Minor Surgery Skills Course / GP Training / Surgery / Accre0dited

Primary Care Training Academy is based in Birmingham, and delivers specialised training courses to doctors [GP's, GPSI's, GP Registrars], as well as other Primary Care Practitioners including Nurses, Podiatrists, Chiropodists and Pharmacists. Minor surgery skills courses are run throughout the year. All courses are delivered by enthusiastic highly experienced trainers.

Available Courses: -

Minor Surgery Course  19 - 20 Sept 2009

  DERMOSCOPY WORKSHOP 11th July 2009

DERMOSCOPY WORKSHOP  3rd  Oct  2009

Last updated 25th June 2009

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Primary Care Surgery Skills Course: 1.5 days duration

COURSE SUMMARY:

Aimed at: GP's, GP Registars, GPwSI in Dermatology and Skin Surgery.

Level: Primary Care Beginner to Advanced Hospital Practitioner (Delegates are grouped according to surgical competency level.) Training is subsequently focussed accordingly.

Course Details: A practical surgery skills workshop with intensive surgical training over 1.5 days; operating on real skin. Caters for beginners,intermediate and experienced level GPwSI's. Intensive technical tuition in all minor skin surgical techniques delivered in small group informal theory and practical sessions. This course has been fully approved by West Midlands Regional Postgraduate Deanery and CPD approved by NHS.

Contact: pctacademy@yahoo.co.uk or Course Director Mr S Hassan FRCS(Plast) on 07974 943 860 for further details and a booking form / programme or print off and complete the form below.

Accommodation: Substantially reduced rates have been secured for accommodation at the luxury Malmaison Hotel during the course. However to secure these discounted rates, accommodation must be reserved with the hotel directly before 19th Aug 2009 (£99pppn B&B, + £10 supplement for partner overnight accomodation incl. B&B). To book accommodation contact Malmaison Hotel 'in-house' reservations directly on 0121 246 5000 quoting the Primary Care Training Academy and Miss Diane Vukovich as reference. Parking is available.

Meeting places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.

See below for further details.

PRIMARY CARE SURGERY SKILLS COURSES:

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Next Available Course Information:  

Date:         Sat 19th - 20th Sep 2009  Places  Available!

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Update:  Places Currently Available

 

Venue:     Malmaison Hotel,      1 Wharf Street, Birmingham B1 1RD

                     Tel: 0121 246 5000        ‘    Winner of Best Hotel 2004’

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Website:     www.malmaison-birmingham.com

Directions:  http://www.malmaison-birmingham.com/find-us/directions

This surgical skills course is ideally suited to GP’s / GPSI’s or GP registrar’s and also A&E medical staff, F1-2/ST1-3's and Nurse Practitioners who wish to improve their skin surgical skills. Particularly those doctors performing or planning to perform minor skin surgery on a regular basis. All aspects of skin surgery will be covered from planning, marking of lesions, injecting, cutting, suturing techniques, skin flaps, z plasty etc and anything else delegates would like to know or practice. All skill levels are catered for (‘novice’ to ‘advanced’). Pig skin and novel jigs are used to give a realistic feel to the surgery. There is also an opportunity to practice/improve cryotherapy techniques, electrocautery devices and try recent skin closure developments.

The course is being held in the luxury boutique Malmaison Hotel in the heart of Birmingham  This is a part of the ‘Mailbox’ complex with its designer stores and chic bars/cafés. It is said to be 'Birmingham’s answer to Bond street!’ The Malmaison Hotel has its own leisure club and health/beauty spa (ref www.malmaison-birmingham.com).

Accommodation must be booked directly with the hotel 'in-house reservations department' on 0121 246 5000 quoting Primary Care Training Academy and Miss Diane Vukovich to secure preferential course delegate rates (£99pppn B&B! or £109 B&B Double Occupancy – normally £160 Room Only). Accommodation must be booked by 19th Aug 2009 to guarantee  these special rates. The course starts on Saturday morning, and closes at lunch on Sunday. Parking is available.

Delegates will be assessed pre and post course to ensure that groups of similar abilities work together. The course is informal and sociable. The course consists of mainly practical sessions, but micro lectures will cover lesion recognition, non-surgical treatment of lesions, BCC’s, LA’s, surgical pitfalls and tips.

The intended faculty members for the next course are all experienced surgical trainers: -

·         Mr Sultan Hassan FRCS(Plast) FRCS(Eng) FRCSEd, Senior Registrar Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery,  Course Director.

·         Dr Christy Chou, Plastic Surgery Unit, Univ. Hosp. of North Durham, also as Primary Care Surgeon for Durham & Darlington PCT, PCDS Committee.

·         Dr Clare Defty, Dermatology SpR, West Midlands Deanery

·         Mr Ramesh Vidyadharan FRCS, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Children’s Hospital

 

·         Mr Justin Chatterjee MRCS MSc, Specialist Registrar Plastic Surgery, Pan Scotland Deanery  & also support staff. 

Course Program:

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.Saturday 19th Sep 2009

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09:00hrs Registration & Coffee

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09:15hrs Introduction & Welcome: Aims and Objectives

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09:30hrs Surgical Skill Assessment

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10:15hrs Non surgical treatment of skin cancer/lesions

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10:45hrs Coffee and snacks / Exhibition Stands

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11:15hrs Surgical tips and instrument handling

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11:45hrs Practical Session 1

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13.00hrs Luncheon and Exhibitions Stands

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13:45hrs Local Anaesthesia

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13:55hrs Practical Session 2

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15.30hrs Afternoon Tea and Exhibition Stands

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15:45hrs Peri/Post-operative wound care

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15:55hrs Practical Session 3

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17:00hrs Questions & Answers

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17.30hrs Meeting Close

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19.30hrs Pre-dinner drinks followed by dinner

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Sunday 20th Sep 2009

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09.30hrs Cysts/Lipomas and Skin Flaps

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10.00hrs Practical Session 4

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11.45hrs Morning Coffee and Exhibition Stands

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12.00hrs Final Assessment

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13.00hrs Close of Meeting & feedback followed by lunch in the Hotel

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To book a place, please tick preferred course date above, then print off and complete this section & return with payment or preferably: -

Please click this link for a downloadable booking form

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Delegate Rate	£400.00
Accompanying Guest [Dinner(Sat) & Lunch(Sun)]	£60.00
Please make all payments payable to: ‘Primary Care Training Academy’	TOTAL PAYMENT ENCLOSED	£

Please let us know if you have any special requirements, including dietary i.e. vegetarian etc:

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Places for these meetings will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

If no place is available on the preferred course date then the booking will be transferred to the next available course. If this date is not acceptable/available then under these circumstances, the booking fee paid shall be refunded in full.

Places are limited and can only be confirmed upon receipt of the delegate fee IN FULL. A strictly NO REFUNDS policy applies.

I enclose payment in full and agree to the terms and conditions outlined above.

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Print name:__________________Signed:______________________Date: ________

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Please print off, complete, sign and return this booking form along with full payment via cheque/postal order, made payable to: -‘Primary Care Training Academy’.

BACS payments will also be accepted – please contact for payment details.

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'Primary Care Training Academy'

Primary Care Surgery Skills Course

16 St Peters Road,

Harborne,

Birmingham B17 0AS.

For further information please contact Mr S Hassan, Course Director on mobile number 07974 943 860 or via e-mail on pctacademy@yahoo.co.uk 

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