Surgical training — a global concern
During the last years, there has been a substantial technical development of surgical simulators, that is, computerized training systems where the joystick moves the scalpel and you ‘operate´ in a certain surgical area on the screen. Parallel to this development, the question about surgical training has been raised globally, and most surgical associations are actually occupied with the creation of curriculums for their own surgical specialty.

Interdisciplinary congress for future patient safety
“Today a lot of work is spent in each country, for each surgical specialty, to create surgical training schedules for the resident surgeon´s, and we have certainly many questions in common", says Dr Berg. For this reason, she created an interdisciplinary congress for surgeons from all different surgical areas, from maxillofacial and dental- and neurosurgery to general, laparoscopic and orthopaedic surgery. Usually different surgical disciplines do not meet.

Need for efficient and safe learning procedure
In addition, the “Y Generation" of young surgeons does not accept to spend evenings, nights and weekends in the operating room, which has created a paradigm shift from time-based to competency-based surgical training. “While the generation of experienced and skilled surgeon´s are about to retire, we urgently need new structures and instruments to create an efficient and safe learning procedure" says Dr Berg.

Furthermore, on the 1st of January2011 anew law about the Patient´s safety has been adopted by the Swedish Government (SFS nr: 2010:659).

Impressive speaker list
The impressive list of 34 speakers contains world famous names like:
Dr James Esch, San Diego ,CA ,USA,
Pr Richard Reznick, Dean at Queens University ,Canada,
Pr John Windsor, Auckland ,New Zealand,
Pr Gerald O´Sullivan, Ireland,
Pr Tony Gallagher, Ireland,
Pr Carlos Pellegrini ,Washington ,USA,
Dr Richard Angelo, Seattle ,USA,
Pr Shehkar Kumta, Hong Kong,
Pr Sean Tierney, Ireland and
DrDana Andersen , Baltimore, USA.
In addition four young surgeons fromSouth Africa ,Italy ,UKand Sweden will give a lecture on “The Surgical Resident´s Dream Scenario".

The congress will be officially inaugurated by Lena Furmark, Political Advisor at the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.

Contact information Surgicon Congress:
Margareta Berg
MD PhD
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Phone +46 (0)708 441 999
congress@surgicon.org  
www.surgicon.org