Travelling Placements Update
Japanese Travelling Fellow - Prague 2009
Dr Konishi (left) with Professor Tiret (right)
Dr Konishi (left) with Professor Phillips (right)
ESCP were delighted to welcome Dr Tsuyoshi Konishi at the annual meeting in Prague in September.
Dr Konishi presented on the subject of 'Mucinous carcinomas in the proximal colon exhibit better prognosis with distinct clinicopathological features that are different from those in the distal colon: results of a nationwide registry of over 3000 cases'. A webcast of this presentation is available free of charge to ESCP members in the members' area.
Dr Konishi reports on his fellowship:
'It was my great honor to have this year’s travelling fellowship which was a part of collaboration between the Council of ESCP and JSCP. This fellowship provided me fully-funded attendance to the 4th ESCP meeting in Prague. It was an exciting experience to give a presentation on the Japanese nationwide registry data in front of many experts from all over Europe. Furthermore, this fellowship included an arrangement to visit the Hôpital St. Antoine in Paris, Leiden University Hospital in the Netherlands and St. Marks Hospital in London under the kind hospitality of Professors E. Tiret, C.J.H. van de Velde and R. Phillips. It was a great experience for me to join the actual clinical practice including operations and Multi-Disciplinary Conferences. I also enjoyed fruitful discussion with many prestigious professors, consultants and senior trainee surgeons in each institution. I look forward to continued friendship and future collaboration with them.'
Pre-Prague Congress Placements
Supported by Covidien.
Dr Nidal Issa
Hasharon Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel
'I would like to express my deep gratitude for the opportunity to visit the Motol hospital furing the two days leading up to the ESCP Congress in Prague. I found the visit very interesting and useful, and valued the opportunity to observe different surgical approaches.
I would like especially to compliment Prof. Jiri Hoch, Head of Surgery at the Motol Hospital in Prague, who was very professional, highly skilled, and very polite.'
Dr Nawar Alkhamesi
Imperial College Healthcare Trust, London, UK
'I would like to thank the ESCP for the great opportunity to visit the Department of GI Surgery at Charles University Hospital, Prague- Czech Republic . The welcoming approach and the hospitality of Professor Hoch and his team made this visit anything but fruitful. I had the best of time participating in the team daily business meeting, ward round, and the operating room. The visit gave me the chance to explore a medical system which is clearly different from the NHS and see first hand the advantages and disadvantages of both systems. I highly recommend such activity and I hope that the ESCP will continue in providing similar programs.'
Dr Sokol Bilali
University Hospital Center, Tirana, Albania
'It was a great pleasure for me to take part in Pre Prague Congress Placement opportunities 2009. It was an exciting experience to spend two full days in Boskovice Hospital in Czech Republic. During that time I saw many interesting cases pertaining colorectal surgery by a well professional medical staff. I hope that experience will be usefull for me in daily activities.'
Dr Atif Alvi
Colorectal Specilaist Registrar (year 6), Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
'I would first of all like to thank ESCP for providing me the opportunity to visit a hospital in Czech Republic. My visit was at the Boskovice hospital. This is a small town hospital with 15,000 inhabitants but with a catchment area of 100,000 approximately 250 kms from Prague. The experience I had was unique in a way that, although the hospital was not very busy, neither they were doing any advance surgery but it was very interesting to see how a small town hospital in a different country works. I was in operating theatre for two days and saw a couple of colectomies and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. It was interesting to observe simple things such as the way the surgeons scrub outside the operating room and get the gowns on after painting the patient inside theatre. It was also interesting to see the way the surgeons used the sutures in a re-usable needle and the way they closed the abdomen in four layers interrupted. The basic surgical technique was no different from what we do in UK. The doctors and staff were friendly even though language was a problem.
Overall, it was a nice and new experience to visit a place in a remote town and in a different country.'