• Wednesday 15 October
• 08:30 – 17:15
• Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
• Convenor – Dr Linda Vu

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SESSION ONE – HPB & LIVER
08:30 Welcome to Country/Program Open
08:45 Management of severe pancreatitis complications
09:05 Bile duct injury management
09:25 Workup and management of NET
09:45 Navigating Solid liver tumours imaging for surgeons ( histopatholgical basis of radiology)( triple act or MB)
10:05 Panel discussion

10:15 – 10:45- MORNING TEA
 
SESSION TWO – OESOPHAGO-GASTRIC SURGERY
10:45 OG Cancer: Key practice changing studies
11:15 GIST update and management 
11:35 OG motility disorder and its surgical management
11:55 Pain for patient and surgeon: compressive vascular mesenteric disorders
12:15 Panel

12:30 – 13:15 LUNCH

SESSION THREE – BARIATRICS
13:15 – 13:35 Beyond the three procedures. A structural understanding and classification – Jeff Hamdorf 
13:35 101 management of bariatric post op complications
13:55 What is wrong with me doc? Chronic complications of Bariatric surgery
14:15 Nutritional deficiencies post bariatric surgery
14:35 Panel

14:50 -15:15 AFTERNOON TEA

EXAM – SPOT VIVAS (BREAK INTO GROUPS)
15:15 – 17:15:00
Spots junior UGI; Short vivas: Seniors *UGI bleeding, manage-endoscop-surgery; Foreign body battery – perforated-Pathophys-manage
17:15 Trainees’ Day Concludes

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Completion of the Trainees’ Day program for eligible General Surgery Trainees will count towards satisfactory completion of one (1) national educational activity as per the Regulations for the SET Program in General Surgery (Regulation 4.10 – National Educational Activities) and the Regulations for the GSET Program (Regulation 13.3 – National Training Activities).

Format & Recordings

This is an in-person event, however the lecture component of the program will be recorded, and, provided speaker-consent is given, securely stored on the members-only area of the GSA website for on-demand viewing. Please note that it can take up to six weeks before recordings become available.