Editorial

Dear Colleagues, The quality and standarts of medical education in general is a hot topic nowadays. Being aware of the needs of our readers and members of the Turkish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology we launched several projects. For setting higher standarts for residency programs and sub-specialities like Gynecological Oncology and Perinatology our Society is working with European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and certification of specialists and clinics are going on. Targeting the residence of Obstetrics and Gynecology “Resident School” workshops are taking place every six months where 16 topics are discussed with about thirty 3rd or 4th year residents, recorded and casted freely in the society web page. Another program has been launched named “100 consultants lecturing 100 topics” on March 2016. In this project leading academicians are lecturing on topics for 50 minutes in a comprehensive informative style from definition to treatment which is recorded live and then released in the society web page. Another newly released project is “TSOG Academy” which focuses to different aspects of a disease or treatment lectured by four or five experts, recorded live and than released in society web page which is followed by online quiz at the end where you can get credits if you answer most of the questions correctly. Upcoming projects include experts teaching surgical and diagnostic methods. New innovative cadaver courses were supported by our Society on Urogynecology and Obstetric Surgery. In this series of courses two of them focused on Pelvic floor in a three day workshop covering theoretical surgical anatomy of the Pelvis followed by cadaver studies on the second day and hands on Surgeries on 29 patients on the third day. Obstetric Surgery course focused on prevention and management of obstetric hemorrhages. Emergency obstetric response team concept which was first launched in Kocaeli region in 2009 than followed by Anatolian Side of Istanbul in 2015 shared their experience in the workshop. After theoretical education on the first day, cadaver and model course was conducted on Pelvic anatomy, sequential devascularisation of the pelvis and the uterus, different uterine packing sutures on the second day together with video surgery session where experts showed the videos of complex obstetric surgeries and told what they have done why they have done. About 200 specialists were educated by 60 lecturers and experts on the topics. Our journal as being the publisher of recent developments and research on Obstetrics and Gynecology will launch a series of education materials as pictorials starting from September 2016 issue. We call for papers conducted in the area of Obstetrics and Gynecology education. Best wishes,