Dates: 5 -6 December 2025

Venue: University of Cape Town Surgical Skills Training Centre, 6th floor, Institute of Child Health Building, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town.

Convenors: Professor Johannes Fagan, Dr Matthew White

IFOS International Faculty: Professor Nicolas Fakhry, Professor Carlos Chiesa Estomba

Local Faculty: Professor Johannes Fagan, Dr Mohammed Thandar, Dr Matthew White, Dr Johan Grobbelaar

Accredited by the College of Medicine of South Africa for CPD points

Course detail :

• Lectures alternating with dissections
• Fresh frozen cadavers
• One side of neck dissected per delegate
• Dissections: Sublingual gland and floor of mouth; Submandibular gland; Parotidectomy; Parapharyngeal space; Neck dissection; Thyroid lobectomy; Sistrunk operation, Total laryngectomy, Partial laryngectomy, Thyroplasty, Maxillectomy

Target audience

• ENT registrars and surgeons
• General surgery registrars and surgeons
• Maxillofacial registrars and surgeons
• Plastic surgery registrars and surgeons

Registration:

Please email kerryn.macdermott@uct.ac.za or via www.surgicalskills.co.za