Australia and NZ Surgical Skills Education and Training (ASSET)

Registrations for 2026 courses will open at 10:00am AEDT* on the following dates:

RACS Fellows, SETs, and SIMGs: Monday 10 November 2025

General release (all eligible applicants): Monday 24 November 2025

*Time zones for release:

Fees for both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at 2025 fee prices.

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• Complete the registration form
• Select pass
• Agree to the Terms and Conditions
• Make payment via card or PayPal

A tax invoice will be sent to you by email once payment has been processed and your registration confirmed

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By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate integration of incision, tissue handling, instrument, suture and needle selection, and suturing/tying skills
• Safely practice electrosurgery
• Display competence in a variety of basic practical skills relating to different endoscopic environments and the mechanics of instrumentation
• Understand traumatic wound assessment and management skills
• Understand simple bone manipulation techniques

RACS recognises that the ASSET course is equivalent to the Intercollegiate Basic Surgical Skills (BSS) course delivered by the following Colleges:

• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland

To register, applicants must be post-graduate year (PGY) 1+ registered medical graduates (e.g. MBBS).

ASSET caters to:

• Junior doctors aspiring to a career in surgery
• SET Trainees of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (training requirement for all specialties except Neurosurgery and Paediatric Surgery)
• RANZCOG Trainees
• International Medical Graduates

Please visit the 2025 ASSET Course schedule (PDF 57.41KB).

• Australia – AU $4,350 (including GST)
• New Zealand – NZ $4,865 (including GST)

Australian SETs who are mandated to complete the ASSET course are exempt from GST on Australian courses only.

Courses conducted in New Zealand will be invoiced in NZ dollars, regardless of the residential country of applicant.

Included in your fees:

• Access to 10 eLearning modules
• Access to online course manual
• Certificate upon completion
• Catering

Fees for both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at 2025 fee prices.

If a course if full, you register to be placed on the waitlist. Our team will contact you if a place becomes available.

Cancellation/withdrawal by participant:

• Withdrawal more than 10 weeks prior to course: 95% refund of course fee
• Withdrawal less than 10 weeks prior to course: 50% refund of course fee
• Withdrawal less than 6 weeks prior to course: no refund of course fee

If you cannot attend the course due to sickness or bereavement, the refund amount will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Please email [email protected] as soon as possible.

• Transfers to alternative courses are not permitted, and will be subject to the applicable cancellation fee
• Refunds will be refunded by the payment method used at time of purchase
• Refunds for payments made by PayPal more than 6 months ago cannot be refunded. We will contact you for an alternative refund method.

Cancellation by RACS:

A full refund will be issued if a course is cancelled by RACS.

As of November 2025.

• Login to eHub
• Click your profile name (top right corner of page)
• Click My Registrations to view your enrolled courses
• Select CANCEL for the course you wish to withdraw from

You will receive an email notification confirming your withdrawal. Refunds, if eligible, will be processed according to the cancellation policy above.

The College welcomes partnerships with stakeholders in support of the successful running of the ASSET program. The College greatly appreciates the generous in-kind contributions made by sponsors each year to provide medical equipment and supplies for surgical training courses.

The College and the ASSET Committee gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the following sponsors:

•   Applied Medical
• Ansell Healthcare
• B. Braun
• BSN Medical
• Bio Serve •
• Halyard Australia
• Jackson Allison
• Karl Storz
• Medline Industries
• Multigate
• Olympus
• REM Systems
• Stryker

Australia

T: +61 3 9276 7449

E: [email protected]

Aotearoa New Zealand

T: +61 4 385 5690

E: [email protected] 

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