12 Popular Plastic Surgery Webinar Series in 2020-2021

Times have changed and when it comes to learning Plastic Surgery, never before did we have access to teachings from so many Masters in Plastic Surgery from around the world (that would be inaccessible to the majority of international residents and fellows earlier). Easy and quality recording of live sessions was a technical advantage and most of the organizers and speakers were kind enough to archive the recordings for free viewing.

It’s more than a year since the pandemic had started, and a small problem eventually crept in— “the problem of abundance”. While some of us still manage to view a few webinars a week, when we try to recall from a webinar we attended, it’s difficult to remember where we watched it and even more difficult to search for it from 10-20 different organizer’s archive pages.

Listed below are 12+ Plastic Surgery webinar series that started during the COVID19 pandemic lockdown times and became popular among Plastic Surgery learners. Believe it or not, below you have links to more than 550 past webinar recordings (and counting). Moreover, you can locate any webinar from all these series using the Search🔍 option on top and also get notified 📧 about upcoming webinars weekly.

1. The Buncke Clinic– Virtual Visiting Professor series

The Buncke Clinic (USA) had been organising their Virtual Visiting Professor series of webinars featuring some of the leading and most innovative microsurgeons from around the world on topics ranging from reconstructive microsurgery for cancer and trauma reconstruction to nerve and lymphatic surgery. These webinars were being conducted by Dr Bauback Safa since May 2020 and almost all the 80 webinars (currently) have been made available for free and are a treasure for Reconstructive Microsurgery learners.

2. IMC (International Microsurgery Club) webinars

The IMC Facebook group with more than 15k members currently is the largest online community of surgeons interested in microsurgery. Led by Dr Tommy Nai-Jen Chang (Taiwan)- IMC has been organizing webinars on the whole spectrum of microsurgery diligently since March 2020, every Saturday and Sunday. So far, more than 110 webinars have been conducted and most of them have been made available for free at IMW- International Microsurgery Website (Free sign up/login required).

3. Pulvertaft Hand Surgery webinars

The Pulvertaft Hand Center within the Royal Derby Hospital (UK) has been diligently organising the Derby online teaching programme since March 2020. Hosted by Mr Carlos Heras-Palos, more than 46 Hand Surgery webinars have been conducted every Monday evening and made available for free for all.

4. PLASTA- UK webinar series

PLASTA (Plastic Surgery Trainees Association)– UK in association with BAPRAS, BAAPS, BSSH and/or ICOPLAST has been conducting Webinars for FRCS since March 2020 (more than 49 to date). These webinars are very popular with Plastic Surgery residents and fellows worldwide and made available online on PLASTA-UK website for personal viewing and learning.

5. AO Trauma Hand North America webinar series

The AO Trauma Hand NA Education Committee chaired by Dr Chaitanya Mudgal, has been very systematically conducting several Hand surgery (basic to advanced level) webinar series— ‘Must Know Series- How I Do It’, ‘Sage on Stage’, ‘Hand Surgery Essentials’, ‘Advanced Wrist Summit’. More than 43 sessions (webinars and online symposiums) comprising of >60 talks have been conducted since May 2020 and completely archived on their YouTube channel.

6. Stoke Mandeville Plastic Surgery webinar series

Stoke Mandeville Plastics (UK) has been conducting the SMH Educational Series since July 2020, hosted by Mr James KK Chan. Around 23 webinars have been conducted and currently, season 2 (2021) featuring speakers punching the frontiers of Plastic Surgery- is underway.

7. Pan Thames (Imperial Plastic Surgery) series

Imperial Plastic Surgery unit (UK) has been conducting the Virtual Visiting Professor (VVP) series, popularly known as Pan Thames webinars since May 2020. Hosted by Mr Vimal Gokani, more than 27 webinars on a variety of topics in Plastic Surgery have been conducted and most of them are archived on their website.

8. ISSH (Indian Society of Surgery of Hand) webinars

ISSH (Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand) has been conducting the ISSH webinar series 1 since September 2020. 16 high-quality Hand surgery webinars have been conducted so far (Recordings are made available to ISSH members).

9. ISRM Micro Vidyalaya series

ISRM (Indian Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery) has been conduction the Micro Vidyalaya webinar series fortnightly since May 2020. Till now more than 23 webinars related to Reconstructive Microsurgery have been organised, the recordings of which are available to members of ISRM for free.

10. Aesthetic Paathshala (IAAPS webinars)

IAAPS (Indian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeon) has been conduction the Aesthetic Paathshala series since April 2020. Webinars on more than 38 topics of Aesthetic / Cosmetic surgery has been organised and recordings are available to IAAPS members.

11. BFIRST Hand & Burns webinars

BFIRST (British Foundation of International Reconstructive Surgery and Training) has been organising hand surgery webinars mainly in association with BSSH (The British Society of Surgery of Hand) and burns webinars mainly in association with BBA (British Burns Association) and BPRAS (British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery). Till now more than 8 hand surgery (since Sept 2020) and 6 burns webinars or rather symposiums (since July 2020) have been conducted, with all recordings available for free.

12. ASSH Hand Surgery webinars

ASSH (American Society for Surgery of the Hand) has been organising Hand surgery webinar series like ‘Touching Hand’ and Firsthand Master Classes’ since May and June 2020 respectively. 4 (around 22 talks) ‘Touching Hand’ webinars and 9 ‘Firsthand’ webinar sessions have been conducted so far, and the recordings can be viewed later (online) for free.

Other webinar series

• Canniesburn Plastic Surgery webinars
• iBreastBook Breast Surgery series
• UT Health– San Antonio webinars
• PSU Academy Plastic Surgery webinars
• PSRC Plastic Surgery Research Council series
• APSWB Plastic Surgery series
• JHAM– Hand & Microsurgery Journal Clubs
• ICOPLAST Plastic Surgery series
• NABI Burns India webinars

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