Highly interactive and intensive course, with case conferences, tutorials and debates as well as "state-of-art" lectures. The intermediate oncoplastic course will build on the core skills programme and will focus on the workhouse of breast reconstruction, the pedicle LD flap.

Level
This course is aimed at ST 5-7, breast plastic and general surgeons interested in developing breast oncoplastic and reconstructive skills.

Content
LD flaps: History and critical overview of the world experience
Applied anatomy of LD muscle
LD flap reconstruction: Key steps
LD Video
Autologous LD/LD plus implants
Patient selection. Marketing up and planning of LD flap reconstruction
Case discussions (infection, twitching, seroma, necrosis, volume and size asymmetry, local recurrence, radiotherapy)
Surgical pitfalls and how to deal with them
Informing the patient
How to deal with unsatisfactory outcomes
Breakfast Tutorial - MDM: Your cases
Radiotherapy and the Oncologist: improving cancer and cosmetic outcomes
Radiotherapy and the Surgeon: improving cancer and cosmetic outcomes
Overview of indications and changing role of volume displacement techniques
Patient mark up for mammoplasty
Nipple reconstruction: Why, when, how

Workshops
LD Flap workshop: Key operative steps
Practise marking up on live models
Mammoplasty techniques
Nipple reconstruction techniques and tattooing

Format
Two days of tutorials and workshop with live models, cadavers, anatomical prosections, operative videos and skills station.

Link
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/education/courses/specialty-skills-in-oncoplastic-and-breast-reconstruction-surgery-st-5-7