Podiatric Surgery Workshops

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Hi All,

Australian Pod interested in a career in surgery. Can any recommend a particular podiatric surgery :hammer: (cadavar) workshop in the US? There are none available in Australia that I am aware of, therefore I can only assume it would be a costly exercise to undertake internationally.

For those who have participated in these workshops, is it worth undertaking?

Thank you for your time.

 

Hi

We use to run cadaver workshops from Uni NSW a few years ago. The ACPS is planning on organising another one next year in Sydney. From memory for a 2 day workshop it cost around $800, and definitley worth it.

A couple fo the aussie surgical registrars have done the forefoot and rearfoot cadaver workshops out of the Podiatry Institute in Atlanta.

 

Thanks Tarik for the info, are you aware which Uni the 2010 workshop will be run through or have any recommended contacts?

Thanks:drinks

 

No probs.

Its only in the planning phase at the moment, so no date or location yet.

The ACPS is planning a conference for next year and the idea is that a cadaver workshop be incorporated into the program.

I'm sure it will be heavily advertised in NSW. For updates, try logging onto the Australasian College of Podiatric Surgeons website early next year.

Cheers

 

Podiatric surgical workshops are available all over the US, but are not to teach you surgery if you have not undergone a surgical residency or have REAL experience working on living human beings. Cadaver surgical dissection is so dissimilar from real surgery. It is useful to experiment, try out instrumentation or just as an anatomy review. If you do not have surgical training, but take a workshop and try to operate on a real person, you would be doing the patient a disservice. It would be unethical and, in the US, possibly litigenous. Robert Bijak dpm, dabps

 

I agree with Robert.

Formal training to become a surgeon involves more than participating in workshops.
...............like taking a weekend cooking class and calling yourself a chef.

Steve

 

dr Sarbes

how yu doing mate?, long time, its nice to have it put across like that as we have so many of these so called weekend chefs. ha ha ha

 

Hi Mr. Nake:

Doing well, thank you, and you?

Nothing wrong with Weekend Chefs, as long as they stay in the kitchen -

.......nice thing about carving a Turkey, it doesn't have to heal and no worries about infection!

Steve

 

Hi drsarbes,

I am aware that one cannot become a Podiatric surgeon simply from undertaking a 2 or 3 day workshop, I am sorry if my initial thread could of been intepreted in that way. The workshop would be used as a aid to improve on surgical knowledge / anatomy.

Kind Regards:drinks,

Spur.

 

Spur,

The College of Podiatrists, Faculty of Surgery in the UK organise cadaver courses that are held in Lubeck ?sp? Germany.

 

Hi Spur:

I understand, knowledge is good, knowledge is power.........BUT.......... a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Take your pick.

The reason my initial comment gravitated to the bottom was due to the fact that this happens all the time, not just in our world of Foot & Ankle surgery. It's common-place for physicians to take weekend courses in cosmetic resurfacing, varicose vein removal, oculoplastic surgery, liposuction techniques, on and on, - then go back to their clinic and put an ad in the paper!

If the surgery is not being done in an accredited facility where credentialing is being done, then what's to stop someone from performing a procedure they want to do? Not much.

It's my opinion that a fair percentage of untrained "foot specialists" would attempt to perform procedures learned in a weekend surgical course. That being said, there are differences between someone who is trained in surgery learning a new procedure during a weekend course and adding it to his knowledge base and someone with little to no surgical training attempting the same thing.

Steve