General Surgery
Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery updates
Submitted by srrpenna on Tue, 2007-08-21 12:16.
Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is an experimental surgical technique whereby "scarless" abdominal operations can be performed with an endoscope passed through a natural orifice (mouth, urethra, anus, etc.) then through an internal incision in the stomach, vagina, bladder or colon, thus avoiding any external incisions or scars.
Updated principles of selection to surgical training
Submitted by srrpenna on Mon, 2006-05-08 07:00.
from ISCP Website
Principles:
1. Selection from F2 will be into surgery (themed and generic programmes) will be denoted by an NTN (S) surgery .
2. Numbers in ST1 will equal numbers required in ST2 onwards across all specialties .
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