What is a hand trauma surgeon?
For being a hand surgeon, a surgeon should: – Be a full member of his National Hand Surgery Society; – Have microsurgical recognition (certificate or diploma); – Have a clinical activity represented by more than 24 trauma cases (from which at least five microsurgical) operated in a 3 months period. Another conclusion of the audit was that the most important activity for the future has to be dedicated to the prevention. In this attempt, in 2009 the Turkish Society for Hand Surgery and the HTC will organize in Turkey the 1st European Hand Injury Prevention Congress. It is also considered that all efforts should to be made for the attempt to develop hand surgery as a separate specialty.
