Abstract
We present the New Year letter from the WSES board to wish everyone a new year full of positive surprises and good news, despite COVID-19 pandemic.We confirm the WSES primary aim: to promote education in emergency surgery putting together all the world experts on emergency surgery without restrictions or boundaries, in inclusivity, equality, and equal opportunities. This will be the year of innovations and WSES will assess the application of artificial intelligence technologies in emergency and trauma surgery.Thank you All for trusting us with your collaboration.
Highlights
The year that just passed over was challenging.The World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) was founded in 2007 to represent not another scientific society designed to give visibility to certain people or to compete with other societies or associations with an annual Congress, but to promote education in emergency surgery [1].At the WSES Bergamo Congress in 2013, the WSESWJES board established the Scientific Development Policy for the Society and Journal: the project was based on the idea to create an organized scientific movement having the objective to standardize the state of the art for emergency surgery while attempting to develop guidelines for related topics and promoting original research [2].In these years, the society matured, including members from all over the world and the World Journal of Emergency Surgery (WJES) reached an IF of 4.1
We are probably the “last of the Mohicans”; a sort of special force of general surgery, selected and to be preserved, but we are not few and we claim the importance of emergency surgery [4]
With a glance to the past experiences and goals fulfilled, we want to repeat that our primary objective is promoting education in emergency surgery in inclusivity, equality, and equal opportunities
Summary
The year that just passed over was challenging. The WSES was founded in 2007 to represent not another scientific society designed to give visibility to certain people or to compete with other societies or associations with an annual Congress, but to promote education in emergency surgery [1]. At the WSES Bergamo Congress in 2013, the WSESWJES board established the Scientific Development Policy for the Society and Journal: the project was based on the idea to create an organized scientific movement having the objective to standardize the state of the art for emergency surgery while attempting to develop guidelines for related topics and promoting original research [2]. In these years, the society matured, including members from all over the world and the WJES reached an IF of 4.1. We are probably the “last of the Mohicans”; a sort of special force of general surgery, selected and to be preserved, but we are not few and we claim the importance of emergency surgery [4]
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