Surgical Short Courses

Expanded Training Short Courses
Inaugural Course: The IGCS Train-the-Trainer Master Workshop

With IGCS’s global membership base spanning diverse healthcare systems, resource settings, and levels of surgical expertise, we are expanding our role in surgical education by offering a variety of surgical training courses.

As surgical management remains a cornerstone of gynecologic cancer care, providing structured, high-quality surgical education supports IGCS’s mission of advancing knowledge, empowering professionals, and reducing global disparities in cancer outcomes.

The International Gynecologic Cancer Society is offering our first inaugural short course in the new Expanded Training Program, by offering the Train-the-Trainer Master Workshop, led by Dr. Reitan Ribeiro, to be held at the IGCS Annual Global Meeting in Montreal. This workshop will be offered to 24 select surgeons chosen via our application to develop surgical skills in a practical, condensed, and accessible format.

Trainers who are selected for this workshop will be learning from over 15+ invited expert surgeon faculty members worldwide who will be attending and teaching alongside participants (attending faculty list coming soon!)

The goals of this workshop are the following:

• To align expert surgeons on key surgical principles and techniques prioritized by the IGCS educational mission.
• To build a cohesive, international network of surgical educators for IGCS short courses.
• To validate the teaching approach and technique reproducibility of each selected trainer.
• To facilitate mutual observation, feedback, and refinement in a high-level collaborative environment.

Internationally recognized expert gynecologic oncology surgeons selected by IGCS based on their proven surgical excellence and educational leadership, from a variety of geographical settings.

Participation in the IGCS Train-the-Trainers Workshop is done through a rigorous selection process designed to identify skilled gynecologic oncology surgeons worldwide who are seeking additional education and training.

Applicant must:

• Currently be a current trainee in gynecologic oncology or practicing gynecologic oncology
• Be an IGCS member and registered to attend the AGM to attend course
• Upload CV (5 pages maximum)
• Upload letter of interest (500 word maximum) that speaks to interest in attending this course, surgical expertise, teaching capacity (if applicable), years of experience, and case complexity/learning interest
• Upload letter of recommendation from a service chief, program director, or department chairman with whom you have most recently served
• Complete IGCS application fields including demographic information, level of experience, describe whether applicant currently trains residents and fellows, and whether training is open or laparoscopic.

Terms of Involvement:

• Required to travel to Montreal
• Must be an active IGCS member and registered to attend the Montreal AGM to attend course
• No travel grants are available to attend course
• Final selection made by select workshop faculty.
• Applications will be accepted between March 7 to April 7, 2026
• Select workshop faculty will review all applications and use rubric scoring for grading
• 24 participants will be selected based on merit and geographic representation.

• The course is delivered at cost, reflecting its unique mission: to serve as the final stage of training and standardization for expert-level surgical educators who will spread gynecologic oncology surgery knowledge all over the world.
• Each participant will receive a certificate of completion.
• All participants must pay the course registration fee of approximately USD $1,450

List of faculty attending coming soon!