8th ESRA Residents & Trainees Workshop

Registration is now open

VENUE

Hands-on workshops and simulation scenarios in one place:

SIMFMUP – Centro de Simulação da FMUP
Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro
4200-319 Porto
Portugal

SCHEDULE

• Friday, 8^th May 2026 | 08:45 – 18:30, Registration 8:00 – 8:45
• Saturday, 9^th May 2026 | 09:00 – 18:30

OPENING HOURS REGISTRATION

• Friday, 8^th May 2026 | 08:00 – 18:30
• Saturday, 9^th May 2026 | 08:45 – 18:30

The 2024 edition in pictures

ESRA designed this workshop for anaesthesiology residents who want to get started in the art of regional anaesthesia.

At a very attractive price and in one of Europe’s most vibrant cities, beginners can learn basic anatomy and regional blocks with hands-on sessions and simulation in emergency situations and common complications associated with regional anaesthesia.

Why should I attend this meeting?

• It gives me opportunity to learn and practice blocks which are mostly used in everyday aesthetic clinical practice on live and anatomical models.
• It gives me unique opportunity to train management of acute and/or common complications/side effects of regional anaesthesia techniques in simulation settings – no other workshop offers this possibility!
• Because this workshop offers best value for money education in regional anaesthesia – two days workshop led by several ESRA instructors and examiners.
• It gives me opportunity to meet my fellow colleagues from all over Europe and enjoy wonderful Porto!

International

• Vedran Frkovic 🇸🇪
• Peter Merjavy 🇬🇧
• Geert-Jan van Geffen 🇳🇱
• Oya Cok 🇹🇷
• Peter Poredos 🇸🇮
• Roman Zürcher 🇨🇭

Local 🇵🇹

• Raquel Fernades
• Humberto Rebelo
• João Moreira
• Gabriela Sousa
• Guilherme Casimiro

• Each group (A, B, C and D) consists of 3 subgroups with 6 participants
• There are a total of 9 hands-on-workshops:
  – POCUS: airway, gastric, thoracic
  – Shoulder: interscalene, superior trunk; supraclavicular brachial plexus
  – Elbow: infraclavicular, axillary, terminal branches radial, ulnar, median
  – Hip: lateral cutaneous, femoral, fascia iliaca, PENG
  – Knee: femoral triangle, adductor canal
  – Foot: sciatic popliteal approach , ankle block
  – Abdominal Wall: TAP subcostal and lateral approach, rectus sheath, ilioinguinal
  – Thoracic Wall: pectoserratus block, erector spine
  – Ultrasound neuroaxial block
• Each subgroup will rotate every workshop station (70min per workstation).
• Simulation scenarios will be played by three participants in the simulator room, with the rest of the group observing remotely via video display in the teaching room. A joint debrief and discussion will follow each simulation scenario.
• Simulation scenarios:
  – Total spinal
  – LAST
  – Epidural hematoma
  – Malfunction of peripheral nerve catheter
  – Compartment syndrome
  – Embolic cement syndrome
  – Post dural puncture headache
  – Neurologic nerve damage after regional anaesthesia

Registrations are open ✅

• ESRA Nurses & Residents/Trainees – 350 Euros*
  
• ESRA members – 680 Euros**
  

*Open for ESRA Nurses & Residents/Trainees with an active membership only.
Once your membership application has been reviewed we will contact you regarding the outcome of your application as a trainee and to let you know the next steps. Please note that approval may take up to a maximum of 5 working days.
**Only a few space available for ESRA regular members, the majority of places is hold for Nurses & Residents/Trainees

To join or renew your membership, click here.
For any question, please contact events@esraeurope.org

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 13th, 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 8th, 2026 – full refund
• Cancellations received between March 09th to April 05th, 2026 – 50% will be refunded
• As of April 06th – no refund will be made

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

We would like to thank GE Healthcare for their support in helping us putting this event together.

Accreditation Statement and Credit Designation

The 8th ESRA Residents & Trainees Workshop, Porto, Portugal 08/05/2026 – 09/05/2026 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 14.0 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.

The ESRA-DRA points for the 8th ESRA Residents&Trainees Workshop are the following:

Total: 9 points
Hands-on Ultrasound: 9 points

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