Teaching and learning - General and Digestive Surgery Service

The areas of teaching activity are as follows:

Department professionals are professors in the Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties at the University of Barcelona and participate as professors in the following subjects:

• Fundamentals of Surgery, Anaesthesiology, and Resuscitation.
• Diseases of the Digestive System
• Endocrine System Diseases and Nutrition

The General and Digestive Surgery Department is accredited to train four residents in our specialty each year. The general objectives and competencies they must acquire, in accordance with the specialty programme, are defined in the Training Itinerary.

The first objective must be to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable a professional to competently and responsibly perform the functions that primarily correspond to General and Digestive Surgery, both in relation to elective and urgent surgical problems and in the setting of a regional hospital or a referral hospital.

The second objective of the programme is to begin complementary training in one of the areas of training or special interest, depending on the circumstances of each resident and each hospital. Upon completion of the residency, the degree of involvement of a specialist in any of these areas will depend on the progress of each surgeon, the needs of the population, and the hospital context in which they carry out their professional activity.

The third fundamental objective of the programme is to provide residents with adequate training in research so that they acquire a critical and open mindset in the face of the avalanche of information regarding advances and new technologies that will arise throughout their professional lives. Research also allows residents to become aware that, from their workplace, whatever it may be, they can contribute to the progress of medical science.

• Resident sessions
• Basic and advanced simulation workshops for residents
• Training courses for residents from the Spanish Association of Surgeons
• Basic course in endoscopic surgery
• Course on oesophago-gastric surgery
• Course on endocrine surgery for residents

Members of the General and Digestive Surgery Department participate as teachers in the following master's degrees:

• Master's Degree in Endocrine Oncology Pathology. Technological University: Surgical treatment of adrenal cortex tumours.
• Master's Degree in Home Hospitalization. University of Barcelona. Postoperative care for morbid obesity and abdominal wall surgery.
• Master's Degree in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine. University of Barcelona and Autonomous University of Madrid. Abdominal trauma.
• Master's Degree in Orthopaedics for Pharmacists. Official College of Pharmacists of Barcelona. Anatomy and physiology of ostomy patients.
• Master's Degree in Biomedicine. University of Barcelona. Colorectal cancer surgery.
• Master's Degree in Clinical Research from the University of Barcelona. Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues, and Cells. Preservation Injury in Liver Transplantation.

The General and Digestive Surgery Department organizes continuing education courses for specialists in different formats and for each of the areas of knowledge within our specialty.

• Advanced courses
• Clinical Immersion in thyroid, adrenal, abdominal wall and rectal cancer (Medtronic)
• Surgeon to Surgeon in bariatric surgery (J&J MedTech)