Upcoming courses
Basics of Local Flaps
This Basics of Local Flaps course covers the essentials of plastic surgery techniques on how to treat soft tissue defects with local flaps.
Find your course in the list below. If you have been invited to join a course, you can register on the course page with your personal registration code.
Find your course in the list below. If you have been invited to join a course, you can register on the course page with your personal registration code.
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Local Flaps Course
A practical ‘back to basics’ course that teaches universal treatment principles of local flaps
Flaps play a crucial role in modern surgical practice, enabling plastic surgeons to provide comprehensive care for patients with complex wounds.
This course is intended to enhance comprehension of fundamental principles in local flap design. It is structured to instruct on the process of strategically planning a local skin flap to achieve the best outcome with minimal impact on the donor site, while considering both functional and aesthetic factors.
This course is intended to enhance comprehension of fundamental principles in local flap design. It is structured to instruct on the process of strategically planning a local skin flap to achieve the best outcome with minimal impact on the donor site, while considering both functional and aesthetic factors.
'We want to improve surgical care worldwide by increasing the global surgical capacity'
For who
A course for professionals in reconstructive surgery
This course is suitable for a wide range of medical professionals that have to deal with soft tissue defects. However, its primary focus is on plastic surgeons (in training).
Overall, flaps play a crucial role in modern surgical practice, enabling surgeons to provide comprehensive care for patients with complex injuries, defects, or surgical needs. Their versatility and effectiveness make them an indispensable tool in various surgical specialties, including plastic and reconstructive surgery, orthopedics, and general surgery
Overall, flaps play a crucial role in modern surgical practice, enabling surgeons to provide comprehensive care for patients with complex injuries, defects, or surgical needs. Their versatility and effectiveness make them an indispensable tool in various surgical specialties, including plastic and reconstructive surgery, orthopedics, and general surgery
What you will learn
Learn the principles of local flaps
This course looks at open flaps from a global perspective – the principles of the treatment of open flaps are the same, wherever you are. The course provides alternative options for providing high-quality care if resources are limited, to ensure these global standards can be applied around the world.
With this course you will obtain:
With this course you will obtain:
Knowledge of the three types of movements in local tissue transfer
Understanding of basic concepts involved in designing and performing local skin flaps
Awareness of the common misconceptions in planning local skin flaps
Knowledge and understanding of the most commonly performed local skin flaps
Improved skills and techniques in performing the most common local skin flaps
Your teachers
Learn from specialists
Experts with experience in different settings around the world contributed to developing this course, so you’ll learn proven techniques that work in your context.
We want to express our sincere gratitude to dr. Marck and dr. Sluimers, founders of the Back to Basics Flap Course, for sharing their knowledge and expertise throughout the years. The Back to Basics Flap Course was first organised by Klaas Marck en Jan E. Sluimers in 2015 in Urk. They successfully kept the course going for 5 years, after which they passed the baton to Matthijs Botman and Hay Winters. The content of this syllabus is essentially based on dr. Marck his work ‘Back to Basics - Tekstboek voor de lokale huidlap chirurgie’, the course syllabus for previous editions of the Back to Basics Flap Course. Unfortunately, dr. Marck passed away December 19th, 2021.
We are honoured to have been given the opportunity to continue their efforts regarding the education of local flap design, a craft so essential to the field of plastic surgery.
We want to express our sincere gratitude to dr. Marck and dr. Sluimers, founders of the Back to Basics Flap Course, for sharing their knowledge and expertise throughout the years. The Back to Basics Flap Course was first organised by Klaas Marck en Jan E. Sluimers in 2015 in Urk. They successfully kept the course going for 5 years, after which they passed the baton to Matthijs Botman and Hay Winters. The content of this syllabus is essentially based on dr. Marck his work ‘Back to Basics - Tekstboek voor de lokale huidlap chirurgie’, the course syllabus for previous editions of the Back to Basics Flap Course. Unfortunately, dr. Marck passed away December 19th, 2021.
We are honoured to have been given the opportunity to continue their efforts regarding the education of local flap design, a craft so essential to the field of plastic surgery.
Amsterdam Skills Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Practical information
Course details
The course consists of a series of theoretical and practical sessions. Each theoretical session will be accompanied by a practical skills session on a simulation model.
A 1-day program
A printed course syllabus is provided for participants
Hands-on exercises on tailor made models
Best suited for a group of 15-30 participants
Costs
We currently organize this course annually at the Amsterdam Skill Centre in the Netherlands.
For any questions or more information please contact us at info@globalsurgeryamsterdam.com.
For any questions or more information please contact us at info@globalsurgeryamsterdam.com.
A sustainable and customizable training model
We collaborate with organizations, such as Interplast, Doctors of the World, Friendship, and CapaCare to move from the short-term surgical mission model to a more sustainable model focused on knowledge exchange. This saves money, human resources, and reduces the carbon footprint.
National surgical societies worldwide can embed the course in new and existing training programs and provide an effective and inexpensive element for Continuous Medical Education (the ATLS course is an example of this).
National surgical societies worldwide can embed the course in new and existing training programs and provide an effective and inexpensive element for Continuous Medical Education (the ATLS course is an example of this).
One world one standard of care
Our courses provide a standardized way to teach health care workers the basics of surgical care, applicable in every setting.
We focus on the basics because the more experienced you become in your career, the better you will understand that those who correctly apply the basic treatment principles are the best surgeons.
If you are interested to collaborate with us and to explore options to organise a course in you own setting, please contact us at:
info@basicsofglobalsurgery.orgWe focus on the basics because the more experienced you become in your career, the better you will understand that those who correctly apply the basic treatment principles are the best surgeons.
If you are interested to collaborate with us and to explore options to organise a course in you own setting, please contact us at: