The time has again come for us to welcome you all for the 3rd tutorial in Aesthetic plastic surgery to be held at the Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai from January 10th to 13th , 2008.

Since the ISAPS instructional course 2004 took place at Jaipur, there has been an ardent desire amongst our fraternity to update and adept our surgical skills in the field of aesthetic surgery. This is compounded by the lifestyle demands dictating our society, which is playing a big role in promoting this growing need to hone our skills in this field.

Like each year, this year too we are fortunate to have Prof. Thomas Biggs as our Course Director. Helping him will be a team of International Faculty each of whom is a master in his own field. We will also have several experts from home who will be sharing their experiences to help the budding aesthetic surgeon to acclimatize his desire and pursue learning in a graded and systematic way. We will be having a dedicated day to live surgeries and three days of didactic lectures, interactive videos and panels. Also efforts are being made to undertake Web Casting of the entire Tutorials. There may be a Hands on Instructional Course on Endoscopic Aesthetic Surgery on 14th January 08.

This year we propose to conduct specialized and focused Masters’ classes within the tutorial for a period of 1 hour each with the main aim of dissecting and understanding the said subject thread bare. Each of these classes will be conducted by an International Faculty, an expert in that particular field. Besides these we will be conducting panel discussions every day with a team of expert panelists on a given topic. There will also be a session on “how I do it” showing videos of an operative procedure with interactive discussions. There will be a special session on complications in plastic surgery and a course specially designed for our residents on the art of writing, publishing and presenting papers and photography and maintaining records.

Without much ado, it would be suffice to say that this year too we will strive to make this tutorial a memorable learning experience.