Key Topics
Key topics are those that all trainees will cover by CCT and will be able to manage independently, including complications. These are also referred to as essential topics.
Key Conditions
Wound Care
- Management of wounds including contaminated, infected wounds and those involving skin loss
Burns
- Assessment, resuscitation and initial management of burns
- Surgical management of burns
- Diagnosis and management of complications of burns including inhalational injury and septic shock
Head & Neck
- Approaches to reconstruction of defects of the ear, eyelid, nose, lip and oral cavity
- Approaches to management of facial palsy
- Management of patients requiring radical or selective neck dissection
Clefts
- Principles of management of baby with cleft lip and palate
- Investigation and management of velopharyngeal incompetence
Breast
- Management of patients requiring breast reconstruction, reduction and augmentation
Hand
- The diagnosis and management of all aspects of hand trauma
- The diagnosis and management of congenital deformities of the hand
- The diagnosis and management of acquired hand conditions
Lower Limb
- The multidisciplinary assessment and management of compound tibial fractures involving skin loss
Skin Tumours
- All aspects of diagnosis and management of malignant skin tumours including surgical reconstruction and management of regional lymph nodes
GU
- The principles of surgical management of hypospadias
Aesthetic
- The assessment and management of patients requiring aesthetic alterations of body parts including face, eyelids, nose and ears.
General
- Competence in the use of plastic surgery techniques including design and use of z-plasty, pedicled cutaneous and myocutaneous flaps, and free flaps
Important note: It is expected that trainees will be able to show evidence that competence in the management of trauma is being maintained (ATLS certificate or equivalent from August 2012).