Objectives and Activities

The Vision for Surgical Clinical Research

1. High quality research 
2. Patient-centered
3. Proactice surgeons leading multidisciplinary care
4. Collaborative research that generates a global impact by leading with multidisciplinary and multi-center international research

Goals 

• Involve ESSO in a new mission: to generate research ideas that are prospective, high-quality but feasible
• Expand the network of surgeon researchers
• Collaborate with established groups to initiate and drive surgical research (EURECCA, EORTC, JCOG, etc.)
• Facilitate education of young surgeons on clinical research methodology

Clinical Research Activities

Initiation phase

• Run a feasibility survey: to further develop and assess the needs for Pan-European surgical research platform
• Define the Charter of the committee
• Define the network of surgeons willing to engage in collaborative research
• Collaboration with EORTC through the SURCARE initiative “High Quality Standards for Prospective Surgical Clinical Research”

Implementation phase

• Defining quality parameters of a surgical trial
• Addressing the obstacles to surgical research
• Using the website to be a capacity building tool to develop surgical research
• Develop the first pilot research project of the CRC
• Conduct a surgical clinical research course for young trainees
• Facilitate and international observership, mentorship or exchange programs for young surgeons interested in clinical research
• Evaluation of the impact of first year projects

Survey results

ESSO Clinical Research Committee Survey on Challenges of Conducting Surgical Trials Results