Welcome
The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons Incorporated (ASPS) is a not-for- profit membership organisation representing Plastic Surgery in Australia. Plastic Surgery incorporates both reconstructive and cosmetic surgery.
ASPS promotes, develops and advances the practice of Plastic Surgery throughout Australia.
ASPS aims to maintain the highest standard of surgical practice and ethics in PlasticSurgery in Australia in order to provide the highest quality plastic surgery care to all Australians.
The difference between Plastic Surgeons and other Medical Practitioners is specialist training.
All Members of Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons are distinguished by these unique attributes:
- Members are bona fide specialist plastic surgeons who are in full-time plastic surgery practice.
- Members have undertaken a minimum of 12 years education and training.
- Members have undertaken at least 7 years of training after the completion of medical school.
- The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery training program requires a minimum of 5 years specialist Surgical Education and Training.
- Members hold a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS Plast) or its equivalent.
- The Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) is an award, fully accredited by the Australian Medical Council which is the only body authorised by the Commonwealth Government to certify all medical training.
- ASPS is authorised by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons to administer post graduate surgical training programs for the specialty of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
- ASPS promotes research in the specialty of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
- Medicare Australia recognises all ASPS members as specialist plastic surgeons.
Click here to read more about the Qualifications of ASPS Member Surgeons.
Separating the Myths from the Facts
Plastic Surgery Facts:
- Plastic Surgery covers a broad scope of practice from procedures to improve one’s aesthetic appearance to reconstructive surgery.
- Safety and patient care is always paramount.
- All surgery, cosmetic and reconstructive, whether performed under local or general anaesthetic, in day surgery or in hospitals, can carry serious risk.
- All patients should be very careful about their choice of surgeon. Results cannot be guaranteed. The choice of surgeon may be the most important decision a patient makes.
- It is important to be self aware and challenge one’s own expectations about possible results and motivations in seeking surgery.
- It is important to understand claims from practitioners about academic qualifications, training and experience as well as overly simplistic descriptions of procedures. Any doctor, who might not even be a specialist surgeon, is allowed to perform surgery if the patient consents to the operation.
- All ASPS members are fully trained specialist plastic surgeons.
Click here to find out about Plastic Surgery Myths.