The XXXII Moscow International Student Surgical Olympiad named after M.P. Perelman has ended on the basis of Sechenov University. A team of foreign students of the USU Faculty of Medicine, led by Associate Professor of the Department of General Surgery Sergey Makarov, took the honorable third place.

About a thousand people gathered at various venues of Sechenov University — participants and jury members, leading surgeons of Russia.29 teams took part in the competition.

"This is the 32nd Olympiad in surgery, and it is unique in that it is constantly being updated, keeping pace with the development of surgical technologies," commented Sergey Dydykin, Head of the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of SSMU, MD. — Students demonstrate their skills on high-tech equipment. So, this year we held a master class for them on the da Vinci robot-assisted surgical system. Olympians are guys who already have the competencies of a young surgeon. This is not only an educational, but most importantly an applied Olympiad, its key task is to develop skills."