J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 118(5): 532-538, 2017

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CADAVER-BASED EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR FOR TRAUMA SURGERY

1) Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
2) Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
3) Department of Anatomy, International University of Health and Welfare School of Medicine, Ohtawara, Japan
4) Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health School of Medicine, Kitakyushu, Japan
5) Department of Aeromedical Services for Emergency and Trauma Care, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsuyama, Japan
6) Department of Gastroenterological SurgeryⅡ, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Hiroshi Homma1), Jun Oda1), Hidefumi Sano1), Kenichiro Uchibori1), Katsuhiro Nagata1), Tomoya Suzuki1), Kentaro Kawai1), Shinichi Kawata2), Hidenobu Miyaso2), Shogo Hayashi3), Masahiro Itoh2), Toshihiko Mayumi4), Norio Sato5), Soichi Murakami6), Toshiaki Shichinohe6)

We developed an original one-day, cadaver-based educational seminar for trauma surgery in cooperation with the Department of Anatomy for the faculty, residents, and medical students of our departments and surgeons of affiliated hospitals in 2007. This seminar expanded not only to cover our universities and affiliated hospitals but also other universities and hospitals by public announcement after the “Guidelines for Surgical Training Using Cadavers” were announced, and Tokyo Medical University was chosen as a member of “The project on surgical training using cadavers” by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in 2012.
Cadaver-based basic educational seminars use cadavers fixed in formalin. The participants perform 21 surgical skills (basic techniques, thoracic trauma, vascular trauma, pelvic and abdominal trauma, injuries to the extremities) including a 10-point self-assessment of confidence levels that will be compared before, immediately after, and a half-year after the seminar. We have confirmed that the seminar provides more self-confidence to participants. This seminar has also been held at other medical universities.
We started a one-day cadaver-based advanced educational seminar for senior surgeons with “saturated salt solution”-embalmed cadavers in 2015. The participants perform delicate procedures such as pneumonectomy, hepatectomy, repair of abdominal aortic injury (aneurysm), pelvic external fixation, pelvic package repairs, and fasciotomy of the lower extremities.

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