TOMSK, Apr 25 – RIA Tomsk. The Russian-Japanese training class for microsurgeons has opened in Tomsk on the basis of scientific research institute of microsurgery, it is the first similar class in Russia, the director of the institute Vladimir Baytinger has told journalists on Monday at the opening ceremony of a class.
Earlier it was reported that the Japanese manufacturing company of medical optics Meiji Techno will provide to Tomsk scientific research institute of microsurgery the equipment for creation of the simulation training class on supermicrosurgery. The first lectures and trial studies were held in the framework of cooperation in Tomsk in November 2015.
"In Siberia there are no training centers, except ours. In Russia it is the first training class opened together with Japan, the equipment for it we have received absolutely for free", – Baytinger has told.
According to him, the class is equipped with four high-precision microscopes which allow to fulfill various manipulations with vessels and nerves. All process is transmitted to the computer monitor. It is expected that first "cadets" will arrive to training to Tomsk after May holidays."Opening of such a training class – is a big step forward, today microsurgery does not stand still, there is a development of technologies, we will hope that such a class would be a good help for the emergence of the professionals", – the deputy governor Chingis Akatayev has added at the opening.
The special guest at the opening of the class was the head of the department of plastic and reconstructive surgery at St. Petersburg State Medical University Maria Voloh, who in May 2015 for the first time in Russia conducted an operation on face transplantation.
"There is an optics of the highest class, conditions of the training center will allow in the most comfortable way to master skills <…> We at the university have no such optics, but we will strive to do so, will try to send in Tomsk our employees to study", – she said.