TOMSK, Nov 12 – RIA Tomsk. The institute of microsurgery together with the Japanese manufacturing company of medical optics Meiji Techno (Japan) plans to open the Russian Federation's first Russian-Japanese educational class for training in microsurgical equipment, the head of institute Vladimir Baytinger reported.
According to him, the first joint training seminar took place in Tomsk from November 9 to November 11. The practicing surgeons from Moscow, Krasnoyarsk and Prokopevsk took part in it.
"The Japanese company brought the microscopes and models to Tomsk. Having known that more than 20 people were trained in scientific research institute of microsurgery from all Russian Federation for the last five years, they contacted us. In the long term we plan to open a good class for training of modern microsurgical technology together with this company", - the head of institute told, having added that today there are no educational institutions from the Urals to Vladivostok where training of doctors-microsurgeons would be carried out.
As the deputy director of the scientific research institute of microsurgery Konstantin Selyaninov reported, doctors were taught to carry out operations on small vessels and nerves on special training models of 1-2 millimeters thick within the seminar. Each of students could estimate objectively quality of the executed seam with optical zoom.
It was reported earlier that the Tomsk institute of microsurgery is the only profile research institute in Russia and in the CIS countries. The clinic specializes on reconstruction and plasticity of defects of soft fabrics, bones and joints, surgery of brush and arthroplasty replacement of joints of brush, children's maxillofacial surgery.