The Basic Surgical Skills Workshop is an interactive, in-person training activity scheduled for 14 November 2026 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre – Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Continuing Medical Education – Madinah is identified on the official poster. The workshop runs from 08:00 to 16:00 in the Conference Room on the third floor and is delivered in Arabic and English. It introduces fundamental surgical principles and techniques through practical training and demonstrations.
The educational focus is surgical instrument handling, suturing, knot tying and wound closure. The published course block begins with Surgical Instruments and Basic Principles, followed by Wound Closure Techniques, Indications, and Contraindications. A practical demonstration then addresses surgical instruments and suturing techniques. These are the organiser’s announced curriculum components, not invented lecture timings.
Two hands-on components cover simple interrupted and continuous sutures, then mattress sutures and surgical hand ties. The course concludes its published content with supervised practice, practical training, skills assessment and feedback. The structure places foundational teaching alongside the opportunity to practise techniques, while retaining the distinction between the overall 08:00–16:00 workshop and individual activities whose exact start times were not published.
The official programme names Dr. Mahmood Samman, Dr. Ashraf Abdelfattah and Dr. Abdullah Alhujaily. Their participation is recorded without inventing professional biographies, job titles, institutions or LinkedIn profiles. Full attendance at all workshop sessions is required. No separate programme PDF, additional dated workshop, abstract submission call or five-person faculty roster was verified.
The organiser’s Important Notes explicitly require a workshop payment of SAR 500 to complete registration. This conflicts with the portal’s generic FREE widget and zero-valued fee response; the listing uses the explicit SAR 500 payment instruction rather than advertising free admission. Participants should obtain payment and receipt-submission instructions directly from the official course page. The disagreement is retained as a source caveat.
Accreditation is prospective: the page says the activity will be accredited for CME hours but provides no confirmed positive number. No SCFHS accreditation badge or hours are asserted. Ehsan Medical branding appears on the official poster and is recorded as a supporting brand without inventing a sponsorship tier. The clear poster is the cover, with landing, overview and programme captures as secondary images.
