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Training and accreditation in hysteroscopy

An overview of training and accreditation in hysteroscopy in dif­ferent countries pointed out the diversity and lack of robust guidelines across Europe. The European Society for Gynaecology Endoscopy has developed training standards for hysteroscopy but these are arbi­trary.

Since 2010, the United Kingdom Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has offered an advanced training skill module for hysteroscopy (diagnostic/operative and outpatient/inpatient) for all senior trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology who wish to train as hysteroscopists. The gynaecologists who choose to train have ac­cess to variable training schemes; it is important, however, to attend training in order to perform outcomes. Novel methods of training in endoscopic psychomotor skills have developed such as stimula­tion training. More recently, advanced virtual reality stimulators have been developed; various studies have evaluated stimulation training, demonstrating improved performance in operative hysteroscopic skills (59, 68-74). HystSim (Virtamed, Symbionic) is a virtual reality stimulator providing realistic stimulation of hysteroscopic scenarios including obscured vision, bleeding control in a variety of modules stimulating diagnostic hysteroscopy, polypectomy, myomectomy, re­section, ablation, and more recently hysteroscopic sterilization.

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Source: Arulkumaran S., Ledger W., Denny L., Doumouchtsis S. (eds.). Oxford Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Oxford University Press,2020. — 928 p.. 2020
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