2005-06-01 Surgeon Wanted! A kind-hearted, loving, giving, and sacrificing General Surgeon who LOVES teaching is needed to teach a hands-on class at the Green Valley Campus of the Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN)! Could we have 5 hours of your time - PLEASE? CCSN, in cooperation with the National Institute of First Assisting (NIFA), is looking for a General Surgeon to help teach Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. This class is the third day of a six-day, hands-on class for experienced OR personnel who are learning the skills to become First Assistants in Surgery. The surgeon will be needed for only 5 hours on Wednesday mornings (once or twice a month) at approximately 8AM. Lunch break is from 11AM-12PM, then, he/she will be needed until approximately 2PM. A humble, $500.00 compensation is waiting to say thanks for your time and expertise! Discription of Job Because the class starts Wednesday mornings, the students will have had an anatomy, indications, & considerations lecture the night before. There are usually 5 tables, set up as a case, with 3 students each. One table at a time will be rotated into the Lap Chole station, manned by the surgeon. The surgeon will then guide each student at that table through a mock lap chole, not including removal of the gallbladder or closure. The lap chole group will then move out of that station, and the next group & their table will then move into the lap chole area and the procedures will be repeated until all the students have had a chance to manipulate the trocars & camera, and use clips. In the meantime, at the remaining tables in the room, the NIFA instructor will be teaching other skills, such as deep tying, and closing during a mock Open cholecystectomy in other areas of the classroom. IMPORTANT NOTE: The purpose of this workshop is not to teach the student how to do a procedure. It is to teach them surgical skill and technique. The procedures are only backdrops for skills learning. In addition to learning the skills themselves, they learn under what circumstances those skills would be utilized on this case as well as others. Role-playing as the surgeon helps the student to understand what a surgeon would want from a well-trained first assistant. Role-playing as the first or surgical assistant helps the student to learn surgical and first assisting skills. The student also learns through experience and coaching how to work together with surgeon smoothly and efficiently. As in any surgical procedure, the scrub will hand instruments, load suture, and all other scrub functions. This helps the assistant realize fully that he is accepting an entirely new role and demonstrates how he must function as part of the team in that new role. He must respect the scrub position and rely on the scrub to perform his or her function without interference. Please call Jerry M. Kekos at 1-877-893-3369 or email info@nifa.com if you can help –THANK YOU! |