{"id":11782,"date":"2025-04-21T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalpelmanchester.com\/new\/?p=11782"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:01:40","slug":"surgical-experience-fair-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalpelmanchester.com\/new\/surgical-experience-fair-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgical Experience Fair 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to everyone who attended this year&#8217;s Surgical Experience Fair! This year we had 3 amazing talks and our largest ever &#8216;Battle of the Surgical Specialties&#8217; panel, followed by workshops and our &#8216;experience fair&#8217; stalls in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Overview:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Talk 1 &#8211; Ms Konstantina Karabatsou (neurosurgeon)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A talk on her career journey and work in neurooncology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talk 2 &#8211; Ms Sandhir Kandola (vascular surgeon)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Overview of vascular surgery, spoke about being a woman in surgery and work-life balance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talk 3 &#8211; Mr Mahmoud Hafez (orthopaedic surgeon)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spoke about his work across both the UK and Egypt, and his work with patient-specific instruments for knee replacement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Battle of the Surgical Specialties\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Our panel-style debate\/discussion between surgeons of different specialties on various topics, including questions from the audience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Specialties represented &#8211; general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, breast surgery, ENT, neurosurgery, oral\/maxillofacial surgery, paediatric surgery, ophthalmology, obstetrics\/gynaecology, vascular surgery, orthopaedic surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Workshops\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Surgical escape room (general surgery theme), laparoscopy, VRiMS virtual reality (neurosurgery theme), T&amp;O (ex-fix\/DHS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Experience fair stalls\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Laparoscopy challenge, anatomy quiz challenge, suturing and knot tying, portfolio\/CV station<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div 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This year we had 3 amazing talks and our largest ever &#8216;Battle of the Surgical Specialties&#8217; panel, followed by workshops and our &#8216;experience fair&#8217; stalls in the afternoon. 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