Simulation workshops

Description: 

NGT is a medical process involving the insertion of a plastic tube (nasogastric tube or NG tube) through the nose, past the throat, and down into the stomach.

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of applying commonly used nasogastric tube insertion procedure.

2. Understand the indications and contraindication of the insertion of NGT.

Target Audience: PGY1 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: 

The use of or insertion of a catheter (as in or into the bladder, trachea, or heart), a catheter is a thin tube made from medical grade materials serving a broad range of functions. Catheters are medical devices that can be inserted in the body to treat diseases or perform a surgical procedure

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of applying commonly used for catheterization procedure.

2. Understand the indications and contraindication of the catheterization.

Target Audience: PGY1 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: 

It is done to screen for ear problems, such as hearing loss, ear pain, discharge, lumps, or objects in the ear. An ear examination can find problems in the ear canal, eardrum, and middle ear.

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of ear examination.

2. Learn the common ear conditions in primary health care (e.g., otitis media, hearing impairment)

Target Audience: PGY1 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: to remove excess ear wax or foreign objects (food or insects) from the ear.

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of correct steps of ear syringing.

2. Lear the indications of ear syringing.

3. Identify complications of ear syringing.

Target Audience: PGY1 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: a strip of gauze inserted into the external ear canal so that medicated drops applied to the outside pass along it and into the canal; used when the canal is obstructed by edema so that ear drops cannot be instilled. Ear wick for instillation of antibiotics into the oedematous external canal.

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of ear wick.

2.  Learn common ear conditions that ear wick can be applied in primary health care.

Target Audience: PGY1 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: Nasal packing is the placement of an intranasal device that applies constant local pressure to the nasal septum. Nasal packing works by (1) direct pressure; (2) consequent reduction of mucosal irritation, which decreases bleeding; and (3) clot formation surrounding the foreign body, which enhances pressure.

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills nose packing.

2. Identify the contraindications of nose packing and recognize when emergency referral needed.

Target Audience: PGY1 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: Foreign bodies (FBs) in the nose, ears and the oropharynx are reason for frequent visits to OPD. FB cases rarely go without symptoms, which are determined by the time or duration the FB stays in place before removal. In the nose initial symptoms are sneezing, serous coryza and nasal obstruction, eventually progressing after a few days to unilateral foul-smelling purulent rhinorrhoea. In the ear initial symptoms may be hypoacusis, otorrhagia, otorrhea or buzzing and the diagnosis may be confirmed by otoscopy.

Learning Objectives:

1.  Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of nose and ear FB removal.

2. Recognize cases that need emergency referral.

Target Audience: PGY1 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: Surgical stitching to close a wound or incision or to approximate parts. Suturing may be continuous or by separated stitches (interrupted suturing) and may employ absorbable sutures, such as collagen or catgut, or non-absorbable sutures that may have to be removed.

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of suturing and repairing lacerations.

2. Understand and demonstrate proper suturing techniques.

3. Learn how to properly handle instruments.

4. Know types of sutures and appropriate use.

Target Audience: PGY2 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: Removing part of the toenail where it is growing into the skin, along with the area of tissue in the corner that toenail grows from.

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of wedge excision of ingrowing nail.

2. Learn how to properly handle instruments.

Target Audience: PGY2 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: is the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of wound debridement.

2. Recognize the critical role of debridement in the wound management

3. To increase knowledge, skills and confidence with regard to effective wound cleansing and debridement 

Target Audience: PGY2 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: release pus or pressure built up under the skin, such as from an abscess.

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of Incision and drainage.

2. To understand the indications and contraindications for incision and drainage.

Target Audience: PGY2 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: Act of encasing a body part in a cast. A procedure in which a fractured bone is reset and immobilized in bandages impregnated with plaster.

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of applying commonly used casts.

2. To understand the difference between splinting and casting

Target Audience: PGY2 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: A pulled elbow is where there is partial subluxation of the radial head, with the orbicular ligament slipping off the end of the radius. The classic method for reduction of pulled elbows is supination at the wrist followed by flexion at the elbow.

Learning Objectives:

1. To perform a reduction maneuverer to reduce a radial head subluxation (nursemaid's elbow) in an outpatient setup.

2. To know when to refer to emergency department.

Target Audience: PGY2 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: a splint as a cast or wrapping material used to help set a broken, fractured, or dislocated bone.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify types of toe fracture. Identify indications, and contraindications of toe splinting. To be able to perform toe splinting independently.

2. To understand the difference between splinting and casting

Target Audience: PGY2 Resident

Simulation workshops

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of Pap smear procedure

2. To learn about pap smear results interpretation

Target Audience: PGY3 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: implantable medical device used for the purpose of birth control.

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of Implanon insertion and removal

2. Understand the mechanisms of action for hormonal implants

3. Demonstrate the standard insertion and removal procedure for Implanon

4. Recognize and manage the side effects and complications during use of Implanon

Target Audience: PGY3 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: An intrauterine device (IUD), also known as intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD or ICD) or coil, is a small, often T-shaped birth control device that is inserted into a woman’s uterus to prevent pregnancy. IUDs are one form of long-acting reversible birth control. Among birth control methods, IUDs, along with contraceptive.

This will help decrease referrals to gynaecologists and it will help the clients to decide about their family planning with family physicians at the health centres. It also will improve the quality of health care and patient’s satisfaction.

Learning Objectives:

1.  To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of IUCD insertion.

2. Understand the mechanisms of action of IUCD

3. Demonstrate the standard insertion and removal procedure for IUCD

4. Recognize and manage the side effects and complications

Target Audience: PGY3 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: An injection that supplements the fluid in your knee to help lubricate and cushion the joint and can provide up to six months of osteoarthritis knee pain relief.

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of knee injection management.

2. To know the different approaches of joints injections.

Target Audience: PGY3 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description:

Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. It involves inflammation of a thick band of tissue that runs across the bottom of your foot and connects your heel bone to your toes (plantar fascia)

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a medical condition due to compression of the median nerve as it travels through the wrist at the carpal tunnel. The main symptoms are pain, numbness, and tingling, in the thumb, index finger, middle finger, and the thumb side of the ring fingers.

Learning Objectives:

1. To provide the participants an opportunity to learn the basic principles and practice the skills of Plantar Fascia and Carpal Tunnel management.

2. To know the different approaches of joints injections.

Target Audience: PGY3 Residents

Simulation workshops

Description: This workshop will include obstetric procedures that can be done in OPD setting. It will help to decrease referrals for obstetrician especially for early pregnancy scan. It will let the family physician able to conduct normal vaginal delivery whether in primary health care hospitals or in emergency in health centres. It will improve the quality of health care and patient’s satisfaction.

Learning Objectives:

1. To introduce trainees to safe surgical techniques and obstetric clinical skills, in a structured workshop environment.

2. To learn the steps of spontaneous normal vaginal delivery.

3. To learn the steps of artificial rupture of membrane.

4. To learn the basics of Episiotomy repair skills.

Target Audience: Male Residents (R4)