Inspired by the well-documented benefits of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in adults and children, the XXI century started launching the advantages of MIS to newborns. Although new instruments and equipment are promoting these achievements, there is still a long journey in training before neonatal endoscopic surgery become safe and widespread. In this sequence, the MIS program from University of Minho proposes an advanced hands-on course in Fetal and Neonatal Endoscopic Surgery in order to provide its participants a theoretical update in the most recent developments in fetal and neonatal endoscopic surgery and, simultaneously, an extensive hands-on training to learn-doing in anesthetized experimental small animals using 3 mm instruments.
This course does not provide credentials for the exercise of medicine for those without appropriate training, recognition and registered at the "Ordem dos Médicos" or international equivalent institutions.
