COVID 19 has affected all ACCO programs in 2020 and 2021. Our August 2021 flap & graft workshop was unable to go ahead because of a snap Victoria Government lockdown.

Given uncertainty over repeated lock downs, ACCO has suspended all workshops and activity for the remainder of 2021. ACCO will enter a COVID based "hibernation" phase up until February 2022.

ACCO will resume full activities from February 2022

In the ACCO "hibernation", there will be no phone contact availability. Any enquiries please to [email protected] 

Understand that all emails will receive a reply but that responses will take up to a week. Registrations on line are welcomed during the hibernation period. 

The new ACCO workshop program for 2022 is as follows:

Essentials and dermoscopy workshops combined over the three days of  March Sat 12 / Sun 13 / Mon 14 2022

Essentials workshop on Sat Mar 12 and Sun Mar 13

Dermoscopy workshop on Sun Mar 13 and Mon Mar 14

4 day Flap and graft over the Anzac weekend: Fri Apr 22 to Mon Apr 25 2022

This 4 day event is the same as the former 5 day event

1 face to face day is now replaced with zoom classes beforehand

These zoom sessions will be at 10:00 AM to Noon (AEST) on the 3 Saturdays prior to workshop; April 2, 9 and 16

Face and ear workshop over the three day long weekend (Vic) Fri Sep 30, Sat Oct 1 Sun Oct 2 2022

Dermatopathology workshop on Mon Oct 3, 2022

Register for workshop here

See all of the upcoming workshops here

"The Australian Journal of General Practice wrongly removes ACCOs detailed update manuscripts on melanoma management that were published in 2019 in the Australian Journal of General Practice.

• Details here
• Retracted articles in AJGP here
• Read our full rebuttal to the manuscript retractions here.