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Volume 3 Issue 4 (October - December, 2015)
Review Articles
MINIMALLY INVASIVE GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY- CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE | |
Dilip Ravalia, Madhukar Rajaram Wagh | |
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS), or laparoscopic surgery, plays a vital role in residency training in a number of surgical disciplines including general surgery, surgical oncology, colorectal surgery, pediatric surgery, and thoracic surgery. The tremendous patient demand for MIS over the past 2 decades has resulted in surgeons rapidly embracing this technique. Many general surgery residencies cover basic laparoscopy within their residency program; however, the experience with more advanced cases is more variable. This career resource guides the interested medical student and physician to opportunities for fellowship training in MIS. It includes a discussion of the specialty, training requirements, grant funding, research fellowships, and pertinent societies. The history of laparoscopy started as a primitive diagnostic procedure and it took close to a century before it became an effective therapeutic tool in the management of surgical problems. The advent of MIS has not only revolutionized surgical patient care but has also ushered in a new era and focus on surgical training and residency training in particular. Considerations that include surgical simulation, the development of objective measures of surgical performance, and the way in which both will come together in a standard surgical curriculum should leave little doubt of the significant impact MIS has had on surgical residency training. |
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