Skin Deep: Skin Cancers and Suture Workshop (October)

Skin Deep is an interactive and hands-on workshop for skin cancer medical & nursing practitioners to update their knowledge & procedural skills.

This full-day workshop will include a morning of lectures and interactive Q&A by a multidisciplinary team of specialists: dermatologist, oncologists, pathologists and surgeons who have special interest in the diagnosis & management of skin cancers.

Topics covered include:

• Skin Cancer Dermatology & MOH Surgery
• Role of Laser in Treatment of Skin Lesions
• Skin Cancer Histopathology
• Immunotherapy Treatments for Skin cancers
• Indications for radiotherapy in the management of skin cancers
• Fundamentals of periocular skin cancers
• The Latest Updates in Melanoma Management
• Scar Management and Minimisation

The afternoon will be a hands-on suturing workshop with specialist plastic surgeons and nurse practitioners. There will be two concurrent workshops:

• Fundamentals: this is a suturing workshop focussed on finessing the techniques that plastic surgeons use to minimise scarring and maximise wound closure. This workshop will be concentrating on excisions, dermal sutures, epidermal techniques including subcuticulars, and other repair techniques used in skin cancer surgery such as basic flaps.
• Advanced: this is a suturing workshop for those who have already had a broad experience in skin cancer surgery, and already have well-established fundamental skills. The focus will be on complex flap designs in difficult areas with possible pitfalls. There will also be an opportunity to learn how to perform a full thickness skin graft, including donor site management and strategies to maximise graft take.

You will receive a questionnaire prior to the workshop that will help us allocate you into the right group. Please note that the suturing workshop will involve handling of raw pork belly, there will be no synthetic substitute available.

Program:

Please note that this a preliminary program which is subject to change

*If time allows

Level:

This workshop will be presented at a level suitable for medical practitioners and nurse practitioners.

Registration:

Places in this workshop are limited due to availability of instruments and equipment for the suturing workshop. If the workshop is fully subscribed and you would like to be placed on a waitlist – please email hello@classroom4doctors.com.au

Your registration will include morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea with hot & cold beverages.

CPD/CME:

This course will provide you with 8 hours of CPD/CME. 

Cost:

• $425 Medical Practitioners 
• $380 Nurse Practitioners