Attitude of a young surgeon toward experimental surgery. Roles and limits of experimental surgery.

At the moment, the place of experimental surgery within the clinical surgical cores is questioned. However, its role in the progresses of surgical practice and training of surgeons is undisputable. It is through research that surgeons can keep some critical mind, essential in their daily activities. However, too often actually, the surgeons abandon research. Two essential reasons explain the phenomenon: on the one hand, the weight of the clinical tasks and on the other hand the complexity of research founded on more and more specialized basic notions. In fact, the part of a surgical investigator must be to form a link between basic research and clinical activities. As such, work in collaboration with motivated basic investigators is cardinal. Also, the success of research depends upon the will of the departments to maintain a research activity, but it meets often with the difficulty in obtaining sufficient research credits. Finally, research can play an essential part in the education of the trainees and partly fill some gaps in their clinical training.