PRACTICAL COURSE IN LAPAROSCOPY WITH DR. VAN GOETHEM

Minimum requirements

Graduated in Veterinary Medicine

From 02/12/2025

To 04/12/2025

City Spazio Eventi Unisvet - MILANO

Subscription within 18/11/2025

Event valued with N. 21 SPC credits* (for Italian Doctors only)

SPECIALISATION COURSE

Lectures will be taught in English

This three day laparoscopy course is designed to give participants the necessary theoretical knowledge but also the required skills to safely perform those procedures frequently encountered in veterinary practice.

08:30 – 09:00	Registration procedures and Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:45	Instrument introduction
09:45 – 10:30	Surgical room organisation
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	Energy-based laparoscopic hemostasis
11:45 – 12:30	Laparoscopic suturing and stapling
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 18:00	Dry Lab – Peg board exercises

08:30 – 09:00	Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:45	Abdominal entry techniques
09:45 – 10:30	Abdominal biopsies
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00	Laparoscopic ovariectomy
12:00 – 12:30	Lap-assisted ovariohysterectomy
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 18:00	Wet Lab – Pneumoperitoneum – Portal placement – Ovariectomy – Abdominal biopsies – Multi-port, single-port, and glove-port surgery – Lap-assisted ovariohysterectomy

08:30 – 09:00	Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:45	Cryptorchidectomy
09:45 – 10:30	Laparoscopic and laparo-assisted gastropexy
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	Percutaneous cystoscopic lithotomy (PCCL)
11:45 – 12:30	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 18:00	Wet Lab – Laparoscopic gastropexy – Laparoscopic-assisted gastropexy – Laparoscopic cholecystectomy – Percutaneous cystoscopy

Program:

Day 1 focusses on the material and instruments required for videoendoscopic surgery. This also includes the techniques of how to safely achieve hemostasis by electrosurgical energy devices, surgical ligation and stapling. The essential motory skills for laparoscopic surgery are trained in the afternoon on simulators.

On day 2 the different techniques to access the abdomen and create a pneumoperitoneum are discussed. Laparoscopic ovariectomy, the new golden standard for surgical sterilization, is the first practical technique learned. This is followed by the laparoscopic-assisted and glove-port surgery techniques for CEH and pyometra. In the afternoon access techniques and surgical procedures are practiced on models.

Day 3 extends the participants skill set by addressing additional surgical techniques such as cryptorchidectomy, gastropexy, percutaneous cystoscopy, and cholecystectomy. These procedures are again practiced in the afternoon on models.

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: € 2.500 + VAT

within 21/10/2025 unless SOLD OUT

LATE REGISTRATION: € 2.750 + VAT

within 18/11/2025 unless SOLD OUT

*In compliance with the FNOVI Regulation concerning SPC (Continuous Professional Development) Unisvet, being a CME provider and included by the Ministry of Public Health in the List of Scientific Societies and Technical-Scientific Associations of the health professions, will value the course ‘LAPAROSCOPY WITH DR. BART VAN GOETHEM’ with 1 SPC credit for every 60 minutes of lecture time.

Bart Van Goethem
DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECVS Instructor

Dr. Bart Van Goethem graduated from Ghent University (Belgium). He completed his surgical specialist training at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and also received his PhD title there. He works at the Small Animal Teaching Hospital at Ghent University where he is head of small animal surgery clinics. He is author and co-author of 6 surgical book chapters and has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in his field of interest. He gave over 2000 national and international lectures, reviews articles for 7 scientific journals, and remains an enthusiastic propagator of small animal surgery.