The second edition of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Surgical Postgraduate Courses supplement: The 39th Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, Tampa, Florida, USA, March 9–12, 2008

Abstract

The annual meetings of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) continue to highlight surgical education by providing several hands-on postgraduate courses that focus on cutting-edge surgical techniques used in minimally invasive approaches, fertility-sparing surgery, as well as open radical surgery. The cadaveric dissections and surgical demonstrations have been well received by participants, as has the first SGO surgical supplement, which accompanied the 2007 postgraduate surgical courses given in San Diego, CA. In an effort to continue with this educational endeavor, we provide in this second issue synopses of a few selected surgical techniques and topics discussed during the 2008 SGO courses in Tampa, FL. We hope this second supplement will be useful to participants and fellows in training, and we thank the contributors who volunteered their time and effort to make this supplement possible. We also would like to thank SGO; Susan C. Morris, the Director of Marketing and Communications at SGO; and Elsevier for their continued efforts in supporting surgical education. We also would like to extend a special thanks to George Monemvasitis, a senior editor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, for his tremendous efforts in organizing the 2007 and 2008 supplements. We also are grateful to our sponsors for their continued support of surgical education at the annual society meetings.