{"title":"Hand surgery training in Finland","authors":"J. Jokihaara, T. Raatikainen, J. Ryhänen","doi":"10.1177/17531934221095037","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Interest in hand surgery in Finland began in the 1950s, when a few orthopaedic surgeons, dissatisfied with the current results of hand injury treatment, began to familiarize themselves with modern treatments by visiting pioneers of hand surgery in Europe and the United States (US). Hand surgery training in Finland then started in the early 1970s with the establishment of the Finnish Society for Surgery of the Hand (FSSH). All five founding members were specialists in orthopaedics and traumatology, including later International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH) Pioneers of Hand Surgery, Kauko Solonen, Henry Brummer, Martti Vastamäki and Simo Vilkki. The training was practical, unstructured and did not lead to any official qualification. However, the FSSH strongly advocated establishing an official hand surgery specialization, like in Sweden and the US. The National Board of Medicine was supportive, but the proposal met strong resistance from other specializations, as it was seen ‘an unnecessary addition’ to the field of surgery.","PeriodicalId":73762,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hand surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)","volume":"47 1","pages":"662 - 664"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of hand surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17531934221095037","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Interest in hand surgery in Finland began in the 1950s, when a few orthopaedic surgeons, dissatisfied with the current results of hand injury treatment, began to familiarize themselves with modern treatments by visiting pioneers of hand surgery in Europe and the United States (US). Hand surgery training in Finland then started in the early 1970s with the establishment of the Finnish Society for Surgery of the Hand (FSSH). All five founding members were specialists in orthopaedics and traumatology, including later International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH) Pioneers of Hand Surgery, Kauko Solonen, Henry Brummer, Martti Vastamäki and Simo Vilkki. The training was practical, unstructured and did not lead to any official qualification. However, the FSSH strongly advocated establishing an official hand surgery specialization, like in Sweden and the US. The National Board of Medicine was supportive, but the proposal met strong resistance from other specializations, as it was seen ‘an unnecessary addition’ to the field of surgery.
芬兰对手外科的兴趣始于20世纪50年代,当时一些骨科医生对目前手部损伤治疗的结果不满意,开始通过访问欧洲和美国的手外科先驱来熟悉现代治疗方法。随着芬兰手外科学会(FSSH)的成立,芬兰的手外科培训于20世纪70年代初开始。所有五位创始成员都是骨科和创伤学专家,包括后来的国际手外科学会联合会(IFSSH)手外科先驱,Kauko Solonen, Henry Brummer, Martti Vastamäki和Simo Vilkki。培训是实用的、无组织的,也不会获得任何官方资格。然而,FSSH强烈主张建立官方的手外科专业,就像瑞典和美国一样。美国国家医学委员会(National Board of Medicine)对此表示支持,但这一提议遭到了其他专业的强烈反对,因为他们认为这是对外科领域“不必要的补充”。