Plastic Surgery MRCS Part A Course
Summary
This on-demand teaching session is relevant for medical professionals interested in plastic surgery and aims to cover high-yield topics that may come up in the MRCS A exam. The session is facilitated by a Plastic Surgery Registrar from the Saint Andrews Center Bloomfield Hospital Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, thus ensuring credible and insightful content. Prior to the session, attendants can post their questions in the group for answering. This platform allows for an interactive and engaging learning experience, ensuring a better understanding of the subject matter. Attendees can expect an insightful session with pertinent information not exhaustive in detail but highly relevant for exam preparation. This is one episode in a session series covering various specialties like cardiothoracic, neurosurgery, and orthopedics. A great session to enhance your surgical knowledge, whether you're an aspiring plastic surgeon or a medical student.
Learning objectives
- Identify and describe the fundamental principles of plastic, reconstructive and microsurgery.
- Understand the process and requirements for pursuing plastic surgery as a specialty, including the importance of volume and experience in training.
- Distinguish between different subspecialties within plastic surgery and recognize the unique complexities associated with each one.
- Appreciate the role of the MRC S examination in medical career progression and assess its relevance to their own professional development.
- Encounter a high-yield overview of potential MRC S examination topics and gain confidence in their ability to expand upon these topics for thorough examination preparation.
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Uh, can you hear me? I think you're muted. You can hear me now though. Yeah. Yeah, I can hear you. How are you? How is good, good. What do you have? What attendants do we have? Uh, we have, we have 16 people who are logged in but I think more people will join and I think, do you, do you want to wait a few minutes now? Uh Yeah, let's start at like 805 if that's ok with you. Yeah, 100%. Can they hear us now or no? Yeah, they can. But they, they can't am mute themselves so they'll have to text, um, whatever they wanna say in the chat. Ok. I don't, I cannot see who is logged in though. Are they locked in with the names and stuff? Yeah. If you click on, can you see it? The people part? Yeah. So they can, they can hear me guys. Uh, hi if anybody has any questions while studying or something before we start just, uh, post them in the group and we will answer them. Yeah. Call us. Can you see the? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And you want to sort of, you know, change if we need to, um, go to the next slide. Yeah. So I understand that. I understand that this is, uh, like a series. Yeah, that you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a, an mrcs series and you took the responsibility for plastics or generally, uh, everything. So, we've had sessions on cardiothoracic and neurosurgery and orthopedics and this week is plastics. Ok. Yeah. How is it at Saint Andrews Center? It's good. I just, uh, busy and, you know, just finished and the hours on nights actually. But I had to go into the. Oh, wow. Sounds intense. Mhm. Yeah. Sad to hear you. You had a high volume center, whatever subspecialty you do. If it's a high volume center, it, uh, it's intense and there, while you are training this is how to. Mhm. Because if you are not sort of, you know, you're not getting the numbers, numbers. No, your portfolio numbers but numbers generally because the portfolio more or less, you know, it's a level that everybody should complete to actually progress and, like, be safe. Yeah. Yeah. But there is always, you know, in the subspecialty that you are interested or what you're thinking of actually pursuing. There's always more. Yeah. And what, what levels do we have in terms of? They are old people that are about to see the MRC as per day. Yeah. Uh, mostly, yeah, I think there are some medical students in the crowd. Uh, Ok. Yeah. Very nice. Ok. Yeah. All right. Then I think let's make a start. I'll quickly introduce you and then you can take the floor. Thank you. Uh mcculla is a plastic surgery registrar at Saint Andrews Center Bloomfield Hospital Department of Plastic and reconstructive surgery. His passion lies in burns complex head and neck and lower limb reconstructive microsurgery set of his professional endeavors. He does enjoy reading, philosophy, playing football and watchmaking as well. So without further ado, let's have give us some teaching. Um First of all, I would like to thank Kylo for actually inviting me to the, to the series. So it was a, a text that I got from here ages ago about this. So thank you for inviting me to be here. I need to give you um I understand that some of you are here because of the MRC S, the topics that we talk about, actually, they can stand as lectures on their own in the sense that if you expand them, it just takes like two or three hours each to actually go down and analyze it properly. So I will give you a high yield sort of lecture about what might come up in MRC SA. Therefore, I will not exhaust each one of them in the detail that I would have liked to. But if you have questions just um to me afterwards or send me uh an email or something, um Next page, thanks God. So going through the mrcs. Um.