES

✔ To cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in wrist surgery
✔ To provide indications for surgical treatment and discuss operative complications
✔ To highlight technical aspects of surgical interventions through the broadcasting of live procedures
✔ To allow real-time discussion between the operators and the surgeon trainees
✔ To provide hands-on sessions to improve skills in laparoscopic surgery through practice on anatomical specimen under experts' tutorials
✔ To describe postoperative clinical results and practical applications of evidence-based clinical medicine

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

► Interactive theoretical and video sessions between faculty and course participants
► Live and pre-recorded operative demonstrations
► Hands-on training on anatomical specimen in experimental lab

TARGET AUDIENCE

Orthopedic surgeons & plastic surgeons

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The B.E.S.T. program was created by IRCAD, a non-profit organization dedicated to students and young professionals in the medical field with an interest in Minimally Invasive Surgical Strategies (MISS).
Our objective is to educate our audience in MISS, regardless of their professional background, to make this training appealing, and to spur surgical innovation.

IRCAD France will be in charge of the registration for B.E.S.T. course.
1. Registration page：
http://www.best-innovation.eu/onsite-course-registration/
Registration will be open from May/June 2020.

2. http://www.best-innovation.eu/
To pre-register for the B.E.S.T. on-site course,
you must have completed the first two online models and successfully passed the related evaluation.

Secondly, please prepare CV, cover letter and passport for registration.

Course venue
IRCAD-Taiwan: No 6-1, Lugong Rd., Lukang Township, Changhua County, Taiwan. (彰化縣鹿港鎮鹿工路6-1號)
Feng Chia University: No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, Taiwan 40724. (台中市西屯區文華路100號)

* Please note that the accommodation will be arranged by your own and please look for the hotel nearby Feng Chia University.
*We will arrange shuttle bus back and forth during the course to take you to IRCAD Taiwan/AITS and Feng Chia University every day.

EDUCATIONAL METHODS

Education is provided through the Business Engineering and Surgical Technologies (B.E.S.T) education program, using the web and courses presented in partnership with the IRCAD and IHU in Strasbourg, France.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Students and young professionals in the medical / engineering field with an interest in Minimally Invasive Surgical Strategies (MISS)