Name: 【TED】Steven Schwaitzberg: A universal translator for surgeons (Steven Schwaitzberg: A universal translator for surgeons)
Uploaded: 2016-06-22T14:42:38.000Z
Duration: 11 min 42 s
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Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

So I want to talk to you about two things tonight.

that language is one of the most profound things

Keep your hands up if you wanted an operation.

with tools like these through large incisions

that cause a lot of time out of work or out of school,

what you really want is a minimally invasive operation.

That's what I want to talk to you about tonight --

how doing and teaching this type of surgery

and it starts by putting people to sleep,

sticking one of these sharp pointy things into their abdomen --

and taking instruments and watching it on a TV screen.

This is the real thing. There's no blood.

And you can see how focused the surgeons are,

It's hard to teach, and it's not all that easy to learn.

We do about five million of these in the United States

There are no little tanks where we're making surgeons.

It starts with a foundation, basic skills.

We build on that and we take people, hopefully, to the operating room

Then we teach them to be a surgeon in training.

And when they do all of that for about five years,

they get the coveted board certification.

If you need surgery, you want to be operated on

And eventually, if you're lucky, you achieve mastery.

from the largest general surgery society in the United States, SAGES,

started in the late 1990s a training program

that would assure that every surgeon who practices minimally invasive surgery

would have a strong foundation of knowledge and skills

that it became required by the American Board of Surgery

in order for a young surgeon to become board certified.

it's all of that plus a high-stakes assessment.

one of our partners, the American College of Surgeons,

teamed up with us to make an announcement

that all surgeons should be FLS (Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery)-certified

before they do minimally invasive surgery.

And are we talking about just people here in the U.S. and Canada?

So to lift this education and training worldwide

something I'm very personally excited about as we travel around the world.

SAGES does surgery all over the world, teaching and educating surgeons.

So we have a problem, and one of the problems is distance.

We need to make the world a smaller place.

And I think that we can develop some tools to do so.

And one of the tools I like personally is using video.

that you could actually teach people to do surgery

So here's Allan teaching an English-speaking surgeon in Africa

necessary to do minimally invasive surgery.