Mission
Knowledge Sharing
Surgical excellence should not be a secret guarded by a few. Our mission is to share it.
There's an unwritten tradition in medicine: valuable knowledge is guarded. Protected. Passed in droplets to a chosen few. "I did a fellowship with so-and-so" becomes currency. "I learned directly from the master" becomes a credential.
I understand the logic. Knowledge is power. Exclusivity generates value. If everyone knows, my competitive advantage disappears.
But this logic has a cost. And the patients pay it.
The Problem with Closed Knowledge
Concentrated Knowledge
The best techniques remain restricted to a few centers of excellence, creating a surgical elite while most operate with limitations.
Impact: Patients in regions without access to these centers receive inferior treatment.
Cruel Learning Curve
Without a structured method, each surgeon needs to 'reinvent the wheel'. 50-100 cases for minimum safety. How many avoidable complications?
Impact: Talented surgeons give up on deep plane out of fear.
Learning by Observation
The traditional model is watching surgeries and 'absorbing'. No structured didactics, no clear protocol, no systematic feedback.
Impact: Inconsistent learning, dependent on the luck of having good mentors.
The Decision
At some point in my journey, I had to choose. I could guard what I learned. Protect my "competitive advantage." Be the only one in the region to operate safely in the deep plane.
Or I could document. Systematize. Teach. Multiply.
The choice was easy when I looked at reality: I am one. I operate, at most, a few hundred patients per year. If I train 50 surgeons who operate with the same safety, the impact multiplies exponentially.
Guarded knowledge dies with you. Shared knowledge lives forever.
"My goal is for each student to surpass me. To take the technique forward, adapt, improve. To train others. Only then does knowledge evolve."
— Dr. Robério Brandão
Principles of Sharing
Document Everything
Every technical step recorded. Every decision justified. What's in the master's head needs to be on paper.
Teach the Why
It's not enough to show how to do it. The student needs to understand why we do it this way. Only then can they adapt and evolve.
Accelerate Without Shortcuts
Reducing the learning curve doesn't mean skipping steps. It means eliminating wasted time on unnecessary trial and error.
Train Multipliers
The goal is not to create dependency on the master. It's to train surgeons who can teach others. Knowledge that propagates.
500+
Trained Surgeons
7
Countries Reached
15-30
Cases to Safety
0%
Permanent Nerve Injury
What This Means in Practice
Sharing knowledge isn't doing a weekend course and releasing the student into the world. It's creating a continuous learning ecosystem:
- Structured training: From basic to advanced, with clear and measurable stages.
- Ongoing mentorship: Post-course follow-up. Case discussions. Real support.
- Community of practice: Connected surgeons, exchanging experiences, evolving together.
- Constant updates: Technique evolves. Training too. Those who learned 5 years ago continue receiving updates.
The Invitation
If you're a surgeon and feel you can do more — that there's a next level of safety and results you haven't yet achieved — consider this an invitation.
Not to follow a guru. Not to blindly replicate a technique. But to learn a method, understand the principles, and then make your own evolution.
Knowledge doesn't diminish when shared. It multiplies.
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