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Editorial 10.5005/wjols-14-2-v

Coronavirus disease-2019 emerged as an international pandemic in 2020 and also has impacted countless lives.
Minimal access surgical training of surgeons and gynecologists has been considerably affected by this pandemic.
Yet, the specific result stays unidentified but lack of hands-on training has given a lot of sets back in training
programs. We looked to survey laparoscopic surgical treatment numbers in various superspecialty hospitals in
India to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on surgical resident training and education.
Medical students interested in learning minimal access surgery perceive the COVID-19 pandemic as harming
their education, due to a reduction in clinical exposure. Actions need to be required to make certain that
laparoscopic surgeons and gynecologists are properly planned for fellowship and independent practice despite
the substantially decreased situation quantities throughout this pandemic.
Laparoscopic surgery training programs need to concentrate on providing nontechnical clinical training and expert advancement
during this time around. When current optional laparoscopic surgery restrictions are raised, a factor to consider must be given to
suspending the existing ‘efficiency’ model in favor of making sure that trainees are proctored via these cases to fix the accumulated
training deficit aggravated by the pandemic. This might aid to alleviate the impacts of the pandemic and ensure the continued education
program of the top-quality trainees for which our training programs are internationally renowned.
We strongly believe that the job of a minimal access surgeon is mainly professional and also skill development and both of these
elements were highly damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic. The existing situation will not be sustainable for a lot more time and we
require to be prepared with specific programs in case of another pandemic takes place. The World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
has started many online webinars to fill this gap. We have also tried to invite top-class clinical articles from surgeons all over World to
make WJOLS more interesting in this COVID-19 era. We strove to improve and also promote among surgeons all sorts of self-education
material, from webinars to video-based education and learning, consisting of pelvic-trainer simulation.
RK Mishra
Editor-in-Chief
Chairman
World Laparoscopy Hospital
Gurugram, Haryana, India

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