Hands on Advanced Assisted Reproduction Techniques Training
This course provides a one-to-one comprehensive training in the clinical management of highly complex techniques in a Laboratory and Laboratory practices of IVF and ICSI. It will develop knowledge and skills in all aspects of micromanipulation for ICSI. Successive sessions of lectures and hands-on training are provided by expert supervision. The syllabus also covers the following areas:
- Prevention and management of OHSS (Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome)
- Types of media, media handling, aliquoting, and subsequent storage
- Embryo transfer techniques
- Oocyte donation and surrogacy
- Ovum pick up and Embryo transfer
- Male infertility and female infertility investigations
- Semen Analysis & Preparation
- Medical statistics
- Ovulation Induction
- Monitoring of Ovulation
- Intrauterine insemination
- Hands-on IUI
- Cryopreservation of sperm & embryo & eggs
- Thawing - sperm banking
- Setting up of IVF Lab
- Approaches to ovarian stimulation in patients with PCOS (Polycystic ovarian syndrome)
- Ovum Pickup Observation
- Catheter loading for IUI and embryo transfer
- Reduction of multiple pregnancies, Single embryo transfer
- Ovulation Induction & Stimulation Protocols
- Follicle Monitoring
- Research Methodology
- Writing and presenting a paper
- Safety issue in ART including OHSS and multiple pregnancies
- Basic Embryology
- Exposure to Laboratory techniques in ART
- Selecting ideal protocol
- Trained to identify OCC
- How to do ET, embryo loading experience, freezing, thawing & vitrification process
- OPD
- How to take the history, which investigations why, how to convince patient for IVF/ICSI, cost-effective IVF will be trained on patients, and with patients, patient counseling-in failed case
- Stress management for couples undergoing ART
- Controlled Ovarian Stimulation
- Hands-on experience with ovum pick up
- Experience to handle unfertile embryos
- Infertility related USG
- Ovulation, COH monitoring, Color Doppler, Pulse Doppler studying, early pregnancy, Targeted USG, Color Doppler
- Luteal phase support
- Counseling infertile patients for various ART procedures
- Oocyte and embryo handling transfer between the droplets and dishes
- Approaches of recurrent implantation failures
- Regulatory and ethical issues in ART today
- Basic anatomy and physiology of the male and female reproductive system
- Introduction & history of IVF
- Indications for IVF
- Applied Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Pathology of the male and female reproductive system
- Endocrinology of the reproductive system
- Ultra-sonography in reproductive medicine
- Endoscopic surgery, both Hysteroscopy and Laparoscopy
- Diagnosis of male and female infertility
- Sperm counting
- Semen processing for IUI/IVF/ICSI/retrieved sperm
Aim of the course
- To provides customized training in the clinical management and laboratory practices of IVF and ICSI.
- Enable the candidate to handle the state-of-art equipment
- Indications, contraindication, complications of different techniques of ART