Tata Memorial Centre announces the ‘2nd Thyroid Preceptorship program’. This week-long course will cover all aspects of thyroid cancer management including clinical, surgical, imaging, pathology and basic concepts of adjuvant radioiodine ablation and treatment. The course is intended to impart focused training for a select group of surgeons.
Incidence of thyroid cancer has increased in recent years.In the USA there is a 2.4 fold rise and a growing trend is seen across Europe, South America & Asia. In India as well, the incidence is on the rise. Thyroid cancers generally have good prognosis with long term survivors and focus should be on reduction of morbidity with its long term implications. Surgery is simple but requires technical skill. There is however, a lack of uniformity in training amongst thyroid surgeons from various backgrounds (General Surgery, ENT and Endocrine Surgery). It is therefore imperative to have adequate training to prevent longstanding complications.
Candidate with surgical background i.e. M.S. ENT, M.S. General surgery, MCh Head Neck Surgery and MCh Surgical oncology committed to the management of thyroid cancers. Those affiliated with teaching hospitals and with academic background will be preferred.
The course will be held biannually with six to Seven candidates per batch.
Venue:
Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India. 4000012.
Date:
20thNovember to 25th November 2017.
Interested candidates should email soft copy of their Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) to Course coordinator on following Email : mitrashilps@gmail.com
Applications will be screened. Six to seven candidates fulfilling the eligibility criteria will be selected on first cum first serve basis. All correspondence with the applicant will be done through email only.
There is no application fee.
Travel, Boarding & Lodging:
Participants should make their own travel arrangements. Selected candidates will be entitled to and fro economy air fare as per actual, subject to a maximum of Rs 12,000/ and on production of original documents.
Participants should make their own accommodation arrangements. Accommodation on request can be provided at TMH guest house on twin sharing basis subject to availability of rooms. Those making their own accommodation arrangements are entitled a reimbursement of Rs 2000/per day. Surface transport will be reimbursed on production of supporting documents for travel within the Mumbai for local participants.
Program:
Participants will be made conversant in utility of ultrasound in diagnosis and management of thyroid cancers. Following aspects will be covered
Candidates will be a given a chance to observe live thyroid surgeries depending upon the availability of cases. If no surgery is scheduled then video demonstration would be done with a focus on:
In the clinics, the candidates would be introduced to various issues related to diagnosis, treatment modalities and follow up protocols in thyroid cancers.
There will be a series of didactic lectures covering important aspects of thyroid cancer management and visits to OPDs & OTs.
Course Director:
Anil K D’Cruz, Director, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India
Email: docdcruz@gmail.com
Shilpi Sharma, MCh (Head Neck Surgery). Email:mitrashilps@gmail.com
Faculty:
Munita Bal, Asawari Patil, Shubhda Kane.
Abhishek Mahajan, Nilesh Sable.
Sneha Shah, Archi Agarwal, Nilendu Purandare, Venkatesh Rangarajan, Sandip Basu, Ramesh Asopa.
Anil D’Cruz, Devendra Chaukar, Prathamesh Pai, Pankaj Chaturvedi, Sudhir Nair, Deepa Nair, Gouri Pantvaidya, Anuja Deshmukh, Shivakumar T,
Supported by Unrestricted Educational Grant from Genzyme
