[Report of the consensus workshop on microsurgical training at the 32nd annual meeting of the german-speaking group for microsurgery of the peripheral nerves and vessels in Basel 2010]

Abstract

After the foundation of a trinational task force to develop quality criteria for a training and educational system in microsurgery at the annual conference of the German-speaking group for microsurgery of the nerves and vessels (DAM) in Erlangen 2009, at the 2010 conference in Basel, a modular educational system was approved and criteria for a basic course were discussed. Before the next annual conference in 2011 these aspects should be clarified and defined in a spring meet-ing.