[Training program for minimally invasive surgery].

Currently 'Minimally Invasive Surgery' (MIS) is rapidly finding a widening range of applications and increasing numbers of surgical departments start with new MIS techniques. Surgical work under endoscopic control requires an intensive readjustment to operation technique bringing about new problems in training. We believe that intensive training of MIS procedures on suitable training phantoms should be a prerequisite for clinical application of MIS and therefore have established a training center for MIS in Tübingen, FRG, offering weekly hands on training courses for different procedures.