Surgiland’s main aim has been to train highly qualified medical attendants in surgery, minimally invasive surgery and microsurgery.

The project has been organized in four steps: a first step called SUN “Start-up and Networking” followed by three training steps developed in three years.

These steps has been divided into three medical training actions:

FORact (Local training in Naples):

Local training has been carried out at the Center of Biotechnologies, Cardarelli Hospital in Naples.

This phase has been organized through training courses of Microsurgery, Video Laparoscopy and General Surgery. For each course a number of trainers has been identified from Tunisia and Morocco: they attended the courses at the Center of Biotechnologies. Students have been supported by trainers coming from Cardarelli Hospital and from Health Facilities of other Italian partner Regions.

Training activities has been organized and divided into practical activities in the operating room, seminars and lectures focused on specific topics. The practical activities have been performed with tutorial tools, virtual simulators and experimental animal models.

ESTact (work on the job):

Training in the partner countries or “work on the job” with the support of the Italian teachers.

Local lessons have been organized into practical activities in the operating room, seminars and lectures about specific topics (as in FORact). For each discipline, the courses have been organized in such a way that foreign trainers worked in their own health facilities, side by side with Italian teachers.

Coordination activities has been carried out by:

• the Organizing Committee, which coordinated the activities with the schedule and logistics of phases, making arrangements with partner countries;
• the Technical-scientific Committee, which took care of the program (scientific contents and teaching methods of the project phases).

FADact (Distance Learning):

Distance Learning.

The e-learning platform, specifically thought for medical and surgical training, has allowed to design the courses with the logic of cognitive maps, testing training courses delivered in a virtual environment with high technology innovation.

The collaboration aspect, apart from being inferred from the reciprocity of the teaching staff (chosen on the basis of the "areas of excellence" identified between the partners) has been secured by the use of information technology solutions that enabled participants to share their surgical experiences.

Information and knowledge sharing has been achieved through a network based learning strategy that used learning object of various types: text and multimedia. The training has been delivered to learners directly in their own country.
The training program provided by the distance learning has been divided into two macro-areas: Microsurgery, on one hand, and Video Laparoscopy and General Surgery, on the other hand.

Each macro-area has been structured in some micro-areas.

There is, at first, an Introduction Section, in which trainers can start to gain knowledge related to the application of the ProQuest database in their clinical practice.

Following sections are: General, Veterinary Science, General and Specialistic  Management of the Operating Theater. Each micro-area has been equipped with multimedia contents prepared by each teacher during the course organization.

Each micro-area includes a questionnaire structured by the teacher in charge of the course, who can directly manage the evaluation in order to verify the knowledge gained by the students.