Training of microsurgery in the laboratory of the Hôpitaux de Paris
Cabrol, C.; Gilbert, A.
Chirurgie; Memoires de l'Academie de Chirurgie 117(2): 145-148
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-4001 PMID: 1786734 Document Number: 377513
The Microsurgical Laboratory of Paris Hospitals' Anatomy Amphitheater has been organizing an initiation into microsurgery since 1976 and the University Diploma of Microsurgical Techniques of Paris VI University since 1977. Since this time, 1,426 surgeons have been trained in the laboratory. The geographic origin of the students is worldwide, but predominantly European. The success rate at the final examinations is relatively constant and averages 60%. The results have been compared to the number of sessions in which the candidates had taken part, and a correlation between a number of sessions exceeding 30 and results above 90% at the examinations was established; A minimum number of sessions of vascular microsurgery was therefore laid down in order to ensure the serious training of the students.