Event Location
Dundee Institute for Healthcare Simulation, University of Dundee Surgical Skills Centre, Level 5, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, DD1 9SY, United Kingdom
Event Dates
12 Nov 2020 - 12 Nov 2020
Event Website
https://www.dihs.dundee.ac.uk/courses/ent/facial-plastic-surgery-flap-reconstruction-dissection-course/thu-11122020-0845
Event Cost
£190 for Scottish based trainees / £375 for others
This one-day course held in the Surgical Skills Centre, provides a competency based approach to facial skin cancer tumour resection and reconstruction with grafts and local skin flaps.
A series of structured exercises has been devised so that Trainees and Consultants in plastic, ENT and maxillofacial surgery can complete a variety of facial soft tissue surgery simulations based on the more common skin flap procedures encountered. Delegates will be working in pairs on cadaver based dissection covering the following:
Educational aims:
Gain experience by simulating:
Random Flaps I: Advancement and Transposition Flaps
Random Flaps II: Rhomboid Flap, Bilobed Flap, Rotation Flap
V-Y Flaps
Total Nasal Reconstruction and the Paramedian Forehead Flap
The course provides:
Instruction in the use of instrumentation
“Hands on” practical anatomical and surgical skills experience using Thiel emalmbed cadavers
Evidence of skills training and competency
Pre-course material and an attendance certificate
6 CPD points