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CAPE TOWN HEAD & NECK DISSECTION WORKSHOP – Tuesday 10th & Wednesday 11th December 2024

Event Description

WORLD 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: 10 -11 December 2024

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

International Faculty: Professor Nicolas Fakhry

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

 

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:

Please note Dissector positions are currently fully booked. Please enquire to be on the waiting list (info@surgicalskills.co.za). Observer positions are still available.

  • Observers:                                                                          ZAR 4000
  • Dissectors: Registrars                                                      ZAR 9000(Early)           ZAR 9500 (Late)
  • Dissectors: Specialists                 (CMSA members)   ZAR 9450  (Early)          ZAR 9950 (Late)
  • Dissectors: Specialists        (Non-CMSA members)   ZAR 9750 (Early)           ZAR 10500 (Late)

 * Late registration after 31 August 2024

 

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)

 

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