Get your surgical skills successfully signed off during this in-person session, upload it to sutureUK.com, and get it verified by student leads Sophia or Usaamah to be awarded a certificate at the end of the academic year! Please ensure that you bring a printed or editable digital copy of the assessment sheet for the skills you would like signed off from sutureUK.com

Please ensure that you have membership before attending by going on our EUSA page! (If you have difficulties with this, please let us know asap.) https://edin.eusa.ed.ac.uk/activities/view/esss

We will try our best to get as many skills signed off as possible, but please be aware that we may not have time to sign off all the skills during this session. Nonetheless, please don't fret as there will be more in-person sign-off sessions during Semester 2. We are also accepting online video submissions for assessment! https://forms.gle/RdDUbTrdRj6P5hZ4A

During the in-person session, we will prioritise the following skills for assessment:

• Simple running suture
• Simple interrupted suture
• Instrument tie
• Horizontal mattress suture
• Vertical mattress suture
• Subcuticular running suture
• Subcuticular interrupted suture
• Aberdeen knot

If you would like to borrow society equipment, we ask for £4. Otherwise, the event is FREE and you are welcome to bring your own suture kit and sutures!

Please arrive promptly. Thank you!