Learning to be a Surgeon

So you want to be a Surgeon?

There have been enormous changes in surgical training: increasing specialisation; the technical advances of surgery and the ubiquity of advanced laparoscopic and other procedures. There are now several well-recognised surgical sub-specialties such as Breast, Endocrine, Upper Gastrointestinal (including Hepatobiliary), Lower Gastrointestinal, Vascular and Transplant surgery. The essential criter...

Is stereopsis essential to be a competent ophthalmic surgeon

No study was found which could directly answer the above question, indeed there were hardly any studies of stereoscopic vision in ophthalmologists at all. There was however a prospective study correlating stereo-vision of dental students, on admission to the course, with subsequent performance in preclinical operative dentistry which showed that a high degree of stereopsis as assessed by the TN...

So you want to be a Mohs surgeon?

Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is a highly specialised surgical technique performed by dermatologists under local anaesthesia and used for the treatment of complex skin cancers. The technique was first developed by Frederic Mohs in the 1930s. The process involves taking horizontal sections of skin tissue which are then carefully mapped, colour-coded and examined microscopically in real-time. T...

A Short Introduction to Clinical Photography for the Plastic Surgeon

Learning to Be a Student

patterns and aspirations in the first week is in actual fact making himself inflexible and closing down on some of his own potentialities. A too great involvement with one person or one group is not always easy to break later and it can limit wider contacts and the varied experiences of friendship which bring greater understanding of oneself and other people. In the same way the immediate accep...