Dear Colleagues,
thank you very much for taking the time to participate in our survey on education and training for minimally invasive surgery.
Minimally invasive surgery is an important part of our surgical profession. In some cases minimally invasive surgery is used more frequently than other approaches. Nevertheless, education and training for minimally invasive surgery vary widely, influencing the training of the next generation of surgeons.
The purpose of this survey is to globally map and compare the realities and circumstances of training and educational opportunities in minimally invasive surgery.
About the survey:
- This survey will take approximately 10 minutes.
- Your responses will be collected and analyzed anonymously; no conclusions about you or your employer will be possible.
- Completion of the survey will be considered as consent to participate in further analysis and publication of the data.
- For better comparability, this survey primarily targets surgical specialties that perform minimally invasive surgery in the abdominal cavity.
In this survey we are focusing on the most common minimally invasive surgical procedures. Therefore, the following terms will be used restrictively throughout the survey:
- minimally invasive surgery = summary of laparoscopic, thoracoscopic, and robot-assisted surgery.
- explicitly excluded is: flexible endoscopy
Conductor of the survey:
- Section for minimalliy invasive, computer- and telematic-assisted surgery (CTAC) of the German Society of Surgery (DGCH)
- Research group "minimally invasive Surgery" at the Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Contact Survey/Data manager: mis_research@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Ethics approval number: BO-EK-59012021 (Ethics commission at Technical University Dresden)
Data protection:
Data collection and data evaluation is carried out by Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital Dresden and the section for minimally invasive, computer and telematic-assisted surgery (CTAC) of the German Society of Surgery (DGCH). Participation is voluntarily and data collection is anonymous. Data will be collected and stored according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR; Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
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There are 53 questions in this survey.
