Masakazu Murakami, Koji Yamada, Shun Onishi, Toshio Harumatsu, Tokuro Baba, Masaaki Kuda, Kina Miyoshi, Yoshinori Koga, Ryuta Masuya, Takafumi Kawano, Mitsuru Muto, Makoto Hayashida, Kazuhiko Nakame, Shin Shinyama, Jun Kuwabara, Kyosuke Tatsuta, Yusuke Yanagi, Ryuichiro Hirose, Takeshi Shono, Misato Migita, Tatsuru Kaji, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, Atsushi Nanashima, Hiroshi Matsufuji, Satoshi Ieiri
Background: Endoscopic surgery also has been becoming widespread in the field of pediatric surgery. However, most disease treated by pediatric surgery in a single institution are small number of cases. Besides, the variety of operative procedures that need to be performed in this field is quite wide. For these reasons, pediatric surgeons have limited opportunities to perform endoscopic surgery. Therefore, it is difficult to introduce advanced endoscopic surgery at a single local hospital. To educate pediatric surgeons in local hospitals, for widespread advanced pediatric endoscopic surgery safely, and to eliminate the need for patient centralization, we have introduced a proctoring system...
August 4, 2023: Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. Part A