The ESAPS Aesthetic Breast Programme is a one year programme set up by ESAPS to help young plastic surgeons in Europe enhance their knowledge and skills in aesthetic breast surgery. It aims to provide education from and direct observation of expert plastic surgeons across the spectrum of aesthetic breast surgery.
The course involves 12 months of blended learning:
- There is an online programme to complete with modules covering the full curriculum of aesthetic breast surgery which you will be given access to. This is self-directed learning to be completed over the course of 12 months.
- The second component of the course involves visits to Centres of Training to directly observe expert plastic surgeons performing aesthetic breast surgery. This comprises of visits of a total of three weeks over the 12-month period of the programme and should be arranged directly with your allocated Centre of Training. It may be undertaken over one period of three weeks or broken into short periods of time totalling three weeks over the 12-month period.
The ESAPS Aesthetic Breast Programme is open to European plastic surgeons:
- in the last year of plastic surgery residency (in a recognised plastic surgery training programme) and
- in the first five years of independent practice as a fully credentialled plastic surgeon in Europe.
Skill levels before joining the programme should include
- experience performing primary procedures such as breast augmentation, reduction and mastopexy as well as
- an ambition to improve clinical skills and grow an aesthetic breast surgery practice.
Applications should send
- their expressions of interest
- a short personal statement stating why they wish to participate in the ESAPS Aesthetic Breast Programme and
- what goals they wish to achieve from participating,
- a curriculum vitae showing their qualifications and career and
- evidence of being part of or having completed a recognised plastic surgery training programme in a European country to the ESAPS Office on office@esaps.eu for the attention of the ESAPS Scientific Committee.
- letters of recommendation will also be requested. If you are a final year plastic surgery resident, one letter of recommendation must come from your programme director.
Should the number of applications exceed places available, a competitive interview or waiting list may be employed.
The first three Centres of Training will be:
• Stockholm, Sweden with Dr Birgit Stark and Dr Per Heden
• Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom with Ms Nora Nugent and Mr Marc Pacifico
• Bruges region, Belgium with Dr Ivar van Heijningen & consortium of Belgian plastic surgeons
The programme will start with the three Centres of Training above and as it develops, we plan to add more Centres of Training across Europe. Expert plastic surgeons that wish to become faculty or trainers should be in practice at least eight years with experience across the full curriculum of aesthetic breast surgery.
Centers of Training should be:
- accredited surgery centres with expert plastic surgeons.
- and be able to accommodate visiting surgeons
- organise a minimum of eight breast plastic surgery procedures for the week that a visiting surgeon is present.
Successful participants for the ESAPS Aesthetic Breast Programme are required to uphold professional and ethical conduct at all times including respecting the confidential nature of teaching material in the online programme as well as when visiting Centres of Training.
Participants must submit documentation (e.g. copies of identification document, medical registration, plastic surgery training certificates, entry visas) as required by the Centre of Training to facilitate visits.
Visits to Centres of Training are planned as observational visits. Participants are bound to follow local rules regarding professional insurance, required documentation and medical law. Visits are subject to holding the correct permissions and to the agreement of your Centre of Training and expert plastic surgeons.
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