Vascular Surgery

Program Description:

 The progress of medical sciences, particularly in the field of surgery, and advances in technology has realized the possibility of greater surgical procedures in trauma patients with extensive damage. Since vascular diseases are mainly caused at older ages and the number of older people gradually increases due to increased life expectancy, the need for this course is felt more than ever. During the Iran-Iraq war, a great number of people were wounded in action or elsewhere, so the trauma and vascular surgery fellowship, as an important issue both at that time and today, was adopted in a two-year course in 1986. Through the implementation of this course in some major universities, such as Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Isfahan, Mashhad, Baqiyatallah, Gilan, Kermanshah, Mazandaran, Kerman, Shahed, and Iran universities of medical sciences, the required specialists have been trained.

Today, some trauma patients have to have limbs amputated due to the unavailability of these specialists or lose their lives due to the rupture of the liver, abdominal aorta and major blood vessels. Therefore, the necessity of this course is increasingly felt in the world. The compilation committee of Vascular Surgery Fellowship developed this curriculum and issued it to the executive universities. The committee welcomes the experts’ valuable comments for revising the curriculum.

The compilation committee of Vascular Surgery fellowship curriculum

 :Definition 

Vascular surgery fellowship is a clinical course originating from general surgery. The graduates should gain enough knowledge, insight, and skills in diagnosis, care, and treatment of congenital, acquired, and traumatic diseases of the arterial, venous, and lymphatic circulatory system (except the coronary arteries and intracranial vessels) and primary treatment and management of vascular abnormalities and injuries in soft tissues and internal organs and the relevant blood vessels and nerves (except the brain and spinal cord injuries). By understanding and analyzing the causes of physiological and pathological changes, they will be able to perform all diagnostic, laboratory, imaging, and therapeutic measures for patients using invasive, minimally invasive, and non-invasive procedures.

Objectives:

Expected Competencies at the End of the Program

General Competencies*

Specific Competencies and Skills

At the end of the program learners will be competent in the following Procedural Skills (Diagnostic-Therapeutic Procedures) skills:

Important Notes:

1. The graduates should also learn the following skills and employ them in their profession, in addition to the skills they are allowed to do during the general surgery course, except for the cases which independent performance is not permitted.

2. The frequencies listed below are the minimum number required for learning and there is no limitation for it.

3. The frequency of performing each group of procedures will be determined by the curriculum manager.

4. In cases which independent performance is not allowed, the procedure will be performed jointly.