You will be spending a lot of time in the operating room acquiring good amount of exposure to gynecologic oncology surgery.
Clinical training encompasses all areas of surgeries including ovarian cancer surgery, endometrial cancer surgery, and cervical cancer surgery. These operations specifically focuses on debulking surgery, laparoscopic and robot-assisted staging surgery, staging laparotomy, laparoscopic and robot-assisted radical hysterectomy with sentinel lymph node mapping, and radical abdominal surgery.
You will have also great exposure to ovarian cyst and uterine tumor, specifically dealing with laparoscopic and robotic ovarian cyst enucleation, laparoscopic and robotic hysterectomy, myomectomy.
You will have opportunities to get involved in research activities. We have tremendous resources, including extensive procedural databases, statistics, and access to the medical library and e-journals.
With guidance of your faculty mentor, you will pursue short or long-term projects and submit abstract to domestic or international meetings. You will also be able to publish highly recognized surgical journals with the cooperation with faculties, Korean and international fellows.
Trainees will be able to participate in :
1. Weekly journal club (Wednesday 4 PM)
2. Weekly lab meeting (Wednesday 11:00 AM, Thursday 9 AM)
3. Weekly clinical trail meeting (Thursday 11 AM)
4. Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology in April and October.
Physicians who train at Severance for 6 months or longer can gain more experience by participating in hands-on medical practice. The scope of hands-on medical practice is strictly regulated under the Korean Medical Law Article 27 paragraph (1) of the Medical Service Act and Article 18 subparagraph 2 of the Enforcement Rule of the same act. Every doctor who wants to get approval for medical hands-on practice has to officially apply for the permission of Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare through Severance Academy.
Please read carefully the following instructions :
(However, if the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Korea requests for revision or additional documents, the preparation period will not be counted as the 20-days reviewing period.)
Duration | Observation | Hands-on Practice | Lecture | Research | Conference & Seminar | Robot Training |
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6 months | O | O | O | O | O | O |
1 year | O | O | O | O | O | O |
Hands-on Practice is allowed ONLY after the permission of Korea MOHW.
All activities and schedule are subject to change according to department schedule.