This comprehensive review is designed to help you pass your Plastic Surgery exams as well as to update your clinical knowledge base.  The course includes didactic lectures, embedded questions and discussion time at the end of most topics, and a dedicated question and answer session.  Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine and board-relevant standards of care, incorporating current best practice concepts, surgical approaches, and clinical follow-up strategies.  As a result, it provides a good review for your ABPS written and oral exams as well as providing a thorough review of plastic surgery for physicians in practice.  Many of our previous learners found the course provided them with improved diagnostic and planning strategies, a better understanding of the best surgical approaches for the principal areas covered by plastic surgeons, and helped them recognize areas of weakness for self-study.

At the conclusion of this course each participant will be able to:

– Ascertain the etiology, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and prognosis for common surgeries in all seven anatomical areas prescribed by the ABPS

– Summarize appropriate diagnostic and assessment procedures

– Provide a reasonable and appropriate plan for surgical and/or medical management of defined patient problems and likely complications for all common surgeries covered by the specialty of plastic surgery

– Display an understanding of the various types of surgical facilities and their
suitability for all major plastic surgery approaches

– Describe appropriate habilitation and rehabilitation approaches for all common areas covered by plastic surgery

– Apply the core knowledge and clinical insight gained to cognitive portion of the ABPS certification examinations

Faculty & Topics

David Yoo, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology Loyola University

Eyelid Reconstruction and Eyelid Complications, Ptosis – Congenital and Acquired Evaluation

Azra Ashraf, MD MPH
Private Practice,
Alexandria, VA

Breast Reconstruction, Cosmetic Brest Surgery, Body Contouring, Injectables, Trunk Reconstruction

Wellington Davis, III, MD†
Assistant Professor of Surgery Drexel University College of Medicine

Crit Reasoning & Thinking Skills (How to Pass Written Exam), Otoplasty, Acute Burn Management, and Reconstruction, Fracture of the Craniomaxillofacial Skeleton, The Syndromic Craniosynostoses Surgical Management, Cleft Lip and Palate, Vascular Lesion of the Head and Neck

Paras Khandhar, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Beaumont Children’s Hospital

Evidence-Based Medicine,  Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

Amit Mitra, MD†
Professor and Chair of Plastic Surgery Temple University

Basics of Skin Grafts and Flaps, Dupuytren’s Contracture, Principles of Microsurgery, Amputations, and Re-plantation, Compression Neuropathies, Scalp Reconstruction, Lip Reconstruction, Head, and Neck Reconstruction

Patrick Reavey, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Chicago School of Medicine

Brachial Plexus, Hand Surgery Review, Congenital Hand

Mark Domanski MD
Inova Fairfax Hospital

Head and Neck Embryology, Cephalometrics and Orthognathic, Facial Trauma

Lino Miele, MD, MS
Clinical Instructor Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery UPMC,  Pittsburgh, PA

Breast Reduction