Dr. Pok Eng-Hong from
University of Malaya Medical Center in Malaysia has completed a six-month
fellowship in laparoscopic Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Min-Sheng General
Hospital. Dr. Pok chose to come to Min-Sheng’s Asia-Pacific Endoscopic
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgical center because its international fellowship
program offers a tremendous opportunity to learn in a high-volume metabolic and
bariatric surgical center, under Professor Lee Wei-Jei, a well known academic
and specialist in the field.
Dr. Pok leaves very
satisfied with the experience and claims that all his objectives for the
fellowship were met. Not only was he exposed to, and got to develop his skills
in a full range of bariatric surgical techniques, he also was introduced to new
techniques like the trans-umbilical-two-sites technique that will have many applications
in bariatric surgery. Dr. Pok was very impressed with the level of skills of
the surgeons at Min-Sheng, a mastery that derives from the high number of cases
that are treated at the Center every week.
For Dr. Pok it was also
an opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team for the Bariatric Center at
Min-Sheng General Hospital adopts an approach to the treatment and management
of obesity that involves surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, and
dieticians. Moreover, the huge data base maintained at the Center allowed for a
unique opportunity to study the long term effects of obesity surgery. As part
of the academic component of his fellowship, Dr. Pok produced two papers that
are awaiting publication, with two more in the pipeline.
Although he often missed
his family who stayed in Malaysia, Dr. Pok found the experience character
building, and he is obliged to the wonderful Taiwanese hospitality. Dr. Pok is
also full of praise for the way the fellowship program is organized from the
time of application until the end.
