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MICROSURGERY 34:337–338 (2014)
THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS MICROSURGERY Microsurgical
techniques require—perhaps regardless of its clinical experimental application—exceptional preparedness, higher than average patience and perseverance and many hours of laborious practices filled with sense of achievement and failures. Several educational methods are known, and there is a high demand for their standardization, or using more appropriate words, their coordination or their comparability with specifying the milestones, which are important for doctors and researchers to move forward in their microsurgical skills. Several institutes deal with microsurgical education and research around the world, although the number of truly committed clinicians and researchers toward microsurgery should be even more. If those who are openminded get to know the extraordinary world of microsurgery, it can be very appealing. All of these can result in a greater need for international collaborations to coordinate the research and educational work, to formulate objectives, and to develop new projects. In different congress, it is a very good opportunity to meet with each other and to exchange ideas; however, such meetings, where specific preparation of project proposal, discussion, and brainstorming of topics and questions for collaboration are few. Such a meeting was held in the Department of Operative Technique and Surgical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen between February 14–15, 2014, entitled International Experts’ Meeting on “Operative art for translational research: the educational front.” On the meeting, distinguished representatives of European centers focusing on microsurgical education and research were present (Fig. 1). The topic of lectures varied from the application of microsurgery in special clinical specialties, such as lymphatic microsurgery, through the application of flaps used
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in reconstructive surgical procedures, research in ischemia-reperfusion and transplantation, and education programs notwithstanding zoological research: Prof. Corradino Campisi (Genova, Italy): E.D.U.C.S: an innovative Project of Inter-University Collaboration for the Development of Surgical Sciences in the European Union Centers. The basic role of the Experimental Surgery and Microsurgery.
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Figure 1. Discussions of the meeting (photos by Nagy S.).
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Prof. Antonio Di Cataldo (Catania, Italy): Experimental Microsurgery and education of the young surgeons. Prof. Stefano Puleo (Catania, Italy): About the liver. Prof. Mihai Ionac (Timisoara, Romania): Design of a comprehensive program for microsurgical training in living tissue. Prof. Alexandru V. Georgescu (Cluj-Napoca, Romania): Changing the mind: from traditional flaps to perforator flaps. Prof. Dragos Pieptu and Dr. Nicolae Ghetu (Iasi, Romania): Lab training in microsurgery—Have we reached the limits? Prof. Michael Axelsson (Gothenburg, Sweden): Experimental surgery from fish to giraffe. Dr. Mihai Oltean (Gothenburg, Sweden): The grammar of translation in transplantation: between past continuous and future perfect. Prof. Simon Myers (London, UK): Objective assessment of microsurgery skills—role and rules. Dr. Ali M. Ghanem (London, UK): Predictive validity of non-living models based simulation training in microsurgery: How far can we push the three Rs?
Microsurgery DOI 10.1002/micr
The wide variety of topic propositions lead to one direction, because the common denominator among all is the microsurgery itself. The acquisition of a safe and efficient microsurgical technique in all the incurred topics was essential. The key to this has to be an educational issue, and so it would be worth to develop common aims, projects, and further collaboration. Although it was a kind of European meeting, we do hope that in a wider international range will take a step toward concrete measures to further promote microsurgery with the greater involvement of youth, showing them perspective. Also, in my opinion, microsurgical education and research require further strengthening of its international communication network between various professional societies and institutes. NORBERT NEMETH, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Operative Techniques and Surgical Research Institute of Surgery Faculty of Medicine University of Debrecen, Hungary
MICROSURGERY 34:337–338 (2014)
THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS MICROSURGERY Microsurgical
techniques require—perhaps regardless of its clinical experimental application—exceptional preparedness, higher than average patience and perseverance and many hours of laborious practices filled with sense of achievement and failures. Several educational methods are known, and there is a high demand for their standardization, or using more appropriate words, their coordination or their comparability with specifying the milestones, which are important for doctors and researchers to move forward in their microsurgical skills. Several institutes deal with microsurgical education and research around the world, although the number of truly committed clinicians and researchers toward microsurgery should be even more. If those who are openminded get to know the extraordinary world of microsurgery, it can be very appealing. All of these can result in a greater need for international collaborations to coordinate the research and educational work, to formulate objectives, and to develop new projects. In different congress, it is a very good opportunity to meet with each other and to exchange ideas; however, such meetings, where specific preparation of project proposal, discussion, and brainstorming of topics and questions for collaboration are few. Such a meeting was held in the Department of Operative Technique and Surgical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen between February 14–15, 2014, entitled International Experts’ Meeting on “Operative art for translational research: the educational front.” On the meeting, distinguished representatives of European centers focusing on microsurgical education and research were present (Fig. 1). The topic of lectures varied from the application of microsurgery in special clinical specialties, such as lymphatic microsurgery, through the application of flaps used
Published online 10 April 2014 in Wiley (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/micr.22258 Ó 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Online
in reconstructive surgical procedures, research in ischemia-reperfusion and transplantation, and education programs notwithstanding zoological research: Prof. Corradino Campisi (Genova, Italy): E.D.U.C.S: an innovative Project of Inter-University Collaboration for the Development of Surgical Sciences in the European Union Centers. The basic role of the Experimental Surgery and Microsurgery.
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Figure 1. Discussions of the meeting (photos by Nagy S.).
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Prof. Antonio Di Cataldo (Catania, Italy): Experimental Microsurgery and education of the young surgeons. Prof. Stefano Puleo (Catania, Italy): About the liver. Prof. Mihai Ionac (Timisoara, Romania): Design of a comprehensive program for microsurgical training in living tissue. Prof. Alexandru V. Georgescu (Cluj-Napoca, Romania): Changing the mind: from traditional flaps to perforator flaps. Prof. Dragos Pieptu and Dr. Nicolae Ghetu (Iasi, Romania): Lab training in microsurgery—Have we reached the limits? Prof. Michael Axelsson (Gothenburg, Sweden): Experimental surgery from fish to giraffe. Dr. Mihai Oltean (Gothenburg, Sweden): The grammar of translation in transplantation: between past continuous and future perfect. Prof. Simon Myers (London, UK): Objective assessment of microsurgery skills—role and rules. Dr. Ali M. Ghanem (London, UK): Predictive validity of non-living models based simulation training in microsurgery: How far can we push the three Rs?
Microsurgery DOI 10.1002/micr
The wide variety of topic propositions lead to one direction, because the common denominator among all is the microsurgery itself. The acquisition of a safe and efficient microsurgical technique in all the incurred topics was essential. The key to this has to be an educational issue, and so it would be worth to develop common aims, projects, and further collaboration. Although it was a kind of European meeting, we do hope that in a wider international range will take a step toward concrete measures to further promote microsurgery with the greater involvement of youth, showing them perspective. Also, in my opinion, microsurgical education and research require further strengthening of its international communication network between various professional societies and institutes. NORBERT NEMETH, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Operative Techniques and Surgical Research Institute of Surgery Faculty of Medicine University of Debrecen, Hungary
