Hand Surgery

Program Description:

The hand is an important organ which plays an unchallenged role in humans’ everyday life for doing fine and artistic works, self-defense, force needing works and dealing with complex technical issues, and also facilitating environmental communication skills. Congenital and acquired hand disorders impose many physical and mental damages to individuals, their families and ultimately society. Experts of various specialized disciplines including orthopedics, plastic surgery, reconstructive and burn, vascular surgery disciplines and general surgeons can help patients whose hands have been damaged and restore the injured hand to the normal condition. The importance of the hand has led the world’s well known medical universities to consider the establishment of hand surgery fellowship for a long time. As Islamic republic of  Iran is  became competent in  training  fellows supervised by experienced professors in Hand Surgery, a committee was formed of active members of Iran’s universities in 2009 to develop a joint curriculum by unifying current curricula and developing a national curriculum for this Training Program. After searching the literature and curricula in the world and using the experiences of local experts, this committee developed the current curriculum and issued it to the executing universities after the legal processes. This committee welcomes academia’s and experts’ comments to use in next revision of the curriculum.

Definition

The operation domain of a hand surgeon in this curriculum is from the fingertips to the brachial plexus. It is clear that, if necessary, operations should be done as teamwork and a vascular surgeon, a shoulder fellow or even a thorax subspecialist could be involved.

It is a branch of surgery which is about repairing injuries to tendons, peripheral nerves, brachial plexus, vessels, muscles and soft tissues and bones which are caused by diseases, trauma, congenital anomalies, tumors, burns, joint rheumatic diseases, infections and sports injuries by using surgical and non-surgical procedures, such as arthroscopy, arthroplasty, reconstruction of tendon and muscle, local and free flaps, microsurgery and hand transplant.

Objectives:

1-To train knowledgeable, efficient, competent and liable experts in the specialized field of hand surgery to provide the society with their expertise in educational and research fields and diagnostic medical services.

2-We will be one of top in the Middle East and will be prominent in the world in the next ten years in terms of educational standards and specialized service provision and science production in hand surgeries.