Surgical education during pandemic times: How the virtual world can help us in real life? The Hernia U experience

Case Reports

. 2021 Apr;99(4):315-316.

doi: 10.1016/j.ciresp.2020.12.007. Epub 2021 Jan 16.

Affiliations

¹ Director Abdominal Wall Program, Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
⁴ Pernambuco Health College, Recife, PE, Brazil.
⁵ Director of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, Good Samaritan Medical Center-TENET Health, West Palm Beach, FL, USA.
⁶ Chief of Innovation in Minimally Invasive Surgery of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocio and Head of the General and Digestive Surgery Unit of Hospital Quironsalud Sagrado Corazon, Sevilla, Spain.

Case Reports

Flavio Malcher et al. Cir Esp. 2021 Apr.

. 2021 Apr;99(4):315-316.

doi: 10.1016/j.ciresp.2020.12.007. Epub 2021 Jan 16.

¹ Director Abdominal Wall Program, Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
⁴ Pernambuco Health College, Recife, PE, Brazil.
⁵ Director of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, Good Samaritan Medical Center-TENET Health, West Palm Beach, FL, USA.
⁶ Chief of Innovation in Minimally Invasive Surgery of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocio and Head of the General and Digestive Surgery Unit of Hospital Quironsalud Sagrado Corazon, Sevilla, Spain.

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