Events

events in march 2024
Friday
01
Mar

CTEC 2024 - Core Skills: Intermediate Laparoscopic Skills Workshop

This highly practical one day workshop covers the most efficient techniques for laparoscopic intracorporeal knot tying and suturing. It will increase technical skills in two-handed operative techniques on realistic animal tissue models and hone the ability to tie intracorporeal knots.

Practical sessions feature a dedicated work station for each participant, with assistance provided by a medical student camera operator. 

Suitable for:

Junior SET Trainees and Core Training GSET Trainees Levels 1-3.

Workshop Content

The workshop will focus on the following tasks:

  • Principles of laparoscopic surgery and access
  • Handling of suture material and needle
  • Intracorporeal knot tying
  • Intracorporeal suturing

Practical Animal Tissue Based Surgical Skill Stations

Participants will undertake the following procedures:

  • Laparoscopic appendicectomy
  • Advanced laparoscopic suturing techniques (utilising tissue)
  • Laparoscopic repair of perforation and patch repair

This workshop utilises a range of animal tissue and synthetic models for the practical skill stations.  The workshop will also feature case scenarios and discussions, whilst also allowing sufficient time to practise skills. 

CPD Approvals:

This educational activity was approved in the 2023 and prior RACS CPD Programs. Approval is being sought for 2024 with CPD Home.

Time and Location:

08.15am to 05.00pm, CTEC, The University of Western Australia, Perth

Further information and registrations:

www.ctec.uwa.edu.au

CTEC Contact:

John Linehan
CTEC Senior Course Coordinator
P +61 8 6488 8049
E [email protected]

Saturday
02
Mar

Online Fellowship Examination Preparation Course

Online Fellowship Examination Preparation Course to support General Surgery Trainees and Specialist International Medical Graduates, who are eligible to sit the Fellowship Examination in May or September 2024.

Part A of the course will comprise four weeks of live streamed lectures, expert panel discussions, and Q&A, as well as a Spot Exam.

Participant Instructions

Instructions for accessing the Online Fellowship Exam Preparation Course can be downloaded here.

Part A: Course Dates

  • Session 3
    Saturday 2 March 2024, 10:30-15:30 (ADST)
    Upper GI/Bariatric + HPB + Renal Transplant
    Click here to download the draft program.

For any queries relating to the course, please contact the GSA Online team:

E [email protected]

Saturday
02
Mar

SA Short Course Program #4

Topic

  • Clinical Vivas - Mix of operative, pathophysiology, clinical and anatomy

Time

8.30am-10.30am

Location

RACS
24 King Williams Street
Kent Town SA 5067

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Saturday
02
Mar

St John of God Midland Hospital - FEX Mock Exam Training Course [WA]

Carried out over two inconsecutive days and designed to simulate the format and rigor of the actual exam, our training course comprises of seven segments in total. Two written/online portions are completed on the first day, and five viva stations on day two. Candidates are offered unique practice at developing effective techniques and methods in responding to questions in an examination setting, and given guidance, support and meaningful feedback to further study and readiness in preparing for the Fellowship exam. Examiners are given a rewarding teaching experience, with the opportunity to display their vast expertise and knowledge, while influencing high standards of professionalism and competency alongside peers to candidates entering their field of work.

Day one [writtens] Spots & SEQ
Date: Saturday 2 March

Day two [viva] Stations
Date: Saturday 20 April

Please click here for more information.

Location

St John of God Midland Hospital, WA.

Register

Registration is now open for candidates, observers and examiners to take part.
Please click here to register.

For further information please contact:

Erin Moore
0421 973 273
[email protected]

Tuesday
05
Mar

QLD Core Course Program #1

Topics

MASTERCLASS - MELANOMA (Immunotherapy for melanoma) - Prof Victoria Atkinson

  • Histopathology and AJCC
  • Surgical treatment of melanoma

Time & Location

7.00pm
GSA Online (Zoom Webinar)

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
Queensland Regional Executive Officer
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Wednesday
06
Mar

SA Long Course Program

This is a state based educational program, suitable only for SA-NT Trainees/SIMGs.

Time & Location

6.30pm
GSA Online (Zoom Webinar)

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Friday
08
Mar
Until Sunday
10th Mar

ASOHNS 74th ASM 2024

Please click here to register and for more information.

Date

8-10 March 2024

Location

Crown Perth, Western Australia

Conference Organiser

E: [email protected]

Saturday
09
Mar

SA Short Course Program #5

Topic

  • Clinical Vivas - Mix of operative, pathophysiology, clinical and anatomy

Time

8.30am-10.30am

Location

RACS
24 King Williams Street
Kent Town SA 5067

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Wednesday
13
Mar

SA Long Course Program

This is a state based educational program, suitable only for SA-NT Trainees/SIMGs.

Time & Location

6.30pm
GSA Online (Zoom Webinar)

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Saturday
16
Mar
Until Sunday
17th Mar

MOSES Course - Brisbane

Management of Surgical Emergencies 

  • Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 March, 2024
  • Brisbane - venue TBC

Eligibility

  • SET 4+ General Surgery Trainees
  • Specialist International Medical Graduates.

The MOSES course aims to assist SET 4+ Trainees, SIMGs, and Consultants to:

  • Make better decisions, negotiate dilemmas, and manage distractors in emergency surgery
  • Reduce error
  • Achieve better outcomes
  • Work more effectively within a team
  • Improve situational awareness
  • Provide strategies for getting out of trouble
  • Assist with Fellowship Exam preparation

Run over two full days, MOSES involves a variety of teaching methods including core lectures, skills stations, and group discussions. The course focuses on assessment and decision making skills for emergency situations, within the peri-operative period covering, but not limited to, the following:

  1. Upper Gastro Intestinal Bleed/ Gastro Intestinal Bleed
  2. Gastrectomy
  3. Bowel Obstruction
  4. Abdominal Emergency
  5. Post Thyroidectomy Bleed
  6. Laparotomy
  7. Complications after rectal surgery
  8. Intestinal Obstruction
  9. Soft Tissue Infection

With a high ration of faculty to a low ratio of participants, MOSES will offer you an excellent opportunity to develop strategy and problem solving skills for commonly encountered surgical emergencies in a small team environment, with senior General Surgical Consultants. MOSES is aimed at International Medical Graduates and senior SET Trainees, particularly Trainees and SIMGs who are contemplating their Fellowship exam, and post Fellowship General Surgical Fellows/Consultants.

Registration

  • $1,100 Inc. GST

Please note, due to course popularity, the only way you can secure a place is to register as-soon-as or as-close-to online registration opening. We are unable to waitlist or hold places, regardless of where you are at in your training.

Enquiries

E: [email protected]

Saturday
16
Mar

National IBD Surgical Symposium 2024

Please click here to register.

Please click here for the flyer.

Date & Time

16 March 2024
8:30am to 5:30pm

Location

Park Hyatt, Melbourne

Saturday
16
Mar

Online Fellowship Examination Preparation Course

Online Fellowship Examination Preparation Course to support General Surgery Trainees and Specialist International Medical Graduates, who are eligible to sit the Fellowship Examination in May or September 2024.

Part A of the course will comprise four weeks of live streamed lectures, expert panel discussions, and Q&A, as well as a Spot Exam.

Participant Instructions

Instructions for accessing the Online Fellowship Exam Preparation Course can be downloaded here.

Part A: Course Dates

  • Session 4
    Saturday 16 March 2024, 10:30-15:30 (ADST)
    Trauma/Emergency Surgery + Vascular Surgery
    Click here to download the draft program.

For any queries relating to the course, please contact the GSA Online team:

E [email protected]

Saturday
16
Mar

SA Short Course Program #6

Topic

  • Clinical Vivas - Mix of operative, pathophysiology, clinical and anatomy

Time

8.30am-10.30am

Location

RACS
24 King Williams Street
Kent Town SA 5067

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Tuesday
19
Mar

NSW-ACT Educational Program #2

Time & Location

7.00pm
GSA Online (Zoom Webinar)

For further information & log-in queries please contact:

E [email protected]

Tuesday
19
Mar

QLD Core Course Program #2

Topics

  • Helicobacter pylori/Gastric lymphoma
  • Dysphagia workup and differentials (focus on benign)/ Achalasia and other motility disorders

Time & Location

7.00pm
GSA Online (Zoom Webinar)

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
Queensland Regional Executive Officer
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Wednesday
20
Mar

ASPS & MIA - Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Webinar

Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA) invite you to join their webinar for clinicians with an interest in skin cancer.

Please click here to register and for more information.

Date

20 March 2024 at 9:00PM (AEDT)

Location

Online

Contact:

E: [email protected]

Wednesday
20
Mar

SA Long Course Program

This is a state based educational program, suitable only for SA-NT Trainees/SIMGs.

Time & Location

6.30pm
GSA Online (Zoom Webinar)

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Thursday
21
Mar

CTEC 2024 - Core Skills: Acute Care for General Surgeons

This unique one day cadaveric workshop provides General Surgical Trainees and suitably credentialed rural surgical practitioners the opportunity to enhance operative confidence and knowledge in core non-trauma general surgical emergency procedures. Limited places are available for Senior Unaccredited Registrars with strong surgical experience.

Participants will learn new skills in the optimal treatment of intra-abdominal surgical crises. It provides a rare opportunity to gain anatomical knowledge in open general surgery procedures.

Suitable for:

General Surgery SET and GSET Trainees at Level 1 and above. Limited positions for Senior Unaccredited Registrars with strong surgical experience, and for Observers.

Workshop Content

The following core procedures for the non-trauma general surgical patient will be covered:

  • Emergency repair of obstructed inguinal hernia
  • Emergency repair of strangulated femoral hernia
  • Emergency procedure of choice in paraumbilical/ventral hernia
  • Open appendicectomy
  • Right hemicolectomy
  • Hartman’s Procedure/Anterior resection
  • Splenectomy

CPD Approvals:

Approval is being sought for 2024 with CPD Home.

Time and Location:

08.00am to 04.45pm, CTEC, The University of Western Australia, Perth

Further information and registrations:

https://www.ctec.uwa.edu.au/

CTEC Contact:

John Linehan
CTEC Senior Course Coordinator
P +61 8 6488 8049
E [email protected]

Friday
22
Mar

CTEC 2024 - Core Skills: Vascular Surgery

The Vascular Surgery Trainee Workshop provides Vascular and General Surgical Trainees and suitably credentialed rural surgical practitioners  the opportunity to learn new skills in a range of vascular surgery procedures. It is a full-day hands on cadaveric workshop with a focus on surgical dissection, with vascular anastomosis on animal tissue.  Limited places are available for Unaccredited Registrars with strong surgical experience.

The workshop aims to enhance participants’ knowledge and technical skills in emergency surgery.  It provides a rare opportunity to gain anatomical knowledge in open vascular surgical procedures. It utilises a combination of pre-reading, discussion and dissection.

This full day workshop meets competencies specified in the GSET curriculum. 

Suitable for:

Vascular and General Surgery Trainees, GSET Trainees at Level 1 and above and suitably credentialed rural surgical practitioners. Limited positions available for Unaccredited Registrars with strong surgical experience and for Observers. Theatre Nurse places are available in the role of assistant.

Workshop Content:

Anatomy relating to:

  • The neck
  • The  abdomen
  • The femoral triangle

Prior to each procedure there will be an anatomy short session and a brief discussion of specific objectives to be reached.

The following procedures will be demonstrated and performed:

  • Exposure of the common carotid artery and its bifurcation  +/- patch closure
  • Approaches to the infra-renal aorta and its branches
  • Aortic grafting
  • Vascular exposure in the femoral triangle proceeding to high saphenous ligation and profundaplasty
  • Benchtop anastomotic techniques using porcine aorta
  • Below knee amputation (subject to availability of cadaveric material)

Time and Location:

08.00am to 04.30pm, CTEC, The University of Western Australia, Perth

CPD Approvals:

This educational activity was approved in the 2023 and prior RACS CPD Programs.  Approval is being sought for 2024 with CPD Home.

Further information and registrations:

https://www.ctec.uwa.edu.au/

CTEC Contact:

John Linehan
CTEC Senior Course Coordinator
P +61 8 6488 8049
E [email protected]
ctec.uwa.edu.au

Friday
22
Mar

RPAH Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Education Day

Please click here to view the flyer.

Please click here to view the program.

Date

22 March 2024
9:30am - 3:00pm

Location

RPA Hospital
KPEC Auditorium

Conference Organiser

E: [email protected]

Saturday
23
Mar

SA Short Course Program #7

Topic

  • Clinical Vivas - Mix of operative, pathophysiology, clinical and anatomy

Time

8.30am-10.30am

Location

RACS
24 King Williams Street
Kent Town SA 5067

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Wednesday
27
Mar

SA Long Course Program

This is a state based educational program, suitable only for SA-NT Trainees/SIMGs.

Time & Location

6.30pm
GSA Online (Zoom Webinar)

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

Thursday
28
Mar

WA Registrar Training in Surgery Program

Time & Location

1:30pm (AWST)
RACS WA - 216 Stirling Hwy, Claremont, WA
GSA Online (Zoom Meeting) - rural trainees only

For further information please contact:

Rachel Craddock
P +61 427 148 304
E [email protected]

 
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