Officer minor procedures and joint injections

TARGET AUDIENCE:

PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS, GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, INTERNIST,

PEDIATRICIANS AND ALL RESIDENTS AND INTERNS.

STRUCTURE AND OBJECTIVES:

– OUR EXPERT FACULTY WILL BE CONDUCTING A 2-DAY COMPREHENSIVE WORKSHOP,

WHICH INCLUDES THE WIDE BREADTH OF MINOR SURGERY PROCEDURES INCLUDING: –

1. LECTURES BY OUR EXPERTS ON COMMON DIAGNOSIS, RECOGNITIONS, MANAGEMENT

AND APPROPRIATENESS OF REFERRALS

2. OVERVIEW OF PRE-PROCEDURE PLANNING INCLUDING INFORMED CONSENT,

OVERVIEWING OF SIDE EFFECTS AND COMPLICATIONS OF PROCEDURE WITH PATIENT.

3. INTRODUCTIONS OF BASIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.
4. BASIC SUTURING SKILLS.
5. EXCISION AND ENUCLEATION.
6. ABSCESS INCISION AND DRAINAGE.
7. PUNCH AND SHAVE BIOPSY.
8. SKIN TAG REMOVAL, CRYOSURGERY AND ELECTROCAUTERY.
9. ALOPECIA AND KELOID INJECTION
10. COMMON SHOULDER JOINT INJECTIONS INCLUDING INJECTIONS FOR AC ARTHRITIS,

ADHESIVE CAPSULITIS, GLENOHUMERAL ARTHRITIS AND ROTATOR CUFF PATHOLOGY

11. ELBOW JOINT INCLUDING THE MEDIAL AND LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS AND OLECRANON

BURSITIS.

12. HAND AND WRIST INJECTIONS INCLUDING CARPAL TUNNEL, DEQUERVIAN TENOSYNOVI-

TIS AND TRIGGER FINGER INJECTIONS

13.HIP JOINT INCLUDING TROCHANTERIC BURSITIS

14. KNEE JOINT INJECTIONS FOR MODERATE TO ADVANCED ARTHRITIS
15. FOOT INJECTIONS FOR PLANTAR FASCIITIS AND MORTON’S NEUROM