1st ESRA Barcelona RA Cadaver Workshop

EVENT: 1st ESRA Barcelona RA Cadaver Workshop
DATE: 22nd – 23rd May 2026
PLACE: Barcelona, Spain

SCHEDULE

• Friday, 22^nd May 2026 | 08:00– 18:00, Registration 7:30 – 8:00
• Saturday, 23^rd May 2026 | 8:15 – 17:45

OPENING HOURS REGISTRATION

• Friday, 22^nd May 2026 | 07:30 – 18:15
• Saturday, 23^rd May 2026 | 8:00 – 18:00

LANGUAGE: English 🇬🇧

WORKSHOP TICKETS: VERY LIMITED SPACE ONLY! Don’t arrange travel & accommodation before booking your workshop ticket –> Book your ticket early to avoid disappointment

WORKSHOP VENUE

Facultat de Medicina – Universitat de Barcelona
Campus de Cc. de la Salut del Clinic Casanova, 143, Planta 0
08036 Barcelona
Spain

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

Unique and intimate hands-on learning experience. Lectures, practical sessions and stimulating discussions will be led by leading experts in the field of Regional Anaesthesia.

This is a two-days intensive hands-on cadaver workshop offered to physicians to improve their skills in regional anaesthesia. After expert lectures the workshop is focused on hands-on practice using fresh frozen and fixed/standard cadavers. Participants will acquire a sound knowledge of ultrasound imaging and needling techniques.

ESRA FACULTY 🇪🇺

Workshop Chairs:

Paul Kessler 🇩🇪
Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
Orthopaedic University Hospital Friedrichsheim gGmbHD-60528 Frankfurt

Peter Merjavy 🇬🇧
ESRA-DRA Part 2 Vice Chair
Consultant Anaesthetist
Craigavon Area Hospital, Southern HSC Trust

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY

• Axel Sauter 🇳🇴
• Bram Keunen 🇧🇪
• Zsolt Ungvari 🇬🇧
• Rebecca Heinen 🇩🇪
• Alexandros Makris 🇬🇷
• Geert-Jan van Geffen 🇳🇱
• Imré Van Herreweghe 🇧🇪
• David Nystad 🇳🇴

LOCAL FACULTY 🇪🇸

• Xavier Sala-Blanch
• Ana Lopez
• Maria Paz Sebastian
• Alberto Prats-Galino

FULLY BOOKED

REGISTRATION FEES (RATES ARE IN EUR)

• Non-member – RA CAD 995 Euro FULLY BOOKED
• ESRA member – RA CAD 895 Euro FULLY BOOKED
• ESRA Trainee (Students/Fellows/Nurses)- RA CAD  695 Euros FULLY BOOKED

PAYMENT METHODS

Payment of registration fees (in EUR) can be made as follows:

By Credit Card: Visa or MasterCard

By Bank Transfer (additional 30 EUR handling fee is required):

• Please ensure that the name of the Workshop and of the participant are stated on the bank transfer.
• Bank charges are the responsibility of the participant and should be paid at source in addition to the registration fees.

Please make drafts payable to:

ESRA
KBC Grimbergen
IBAN BE72 7340 2880 9716
BIC KREDBEBB

• Registration will only be valid upon receipt of the full payment by the registration department according to the deadline indicated. An email confirming registration will only be sent after receipt of the required fees.
• Unpaid registrations will be cancelled after 14 days or by April 20th, 2026; whichever is sooner.

REGISTRATION CANCELLATION POLICY

All cancellations must be electronically mailed to office@esraeurope.org
Refund of registration fee will be as follows, minus the applicable processing fees of the initial payment:

• Cancellations received until and including March 22nd, 2026 – full refund
• Cancellations received between March 23th to April 19th, 2026 – 50% will be refunded
• As of April 20th, 2026 – no refund will be made

Please note that administration fees for offline payments are non-refundable in the event of cancellation.

Accreditation Statement and Credit Designation

The 1st ESRA Barcelona RA Cadaver Workshop, Barcelona, Spain 22/05/2026 – 23/05/2026 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 16.0 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications.

Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Information regarding the conversion of EACCME^® credits

Credit will be converted based on one (1) hour of participation equalling one credit for all activities. Physicians wishing to convert EACCME^® credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ will be required to access the AMA website at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications to obtain the necessary paperwork and instructions. Physicians and other health care professionals will be required to pay a processing fee to the AMA.

For other countries, please contact the relevant national/regional accreditation authority.

Credit Breakdown

Each participant should only claim those hours of credit that s/he actually spent in the educational activity.

The EACCME® awards ECMEC®s on the basis of 0,5 ECMEC® for 30 minutes of CME with a maximum of 8 ECMEC®s per day. cf. Chapter XIII of UEMS 2023.07.

Certificates

A feedback survey will be sent by email to all participants after the event.
Once this form has been completed, your certificate will be delivered after the survey deadline.

We would like to thank Flat Medical,  GE Healthcare and BBraun for their support in helping us putting this event together.

The ESRA-DRA points for the 1st ESRA Barcelona RA Cadaver Workshop are the following:

Total: 14 points
Hands-on Cadaver: 7 points
Hands-on Ultrasound 5 points
Other points: 2 points

These points will be shown on the Certificate of Attendance delivered upon completion of the feedback survey.