This was the first ever R.H.N.Shenoi Memorial Surgical Workshop and C.M.E. This was organised by BEST Institute and Research Centre and Bangalore Surgical Trust in association with Surgical Society of Bangalore and Vikram Hospitals. The 1st workshop and C.M.E was held at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, where Dr. Shenoi retired as Dean of the institute after rendering his services in all the 4 government colleges of Karnataka where he taught thousands of students in the field of surgery. Dr. M. Ramesh was the Organising Chairman, Dr Tulip was the Organising Secretary, Dr Ganesh Shenoy and Dr. M.K.Ramesh were the Organising Joint Secretaries for this conference. This conference included Preconference Laparoscopic surgery skills course on the 14th, Live Operative Workshop on 14th and first half of 16th, CME on Medical Writing course on the latter half of 16th August 2020. The Laparoscopic skills course was conducted at “Clinical Skills Center
“Bangalore Medical College Campus. This was attended by 120 delegates. Expert faculty from B.E.S.T. Institute and Research Center were involved in imparting and optimise training difficult skills of laparoscopic surgery in a short time. The exercises included basic endotrainer exercises to develop hand-eye co ordination to advanced skills of endosuturing and knotting on animal tissues. There were 24 BEST Institute designed endotrainers