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Vic AGSFM Lorne 2009

Training, working, living – Finding the balance

The 2009 organising committee would like to invite you to join us at the Cumberland resort in Lorne for the Victorian Annual General Scientific and Fellowship Meeting (VAGSFM) 23 to 25 October. This beautiful location is a gem along the famous Great Ocean Road and promises to be an inspiring venue for Fellows to get together to discuss issues relevant to their life as surgeons. In addition to the scientific presentations there will be an emphasis on finding a balance between training, career and lifestyle. This is one of the great challenges for the surgical profession in the new millennium if we hope to attract and retain high quality people in a demanding career.

We hope to present a weekend of diversity that not only stimulates your professional interests but inspires you to plan, share or reflect on your lifestyle as a surgeon.

A highlight of the meeting will be an entertaining debate on whether a satisfying lifestyle balance can be achieved in surgery. With teams comprising Trainees, surgeons in the dawn and twilight of their careers and surgeons partners, this is sure to be a lively session.

We are aiming to update the professional and the personal aspects of surgeons and Trainees. The scientific component will contain presentations and posters selected from the best submitted abstracts and we hope to attract experienced speakers on effectiveness of multi disciplinary meetings and management of surgical catastrophes.

Lifestyle sessions will address diverse topics such as:

• conferences: mixing business with pleasure
• surgical exit strategies
• surgical careers outside the box.

To educate the surgeon as a person, we will be providing opportunities to indulge or challenge.

For the budding sommelier, there will be opportunities to impress your colleagues and pit your tasting skills against professionals in a wine testing competition. For the more active, there will be an opportunity to learn to surf, explore the surrounding coastal vista on foot or bike, improve your golf with stunning tee shots or swim the famous peer to pub course. On Saturday evening, the conference dinner will include the crowning of the winner of the "surgathlon", the delegate who accumulates the most points in the aforementioned critical surgical disciplines of wine tasting, outdoor activities and a variety of other lifestyle tests... More details to follow!

We look forward to meeting as many surgeons and their families as possible.

Awards presented at the 2008 meeting with congratulations to all

2008 G J Royal medal was presented to Professor Guy Maddern for his Oration at the formal dinner

2007 Michael Ryan Prize: Nicole Gao received an engraved medal and a $500 cheque

2008 Gordon Gordon-Taylor Award – Dr Christopher Brooks received an engraved medal

2008 Clinical Committee Prize – Dr Rachel Thomson was awarded a certificate

• 2008 D R Leslie Prize was awarded to Krishanu Chaudhuri and received an engraved medal.
• 2008 RC Bennett Prize of an engraved medal was awarded to Nicholas Campbell.
• A new prize for 2008 was the Poster Prize ($250 Elsevier Book Voucher), kindly sponsored by MDA National and awarded to Masao Anzari from Geelong.