Description:
Taught by practising surgeons, this highly interactive event will feature focus-group workshops and individual demonstrations complemented by interactive lectures in surgical anatomy. The workshops will use imaginative artwork in identifying important surface anatomy landmarks and the underlying structures on live human models. Students will also be taught common surgical approaches, and more importantly, structures you will be asked in the operating theatre!
Surgical anatomy pertinent to the following specialties will be covered:
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Vascular Surgery
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Plastic Surgery
- General Surgery
Places are limited to 32 and will be offered on a 'first-come-first served' basis.
The event is FREE for medical students (all years and all medical schools) both in the UK and beyond. To participate you have to be a medical student registered with an approved university.
Please click here to register.
Important: Preference will be given to Preston SurgSoc (Surgical Society) members. If you are not a member, please email prestonsurgsoc@gmail.com and you may be offered a place if there are unfilled vacancies..
Course manual is available for purchase online or at the venue(subject to availability). Please click here to purchase the manual.
A deposit of £10 will be required to guarantee your place; this will be refunded to you on the day.
To register and to secure your place, please complete your online registration and email to
prestonsurgsoc@gmail.com to obtain the bank details for you to send in the deposit.
What happens after I register and send the deposit:
- Online registration alone does not confirm your place. Your place is confirmed only on receipt of the your deposit.
- Unless you register online we will not have your contact details and thus will not be able to contact you even if we receive your deposit. You may thus inadvertently fail to secure your place.
- If you are successful in securing a place, we will inform you by email soon and provide reporting instructions for the event.
- If your deposit is received after all the places have been taken up, your deposit will be returned.
- If you have registered online and have send in your deposit, but haven't heard from us within five days mean that you were unsuccessful on this occasion. Your deposit will be returned.
- If you fail to attend the event after you have sent the deposit, you will forfeit the deposit.
