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Ganga Microsurgery Training Institute

'The age of the self taught micro surgeon is over’, thus said Harry Buncke a decade ago.
It is stressed that basic skills of Microsurgery if perfected in the laboratory, makes clinical work easy with high success rate. Laboratory must have excellent microscopes, quality instruments and a good working environment. To provide this facility to the aspiring trainees in Microsurgery, Ganga Microsurgical Training Institute was inaugurated. Carl Zeiss, S&T and Ethicon supported this venture.

This institute has completed its second year of trainingyoung microsurgeons. The course is now recognized by the Indian society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. The feedback received from all our trainees has convinced us that our effort and time spent in setting up this venture is worthwhile.

Most of our trainees went on to do the first Replantation and free flap in their region. To make the course more flexible we no longer have fixed dates. The trainees can now attend this course at a mutually convenient time. Most of the trainees stayed on for some more time after the week long course, to learn the philosophy and gain practical insight of reconstructive microsurgery.

The new lab with 4 Zeiss Microscopes

Highlights of the Lab:

One Carl Zeiss OPMI MDU microscope per trainee.
Trainees will use S&T microinstruments and clamps.
A full set of Acland's video tapes to guide the trainee.
An experienced instructor always at hand.
A graduated training schedule will be followed so that a trainee will be taken from the basics to successful anastomosis of vessels in small animals.
The lab is in a Hospital with a good patient load and so clinical correlation is possible.
The only centre in the country in the country to offer such a comprehensive training programme.

The weeklong courses will run throughout the year on the prescribed dates.
The provisional schedule is given below:

Course Fees	Inland Fellows	Overseas Delegates
Post Graduates	Rs.15,000/-	US $ 550	300 GBP
Consultant	Rs.20,000/-

You can book for any course. Dates can be adjusted with mutual consent. The fees must be paid by Demand Draft drawn in favour of Ganga Microsurgery Training Institute payable at Coimbatore.If booked in advance accommodation can be provided in the hospital itself at a nominal cost. Incase of non availability of the guest room in the hospital accommodation can be arranged close to the hospital. There is full time canteen facility available in the hospital premises.

Following are the comments of some of the participants of the Ganga Microsurgery Training Course.

"This is the best course available in our country and worth every single pie and much more. Hats off to the team at Ganga Hospital for this fantastic course. I only wish that the scope of the course is enlarged and further courses involving other aspects of microsurgery are conducted."
Dr. D. Jayadev, Plastic Surgeon, Gokulam Hospital , Salem
drjayadev@hotmail.com

"...The micro course is worth its weight in gold and every youngster joins me in expressing gratitude for bringing this course of international standards to India..."
Dr T.M.Sunil, Indian Society of Surgery of Hand-1999-2000 Travelling Fellow Asst .Prof. of Orthopaedic Surgery, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore
svims@vsnl.com

"It was a great experience. The micro course helps me to concentrate better and definitely my skills will be much better now."
Dr V. Venkata Ramana, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Trichur Heart Hospital

"Regarding microsurgery course, it was excellent and helped me to learn the basic techniques of microsurgery. Probably nowhere in India, such a good quality course was carried out previously. This course will definitely help junior and recently qualified plastic surgeons."
Dr Nitin D. Shah, Arihant Burns and Plastic Surgery Hospital Ahmedabad

"In the last five days I had an excellent experience in Microsurgery. This course has fine tuned my vascularsurgical skills. This course will be a great boon for young surgeons to get experience in microsurgery, which is not available in any other centre in India.…"
Dr S.Arulmani, Vascular Surgeon, Salem.

"Excellent experience. Hope I will get another chance to work here."
Dr V.G.Aniljith, Plastic Surgeon, Elite Mission Hospital Thrissur, Kerala.

"It is a great step in the history of microsurgical scenario
in India which used to be the domain of very few surgeons. Many thanks for providing excellent facilities for microsurgery training through the lab. I attended all the activities for ten days at Ganga Hospital and learnt so many things from academics to surgical skills to the humanitarian approach towards patient care."
Dr Rajendra Nehete, Plastic Surgeon, ‘Shree Clinic’, Nashik, Maharashtra
drr_nehte@vsnl.com

"Thanks for setting up such an excellent Microsurgery course. Having taken up the course I feel very confident of doing successful clinical cases. Being at Ganga Hospital was a superb experience. Clinically I learnt a lot of practical tips from the team and the academic programmes are very good."
Dr Munish Shah, Plastic Surgeon, MAHI Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat.
munishshah@hotmail.com

"When I signed up for the course, I did not know what I had let myself in for…The tapes are so self explanatory that even I could perform the anastomosis without any assistance."
Dr Kothurkar Advait, Pune, Maharashtra.
akothurkar@yahoo.co.in