Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Testimonials
“The on day experience was invaluable and was very interesting and improved my overall experience.”
“The experience has been invaluable and it has broadened my understanding of current law in the medical negligence area.”
“I thought the speakers were great.”
Chair
David Higgs SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Professional Skills
Cosmetic Surgery and Doctors Performing Badly: ‘Cosmetic Cowboys’
- Understanding surgical training, titles and differences between plastic and cosmetic surgery
- Training and qualifications
- Cosmetic surgeon vs plastic surgeon
- Regulation of the cosmetic surgery industry
- Explanation of relevant medical terms
- Types of procedures that being done badly eg tattoo removals
- Exploration of the types of medical mishaps that result in claims being initiated
- Types of injuries (physical and psychological) that might flow from poor surgical practices
- Case studies
- What is the current opinion by the medical industry
Presented by Dr Gavin Sandercoe, Plastic Surgeon
Presenters
Dr Gavin Sandercoe, Plastic Surgeon
Dr. Gavin Sandercoe is a Specialist Plastic Surgeon who completed his surgical training in 2007. Gavin is a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) & the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). After Gavin completed his training, he spent time in Kathmandu performing microsurgery in a charity hospital, and then he completed a fellowship at Harborview Hospital in Seattle where he focussed on complex facial reconstruction after trauma. After Gavin returned to Sydney, he was the primary breast cancer reconstruction surgeon at Liverpool Hospital from 2009 to 2019. During his time in the public hospital system, Gavin was involved in registrar teaching for facial trauma and developed a cadaver course for education in surgical access to the facial skeleton & teaching how those techniques were important in facial cosmetic surgery. At the end of 2019, Gavin left Liverpool Hospital to focus on his private practice in Bella Vista.
David Higgs SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
David was admitted as a solicitor in 1973, commenced practice as a barrister on 1 January 1977 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 1995. He has appeared in a wide variety of matters at first instance and/or on appeal in the Supreme Courts of NSW, the ACT, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia as well as in the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia. Relevant to this seminar, one of David’s main areas of practice is medical negligence. Only recently, in Polsen v Harrison [2024] NSWCA 224, he appeared before the New South Wales Court of Appeal for the appellant. That case deals with the vexed issue as to what is required for a defendant to establish no liability based on s.5O of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW). David now mainly acts as a mediator or arbitrator.
