AGES WORKSHOPS
Lap-Demo Workshop
Click the below link to register for the 2025 Lap-Demo workshop.
Contents
Core Faculty
Dr Michael Wynn-Williams, MBChB FRANZCOG
Gynaecologist / Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon
Dr Danny Chou, MBBS FRANZCOG
Gynaecologist / Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon
Target Audience
RANZCOG Trainees (Senior Registrars Only) & Fellows
Date
Virtual Zoom On-Line Broadcast
Sunday, 17th August 2025
Registration Prices
| AGES Member / APAGE Member | $720 |
| AGES Trainee Member | $620 |
The registration form can be accessed via the link in the header.
Laparoscopic Anatomy & Pelvic Demonstration (Lap Demo) Workshop
Course Description
The AGES Laparoscopic Anatomy & Pelvic Demonstration Workshop is suitable for all levels of RANZCOG trainees and specialists.
It is a single day, intensive, pelvic anatomy primer, for those wishing to expand their knowledge of what lies beneath the pelvic and abdominal peritoneum.
AGES aims to allow access to quality anatomy teaching by providing a number of courses that focus on a functional laparoscopic approach to pelvic anatomy. The demonstration course allows for thirty registrants to participate in lectures, watch live surgery and interact with highly skilled laparoscopic surgeons as they delve into the anatomical aspects of the female pelvis.
The dissection is performed on female fresh frozen donors at the Medical Engineering and Research Facility (MERF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) facility in Brisbane.
Highly interactive presentations are followed by the relevant focused dissections. These being performed on six compartments of the pelvis and abdomen.
All participants will be provided with pre-reading and copies of the presentations a week prior to the workshop.
Registrants can expect to increase their anatomical knowledge and awareness allowing for improved surgical confidence and outcomes and reduced complications for their patients.
Directors
Dr Michael Wynn-Williams
Dr Danny Chou
Prerequisites
RANZCOG O&G Trainee and/or Specialist O&G RANZCOG
Lap-Demo Course Objectives
Facilitate a deeper understanding of female pelvic anatomy and laparoscopic surgical dissection.
Lap-Demo Learning Aims
To understand, and observe laparoscopic dissection of the female pelvis in relation to the
- Abdominal wall, and pelvic surface anatomy
- Pelvic bony anatomy, neurovascular relations, muscles, ligaments
- Pelvic viscera, bladder, uterus, ovaries and the rectum
- Midline and lateral avascular spaces, and the pelvic sidewall
- Surgical layers of the pelvic sidewall (ureter, vessels and nerves)
- Anatomy of pelvic floor (muscle, nerves, vessels, relation for prolapse surgery)
- Anatomical distribution of pelvic nerves including somatic and autonomic system
- Understanding of nerve sparing procedures in endometriosis and other gynaecological anatomical procedures, with a retro peritoneal approach for dissection
- Upper abdomen anatomy (sigmoid, caecum, small bowel, diaphragm, para-aortic lymph nodes, mesentery, omentum, ureteric relations)
Lap-Demo Learning Outcomes
- Enhance knowledge of the anatomy of the female pelvis in relation to laparoscopic surgery with an emphasis on pelvic avascular spaces, pelvic nerve identification and sparing
- Develop an understanding of laparoscopic dissection techniques with an emphasis on ureterolysis and access to the avascular spaces and planes
- Appreciate that the acquisition of anatomical knowledge and dissection techniques improves surgical procedures and is a career long process
Pre-Workshop Learning
Pre-Workshop learning is sent out prior to the event and is only available for those registered for the workshop.
Course Program
The final Course Program is sent out prior to the event and is only available for those registered for the workshop.
Workshop consisting of 6 sessions each consisting of a Lecture and video presentations (15 min) and interactive rotational dissection (45 min).
Opening of workshop: 0900 (AEST)
Close of workshop: 1645 (AEST)
Timings are subject to change
**Please note that your own smartphone is required for this workshop.
CPD Points
The AGES LAP-Demo Workshop 2025 is RANZCOG CPD approved. Eligible Fellows of this college can claim 7 CPD Hours for full attendance.
All attendance certificates will be emailed a week following the conference. Attendees will have access to download their certificates via their Currinda profile.
Please contact the AGES Secretariat if you have any questions regarding this workshop