THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS MICROSURGERY

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Microsurgical techniques require—perhaps regardless of its clinical experimental application—exceptional preparedness, higher than average patience and perseverance and many hours of laborious practices filled with sense of achievement and failures. Several educational methods are known, and there is a high demand for their standardization, or using more appropriate words, their coordination or their comparability with specifying the milestones, which are important for doctors and researchers to move forward in their microsurgical skills. Several institutes deal with microsurgical education and research around the world, although the number of truly committed clinicians and researchers toward microsurgery should be even more. If those who are openminded get to know the extraordinary world of microsurgery, it can be very appealing. All of these can result in a greater need for international collaborations to coordinate the research and educational work, to formulate objectives, and to develop new projects. In different congress, it is a very good opportunity to meet with each other and to exchange ideas; however, such meetings, where specific preparation of project proposal, discussion, and brainstorming of topics and questions for collaboration are few. Such a meeting was held in the Department of Operative Technique and Surgical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen between February 14–15, 2014, entitled International Experts’ Meeting on “Operative art for translational research: the educational front.” On the meeting, distinguished representatives of European centers focusing on microsurgical education and research were present (Fig. 1). The topic of lectures varied from the application of microsurgery in special clinical specialties, such as lymphatic microsurgery, through the application of flaps used in reconstructive surgical procedures, research in ischemia-reperfusion and transplantation, and education programs notwithstanding zoological research: