{"id":1601,"date":"2021-02-26T13:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vascular-1su.jp\/?page_id=1601"},"modified":"2021-03-09T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:21:49","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vascular-1su.jp\/en\/education\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is obvious that surgeons must be good at surgery. However, no one is good from the beginning. How do surgeons improve their skills?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally, improvement of surgeons\u2019 skills relied on the so-called apprenticeship system, which was not systemically constructed. If you are instructed by an enthusiastic senior and gain a lot of experience in a hospital with many cases, you will become a good surgeon in a few years. This was the typical way to build a career. However, non-systemic instruction might cause a wide difference in surgeons\u2019 skills, which should be a big problem for the patients, especially those who undergo \u201cmajor\u201d life-threatening surgery. In departments such as cardiac surgery and brain surgery where small mistakes cause major complications, the training methodology for young surgeons has been discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about a vascular surgeon? Most vascular surgeons practice general surgery, especially gastrointestinal surgery. The vascular procedures performed by young surgeons are sometimes relatively easy and have a low risk of major complications, such as arteriovenous shunt creation, high ligation, and varicocelectomy for varicose veins of the lower extremity. Therefore, young vascular surgeons can accumulate experience step by step from lower to higher difficulty surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the construction of a “training system for young surgeons” as a social demand is an urgent issue. In 2017, the Japanese Board of Cardiovascular Surgery decided that Off the Job Training must be conducted for 30 hours as a condition for applying for the specialty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off the Job Training (Off-JT)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Off-JT Committee was established at the Japanese Society for Vascular Surgery, and our department has been involved. Our idea is that if we do it as training, we should get evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We decided to recruit medical students, residents, young surgeons, and even skilled surgeons and evaluated the results using our training system. This is a simple and inexpensive setting that is mostly purchased at 100-yen shops, which is usually used in any institute. However, surgical needle threads and grafts are expensive. If you register for this study, you can train with them for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants with a doctor’s license will be given a certificate according to the training time. (\u2605Sample<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Off the Job Training\n(Medical students undergoing Off-JT)\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These videos demonstrate our Off-JT method. These are posted on the homepage of the Japanese Society for Vascular Surgery and regarded as a model case of the Off-JT system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n