EHS provide the following:

• Pre- and post-test
• Marketing at the EHS website, social media and EHS newsletter.
• Organisational assistance including:
  • Delegate management
  • Practical matters (venue, hotel, dinners)
  • EACCME and Ethical MedTech application
  • Travel arrangements and expenses covered for the EHS faculty (maximum 5 faculty members)

Criteria for Intermediate courses:

An intermediate course should include lectures AND practical exercises for: 

• Lichtenstein
• Shouldice
• Inguinal TAPP or TEP
• Optional: Umbilical TAPP
• PUMP or Milos repair
• Laparotomy and small bite closure
• Open Rives Stoppa
• Optional: Open Stoppa repair

An advanced course should include lectures AND practical exercises for: 

• Optional: inguinal TEP
• E-TEP Rives Stoppa (Optional lap-TAR)
• Open Rives Stoppa (cranial and caudal extension of E-TEP RS)
• Open TAR
• Anterior endoscopic component separation
• Open abdomen with mesh-mediated traction
• Sugarbaker
• Optional: Pauli repair
• Optional: Flank hernia TAPP
• Optional (Diaphragmatic hernia)

The course must include indications, contraindications, step-by-step instructions based on the EHS guidelines, and potential complications should be taught to the students, either by pre-course preparations or onsite. Regardless of the course format, a safe and humble learning culture should be promoted, allowing for open discussions about adverse events and errors to prevent their recurrence.

The maximum number of participants is four per cadaver to ensure an adequate learning experience, but ideally, two participants should share one cadaver.

Recommendations:

• The cadavers for the Intermediate course should preferably be male as the male groin is necessary for groin hernias.
• The national chapter should seek to co-organize with other courses so that the cadavers can be used to their full potential.
• Innovation: EHS recommends that the organizer aims to get a sponsor with a new product or device to encourage new sponsors to take part in EHS.