33rd LHNC PRACTICAL MICROVASCULAR COURSE
Monday 17th - Friday 21st March 2025
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Head & Neck Reconstructive Surgery is a complex and highly technically challenging field central to effective management of oncologic and other defects. This is the only UK practical and theoretical microvascular course designed solely for, led by, and taught by head & neck surgeons
This practical microvascular training course, now in its 33rd year, takes place in a new purpose-built facility. It integrates over 30 hours of hands-on surgery using a live femoral and epigastric vessel model with 15 hours of tutorials and lectures.
Course Date: 17th – 21st March 2025
Venue: University of Liverpool
Course Director: Professor Richard Shaw & Professor Andrew Schache, OMFS, Aintree University Hospital and University of Liverpool
Strictly limited to 10 delegate per course
Early Bird Rate: £1800
(£2000 after 1st Feb 2025)
*The course is included in the EACMFS Educational Rolling Programme. After the course, a refund of 300 euros is available for each EACMFS Trainee Member attending this course. Please note that EACMFS membership of at least one year is required and only one application for an award, scholarship or grant is permitted each calendar year. Contact Essie Winer for EACMFS refund – ewiner@eacmfs.org
Practical techniques
Theory
Use of microscope & micro instruments
Suture handling & knots
End-to-end venous couplers
End-to-end artery & vein
End-to-side artery & vein
Venous coupler
Anastomosis
Avoiding complications
Flap monitoring
Perforator & chimeric flaps
Composite flaps
DCIA & Scapula
Reconstruction of mandible, maxilla and laryngopharynx
Includes
Features
All Home Office Licenses
All instruments, sutures and consumables
Breakfast, refreshments & lunch provided Monday – Friday
Course dinner at a top Liverpool Restaurant
WBA signed up to ISCP
National & International Faculty
Faculty of five head & neck microvascular surgeons from a range of UK OMFS departments provide excellent faculty/delegate ratio
Hotel at delegates’ expense, although several reasonable options can be recommended
32 CME Credits & Certificate
To find out more, please contact: Debbie Horne, LHNC Centre Manager, horned@liverpool.ac.uk
THE SINUS ANATOMY AND SURGERY INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
Monday 22nd - Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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This unique course is tailored to ENT doctors (Core Surgical Trainees, ST1 - ST7, Staff Grades, Associate Specialists, Clinical Fellows) who need training with nasal endoscopy, proper instrument handling and be equipped with the necessary building blocks to undertake endoscopic sinus surgery with finesse.
The course aims to enhance existing competencies with particular emphasis on safe surgery for the maxillary, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. Unlike other courses, advanced frontal sinus (e.g. drillout) and endoscopic skull base surgery techniques are not covered in this course. Thus, the programme provides ample time for paced, structured learning as well as close interaction with experienced faculty to achieve professional development goals necessary for all ENT trainees and generalists.
The course programme is mapped to the ISCP curriculum and includes up to 10 hours in the laboratory. Delegates will have an assigned trainer throughout the course and are expected to be assessed against relevant endoscopic sinus surgery simulated PBAs on the ISCP curriculum. Surgical dissection will be undertaken on PHACON Sinus models in the state-of-the-art Karl Storz Training Centre.
To find out more about these bespoke models, click here. The course is limited to 14 hands-on spaces and due to the unique nature of this course, early registration is recommended.
Key features
One dissector per work station
Work stations equipped with high-definition camera, endoscope and microdebrider
Each model provides two nasal sides for practice
ENTUK CPD credits (pending
Course fee:
Hands-on dissector £615
Course fee includes refreshments and lunch on both days. Hotel charges are not included
North-West Anaesthetic CPD Study Day
Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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A one-day programme of current topics and recent advances in anaesthesia. Aimed at both anaesthetic consultants and trainees.
Including talks on the recent national audit project (NAP7), trauma and processing trauma, artificial intelligence, transgender considerations and palliative care.
Venue: online
Course Leaders: Dr Layla Meshykhi and Dr Steph Raybould
Fees: £15
5 RCOA CPD Points applied for.
Hands-on Introductory Course to Head and Neck Surgery - UMC Utrecht
Thursday 13th June 2024 - 15th June 2024
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The course is designed for senior residents, fellows and young staff members in Ear-Nose-Throat Surgery or Maxillo-Facial Surgery, with topics on work-up, multidisciplinary management and follow-up of head and neck cancer patients.
Location: UMC Utrecht Cancer Center
Supportive and Palliative Care in Head and Neck Cancer
Friday 21st June 2024
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Update on current palliative management strategies for H&N cancer
Ethical considerations and decision making in nutrition and airway management for patients with a palliative diagnosis
Available support and resources for patients with complex symptoms
Speakers:
Professor Christian Ottensmeier - Professor Immuno-Oncology
Dr Anoop Haridass - Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Dr Dan Monnery - Clinical Lead Palliative and Supportive Care
Vikki-Lee Birchenough - Homeless Palliative Care Service Lead
Professor Jo Patterson - Professor of Speech and Language Therapy
Dr Catriona Mayland - Senior Clinical Lecturer & Honorary Consultant in Palliative MedicineFees: £40 - this also covers lunch and refreshments
Registration: 08:30
Finishing: 13:00
To find out more, please contact:
Rachel Brooker rachel.brooker@nhs.net
Introduction to LASERs in ENT Course
Friday 5th July 2024
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In association with entsho.com
The Fourth Introduction to Lasers Course. This one-day specialty craft course offers a broad overview of lasers in ENT, with particular focus on transoral laser surgery. There are twelve candidate places in total. The day will be divided into short lectures as well as practical sessions. Candidates will have a chance to use a CO2 laser on laryngeal models in the operating theatre and there will also be a human factors element to the course. The course will include laser safety certification, which is a requirement for ENT CCT.
Example course timetable:
The physics of lasers
Principles of laser safety
Use of lasers in: otology; rhinology; head and neck cancer; laryngology/airway
Practical laser safety
Clinical human factors simulation
Hands-on use of the CO2 and KTP lasersCANDIDATES
Most relevant for ST3-ST8 and Peri-CCT Fellows in ENT and OMFS; all grades welcome.
FEES
£140 per attendee
LHNC International Head & Neck Lymphoedema Study Day 2024
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 - 09:30 hrs - 16:40 hrs
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Suitable for a multi-disciplinary audience, the day will focus on multi-dimensional assessment and management of head and neck lymphoedema.
Places available in person or online.
Optional workshop is included in the fees on Monday 22nd July 2024 for those attending in person.
Lunch and refreshments are included in the fees for people attending in person.
This full study day will include the following speakers:
Prof Cherith Semple - Professor of Clinical Nursing, Ulster University
Alison Smith - Highly Specialist SLT, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Prof Heather Starmer - Dept of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Stanford University, USA
Prof Jo Patterson - Professor of SLT, LHNC, University of Liverpool
Mr Jason Fleming - Consultant Head & Neck/Thyroid Surgeon, Senior Clinical Lecturer, LHNC, University of Liverpool
Prof Joani Christensen - Assistant Professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Center
Ms Holly McMillan Senior Speech Language Pathologist and Certified Lymphedema Therapist Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Speech Pathology & Audiology, The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Centre
Ms Emma Gwynne - Specialist Lymphoedema Therapist, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Course Fee: £85
In person - includes lunch, refreshments and optional 1/2 day workshop on Monday 22nd July 2024.
Global Oral Cancer Diploma
Applications are open for the first global cohort
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AO CMF, in collaboration with the International Academy for Oral Oncology (IAOO), proudly present the Global Oral Cancer Diploma – an advanced online program designed to provide professionals like yourself with a standardized, evidence-based knowledge platform for the effective treatment and management of oral cancer cases.
Program starts:
August 31, 2024: Welcome session - online (60 minutes)
December 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025 (Winter break) 10 online Zoom sessions for 90 minutes each
(Saturdays, 12 – 1 pm CET)
Program ends on June 22, 2025
Fees
CHF 100 administration fee
CHF 2,000 early bird fee
CHF 2,400 tuition fee after April 8, 2024
The Liverpool Open Approaches for Sinonasal Tumours Dissection Course
Monday 16th - Tuesday 17th September 2024
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The Liverpool Head and Neck Centre would like to invite you to attend this one of a kind learning opportunity. The course reflects a synthesis of clinical experience of the Liverpool team in managing sinonasal tumours in a multidisciplinary fashion.
This course focuses on external approaches to the paranasal sinuses, orbit and skull base in the context of surgical management of sinonasal malignancy. It is suitable for senior trainees (maxillo-facial, plastics, otolaryngology) who have an interest in head and neck oncology, as well as established surgeons who are practicing in this field and require refresher training. The programme focuses on instructional sessions and supervised cadaver dissection, therefore maximising time in the anatomy laboratory.
Unlike other courses, extended endoscopic sinus techniques, neck surgery or reconstruction are not included in the programme. As this course is primarily aimed at more experienced clinicians, prior exposure to management of sinonasal pathology or malignancy is expected. Although not mandatory, some experience in endoscopic sinus surgery will be advantageous.
The course is hosted at the state-of-the-art anatomy laboratory at the University of Liverpool. There will be two hands-on dissectors per work station. The course is limited to 14 dissectors and 6 observers. Early booking is advised. Course fee includes refreshments and lunch on both days of the course.
Techniques: lateral rhinotomy, rhinectomy, orbital exenteration, combined approach to the anterior skull base, zygomatic osteotomy
Course fee: Hands-on £1,000 Observer £450
Course venue: Human Anatomy Resource Centre, University of Liverpool
Course directors: Mr Owais Khattak FRCS(OMFS), Mr Samuel Leong MPhil FRCS(ORL-HNS)
The Liverpool Hands-On Transoral Laser Microsurgery for Head & Neck Cancer Course
Tuesday 17th – Wednesday 18th September 2024
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The Liverpool Head and Neck Centre is proud to host an intensive two-day course which aims to provide an in-depth theoretical and practical overview of transoral laser treatment for tumours of the larynx and pharynx. This course is suitable for consultants and higher surgical trainees in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
This course will teach participants transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) using the CO2 laser on Thiel soft-fix cadaveric specimens. Participants will be taught TLM techniques for cancers of the glottic larynx, supraglottic larynx, tonsil, base of tongue and hypopharynx using a variety of laryngoscopes and high powered microscopes with the CO2 laser micro-manipulators. There will be 2 dissectors per Thiel cadaver.
This course will consist of lectures and expert panel discussions on the first day, while the second day focuses on instructional sessions and supervised cadaver dissection. The course will be held at the Human Anatomy Resource Centre at the University of Liverpool.
The course fee is £1100 for dissectors, and £400 for observers (includes Medical Laser Safety Training certificate, refreshments, lunch and a course dinner on Tuesday 17th September).
The course is limited to 10 dissectors and 10 observers, and early booking is advised.
https://sites.google.com/view/liverpoollasercourse
Feedback from previous courses
"Excellent faculty to delegate ratio"
"Interesting clinical discussions"
"Fantastic course, faculty were all extremely approachable and engaging and clearly experts in their field. The faculty ratio of 1:1 made for a much higher yield learning environment and really helped me get to grips with the nuances of the various procedure. Excellent facilities also and being able to see what my dissection partner was doing on a large screen meant I could also learn from what they were doing"
"Candidate to faculty ratio was excellent. All the faculty were extremely knowledgeable and were able to answer questions with reference to clinical practice and their prior experience. The venue was extremely well equipped and being able to see the microscope view on a large screen meant I could learn from my dissection partner"
The Liverpool Head & Neck Dissection Course
Thursday 19th - Friday 20th September 2024
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The Liverpool Head and Neck Centre is proud to host a two-day intensive hands-on course aimed at trainees in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery. The course includes instructional sessions, supervised cadaver dissection and expert panel discussions.
The course will be delivered at Human Anatomy Resource Centre state-of-the-art facilities at the University of Liverpool. Under the direction and supervision of expert tutors, delegates will have the opportunity to revise anatomy and become better equipped to perform head and neck surgical interventions to a high standard. The focus will be on maximum hands-on dissection time to allow delegates to consolidate previously acquired skills and refine their operative technique. Dissectors will be able to have work-based assessments completed for the procedures covered. There will be 2 dissectors per Thiel soft-fix cadaver.
The course fee is £750 for dissectors, and £350 for observers (includes refreshments, lunch and a course dinner on Thursday 19th September).
The course is limited to 16 dissectors and 8 observers, and early booking is advised.
https://sites.google.com/view/liverpoolheadandneckcourse
Topics covered:
Tracheostomy
Thyroidectomy
Submandibular gland excision
Partial/total parotidectomy
Neck dissection
Total laryngectomy
Primary puncture and surgical voice restoration
Pectoralis major and deltopectoral flaps
Sternotomy & mediastinal vascular anatomy
Mandibulotomy
Feedback from previous courses
"Well run, engaged faculty"
"The course is very much practical-oriented, updated with immediate positive effect in everyday work"
"Excellent course. High faculty number and a very social atmosphere."
"Excellent course for the budding head and neck surgeons"
"Incredible course, will change my day-to-day practice and has given me increased operating confidence."
"This was an extremely high yield training course and I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to attend. I will definitely be attending future courses with the team."
"Excellent course, well run, great consultant teaching and ratios, excellent catering and course dinner - cannot fault it at all great value for money"
"A thoroughly well organised and delivered course. A great emphasis on hands on dissection. The faculty were very good educators and explained the procedures brilliantly. Would highly recommend this course to others."
"Very well supported with faculty and individual attention was much appreciated throughout both days to maximise the use of the time."
The Liverpool Advanced Head & Neck Reconstruction Course
Monday 21st – Thurs 24th October 2024
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This is an advanced course aimed at ST5 and above. It offers comprehensive free flap harvest from all donor sites with support of an expert faculty (local/national/international).
Day 1 (Monday) is virtual planning and simulated surgery with Stryker and 3D systems.
Days 2-4 (Tues – Thurs) full cadaveric dissection with 2 delegates to each cadaver.
Only 6 cadavers/12 delegates with 2:1 faculty at all times.Location: Human Anatomy Resource Centre (HARC), UoL.
NB – Monday session likely to be in UoL Cancer Research CentreDelegates – ST5+. There is an expectation that trainees are already competent in harvest of radial forearm and fibula as a general guide to ensure maximal benefit from the course.
Cost - £1500 for 4 day course
Course Dinner - Wednesday 23rd OctoberAll delegates will have the opportunity to undertake custom planning session on the Monday with the 3D-Systems team in the US to plan resection/reconstruction for one of the cadavers being used. So custom planning for multi-segment fibula, DCIA and scapula and have exemplar cutting guides, custom plates etc on the subsequent days in the course.
Places Available – 12 places only.