UMAX 2024

Join us for a valuable day filled with learning at our successful and long-running UMAX conference – an insightful day of lectures, practical hands-on workshops and real world career development seminars. Attendees will hear from leading OMFS Consultants and other subject matter experts leaving the event with a deeper understanding of the speciality.

The conference will showcase Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery as a speciality and as a postgraduate career choice. The day brings together aspiring surgeons, trainees and senior consultants for hands-on workshops, interactive lectures, career planning seminars and networking.

You are welcome to join us for a delicious, 2-course hot lunch. This lunch is available to all attendees and includes a vegetarian option in addition to networking opportunities.

Benefits of attending:

• Understand the training pathways in OMFS and how to successfully navigate them
• Appreciate the broad scope of the speciality and how it integrates with other medical, dental, and surgical specialties
• Find out how to describe the presentation and initial management of some common OMFS conditions
• Develop basic surgical skills with small group, consultant-led, training

The morning will consist of interactive lectures focusing on key areas such as craniofacial traumatology, head and neck reconstructive surgery, and cleft lip and palate. The afternoon will provide a series of workshops covering topics such as suturing and the principles of fixation and plating. The UMAX poster competition prizes will also be presented and awarded during the conference.