Table 1.

Course programme.

Day	Topic
1	Didactic lectures:
	History of laparoscopic surgery
	Physiological changes associated with pneumoperitoneum
	Simulator training:
	Instrumentation
	Safe access
	Manipulation
	Dissection
2	Didactic lectures:
	Appropriate use of energy source
	Complications, avoidance, and management
	Simulator training:
	Suturing and knotting
	Diagnostic laparoscopy
	Laparoscopic appendicectomy
	Repair of perforated duodenal ulcer
3	Simulator training:
	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
	Continuous suturing