Registration / coffee.

How to use the IT and housekeeping.

This brief talk will cover the pertinent points in history taking, note taking and run through documenting a systematic skin examination.

An up to date review of the medical management of non melanoma skin cancers.

1. Knot tying – how to tie, slide and lock
2. Tips to improve the cosmetic result
   1. Contouring – matching layers and surface continuity
   2. The importance of wound eversion.
   3. Suture choice – Absorbable /Nonabsorbable/ monofilament/braided
   4. Orientation of excisions – importance of Natural Skin Tension Lines
3. When and where to biopsy and when not to biopsy – Melanoma vs NMSC
4. Complications and aftercare – wound dressings, avoiding infections, and avoiding
   dehiscence

Morning tea and snacks for networking.

1. Review of the preferred surgical approaches in differing anatomical sites; Face, Limbs, Trunk and Chest
2. High risk areas and high risk lesions – when to refer
3. Fundamental principles of Flaps – 'Robbing Peter to Pay Paul'
4. Fundamental principles of Grafts – Split /Full thickness

Delicious and nutritious lunch with time for networking.

1. Tying the knot – demonstration on tying, sliding and locking a knot
2. The standard elliptical excision
3. Reverse deep dermal – the key to structural strength and tension management
4. Running upper dermal, and mattress sutures
5. Tricks to closing a tight wound with fragile skin

Afternoon tea and snacks for networking.

1. The A-T flap and where it is best deployed
2. The rotation flap and where it is best deployed

This is the time to shout out for help and sort whatever you want to sort! Use the person sitting next to you or get a tutor. Tutors will be abundant but take advantage of whatever you can to learn the skills you need to!  For more advanced students, send us an email with your 'wish list', we will try to accommodate you as best we can in this session.

Wrap up panel discussion and Q+As.