2020 News
Surgical insights
Tribute to the 2018-2020 Committee
Fresh air.
What many around the world aim and dream about these pandemic times.
Fresh air for a change. Fresh air for doing more. Fresh air for doing better. And in our case, fresh air for our medical family. We have given to the Surgical Association some fresh air by changing the present Committee and giving way to the new generations.
Changes can be hard to handle. However, we are grateful to our veterans for leaving us the path easy to walk through. We would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to all the commitment and enthusiasm that you have passed on us and has made us keen to make this project even bigger and greater.
The 2018-20 Committee has worked hard to promote the openness of the association along with the participation of the ones that were willing to take part of it and make even bigger this humble family. The Committee that we now leave on our backs has not only stick with the past traditions and popularize them, they have moved a step forward. Their relentless ambition took them to devise one of the major projects that a surgical association can come up with: the first surgical Symposium for medical students in Catalonia: SCALPEL – Gimbernat Surgical Symposium. Thank you for putting your hearts and souls to forge ahead this challenging project and, moreover, having shared with us all your experience to take it even further on the next editions.
We hope to inspire the next generations the same way you did, with enthusiasm and willingness to improve the association as a whole and individually.
Thank you for everything.
Physical examination and asepsis & antisepsis workshop
10/2020
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, thousands of medical students around the world have seen their skills training diminished over the last months. In our university, fourth year students have expressed their lack of physical examination skills knowledge since they could not learn it in the previous months in the pathophysiology hospital rotation.
As a result of this situation, Gimbernat Surgical Society has created a workshop to teach the basics of physical examination to fourth year students. We have had the participation of Dr. Juan Guzmán, from the surgical emergency department of Hospital del Mar, who taught us the most relevant concepts to assess a patient who comes to the emergency department. He explained us the importance of a correct evaluation in head trauma, acute abdomen, thoracic contusions and general wounds, among others.
After that, we briefly reviewed the importance of asepsis and antisepsis when scrubbing into an operating theatre as well as how to put on sterile gloves.
Many thanks to all assistants and special gratitude to Dr. Guzmán and 5th year medical students, who also contributed to the workshop realization.
SCALPEL. I Gimbernat Surgical Symposium 2020
02/2020
On the past 24th of February we held our first Surgical Symposium for medical students.
We had the pleasure to listen to the conferences of Dr. Salvador Navarro (Parc Taulí, Sabadell), who talked about the ATLS management of a polytraumatic patient and its implementation in Spain, and Dr. Julio Mayol (Clínico San Carlos, Madrid) who gave a lecture about the future of surgery.
Also, medical students from all of the catalan faculties could do dinamic workshops. They could learn about the management of a politrauma patient using a simulation room, practise plastic surgery techniques such as skin grafts or flaps, sew up a cardiac valve in an animal heart, proceed to use an arthroscopy device with traumatology surgeons, practise ophtalmology surgery skills, attend suture workshops and even do a medical escape room.
Between the workshops, we had a brunch organised for students to ask the doctors and residents questions and concerns about their speciality. At the end of the day, we had a closure act in which we thanked all participants and did a special mention to our professor Dr. Manuel Pera for his implication in the organization of the symposium.
We hope it was a rewarding experience for all the assistants. We are looking forward to seeing you again at Scalpel 2021.
