GET YOUR EARLY-BIRD-DISCOUNT NOW! Register for the 3rd annual meeting of Cosmetic Surgery until August 13th, 2012 and save € 100. All members of the World Academy of Cosmetic Surgery get an additional discount of € 150.-. Save total € 250.- and register for just € 549.- instead of EUR 799.-

In medicine „Board Certification„ usually refers to a certificate issues upon completing a specialist training program and an exam testing the learned proficiency. Although Board Certified specialities are widely accepted, there is to date no comprehensive

Last year more than 20 participants passed successfully the board exams 2011. An important reason for this was certainly the board review course shortly after the WAOCS annual meeting. This year we are happy to announce it for the second time.

Our three eductional highlights till Summer 2012 are online and open for registration now. The topics are "Rhinoplasty", "Oculoplastic and Facial Surgery" and "Cosmetic breast Surgery". The workshops are located in Italy, Argentina and Austria.

We are happy to announce the Ocuplastic and facial surgery workshop in Buenos Aires hosted by CENTROS B&S on March 21st, 22nd and 23rd 2011. Special guests are Marc Cohen, MD and Nancy Schwartz, MD

Something big is going on! The WAOCS is never sleeping and shortly before the start of our first Board Exams from 1st-4th December, we are glad to announce our brandnew ONLINE COMMUNITY! Now you can share your thoughts more easy than ever with WAOCS members from all over the World. Update your personal profile now and start interacting.

The Board Certification Guidelines are now published and downloadable. It is a guideline for the Board Exam on December 3rd and December 4th, 2011, Europahaus Mayrhofen, Zillertal Congress, Dursterstrasse 225, 6290 Mayrhofen, Austria.

It was August 30th 2011 when the first WAOCS Board review course started. Over 20 registrants made the board review course more successful than ever expected. All participants are invited to the board exam in December 2011. On Thursday, September 1st, the 2nd annual scientific meeting in Vienna hotel Marriott started.

 

After the press conference at 13:00h, the meeting started on time. One highlight was the presentation of the Karl Koller Award to Jeffrey Klein, MD for his outstanding contribution in the field of local anesthesia. An approximately 40cm high sculpture made out of crystal glas cubes and pure gold.

 

High-class education

A worldwide weel-known and famous faculty presented over 80 interesting facts, news and improvements in the field of cosmetic surgery. The lecture hall was full because of more than 120 participants from all over the world, which is also a new record for the WAOCS. We would like to thank all faculty members and participants and look forward to a promising future.

 

Updates

Please stay tuned. In the next days we will publish some important updates concerning the board exam and some new WAOCS events. We also updated our website and start with a community for our members only. You can share photos, videos and start interesting discussions. This makes sence for a better global communication through the WAOCS online plattform.

The WAOCS board of governors meeting takes place on Friday, September 2nd, 18:30h at Palais Sachsen Coburg II & III, Vienna Hotel Marriott.

The 2nd annaul meeting of the World Academy of Cosmetic surgery and the first board review course are only a few days away and we are very happy to present the top-class final program 2011. Take a look at it online or download and print it.