This highly practical cadaveric workshop features concurrent full day Surgical Trainee level and Consultant/Fellow level practical sessions in the steps and techniques of radical neck dissection for thyroid carcinoma. An expert Faculty will mentor the dissection and provide expert, practical feedback to participants.  Each session is tailored to provide participants with appropriate surgical training for their level of ability and skill set. The workshop includes an interactive faculty panel discussion covering expert advice and alternative radical neck dissection techniques. 

The cadaveric models provide excellent anatomical realism and near normal tissue properties for repeated practise.

Workshop Content

There will be two participants per Consultant/Fellow senior cadaveric work station. 

Limited places are available for RMOs, Unaccredited Registrars and SET Trainees in General Surgery and Head and Neck Surgery, with three participants per Surgical Trainee level cadaveric work station. 

Limited places are also available for Theatre Nurses in the role of assistant. 

Video presentations and practical cadaveric sessions:

• Raise skin flaps
• Sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) dissection
• Posterior triangle dissection / thoracic duct dissection
• Carotid sheath dissection
• Contralateral modified radical neck dissection
• Total thyroidectomy - lateral and superior pole dissection and inferior and recurrent nerve dissection

Workshop Inclusions

• Online pre-reading
• Fresh frozen human cadaveric dissection
• Didactic sessions
• All meals and refreshments