The Clinical Assistants Meeting was held at the Marriott Hotel & Country Club in the Forest of Arden on the weekend of 18th-19th October. This was a meeting is for clinical assistants and GPSIs and was well attended. There are excellent talks from a wide faculty across dermatology, histopathology and plastic surgery. Mr Ross delivered a talk on sentinel node biopsy with the most up to date results from the MSLT sentinel node biopsy trial and discussed the variety of options available to stage patients with melanoma.