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