Next 5 day workshop is September 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18, 2012. - $3,250.00

Includes daily lunch, morning and afternoon tea as well as all equipment.

Register for the 2012 event here.

Day 1: Friday - Beginning skin flap surgery

8:00 - 8:30 AM    Registration

8:30 - 10:00 AM

• Welcome and Introduction
• Equipment needed for skin surgery
• Principles of Random pattern skin flaps
• 1^st skin flap: Rhomboid flap SKILLS SESSION

Morning Tea 10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 12:00

• Anaesthesia for skin cancer surgery
• Nerve blocks around the face for skin surgery
• Danger zones on the face
• Skin surgery in the elderly and children

Lunch 12:00 - 2:00 PM 

2:00 - 3:30 PM

• Role of imiquimod in managing non melanoma skin cancer

• 2nd skin flap: Twin advancement flap SKILLS SESSION

• 3rd skin flap: Harry Potter type forehead flap SKILLS SESSION

Afternoon Tea 3:30 - 4:00 PM

4:00 - 5:30 PM

• Welding and Skin cancer
• 4th skin flap: O-Z flap – SKILLS SESSION
• 5th Skin flap: O-S flap – SKILLS SESSION
• Using Skin lesion item numbers

 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM  - Welcome drinks and nibbles immediately following session                     

Day 2: Saturday - Melanoma, rare skin cancers and transposition flaps

8.30 – 10AM

• Introduction to some rarer skin cancers

Morning Tea 10:00 - 10:30

10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon

• The concept of transposition flaps
• 6th Skin flap: Transposition flap – SKILLS SESSION
• 7th flap: Bilobed flap – SKILLS SESSION

Lunch 12:00 – 2:00 PM

2:00 – 4:00 PM

Melanoma Update

• Margins  
• Follow up
• Investigations
• In transit Melanoma
• Sentinel node biopsy
• Chemotherapy
• B RAF inhibotors
• Role of melanoma units
• Limb infusion / perfusion chemotherapy

Afternoon Tea 4:00 – 4:30

4:30 – 5:30 PM

• Managing skin cancer below the knee

  8th flap: ROM flap – SKILLS SESSION

Day 3: Sunday - Dermoscopy day

8:30 - 10:30 AM

• Fundamental features of lesions under Dermoscopy
• -The Gachon approach

Morning Tea 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 AM - 1:00 :PM

• Dermoscopy - dermatopathology working together
• Acral Dermoscopy

Lunch 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Afternoon off

Day 4: Monday – Other therapies & Large Flaps Day

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Margin control surgery
Mohs surgery
Role of Radiation therapy managing skin cancer

Morning Tea 10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 12:00

• 9th skin flap: A to T flaps - SKILLS SESSION
• 10th skin flap: Rotation flaps - SKILLS SESSION

Lunch 12:00 - 2:00 PM

2:00 - 3:30 PM

• Management of Skin Cancer when margins are not clear
• Field cancerization
• Photodynamic therapy
• Actinic Keratoses

Afternoon Tea 3:30 - 4:00 PM

4:00 - 5:30 PM

• 5 fluro uracil & diclofenac in skin cancer management
• Island type skin flaps
• 11th flap: Island pedicle flap – SKILLS SESSION

 Day 5: Tuesday - Multi flap & Graft day