Events

QLD Core Course Program #2

Topics

• Anal squamous intraepithelial lesions and anal SCC - patholphysiology+ surveillance and management
• Haemorrhoids - anatomy and clinical presentation. Management - acute and non acute

This event will be delivered via Zoom.

For further information please contact:

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

SA Long Course Program

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

Time & Location

6.30pm
RACS, Kent Town SA.

For further information please contact:

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

CTEC 2023 - Core Skills: Intermediate Laparoscopic Skills Workshop

This highly practical one day workshop covers the most efficient techniques for laparoscopic intra and extracorporeal 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 intra and extracorporeal knots.

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

Suitable for: Surgical Trainees and Consultants, Service Registrars and Junior Doctors who have completed CTEC’s JDocs: Foundations of Minimal Access Surgery workshop.

Workshop Content

The workshop will focus on the following tasks:

• Passing a ligature
• Extracorporeal knot tying
• Intracorporeal suturing – placing sutures
• Intracorporeal knot tying
• Formation and use of endoloop

Practical Animal Tissue Based Surgical Skill Stations

Participants will undertake the following procedures:

• Laparoscopic suturing of enterotomies
• Laparoscopic appendicectomy
• Laparoscopic assisted gastrostomy

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:

Approved in the RACS CPD Program.  RACS Fellows, Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMGs) and Surgeons participating in the RACS CPD Program can claim 1 point per hour (to a maximum of 8 points) in Educational Activities.

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]
ctec.uwa.edu.au

Victorian-Tasmanian GSET Orientation/Meet & Greet

Time & Date

5.00pm - 7.00pm
Friday 3 March 2023

Venue

RACS
Hughes Room
250-290 Spring Street, East Melbourne VIC

Register

Please click 'Register Now'

If you are not available to attend in person, you may login to view the presentations online.

If attending in person please RSVP by no later than 24 February with any catering/dietary requirements.

For further information please contact:

Karen Clark
Victorian & Tasmanian Regional Executive Officer
T 0436 910 919
E [email protected]

WA Registrar Training in Surgery Program (WARTS) #2

Topic

Endocrine

Time & Location

1.30pm-5.30pm
RACS, Ground Floor, 216 Stirling Highway, Claremont, WA

Please note: This session can be attended face-to-face or via our gsaonline Zoom platform.

For further information please contact:

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

SA Long Course Program

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

Time & Location

6.30pm
RACS, Kent Town SA.

For further information please contact:

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

QLD Core Course Program #3

Topics

• MASTERCLASS - Complex ventral hernia management
• Abdominal compartment syndrome and how to manage a laparostomy

This event will be delivered via Zoom.

For further information please contact:

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

SA Long Course Program

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

Time & Location

6.30pm
RACS, Kent Town SA.

For further information please contact:

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

WA Registrar Training in Surgery Program (WARTS) #3

Topic

Abdominal Wall

Time & Location

1.30pm-5.30pm
RACS, Ground Floor, 216 Stirling Highway, Claremont, WA

Please note: This session can be attended face-to-face or via our gsaonline Zoom platform.

For further information please contact:

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

SET Workshops UGI HPB

AANZGOSA and ANZHPBA are holding their training sessions for senior General Surgery SET trainees on 20, 23, 27 and 30 March.
The courses will augment individual study programs approaching RACS Fellowship Exam.
Presented by expert clinicians the sessions are an opportunity for senior SET trainees to review the required content.

Registration

Click here to register

For further information, please contact:

Renée Mackenzie
Executive Officer
T: 08 8219 0900
[email protected] or [email protected]

SA Long Course Program

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

Time & Location

6.30pm
RACS, Kent Town SA.

For further information please contact:

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

CTEC 2023 - Core Skills: General Surgery Workshop

This unique one day cadaveric workshop provides General Surgical Trainees and suitably credentialled rural surgical practitioners the opportunity to perform a range of open general surgery procedures, learn new skills, attain practical knowledge and a greater understanding of anatomy through human tissue.

The workshop aims to enhance participants’ knowledge and technical skills in emergency surgery. It provides a rare opportunity to gain anatomical knowledge in open general surgery procedures. 

This is the only General Surgery Trainee Workshop in Australia providing 100 per cent cadaveric dissection time on a range of open procedures, consolidating and enhancing anatomical knowledge and understanding.

This workshop will use a combination of pre-reading, discussion and dissection to further understanding of surgical techniques, and improve confidence in procedural skills and operative anatomy in a highly supportive and safe environment. 

This workshop meets competencies specified in the GSET curriculum and is generally suitable for SET Trainees and GSET Trainees at Level 2 and above.

Suitable for: Generally suitable for General Surgery SET and GSET Trainees at Level 2 and above. It is also of relevance to suitably credentialled rural surgical practitioners. Limited positions available for Service Registrars with strong surgical experience. Limited positions for Observers and Theatre Nurses in the role of assistant.

Workshop Content

The following hands on open procedures will be covered:

• Appendicectomy
• Right hemicolectomy
• High anterior resection/Hartmann’s
• Cholecystectomy
• Femoral/inguinal hernia repair
• Paraumbilical/ventral hernia repair
• Splenectomy

 CPD Approvals:

Approved in the RACS CPD Program.  RACS Fellows, Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMGs) and Surgeons participating in the RACS CPD Program can claim 1 point per hour (to a maximum of 8 points) in Educational Activities.

Time and Location:

08.00am to 04.45pm
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]
ctec.uwa.edu.au

SET Workshops UGI HPB

AANZGOSA and ANZHPBA are holding their training sessions for senior General Surgery SET trainees on 20, 23, 27 and 30 March.
The courses will augment individual study programs approaching RACS Fellowship Exam.
Presented by expert clinicians the sessions are an opportunity for senior SET trainees to review the required content.

Registration

Click here to register

For further information, please contact:

Renée Mackenzie
Executive Officer
T: 08 8219 0900
[email protected] or [email protected]

Australasian Melanoma Conference

We warmly welcome you to the 2023 Australasian Melanoma Conference (AMC 2023), the first in-person AMC since 2018 and the first to be hosted in Brisbane, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 24th and 25th March.

An initiative of the Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA), this year’s conference is hosted by the Australian Skin and Skin Cancer Research Centre (ASSC), bringing together clinicians, researchers, and consumers. AMC 2023 will kick off with a plenary talk on “Evolution of Melanoma Diagnosis” followed by a consumer panel to discuss the issues in melanoma diagnosis for patients. Later sessions will cover developments in basic sciences, epidemiology, diagnosis and overdiagnosis, surgery, treatments for advanced melanoma, and recent advances in clinical practice. Our second plenary session on Saturday will focus on the most relevant topic at this time, neoadjuvant treatment for advanced stage melanoma...

Early bird registration is open until 3rd February - to find out more visit MELANOMA2023.COM or download the flyer.

CTEC 2023 - 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 Service 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 2 and above and suitably credentialed rural surgical practitioners. Limited positions available for Service 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:

Approved in the RACS CPD Program.  RACS Fellows, Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMGs) and Surgeons participating in the RACS CPD Program can claim 1 point per hour (to a maximum of 8 points) in Educational Activities.

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]
ctec.uwa.edu.au

QLD Core Course Program #4

Topics

• Genetic breast cancer syndromes and how they influence management
• Gynecomastia and male breast cancer

This event will be delivered via Zoom.

For further information please contact:

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

SA Long Course Program

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

Time & Location

6.30pm
RACS, Kent Town SA.

For further information please contact:

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