FRIENDS - PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
INTERNATIONALITY
to be an international organisation of qualified and experienced neurosurgeons providing neurosurgical training to colleagues
FRIENDSHIP
To promote and develop friendship amongst the members and other professionals in the field
CONTROL THE RESOURCES
To manage, administer and control the collected resources and to use them carefully and properly in order to pursue the Association’s purpose and objectives.
Teaching young neurosurgeons, improve their skills and teaching them also about friendship
ORGANIZE
To organise and offer neurosurgical courses, scientific and practical lectures, congresses, recurrent cadaver hands-on courses for neurosurgeons of all ages and coming from all countries, where the participants are trained by acknowledged experts in an interactive way, in order to improve their knowledge of surgical anatomy and their surgical skills
COLLECT RESOURCES
To attract and collect intellectual, professional, material and financial resources
MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS
To provide tools, medical instruments, equipment, support etc. to practitioners in need of them
DEVELOP
To develop its scientific, educational and other activities by i.a. accepting donations, manual gifts, sponsorships, bequests etc. from the public and from bona fide businesses,
OUR AIM
No reason anymore not to become an expert in neurosurgery in the near future.
Since FRIENDS surgical courses started april 2009, neurosurgeons from all ages and all Countries allover the world joined us to learn and all of them speak in terms of praise about it . Teaching is an Art : “if something is not impossible , their is always a way of doing it“ Cadaver hands on courses includes the participants are trained by experts during a 3 day course on an interactive way in order to improve their knowledge of surgical anatomy and their surgical skills . The experts of today were the students/participants of the cadaver hands on courses of the beginning and realize the usefulness of these cadaver hands on opportunities. The participants of today will be for sure the experts and the teachers of the future.
LATEST COURSES
Seventh International Course Basic Neurosurgical Approaches
Arezzo, March, 29-31, 2017
Seventh International – Skull Base Dissection Course
Arezzo, October, 12-14, 2016
5th International Course Basic Neurosurgical Approaches
Arezzo, April, 15-17, 2015
THE FOUNDATION
FRIENDS IF YOU WANT
After more than 5 fruitful years , the co- founders of the FRIENDS surgical courses decide to start the proper non profit FRIENDS Foundation by name :
“FRIENDS IF You WANT “
The FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION is very proud to organize these very high-level cadaver hands on courses and to go on in the future .