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Gynesim Announces 18 month Executive Fellowship in Advanced MIGS and Endometriosis Care - starting January 2026

Do you feel uneasy when you encounter a challenging case or unexpected endometriosis?

A surgical excisional approach to endometriosis surgery increasingly represents the standard of care: one surgery done right. The skill required to perform complete excision of low to high stage disease unfortunately is not provided in residency training, is not available for active practitioners and is certainly a challenging learning curve if self-taught. The accelerative change in patient expectations regarding surgical management of endometriosis sets a new challenge for otherwise skilled MIGS surgeons.

In the face of such accelerative change, common is the understandable professional unease felt by otherwise competent gynecologic surgeons (both new and seasoned): a perceived deficit in minimally invasive surgical skills to properly manage endometriosis. Even more the unease of encountering unexpected and advanced disease at the time of planned hysterectomy.

The time is now for mid-career Gynecologic surgeons to make focused efforts at skill development to be able to comfortably and properly address this common disease.

And where then is such endometriosis excisional skills training available? The very small handful of endometriosis-focused surgery fellowships are, for mid-career gynecologists with family and active practices, a commitment too great. Academic centers, where the few faculty who perform full excision of endometriosis can certainly provide rich exposure for its staff gynecologists and residents but this internal training is often at cross-purposes with productivity. For community based surgeons there are no skills based training opportunities; the occasional CME course focused on endometriosis is heavy on lecture and light on hands-on training.

The tension for more rigorous endometriosis training opportunities cannot be overstated.

The Executive Fellowship for Advanced MIGS and Endometriosis Care is an 18 month, longitudinal hands-on simulation-based training fellowship in Advanced Endometriosis Care designed to transform surgical skill, knowledge and confidence in the management of this common and challenging disease. Designed along the lines of the “Executive MBA” – a curriculum, schedule and cost designed for the active professional who cannot take time away from their work and family to enroll in a full-time training. It is a program designed for the focused adult learner – relevant, practicable, professionally transformative. For more information follow the link here.

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Gynesim provides no-cost MIGS training course to St. Luke’s Easton PA ObGyn Residents May 21, 2025.

17 ObGyn Residents attended an intensive hands-on MIGS training that focused on laparoscopic suturing and knot-tying with application to TLH. The Residents operated for 8 hrs over the day on high fidelity real tissue models; they performed repetitive cuff closure, colpotomy with cuff closure and finally performed a TLH-BSO likewise including cuff closure. Transformation of their skill set was evident over the day.

This was part of Gynesim’s National Course Initiative to provide no-cost Residency Training anywhere, any time, for any number of residents for any length of time with curriculum and simulation modeling customized to the program’s MIGS training goals.

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Gynesim Residency Training Program - Gynesim Residency Training: Weill Medical Center ObGyn Residency Training Course - September 16, 2024

Chief Residents and MIGS fellows from the Weill Cornell Hospital Dept of ObGyn received a day of training in the fundamentals of laparoscopic suturing and knot-tying. This all hands-on training course was held at SAIL (Skills Acquisition and Innovation Lab) of Weill Cornell Medicine. Appreciation to Dr. Jay Rosenberg (SAIL) and Dr. Kristen Pepin (Dept ObGyn) for this opportunity. Once again, this was a no-charge training reflecting the non-profit mission of Gynesim.

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