Provisional Program Day 2 – Thursday 20 November
*Program Note – Influencers of Rural Surgery
This year’s Scientific Program will feature talks from key rural surgeons – ‘Influencers of Rural Surgery’ who have paved the way for future rural surgeons by fostering open and welcoming communities, and providing strong leadership, mentoring and mateship. Rural surgery has it’s unique challenges, but it also provides many rewarding aspects not always available to city-based counterparts. The vastness of our country means we are always in need of rural surgeons, and a fundamental element of the PSA is recruitment: to showcase the many positives of a rural surgical practice. We would like to acknowledge these surgeons along with the many before them, and the many more to come in the future.
SESSION 1 – SURGICAL PALLIATION
09:00 Management and case presentation followed by round table discussion
Panel: Palliative Care Physician, General Surgeon, Radiation Oncologist
Case Mix:
- Malignant bowel obstruction
- Upper GI haemorrhage
- Fungating wound
10:30 – 11:00 MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION 2 – RURAL PATIENTS RETRIEVAL: WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?
11:00 Overview of available services and funding
11:15 Med Star: Coordination and retrieval (broad coverage)
11:30 Complexities – Dispatching hospital
11:45 Complexities – Receiving hospital
12:00 When things go wrong (retrievals done badly; cases surgical mortality audit)
12:15 Panel – Communication issues: Breakdown of communication – sending & receiving
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION 3 – SUB-SPECIALTY TIPS & TRICKS
13:30 Influencer of Rural Surgery
14:00 Vascular (topic to be expanded)
14:15 Plastics (topic to be expanded)
14:30 Urology (topic to be expanded)
14:45 Neurosurgery (topic to be expanded)
15:00 – 15:30 AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION 4 – HOW TO START YOUR RURAL SURGICAL CAREER
15:30 Expert panel discussion on tips and best practice when commencing your rural surgical career
16:30 *Jim Pryor Begonia Session
17:00 Day 2 Program Close
17:00. PSA Annual General Meeting – all welcome
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From 19:00 – Gala Dinner
*About the Jim Pryor Begonia Prize: An opportunity for delegates to put forward their innovative idea/research, capped at four (4) minutes, aligned to the following: SURGICALLY INNOVATIVE; Useful… How to perform some tricky surgical manoeuvres quickly and easily without fail; Original… “You heard it first at the PSA”.