Doctors who have completed the five day skin cancer workshop are invited to return for the advanced three day workshop focusing on face and ear reconstruction following skin cancer excision.
The advanced weekend consentrates on difficult areas of the body: lip, ear, nose, eyelid, and cheek.
20 reconstructions are explained, demonstrated and then practised on the pig head over three days.
The next advanced weekend will be:
Geelong Friday November 16 to 18, 2012.
The program includes 6 sessions of 2 hours and 4 sessions of 1.5 hours.
18 hours of education over 3 days.
Register here.
The cost of the 3 day weekend program is $2,250.00
NEW for 2012
For the November 2012 workshop, all the registrants will have the option of operating on an Il Duomo surgical model to do many of the procedures as well as effecting various procedures on pig's heads. At an added cost registrants may purchase an Il duomo model to work on it throughout the weekend.
An example of Il Duomo is shown below. This is an example of a defect on the nasal alar being closed with a transposition flap. We will advise the premium payment required to have your own Il Duomo model for thge weekend. If you purchase a model you have the option of taking it home once the program is complete.
The weekend program is as follows:
Friday
8:00 – 8:30 Registration
8:30 – 10:00
Welcome Introduction
What is new in skin cancer research?
10:00 – 10:30 Morning tea
10:30 – 12:00
Difficult areas on the body: - ear, eyelid, lip and nose.
Description of flaps and reconstructions to be undertaken in the afternoon.
12:00 – 13:00 - Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Practical session number 1 on head of a pig
Wedge excisions
a) lower lip
b) ear
c) eyelid
14:30 - 15:00 - Afternoon tea
15:00 - 16:30
Practical session number 2 on head of pig
a) The “TOT” flap as an alternative to O – S or O – Z flap
b) Bilateral transposition flap on the nose
c) Upper lip V - Y island advancement
Saturday
8:00 – 8:30 Registration / coffee
8:30 – 10:30
Description of flaps and reconstructions to be undertaken in the day.
Nerve blocks around the face
10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea
11:00 – 13:00
Practical session number 3 on head of pig
a) Bilobed flap on a cheek
b) Large medial cheek defect and rotation flap
c) Banner transposition flap on the ear
13:00 – 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 16:00
Practical session number 4 on head of a pig
a) Closing a defect that is partly on cheek and partly on nose
b) Skin graft from upper eyelid to lower eyelid
c) Mucosal advancement flap on lip
18:00 for 18:30 Conference dinner
Sunday
8:00 – 8:30 Registration / coffee
8:30 - 10:30
Description of flaps and reconstructions to be undertaken today.
Introduction to interpolation flaps
10:30 - 11:00 – Morning tea
11:00 - 13:00
Practical session number 5 on head of pig
a) Two defects and one flap
b) “Reverse” type alar bilobed flap repair
c) Helical advancement flap on the ear
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 16:00
Practical session number 6 on head of pig
a) Cheek to nose two stage interpolation
b) Mastoid based helical interpolation flap
c) Nasalis myocutaneous flap on the nose
Description only:
- Forehead axial flap based on supratrochlear artery
- Shark fin flap for full thickness nose defect
- Glabella pull through procerus myocutaneous flap
Closure of workshop
Il Duomo was introduced to our program in 2011.
Dr. Keoni Nguyen (Dermatologist USA) is pictured below demonstrating a surgical technique on Il Duomo to some of our workshops attendees.