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AFRICAN MASTER COURSE ON HEAD AND NECK SURGERY – Friday 5th & Saturday 6th December 2025

Event Description

AFRICAN MASTER COURSE ON HEAD AND NECK SURGERY

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

In Association with The International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological

Societies and The College of Medicine South Africa

 

Dates: 5-6 December 2025

Venue: Surgical Skills Training Centre, 6th floor, Institute of Child Health Building,

Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town.

 

Convenor: Professor Johannes Fagan and Dr Matthew White

International Faculty: Professor Nicolas Fakhry and Professor Carlos Chiesa Estomba

Local Faculty: Professor Johannes Fagan, Dr Mohammed Thandar, Dr Matthew White, Dr Johan Grobbelaar

 

Accredited by the College of Medicine of South Africa for CPD points

 Course detail

  • Lectures alternating with dissections
  • Fresh frozen cadavers
  • One side of neck dissected per delegate
  • Dissections: Sublingual gland and floor of mouth; Submandibular gland; Parotidectomy; Parapharyngeal space; Neck dissection; Thyroid lobectomy; Sistrunk operation, Total laryngectomy, Thyroplasty, Maxillectomy

Target audience 

  • ENT registrars and surgeons
  • General surgery registrars and surgeons
  • Maxillofacial registrars and surgeons
  • Plastic surgery registrars and surgeons

 

Registration fees:

  • Observers:                                                                          ZAR R4 000
  • Dissectors: Registrars                                                      ZAR R9 000(Early)           ZAR R9 500 (Late)
  • Dissectors: Specialists                 (CMSA members)   ZAR R10 000  (Early)          ZAR R10 500 (Late)
  • Dissectors: Specialists        (Non-CMSA members)   ZAR R11 000 (Early)           ZAR 11 500 (Late)

 * Late registration after 31 August 2025

 

Preparatory reading:

  1. Previous course video
  2. Ranula and sublingual salivary gland
  3. Submandibular gland excision
  4. Parotidectomy
  5. Parapharyngeal space
  6. Selective neck dissection
  7. Radical neck dissection
  8. Thyroidectomy
  9. Thyroglossal duct (Sistrunk)
  10. Laryngectomy
  11. Inferior Maxillectomy

 

Additional Preparatory Reading (Free Online):

Online Head & Neck Dissection and Reconstruction Manual (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

Registration is full for DISSECTOR POSITIONS please complete the form to be placed on the waiting list.

OBSERVER POSITIONS are still available.

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