Morbidity and morality conference will be held on the first Thursday of each month. All complications are discussed with reference to the preoperative planning, operative techniques, as well as the post-operative care in the hopes of determining preventable complications or alterations which could have prevented this complication. Ethical issues are also considered, in light of morbidity which results from clinical care. Additional anatomic dissections of the upper extremity, nose, and facial soft tissues are directed by senior faculty with strong attention to clinically relevant structures. Journal Club is held in a faculty members home.
Dinner is served.
The conference is designed to encourage regular journal reading, foster critical review of articles, and put important articles in a historical perspective. Relative journals include Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Annals of Plastic Surgery, British and Scandinavian Journals of Plastic Surgery, Journal of Hand Surgery, Journal of Trauma, other surgery journals are also occasionally used. All plastic surgery residents and staff are required to attend weekly grand rounds of the Department of Surgery. Plastic Surgery staff participate as a moderator of this conference as invited by the Chairman of the Department, and make regularly scheduled presentations. The multidiscipilnary conference follows Craniofacial Anomalies Clinics which are held three times each month on Wednesdays.