Editorial
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Unaccredited registrars are an important part of the hospital workforce yet they lack the protection given to their accredited counterparts. This editorial discusses ways surgeons can support their junior colleagues.
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Surgeons providing a second opinion after an adverse outcome should be guided by the four pillars of medical ethics to help ensure they act for the benefit of their patients.
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Editor-in-Chief Mark Ashton welcomes Dr Elizabeth Hall-Findlay as an AJOPS author and commends her generosity in sharing her knowledge about the superomedial technique for breast reduction.
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Five years on from the Whakaari/White Island eruption in 2019, the author presents some personal lessons learned from the experience of responding to the disaster with lasting and broad applicability.
Jaeme Zwart looks at the workforce inequality in plastic surgery services in rural and regional areas of Australia and ways to support surgeons choosing to work outside metropolitan areas.
Aidan Fitzgerald discusses how different generations of plastic surgeons understand professionalism, how this may produce conflict and some ways the generations can work together to overcome any difficulties.
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Editor-in-Chief Mark Ashton looks at how changing attitudes to work may impact surgical training and the future surgical community, as well as the provision of unpaid work by surgeons.
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Kirstie MacGill reflects on Interplast’s achievements over the last 40 years in assisting partner countries with volunteer surgical missions, as well as education and training for health care services.
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William Blake looks at advances in the provision of gender-affirming surgery and how plastic surgeons in Australia can respond to the need for better surgical care for gender-diverse people.
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Plagiarism undermines the integrity of research. Editor-in-Chief Mark Lee outlines some tools that can help researchers avoid unintentional plagiarism and promote a culture of integrity in plastic surgery research.
The answer to improving patient safety in cosmetic surgery lies in collaboration and working with experts, writes Mark Ashton
October 12 2022 marked the 20th anniversary of the Bali bombings. Vijith Vijayasekaran ruminates on how this moment has shaped his, and his wife Priya Thalayasingam’s, practice.