{"id":125,"date":"2012-10-10T07:40:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T07:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2012-10-10T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T07:40:44","slug":"the-top-course-hands-on-experience-for-transplant-trainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/2012\/10\/10\/the-top-course-hands-on-experience-for-transplant-trainees\/","title":{"rendered":"The TOP-Course: Hands-on experience for transplant trainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to attend the <a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-course.de\">TOP-Course<\/a> (Transplant Operative Procedures), a course for transplant and urology trainees run in Germany twice a year. Participants at the five day course receive both theoretical and hands-on training in kidney and liver-transplantation and multi-oragn retrieval techniques, as well as some valuable experience in anaesthesia for those interested in large-animal work. The course is great value for money, currently costing just 700 euros which includes transfers to and from the airport, accommodation, meals and all materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-course.de\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126 aligncenter\" title=\"Top Course\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/top-course.jpg\" alt=\"Top course logo\" width=\"137\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This definately goes down as one of the best courses I have ever been on. There is no substitute in surgery to hands-on experience, and the four full days of operating that the course provides allows the trainees the opportunities to attempt procedures that they may not get in their everyday practice in a relaxed, pressure-free environment. The tutors (Jens Brockmann, Felix Braun et al.) are enthusiastic and provide great tips to improve technique. The organisation of the course by Sabine K\u00f6hler is also first-rate, with as much fun had away from the operating room as in it!<\/p>\n<p>I would highly recommend this course to all transplant trainees, and in fact this has now become part of the <a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esot.org\">ESOT<\/a> educational program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to attend the TOP-Course (Transplant Operative Procedures), a course for transplant and urology trainees run in Germany twice a year. Participants at the five day course receive both theoretical and hands-on training in kidney and liver-transplantation and multi-oragn retrieval techniques, as well as some valuable experience in anaesthesia for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[202,211,298,300],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","tag-courses","tag-esot","tag-top-course","tag-trainees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}