Open AccessBringing Order to the Chaos
Author(s) -
Lee L. Swanström,
Adrian Park,
Marty Arregui,
Morris E. Franklin,
C Daniel Smith,
Christina Blaney
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000205217.45477.25
Subject(s) - medicine , accreditation , program director , invasive surgery , curriculum , medical education , transplant surgery , quality (philosophy) , surgery , hepatology , psychology , pedagogy , philosophy , epistemology
Since 1993, there has been an increase in the number of postgraduate fellowships in minimally invasive and gastrointestinal (GI) surgery; from 9 in 1993 to more than 80 in 2004. Early on, there was no supervision or accreditation of these fellowships, and they varied widely in content, structure, and quality. This was widely recognized as being a bad situation for fellow applicants and reflected poorly on the specialties of minimally invasive (MI) and GI surgery. In an effort to bring order to this chaotic situation, the Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Council (MISFC) was founded in 1997.