A fantastic two-day training course was held in Athens on 16-17/12/2022 as part of the 3rd semester of the Postgraduate Program "Colorectal Surgery" for the students' internship, in collaboration with the non-profit organization NoDE Institute and HYGEIA Hospital.

Its duration was 2 days and the internship was divided as follows:

The first day included practical training in Special Simulators. The students were divided into groups of 5 and 6 people and each group went through the following training stations during the day:

• Pelvic trainers: transanal techniques
• Laparoscopic right colectomy simulation
• Simulation of laparoscopic left colectomy

The skills achieved by the students are:

• Basic Laparoscopic Skills
• Sense of depth of field
• Vision-motion synchronization
• Right-left hand cooperation
• Use of basic laparoscopic tools
• Two-dimensional perception of three-dimensional space
• Advanced Laparoscopic Skills
• Complex basic skills exercises
• Accuracy
• Economy of movements
• Laparoscopic suturing

The second day It included performing laparoscopic colectomies (right and left colectomy), laparoscopic enterectomy, low anterior resection and laparoscopic anastomosis on human cadaveric models by the trainees under the guidance of experienced instructors.

The purpose of the training program and internship was the coordinated learning of the aforementioned techniques by the participating students of the Postgraduate Program, so that they would be able to reproduce these procedures on patients under real conditions.

Upon successful completion of the internship, the students were trained in performing the following procedures:

• right colectomy
• left colectomy
• low anterior rectal resection
• laparoscopic enterectomy
• laparoscopic anastomosis
• transanal techniques

We warmly thank Mr. Konstantinos Mavrantonis, surgeon and Director of the 6th Surgical Clinic of HYGEIA for the impeccable organization and hospitality, as well as the participating surgeon instructors from Larissa, the Director of the Postgraduate Medical School Mr. Georgios Tzovaras, Mr. Ioannis Balogiannis and Mr. Dimitrios Symeonidis, valuable collaborators of the Postgraduate Medical School.