Next 5 day workshop is Fri Sep 25 - Tue Sep 29, 2009 - $3,180.00

Day 1 Friday - Beginning flap surgery

8:00 AM

Registration

8:30 - 10:30

Welcome and introduction

23 Golden Rules for skin cancer management

Morning Tea 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:30

Equipment needed for a skin procedure

Principles of random pattern skin flaps

1st skin flap: Rhomboid flap – SKILLS SESSION

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM

1:30 - 3:00

Anaesthesia for skin cancer surgery

Nerve blocks around the face for skin surgery

Danger zones on the face

Afternoon Tea 3:00 - 3:30 

3:30 - 5:00

Skin surgery in the elderly and children

Role of imiquimod in managing non melanoma skin cancer

3rd skin flap: O -S flap - SKILLS SESSION

Welcome drinks and nibbles 5:00 to 7:00 PM

Day 2 Saturday - Dermoscopy day

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Welding and skin cancer

Using skin lesion item numbers

4th skin flap: Transposition flap - SKILLS SESSION

Morning Tea 10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 12:00

Fundamental features of lesions under dermoscopy

- The Gachon approach

Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 PM

1:00 - 2:30

Fundamental dermoscopy continued

Acral dermoscopy

Afternoon Tea 2:30 - 3:00

3:00 - 5:00

Introduction to some rarer skin cancers

5th flap: Bilobed flap - SKILLS SESSION

Day 3 Sunday - Melanoma / Skin repair day

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Photodynamic therapy

Educating our patients

Morning Tea 10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 12:00

Field cancerization

Skin cancer prevention & skin repair

Managing actinic keratoses

Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 PM

1:00 - 3:00

Melanoma update

• margins

• follow up

• investigations

• in transit melanoma

• sentinel node biopsy

• role of melanoma units

• limb infusion / perfusion chemotherapy

• dysplastic naevi

Afternoon Tea 3:00 - 3:30

3:30 - 5:00

Curettage of skin cancers

Managing skin cancer below the knee

6th flap: ROM flap – SKILLS SESSION

Day 4 Monday - Larger flaps day

8:30 - 10:30 AM

Margin control surgery

7th flap: Large rotation flap - SKILLS SESSION

Skin cysts and lipoma

Morning Tea 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:30

Management of skin cancer when margins are not clear

8th flap: Multi rhomboid flap – SKILLS SESSION

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Role of radiation therapy managing skin cancer

When can we use topical 5 fluoro uracil & diclofenac?

9th flap: Island pedicle flap – SKILLS SESSION

Afternoon Tea 3:00 - 3:30

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Working with your pathologist

Case studies with clinical and pathology slides

Dermatopathology of skin cancer

Casual dress - 6:30 PM for 7:00 PM dinner

Day 5 Tuesday - Graft day

8:30 - 11:00 AM

Myths of skin cancer surgery - which are true?

10th flap: Multi transposition flap – SKILLS SESSION

Morning Tea 11:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 2:00

Full thickness skin graft - SKILLS SESSION

Complications of skin surgery

Partial Thickness skin grafts  - SKILLS SESSION

Lunch 2:00 - 3:00

Afternoon from 3:00

Exams for Australasian College of Skin Cancer Medicine - (optional)