Overview - General Surgery

Ethicon Endo-Surgery offers an array of educational resources, organized as a step-by-step journey, to help you achieve your learning goals. The following are some examples of the kinds of educational opportunities that await you at each step along your journey. You can create your own customized learning journey at EESeducation.com.

Step 1: Awareness
Discover new surgical technology and techniques by accessing our online educational resources

  • View procedural videos, including single site laparoscopic cholecystectomy and micro laparoscopic approach to cholecystectomy
  • View product in-service videos, including Single Site Laparoscopic Access System, HARMONIC® and ENSEAL® Technologies, ECHELON FLEX® ENDOPATH® Staplers, and laparoscopic suturing

Step 2: Knowledge
Broaden your knowledge through interactive and hands-on demonstrations

  • View live web stream events discussing techniques and indications for SSL and micro laparoscopic approaches to general surgery procedures
  • Participate in one-on-one demonstrations of key technologies presented by your EES Sales Professional

Step 3: Skills
Advance your skills through virtual and face-to-face programs guided by expert faculty

  • Attend Next Generation MIP: General Surgery course
  • Examine “Case of the Month” videos discussing specific techniques and approaches for advanced general surgery procedures

Step 4: Confidence
Achieve confidence in new technology through preceptorships/proctorships (small group or one-on-one) and advanced clinical and practice management support

  • Work with a highly skilled minimally invasive general surgeon applying single site and/or micro laparoscopic techniques in an OR preceptorship or proctorship
  • View a webinar or video program on how your OR team can build efficiencies for performing MIS general surgery procedures
  • Review a cost analysis for laparoscopic colectomy, appendectomy, and cholecystectomy

To ensure that the educational event meets the needs of the participants, our courses and preceptorship/proctorship programs have specific requirements for participation. Please ask your EES Sales Professional for a detailed brochure that provides further information specific to each program.

Want to learn more?

Please contact your local EES EES Sales Representative. Or call 1-800-USE-ENDO to get connected.

You can also sign up for your own customized learning journey at EESeducation.com.

EES offers many courses, all of which deliver education on the safe and effective use of our products. Most courses last only one day and are available at several convenient locations across the United States. If you would like more information on any of our courses, please contact your local EES Sales Representative.

NEXT-GENERATION MIP: GENERAL SURGERY

  • Expand your knowledge, skills and use of single site laparoscopy (SSL) and micro techniques, and examine other next-generation technologies
  • Designed for advanced general surgeons performing over 30 procedures/month and performing 90% of those procedures using a minimally invasive approach

HARMONIC® TECHNOLOGY FOR THE GENERAL SURGEON: ADVANCED ENDOCRINE PROCEDURES

  • Experience the benefits of HARMONIC® Technology when applied to advanced head & neck procedures
  • Designed for general surgeons who currently perform 50 or more thyroid procedures per year who desire to use HARMONIC® Technology in thyroid and other endocrine procedures (also open to chief residents and fellows)

MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY FELLOWS*

  • Topics include handling complicated general surgery procedures, SSL and micro laparoscopic approaches to cholecystectomy and colectomy, the science of tissue management, a review of the safe and effective use of devices used in minimally invasive procedures, and a variety of practice management tools
  • Designed to assist MIS fellows in the transition from fellowship to practice

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