With over 125 diverse educational activities planned, next year will be a milestone for AO CMF education—all around the globe.

 

The 2020 Global Education program rollout will cover exciting new activities such as the Lighthouse wet lab courses as well as the core, high-quality, standard Management of Facial Trauma course that is a trusted and taken by so many craniomaxillofacial (CMF) surgeons worldwide and, in many cases, in their own language.

 

Advanced courses in many countries will cover surgical techniques and training either in a wet lab environment or through interactive seminars with small group discussions and in courses with dry bone simulation practical exercises.

 

 

Courses planned will cover a whole spectrum of CMF surgery topics, specialties, surgical skills and specialist areas, including: 

 

• Facial trauma
• Reconstruction
• Microvascular reconstruction
• Oncology
• Sleep apnea
• Congenital deformities
• Cleft
• Complications
• Condyle fractures
• Orthognathic surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Orbit
• Temporomandibular joint (TMJ)
• Tissue transplantation
• Genomics
• Soft-tissue deformities
• Pediatric surgery
• Three-dimensional (3-D) printing
• Computer-assisted 3-D surgical planning
• Navigation and digital technologies
• Surgical techniques, skull base

 

AO CMF’s vast educational offering for 2020 includes our 38 standard Management of Facial Trauma courses (check your regional calendar for course dates) and our new Lighthouse web lab courses in Europe. For complete information, please consult the course finder on our website. Please tell your residents and colleagues about the courses and where to get information.

 

 

Some events to look forward to are:

 

• AO CMF Lighthouse Course—TMJ Surgery (with Human Anatomical Specimens), January 27–28, Leiden, the Netherlands
• AO CMF Lighthouse Course—Surgical Approaches and Techniques in Facial Surgery (with Human Anatomical Specimens), May 13–15, Padua, Italy
• AO CMF Lighthouse Course—Reconstructive Surgery in Head and Neck with Flap Harvesting and Patient-Specific Implants (with Human Anatomical Specimens), July 4–5, Berlin, Germany
• AO CMF Lighthouse Course—Advances in Orthognathic Surgery (with Human Anatomical Specimens), November 12–13, tbc

 

 

Key wet lab courses include:

 

• AO CMF Course—Advances in TMJ) Disorders (with Human Anatomical Specimens), February 7–8, New Delhi, India
• The Latin America (LAT) regional wet lab courses on TMJ reconstruction and TMJ disorders, orthognathic surgery, and midface trauma and reconstruction, July 27–30, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States
• AO CMF Course—Advanced Techniques in the Management of Soft Tissue Deformities, August 7–9, Tampa, Florida, United States
• AO CMF Course—Advances in Mandible Trauma and Reconstruction, October 17–18, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

 

 

New AO CMF seminars scheduled for 2020 are:

 

• AO CMF Seminar—Advances in 3-D Printing in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, May 24–25, Hong Kong
• AO CMF Advanced Seminar—Management of Posttraumatic Deformities, November 15–16, Nairobi, Kenya

 

 

Webinars and ON AIR live broadcasts

A series of webinars and ON AIRs from across the world is planned for 2020, making it easy to tune in from the office or home.

 

Another key event is the new FACE AHEAD 2020 Summit, scheduled March 26–28, Barcelona, Spain. Learn more at faceahead.org and share the summit link with your colleagues.

 

We look forward to working with you at AO CMF activities—and to seeing you at the AO CMF booth at the many important congresses throughout 2020.

 

The new year 2020 is just around the corner, bringing with it fresh new opportunities to look at and plan online learning activities for the future. Your ideas, innovation and thoughts on the educational activities are always welcome.

 

 

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