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and I really believe this gives us new indications, new ways to the organs and more minimal invasiveness. That's a big thing, I would say. And of course, with my group we are working a lot with 3D modeling and the different kinds of navigation. We all know this from our cars. When you have a navigation system and head-up display, it helps you very much when you want to find a little street somewhere. It has to be like this when we operate. We should have something in our field of view, for example a 3D model of the organ which can also give us a range of allowed movements, based on this model. There are many ways we can go, in the future. I definitely think this will help a lot also to avoid complications.
F.N.: You are the first who published the scientific work about the modular surgical training. Could you tell us the story about this publication?
Professor Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg: Yes, it's interesting. The modular surgical training is now used worldwide to teach residents in robotic surgery. So, in a training program you pass the dry lab, the wet lab, you assist, and then you do the modular surgical training. Actually, we developed the modular surgical training together with Professor Evangelos Liatsikos. At that time, he was a guest in our Department. The meaning is that a prostatectomy, a nephrectomy, or any other procedure has different steps and every single step has a different
level of difficulty. When you start to be the console surgeon, you should never start with a very difficult step. You should start with the easy step. Modular training means that you do only the steps which are level one, the easy steps at the beginning. Then, if you have enough skills to do it easily and good, you can do level two, and then level three and four and five, etc. So, this is modular training. I think we have proven with laparoscopy that this shortens the training time and it does not put the patient in any risk. This is the most important thing. The robotic surgeons have adopted this, and you will find it in all ERUS programs. You can find modular surgical training everywhere now.
F.N.: Could you describe us your feelings when you received the “Konstantinos Dimopoulos” award from the Hellenic Urological Association?
Professor Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg: It's not easy to speak about emotions. As I said yesterday (i.e., during the award ceremony of the 26th Panhellenic Urological Conference), when I was a child, I had two favorite books. My favorite books were "the Greek Heroes" and "the Greek Gods", and I was reading them a lot. Back then, I was not allowed to travel here, because I grew up in East Germany, and we couldn't travel “into capitalistic countries”. And now I'm here, years later, having friends here, very close friends like Professor Liatsikos, and getting such an award, which is very unique. Of course, I have received other awards in my life, but here the relationship is so close. Some of your colleagues have been in Leipzig. We trained them. We actually lived together, and we discussed about surgery, in a time when there were a lot of “enemies” against laparoscopy. So, we developed a close relationship. For this reason, I was really impressed, and I became also very emotional when I got the telephone call telling me that I would receive this prize. You saw that also yesterday. Professor Liatsikos was very emotional, because it is not just a simple award. It is more than that. I receive this award at the end of my career, and I consider it as a kind of "Thank you", but most of all, as a symbol of friendship between urologists from Greece and myself.
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