This advanced level workshop aims to equip Rural Generalists with surgical credentialling and Rural Generalist Surgical Trainees with a reliable foundation in procedural skills, which in turn supports a greater level of service to patients in rural and remote communities. These practitioners should have access to appropriate levels of equipment and operating facilities. It does not provide certification of competence in any of the procedures outlined and practised.
Workshop Content
Procedures are first covered by a didactic presentation, followed by a practical cadaveric session with only two participants per station. Each participant will have access to dedicated cadaveric materials.
Presentation and Practical Cadaveric Sessions:
- Open appendicectomy
- Open bowel repair (closing an enterotomy)
- Umbilical hernia
- Dissection to display inguinal and femoral triangle
- Scrotal exploration (urgent torsion and elective hydrocele)
- Vasectomy
- Management of acute and recurrent ingrown toenail
- Management of subungual haematoma
- Surgical management of reducible and non-reducible hammer toe deformities
- Injection techniques for plantar fasciitis and Morton’s neuroma
Plantar fascia release for chronic heel pain
Training Grants
The Australian Government is offering training grants of up to $2000 per day to rural and remote procedural and emergency medicine GPs to maintain their respective skills. Accreditation will be sought in this Program for the 2026-2028 Triennium.
For further information about the grants contact:
RACGP National Rural Faculty:
1800 636 764
rural.procedural.grants@racgp.org.au
2025:
WA Participant: $1840
Non-WA Participant: $2120
Observer: $175
Theatre Nurse: Free of charge
Workshop content, date and convenors may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.
Entrance No. 2 Hackett Drive
Crawley 6009
Perth Western Australia
