Advanced Suturing and Wound Repair

 This CME medical conference is designed to help develop insight and hands-on skills (dealing with flaps and plasties) to achieve the very best attainable wound closure results for patients. The approach is to challenge and to encourage the attendees to expand their expertise in the closure of more difficult wounds and large tissue excisions. Although basic wound closure will be reviewed to assure that everyone has a similar platform to build from in the rest of the course, it is assumed that attendees will have basic knowledge and experience in suturing. Advanced topics will include tendon repair, plasties and advancement flaps, correction of common problems like dog ears, and skin grafting. Emergency physicians, general surgeons, family physicians, internists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians will find this skill training course an essential to develop their abilities to a higher level. An abundance of hands-on time is scheduled to refine suturing skills with the use of pig’s feet.