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What does it mean to be a surgeon? And what does it mean to do surgery?

Do you love being in the operating room? Do you like the art of medicine? Do you like the technical side of medicine? Do you like the challenge of medicine? Do you love helping people, perhaps saving people, through surgery? Do you like the research that allows you to be an innovative surgeon? Do you love communicating across borders, across time zones, across identities to harness the collective knowledge of medical practitioners, among others?

Member contributions across borders in such collaborative processes disrupt the traditional model of what it means to be a surgeon and what it means to do surgery. This sentiment is especially strong in medicine where medical practitioners, like you, must work as members of collaborative teams and networks. Organized wisdom recently wrote about the necessity for a focus on quality and product development in the health services. They talked about having to improve health services to make them more efficient, meaning faster technology but more importantly, improving service and finding ways to work virtually together more effectively.

Connecting design and development teams and surgeons across borders through a collaborative web portal contributes to collective knowledge. Syndicom’s DesignEdge, a collaborative web-based solution, builds on the success of community and collaboration processes in a focused, product-centered group. This, in turn, allows design and development teams to evaluate and assess the feasibility of any product and procedure by enhancing the collective knowledge of surgeons, consultants, inventors, engineers, legal staff, distributors, and medical device companies. What’s more, DesignEdge tracks, records and fosters the contributions of each member no matter where they are.

Innovative solutions like DesignEdge and SpineConnect, understand that professional medical training is not merely about packing information into one’s brain; the communicative processes of dialogue, debate, cooperation, and collaboration are at least as important in producing a functioning surgeon. Furthermore, such innovative solutions serve as new paradigms for collaborating across borders by providing voice, supporting innovation, and building community in order to solve complex medical problems in a timely and effective way.

You know what it is to be a surgeon and you know what a surgeon does. Wouldn’t you like to play an important role in how surgery gets done? Contact us at info<at>syndicom.com to find out more!

Thanks to Syndicom and  dmcneil for their images!

Exciting things emerge when we collaborate!

Carey Candrian

Tags: collaboration, collaborative processes, collective knowledge, communication, communication skills, community, DesignEdge, medical device companies, medical device sales, medical practitioners, organized wisdom, spineconnect, surgeons, surgery, syndicom, the collaboration, the collaborative process, web-based solutions

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 2:50 pm and is filed under Blog.